Ed becomes agitated when the President decides to visit his garage when he comes to town.
A motorcycle gang that know Monica comes and pretty much ransacks the garage and Ed doesn't know how to get rid of them.
Louie comes up with an invention. He wants to make a barbecue that relies on solar energy. Enthusiascic about the idea, Ed runs to his insurance company and tries to get money to launch the idea.
Ed is falsley accused by a woman who swears that he is a peeping Tom and is watching her on a daily basis.
Monica upsets Ed by getting a job at a sleazy restaraunt.
Della tries to convince her son Tony to help her and her catering business.
For her Uncle Ed, Monica decides to drum up business by having an all-girl in tight shirts and shorts car wash.
In an attempt to add more characters to the show, Monica, Ed Brown's niece, tells her tragic story and moves in with Ed.
Charo's Matador fiancee Antonio, comes to sweep her off her feet to get married.
Aunt Charo takes her citizenship test and becomes an American Citizen.
Raul wants to join a basketball team and he can if Ed sponsors it, so that is what he does.
On a class report, Ed writes about Ed. He writes that Ed fixes poor people's cars for free. When word gets out, Poor folks from all over the neigborhood swamp Ed with trying to get thier cars fixed.
Charo tries to drum up Ed's business by taking matters into her own hands.
Raul's Aunt Charo comes to the Garage to take Raul back to Spain, but he would rather stay with Ed.
Ed tries to teach Raul how important it is to respect one's privacy. The moral blows up when Ed opens a package that is for Raul.
Ed had stuffed 700 dollars in his own mattress. I say had because Raul, knowing that Ed needed a new one, traded the old one in for a newer one. Anyway, they have to go and try to get all the money back.
Ed needs a third reference letter to officially adopt Raul.
When a social worker comes to take Raul away, Ed decides to adopt him as his own.
Ed waits for word from Raul's parents. Later, Ed finds out that Raul is an orphan and needs a parent.
Ed who returns from Mexico, learns that he has an 11 year old stowaway in the back of his car. This little kid is determined to stay with Ed in the USA.
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.