Chico and the Man

- Season 4

(1977)

A 12 year old stowaway becomes the new Chico for The Man.

Ed finds out that Raul is an orphan.

A social worker arrives with an application for Ed to adopt Raul.

Ed needs three letters of reference in order to process his application to adopt Raul.

Raul trades away Ed's old mattress, with $712 hidden inside.

A lesson about eavesdropping leads to Ed opening a package addressed to Raul.

Ed and Della get so blitzed on holiday punch that he actually proposes marriage, and she accepts.

Raul's multi talented Aunt Charo arrives from Spain, willing to tutor him to follow in her footsteps as a musician.

Charo plays flamenco guitar, Raul plays marimbas, Ed tap dances in a recreation of his vaudeville act.

A class essay written by Raul makes everybody believe that grouchy Ed Brown is a saint.

Ed sponsors a boys' basketball team for Raul.

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Raul discovers Chico's belongings, which had been stored in the van where he lived. Ed finds out when he overhears a guitar playing. In anger, Ed -- still having trouble coming to terms with Chico's death months earlier -- shoos Raul from the van and smashes the guitar in anger. Raul takes this as a cue that Ed hates him and he runs away.

Ed, deeply regretting his words that led Raul to run away, forms a search party to search for the young lad. Everyone later suspects Raul may have returned to Tijuana, Mexico, to search for his family. Acting on the tip, Ed eventually finds Raul in an old church, leading to a reunion. Ed apologizes and explains that Chico had died (though not how), and Raul agrees to go home.

Charo's longtime fiancée arrives to claim his bride, after a passage of some 30 years.

Ed Brown's garage has a new tenant in teenage runaway Monica, come to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune.

Monica opens a car wash with four girls in Ed's garage.

Della wants her footloose son to become her partner in the catering business.

Monica gets a job at a seedy joint and Ed protests.

Ed is accused of being a peeping tom.

Ed plans to make a fortune by getting his kidney stone removed.

Monica's hitchhiking brings a group of bikers to the garage with their leader Chongo.

Ed becomes worried when the President is supposedly going to visit the garage and the Secret Servicemen are going to do security checks.