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El Chavo del 8

El Chapulin del Ocho
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Also known as El Chavo
Genre Sitcom
Created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Written by Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Directed by Enrique Segoviano
Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Starring Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Carlos Villagran
Ramón Valdés
Florinda Meza
Rubén Aguirre
Édgar Vivar
Angelines Fernández
Horacio Gómez Bolaños
Raúl 'Chato' Padilla
María Antonieta de las Nieves
Opening theme "The Elephant Never Forgets" by Jean-Jacques Perrey
Country of origin Mexico
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of seasons 8
No. of episodes 290(list of episodes)
Production
Camera setup Thomson TTV-1530 ; General Electric PE350
Running time 21–26 minutes
Release
Picture format Quadruplex Videotape
Original release 20 June 1971 – 6 January 1980
Chronology
Related shows El Chavo: The Animated Series
30 Anos de Chaves

El Chavo del Ocho (often shortened to El Chavo) is a Mexican television sitcom that gained enormous popularity in Hispanic America as well as in Brazil, Spain, United States, and other countries. It centers on the adventures and tribulations of the title character—a poor orphan nicknamed "El Chavo" (which means "The Lad"), played by the show's creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito"—and other inhabitants of a fictional low income housing complex, or, as called in Mexico, vecindad. Its theme song is "The Elephant Never Forgets" by Jean-Jacques Perrey, based on Beethoven's "Turkish March" Op. 113.

El Chavo first appeared in 1971 as a sketch in the Chespirito show which was produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). In 1973, following the merger of TIM and Telesistema Mexicano, it was transmitted by Televisa and became a weekly half-hour series, which ran until 1980. After that year, shorts continued to be shown in Chespirito until 1992. At its peak of popularity during the mid-1970s, it was the most watched show in Mexican television and had a Latin American audience of 350 million viewers per episode.

The Portuguese dub, Chaves, has been broadcast inferredly by Brazilian TV Network SBT since 1984, and is also seen on the Brazilian versions of Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Since 2 May 2011, it has aired in the United States on the UniMás network. It previously aired on sister network Univision and its predecessor, the Spanish International Network. It spawned an animated series titled El Chavo Animado.


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