El Chavo (also known as El Chavo del Ocho during its earliest
episodes) is a Mexican television sitcom created by Roberto Gómez
Bolaños, produced by Televisa. It aired as an independent series on
February 26, 1973 and finalized January 7, 1980. The series gained
enormous popularity in Hispanic America, Brazil, Spain and other
countries. The series theme song is "The Elephant Never Forgets" by
Jean-Jacques Perrey, based on Ludwig van Beethoven's Turkish March Op.
113.The show follows the adventures and tribulations of the title
characterâ€"a poor orphan nicknamed "El Chavo" (which means "The
Kid"), played by the show's creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños
"Chespirito"â€"and his friends, which often cause conflict, of a
comedic nature, between the other inhabitants of a fictional
low-income housing complex, or, as called in Mexico, vecindad. The
idea for the show emerged from a sketch created by Gómez Bolaños
where an 8-year-old boy argued with a balloon vendor in a park, said
sketch aired for the first time on May 11, 1972. The show centered
great importance into the development of the characters, which were
each assigned a distinctive personality. Since the beginning, Gómez
Bolaños decided that El Chavo would be directed toward an adult
audience, even though the show itself was about adults interpreting
kids. The main cast consisted of Gómez Bolaños, Ramón Valdés,
Carlos Villagrán, MarÃa Antonieta de las Nieves, Florinda Meza,
Rubén Aguirre, Angelines Fernández and Édgar Vivar, who interpreted
El Chavo, Don Ramón, Quico, Chilindrina, Doña Florinda, Profesor
Jirafales, Doña Clotilde and Señor Barriga. Direction and production
of the series fell on Enrique Segoviano and Carmen Ochoa.El Chavo
first appeared in 1972 as a sketch in the Chespirito show which was
produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). In 1973,
following the merger of TIM and Telesistema Mexicano, it was
transmitted by Televisa and became a weekly half-hour series, which
ran until 1980. After that year, shorts continued to be shown in
Chespirito until 1992. At its peak of popularity during the mid-1970s,
it had a Latin American audience of over 350 million viewers per
episode. Given the popularity of the show, the cast went on a global
tour to countries in which the show already aired and, in a series of
presentations, the cast would dance and act in front of the public.
episodes) is a Mexican television sitcom created by Roberto Gómez
Bolaños, produced by Televisa. It aired as an independent series on
February 26, 1973 and finalized January 7, 1980. The series gained
enormous popularity in Hispanic America, Brazil, Spain and other
countries. The series theme song is "The Elephant Never Forgets" by
Jean-Jacques Perrey, based on Ludwig van Beethoven's Turkish March Op.
113.The show follows the adventures and tribulations of the title
characterâ€"a poor orphan nicknamed "El Chavo" (which means "The
Kid"), played by the show's creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños
"Chespirito"â€"and his friends, which often cause conflict, of a
comedic nature, between the other inhabitants of a fictional
low-income housing complex, or, as called in Mexico, vecindad. The
idea for the show emerged from a sketch created by Gómez Bolaños
where an 8-year-old boy argued with a balloon vendor in a park, said
sketch aired for the first time on May 11, 1972. The show centered
great importance into the development of the characters, which were
each assigned a distinctive personality. Since the beginning, Gómez
Bolaños decided that El Chavo would be directed toward an adult
audience, even though the show itself was about adults interpreting
kids. The main cast consisted of Gómez Bolaños, Ramón Valdés,
Carlos Villagrán, MarÃa Antonieta de las Nieves, Florinda Meza,
Rubén Aguirre, Angelines Fernández and Édgar Vivar, who interpreted
El Chavo, Don Ramón, Quico, Chilindrina, Doña Florinda, Profesor
Jirafales, Doña Clotilde and Señor Barriga. Direction and production
of the series fell on Enrique Segoviano and Carmen Ochoa.El Chavo
first appeared in 1972 as a sketch in the Chespirito show which was
produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). In 1973,
following the merger of TIM and Telesistema Mexicano, it was
transmitted by Televisa and became a weekly half-hour series, which
ran until 1980. After that year, shorts continued to be shown in
Chespirito until 1992. At its peak of popularity during the mid-1970s,
it had a Latin American audience of over 350 million viewers per
episode. Given the popularity of the show, the cast went on a global
tour to countries in which the show already aired and, in a series of
presentations, the cast would dance and act in front of the public.
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