Amigo and Friends

Mexican TV series or program

Amigo and Friends
Title screen
Based on	Cantinflashow
Voices of	John Stephenson Don Messick
Country of origin	Mexico United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	18–22 minutes (Commercials not included)
Production companies	Televisa Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	1982 (1982) – 1984 (1984)

Amigo and Friends (also known in Spanish as Cantinflas y Sus Amigos) is an educational children's animated television series that was based on the Mexican cartoon series Cantinflashow 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.

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's adventures around the planet; Bulgarian)
Pablo (Dutch)
Wissen für Kinder (German)

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

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 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

^ 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.