Amigo and Friends
Running time
18–22 minutes (Commercials not included)
Distributor
Viacom Enterprises (1982–1994) Paramount Domestic Television (1994–2006) CBS Paramount Domestic Television (2006–2007) Veracruz Media (2007–present)
Original channel
Syndication
Source
Amigo and Friends is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, as an English dub of the Mexican cartoon series The Cantinflas Show .
Overview [ ] The show, which concentrates on a wide range of subjects intended to educate children, follows Amigo, a little Mexican character, who goes on educational adventures through time and space and gets to visit Shakespeare, see the ancient pyramids, and even travel to other planets. The animated Amigo is based on the comic character Cantinflas, played by the Mexican actor and comedian Mario Moreno Reyes. The show was created and produced by Televisa, then known as Telesistema Mexicano. 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 . The show aired in syndication across the United States through Viacom. The two primary voice actors were John Stephenson , who narrated each episode, and Don Messick , who voiced Amigo. It was one of several Hanna-Barbera TV shows that featured famous Hollywood stars in cartoons, but in the case of Amigo , the project originated in Mexico.
Voices [ ] Episodes [ ] Meets Alexander Graham Bell
Visits the Amazon
Meets Amerigo Vespucci
Learns Atomic Energy
Meets Baseball
Visits the Canals of Venice
Meets Captain Cook
Visits the Colosseum
Meets the Constellations
Meets Daniel Boone
Meets Don Quixote
Visits the Eiffel Tower
Meets Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin'
Visits the Estate of Vatican City
Meets Father Junipero Serra
Learns the Game of Rugby
Meets Genghis Khan
Meets George Washington Carver
Visits the Grand Canyon
Visits the Great Wall of Chine
Meets the Golf Story
Meets Henry Ford
In the International Date Line
Meets James Watt
Meets Julius Caesar
Meets King Tut
Meets Lewis and Clark
Meets the Lost City of Atlantis
Meets Madame Curie
Meets Michelangelo
Meets the Milky Way
Visits Mont Saint Michel
Climbs Mount Everest
On the Nile
Visits Notre Dame
Visits the Parthenon
Meets Picasso
Visits the Planets
Visits the Pyramids
Meets Rembrandt
Learns Safety Tips
Meets Simón Bolívar
Meets the Statue of Liberty
Meets Soccer
Visits the Sun
Meets Tennis
Visits the Tower of London
Visits the Universe
Visits the Wailing Wall
Visits Yellowstone park
Visits Yosemite VHS and DVD Release [ ] In the 1980s, a number of episodes were released on home video by Family Home Entertainment.
In 2004, BCI released the shorts as part of the Cantinflas Show collection, which included shorts from that series.
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