Home Along Da Riles | |
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Genre | Situational comedy |
Created by | ABS-CBN Entertainment Dept. |
Written by | Divino Reyes Isko Salvador Woodrow Serafin |
Directed by |
Johnny Manahan Victor de Guzman Apollo Arellano |
Starring |
Dolphy Nova Villa Smokey Manaloto Gio Alvarez Claudine Barretto Vandolph |
Theme music composer | Homer Flores |
Opening theme |
Home Along Da Riles sung by Dolphy, Vandolph, Claudine Barretto, Gio Alvarez and Smokey Manaloto |
Country of origin | Philippines |
No. of episodes | 531 |
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Executive producer(s) | Linggit Tan-Marasigan |
Running time | 1 hour and 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | RVQ Productions |
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Original network | ABS-CBN |
Picture format | 480i SDTV |
Original release | December 7, 1992 | – August 10, 2003
Chronology | |
Followed by | Home Along da Airport |
Home Along Da Riles | |
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Directed by | Johnny Manahan |
Produced by | Charo Santos-Concio Lily Monteverde |
Screenplay by | Roy Vera Cruz Loida Viriña |
Starring |
Dolphy Nova Villa Cita Astals Vandolph Eddie Gutierrez |
Music by | Homer Flores |
Distributed by | Star Cinema |
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Country | Philippines |
Language | English/Tagalog |
Home Along Da Riles 2 | |
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Directed by | Efren Jarlego |
Produced by | Charo Santos-Concio |
Screenplay by | Roy Vera Cruz Loida Viriña |
Starring |
Dolphy Nova Villa Babalu Vandolph Subas Herrero |
Music by | Homer Flores |
Distributed by | Star Cinema |
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Country | Philippines |
Language | English/Tagalog |
Home Along Da Riles (lit. Home Along the Railway) is a Philippine situational comedy series that aired on the Philippine network ABS-CBN from 1992 to 2003. The title started out as a play on the feature film Home Alone and with the main character's first name taken as a direct copy from the film's protagonist.
The show depicts the lives of a poor Filipino family, the Kosmes, living alongside the railroad tracks. The main character, Kevin Kosme, strives to raise his four children on his meager earnings. Despite their situation, the family remains tight-knit and keeps a very positive outlook on life. As a running gag in the show, their house shakes violently when a train passes by.
Star Cinema made two movies in junction to the series: Home Along Da Riles (1993) and Home Along Da Riles Part 2 (1997)
The first movie (1993) goes deeper into Kevin's history revealing he was an all-star chef at a hotel but was fired after an explosion in the hotel's kitchen, which ended up working as a messenger in a placement agency thereafter. The family was also implicated from trying to expose corrupt practices of a corrupt politician to the Presidential Anti-Crime Task Force, which nearly cost their lives.
The second movie (1997) follows Kevin and his family after he "inherits" a family estate from his late uncle. While at the family estate, the family solves the real problem of why a business tycoon was trying to seize its inheritance, which the tycoon also owns and operates the polluted factory near the estates' land.
In 2014, the first film was digitally restored into HD and to be release via Kapamilya Blockbusters.