Amigo and Friends

Amigo and Friends
Title screen
Voices of	Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes) (Mexican Spanish) John Stephenson (American English) Don Messick (American English)
Country of origin	Mexico United States
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	18–22 minutes (Commercials not included)
Production company(s)	Televisa (Mexico) Hanna-Barbera Productions (Warner Bros. Television) (USA)
Distributor	Viacom Enterprises (former) CBS Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network	Syndication
Original release	1979 – 1982
Chronology
Related shows	Cantinflas Show

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. 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. The show was created and produced by Televisa, then known as Telesistema Mexicano. 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. 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) (Israeli)
• 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. As of January 18, 2016, no plans for a complete set have been announced by either Televisa or CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Episodes

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1. meets Alexander Bell
2. visits The Amazon
3. meets Amerigo Vespucci
4. learns Atomic Energy
5. meets Baseball
6. visits the Canals of Venice
7. meets Captain Cook
8. visit The Colosseum
9. meets The Constellations
10. meets Daniel Boone
11. meets Don Quixote
12. visit The Eiffel Tower
13. meets Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
14. visit The Estate of Vatican City
15. meets Father Junipero Serra
16. learns The game of rugby
17. meets Genghis Khan
18. meets George Washington Carver
19. visit The Grand Canyon
20. visit The great wall of china
21. meets The golf story
22. meets Henry Ford
23. in The international date line
24. meet James Watt
25. meets Julius Caesar
26. meets King Tut
27. meets Lewis and Clark
28. meets The lost city of Atlantis
29. meets Madame Curie
30. meets Michelangelo
31. meets The milky way
32. visit Mont Saint Michel
33. climbs Mount Everest
34. on The Nile
35. visit Notre Dame
36. visit The Parthenon
37. meets Picasso
38. visit The planets
39. visit The pyramids
40. meets Rembrandt
41. learns Safety tips
42. meets Simon Bolivar
43. meets Statue of Liberty
44. meets Soccer
45. The sun
46. meets Tennis
47. visit The tower of London
48. visit The universe
49. visit The wailing wall
50. Yellowstone Park
51. visit Yosemite

References

External links

• Harry McCracken: The Cantinflas Chronicles
• Retrojunk: Amigo and Friends
• Amigo and Friends at the Internet Movie Database