Amigo and Friends

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. 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)
 * 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

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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 Luther Burbank
 * 30) Meets Madame Curie
 * 31) Meets Michelangelo
 * 32) Meets the Milky Way
 * 33) Visit Mont Saint Michel
 * 34) Climbs Mount Everest
 * 35) On the Nile
 * 36) Visit Notre Dame
 * 37) Visit the Parthenon
 * 38) Meets Picasso
 * 39) Visit the planets
 * 40) Visit the pyramids
 * 41) Meets Rembrandt
 * 42) Learns Safety tips
 * 43) Meets Simon Bolivar
 * 44) Meets Statue of Liberty
 * 45) Meets Soccer
 * 46) The Sun
 * 47) Meets Tennis
 * 48) Visit the Tower of London
 * 49) Visit the Universe
 * 50) Visit the Wailing Wall
 * 51) Visit Yellowstone Park
 * 52) Visit Yosemite