Chico and the Man - Ed Deals With Chico's Death - Part 2

[howardtheman]

They didn't want to say that he committed suicide cause it would've been in bad taste for the show so Jack said he went away and is never coming back just to make it sound simple.

[thetroymartin]

I remember this.

[MikeLutton]

was it ever explained how chico died on the show

[GLICKSCLASSICMOVIES]

i am tearing up

[DakotaY24]

I was ten years old when Freddy Prinze died. My family watched the show regularly. My school teacher "briefly" talked about the death with the class. "No matter how successful a person is, we never truly know what is happening within them.

Honestly, though I did miss Freddy Prinze, I related a little better tothe boy, because he was in my age bracket. So though the show shifted, it wasn't hard to get in the new character played by Gabrile Melgar.

[1morete]

A Mexican running away from the U.S. to Mexico. Now that IS an anomaly! Usually the only people running away from the U.S. to Mexico are divorced white men fleeing the agents of Satan in black robes of hell or their blue gun thug minions.

[ivegotalongdong]

don't you love the AWFUL stock footage used when showing he alter?

[ivegotalongdong]

was a TERRIBLE show from day one. Freddie Prinz was an awful actor - so he shoots himself over a woman...yeah, that sure taught HER...what an idiot

[Texaskingfish]

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[phantasm1004]

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[jevilscientist]

Wonderful scene..sad and well acted! Mr Albertson was showing his true feelings. i am tearing as I write this., My dad past on 11/23/2010.Very depressing.Mr alberston was a terrific actor! Fav show growing up Chico and the Man!I was in 7th grade when i first heard the horrific news! I was so sad!Horrible!

[zenmachinefilms]

Wonderful acting by Jack in this scene. Touching.

I was a teen when Freddie took his own life, and was in total disbelief. I couldn't understand how someone so talented, so successful, and so seemingly happy could take his own life. Still today, it's one of the saddest things I ever heard.

[shannonD68]

I felt so bad when I heard of Freddie Prinze's death. I obsessed over it as a kid. I even remember the song that played on the radio in heavy rotation at the time by Rufus (Featuring Chaka Khan), called, "He's on his way to Hollywood". That song always r eminds me of Mr. Prinze.

[bigbrogiant4]

Great job Grandpa Joe!

[7theflyingdutchman]

if it wasnt for me Freddie would still be alive. so sad after all these years

[NewOrleansRipGut]

@7theflyingdutchman why you say that???

[Tatumthirty2]

WOW !!! this brings back some memories !!!

[captainamerica1967us]

A story came out that his family had the cause of death changed from suicide to just basically being an idiot with a gun, because of their Catholic background.

[JimmyD4u69]

WHO PLAYED RAUL??

[vccstudents]

@JimmyD4u69 Gabriel Melgar. The show was canceled right after this. They couldn't keep it going after this. It was on life support after Prinze committed suicide.

[howardtheman]

@JimmyD4u69 Gabriel Melgar

[NYVoice]

What you see at 3:05 is as far as the explanation goes. The show stopped production after Freddie's death I believe until this Melgar kid came on the scene.I'll check.

[Lvduggo69]

I was like 8 when I started watching this . As they aired. I love old shows like this. The new shows nowdays don't hold a candle to this. Why did he kill himself ? A girl ? Drugs?

WTF would cause him to do that ? It must have been bad ! Soooo sad !

[smittykins]

@Lvduggo69 Drugs, depression, his wife had left him and taken their son. It's been said that if he were alive today, he'd probably be diagnosed as bipolar.

[childofthe70s2]

@smittykins I think so too. Sad, just sad.

[storrs19]

Kinda off topic but when did the series switch from videotape to film? I never noticed this before but then I haven't seen this show in ages.

[fivebearrugs]

@storrs19 First, I saw most of these episodes when TV Land aired a weekend marathon of 'Chico and the Man' about 10 years ago (love the theme song), and to answer your question: the show's always been shot on tape, but the two Mexico episodes were shot on film...

[Diskoboy1974]

@storrs19 - alot of exterior or location shots were done on film. This practice was quite common in the 70's. The cameras that shot on videotape were not easy to transport, and had massive wires and cables running everywhere. With film cameras, they were easy to transport (most still used lightweight 16mm cameras), and all you needed was a film cartridge and a boom mic. Plus the VTR's the studios were using were bigger than the cameras, and used massive 1 inch wide videotapes.

[mcmlxvi]

@RandyAKing Everybody knows how Freddie Prinze died, what would have been the point of making up a story to explain the death of the character? In fact I think it would have been of very poor taste from the show.

[TheStanbabe]

Here the grouchy "Ed Brown"(Jack Albertson)shows off his really caring side and he go after "Raul"(Gabe Melgar).

[tommyrock69]

I miss Freddie and Jack. They made worlds collide. We don't do this today. I repeat- WE DON'T EVEN DO THIS TODAY! The USA is 1875. Uninformed 1875.

[SANxJONERO]

@tommyrock69 What are you talking about?

[TheBieberbabe95]

Did they replace him with a little kid?!?!?! Oh my god... :(

[vccstudents]

@TheBieberbabe95 Ed found the kid and kept calling him Chico. He explains Chico died because up to this point in the show we didn't know what happened to Freddie Prinze's character.

[greenblue1979]

Interesting, didn't know they filmed anything with this series on film.

[kduideo]

@greenblue1979 me either

[AlainaChanwashere]

I was just watching Willie Wonka (1972) And I saw THE MAN as the grandfather. That brought me to you tube cause I remembered Chico and the MAn from when I was a kid. I remembered we Loved Freddie!

[Captmiloman]

IIRC, this was originally aired as a TV movie.

[LincolnHeightsrocks]

wow. I never saw this before. Thanks a lot for posting. When this show was being shown on American Life TV a few years ago, they only aired the first 3 seasons when Freddie Prinze was alive. It seems weird seeing Ed being sentimental, because I always thought he was a jerk before. Goes to show that deep down everyone has a heart.

[LeastLikedCritic75]

I can tell how hard it was for Jack Albertson getting through that scene, he grew real fond of Freddie, and doing the show without Freddie was not the same.

[MrJayBBluejay]

@LeastLikedCritic75 To me, Jack Albertson (Ed), when he was angry and tore up Chico's van and broke the guitar in Part 1, was not only hurt at the loss of Freddie Prinze (Chico), but also Elvis Presley (who was in "Kissin' Cousins with Albertson)-maybe the guitar smashing was a subtle hint of Elvis' death. In fact, I think at this time Jack was diagnosed with colorectal cancer that would claim his life.

[JackieJax41]

It is sad, How a man that good and that sweet with so much to look forward take his life like that..... I hope when you post part 3 you will let us know, Thanks so much for posting this, I know what it's like to lose a loved one at a young age, I lost my husband at the age of 49.....

[vccstudents]

Sad! Very sad! I remember this as a kid when the audience is finally told what happened to Chico. We kids all knew this was the end of the show.