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. 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. 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) (Hebrew) 笑星和他的朋友们 (Comedian and his friends) (Chinese) Amigo (Swedish) Амиго приключения около планетата (Amigo's adventures around the planet; Bulgarian) Pablo (Dutch)

Home media

Sometime in the 1980s, a couple of episodes were released on video by Family Home Entertainment. In 2004, BCI released some of the shorts as part of the Cantinflas Show collection.

Episodes

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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 Luther Burbank

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

Visit Yellowstone Park

Visit Yosemite

References

External links

Harry McCracken: The Cantinflas Chronicles

Retrojunk: Amigo and Friends

Television series by CBS Studios

Television series by Hanna-Barbera

Mexican children's animated television series

Las Estrellas original programming

1970s Mexican television series

1970s animated television series

1980s Mexican television series

1979 Mexican television series debuts

1982 Mexican television series endings

Children's education television series

Animated television series about children