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Chico and the Man - Will Chico come to DVD? It's 'loooooking gooood!'




Chico, don't be discouraged,
The Man he ain't so hard to understand.
Chico, if you try now,
I know that you can lend a helping hand.

Because there's good in everyone
And a new day has begun
You can see the morning sun if you try.

And I know, things will be better
Oh yes they will for Chico and the Man
Yes they will for Chico and the Man.


Reading those lyrics, you can almost hear the strumming melody of Jose
Feliciano's classic theme song for the equally classic 1974 NBC series Chico and
the
Man. Starring Freddie Prinze (until his death near the end of the 3rd season)
as "Chico", Jack Albertson as "Ed Brown" (a.k.a. "the Man"; Albertson also
played "Grandpa Joe" in Willy Wonka), and Scatman Crothers as Louie the
garbageman (a far cry from Crothers' voice role as Autobot warrior "Jazz" on The
Transformers).

The first season of the show had 22 half-hour episodes, starting with the
pilot episode where Chico shows up riding a motorbike into Ed's garage, looking
for a job as a mechanic. Ed is not agreeable, but finally gives in and gives
Chico a chance...but by the second episode has already changed his mind and
tries to get rid of the young latino. Chico is not so easily run off, and The
Man
finally learns to trust him, befriend him, and eventually makes him a partner.
It would be great to have this series on DVD, but is Warner Brothers working
to get it out? Well, as "Chico" actor Freddie Prinze was famous for saying,
it's "loooooking gooood!"

Back in November we told you about Warner Home Video's plans to celebrate 50
years of Warner Television, and how they wanted to release plenty of new
TV-on-DVD box sets throughout the year to support their anniversary promotion.
Part
of that promotion, as we mentioned, was an escalating mail-in rebate: the
more participating season sets you buy, the bigger your rebate!

A link to the rebate form for this promotion has just been added to the
Amazon listings for participating titles (including February releases like Full
House, Night Court, Fresh Prince, etc.). When you look at the form (.pdf format:
Adobe Acrobat Reader required), you see a list of all the Warner television
series titles whose DVDs will be part of the rebate promotion. A few of these
titles have no releases on the market yet, but were already known to be
in-the-works (like The Adventures of Superman and Lois and Clark: The New
Adventures
of Superman).

However, if you take a close look at the list, which we've captured and
display below, you'll notice that Chico and the Man occupies a spot near the top
of
the left-side column! This is the first way we've known that the series is
coming to DVD, and we're sure that the show's many fans are glad to hear it.
Stay tuned and we'll have more for you about this release just as soon as Warner
Home Video makes the details available. Our thanks go to Mark White and the
other readers who wrote in to give us the heads-up about the rebate form; here's
that list we promised:


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