Amigo and Friends
Amigo and Friends (also known in Spanish as Cantinflas y Sus Amigos) is an educational children's cartoon that was based on the Mexican cartoon series Cantinflas Show in 1979.[1] The show, which concentrates on a wide range of subjects intended to educate children, follows Amigo, a little comical character from Mexico, who goes on educational adventures through time and space and gets to visit Shakespeare, see the ancient pyramids, and even travels to other planets. The animated Amigo is based on the legendary character, Cantinflas played by the Mexican actor and comedian Mario Moreno Reyes.
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Voices of | Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes) (Mexican Spanish) John Stephenson (American English) Don Messick (American English) |
Country of origin | Mexico |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Running time | 18–22 minutes (Commercials not included) |
Production company(s) | Televisa (Mexico) Hanna-Barbera Productions (United States) |
Distributor | Viacom Enterprises (1982–1994) Paramount Domestic Television (1994–2006) CBS Paramount Domestic Television (2006–2007) Veracruz Media (2007–present) |
Release | |
Original network | Syndication |
Original release | 1979 – 1982 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | Cantinflas Show |
The show was created and produced by Televisa. The company was also responsible for the distribution of the show in Mexico.
In 1982, Hanna-Barbera Productions dubbed the series into English and retitled it Amigo and Friends and aired in syndication across the United States through Viacom Enterprises.[2] The only two known actors were John Stephenson, who narrates each episode and Don Messick, who voiced Amigo.
Amigo and Friends in other languages
- Le tour du monde de Cantinflas (A Trip of the World with Cantinflas) (French)
- עמיקו וחבריו (Amiko Ve'Haverav) (Hebrew)
- 笑星和他的朋友们 (Comedian and his friends) (Chinese)
- Amigo (Swedish)
- Амиго приключения около планетата (Amigo priklyucheniya okolo planetata, Amigo's adventures around the planet)
Home video releases
- Sometime in the 1980s, a couple of episodes were released on video by Family Home Entertainment. In 2004, the now-defunct distributor BCI released some of the shorts as part of the Cantinflas Show collection.
Episodes
- Source: [3]
- meets Alexander Bell
- visits The Amazon
- meets Amerigo Vespucci
- learns Atomic Energy
- meets Baseball
- visits the Canals of Venice
- meets Captain Cook
- visit The Colosseum
- meets The Constellations
- meets Daniel Boone
- meets Don Quixote
- visit The Eiffel Tower
- meets Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
- visit The Estate of Vatican City
- meets Father Junipero Serra
- learns The game of rugby
- meets Genghis Khan
- meets George Washington Carver
- visit The Grand Canyon
- visit The great wall of china
- meets The golf story
- meets Henry Ford
- in The international date line
- meet James Watt
- meets Julius Caesar
- meets King Tut
- meets Lewis and Clark
- meets The lost city of Atlantis
- meets Madame Curie
- meets Michelangelo
- meets The milky way
- visit Mont Saint Michel
- climbs Mount Everest
- on The Nile
- visit Notre Dame
- visit The Parthenon
- meets Picasso
- visit The planets
- visit The pyramids
- meets Rembrandt
- learns Safety tips
- meets Simon Bolivar
- meets Statue of Liberty
- meets Soccer
- The sun
- meets Tennis
- visit The tower of London
- visit The universe
- visit The wailing wall
- Yellowstone Park
- visit Yosemite
References
- Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 175. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- "CANTINFLAS SHOW Y CANTINFLAS Y SUS AMIGOS episode list". Archived from the original on 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2011-05-30.