El Chavo del Ocho

About El Chavo del Ocho

The mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old Mestizo-Latino American orphan boy who lives in a village. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements.

El Chavo del Ocho is a comedy series that ran on Las Estrellas. Its themes are orphan, philosophical, exhilarated, and joyous.

Its 7 seasons and 314 episodes aired between February 1973 and January 1980. Seasons run to about 45 episodes.

Roberto Gómez Bolaños stars as El Chavo del Ocho, Ramón Valdés as Don Ramón "Monchito", Carlos Villagrán as Federico "Quico", and María Antonieta de las Nieves as La Chilindrina.

American members can watch it on ViX Premium Amazon Channel. The Chosen, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder make useful companions to El Chavo del Ocho, all filed under amused and hilarious. TMDB voters put it at 8.1 out of 10 across 2,091 votes and it carries a TV-G rating.