Chico, der Regenmacher

I loved this show!

Every Saturday morning, my sisters, my brother and I would be waiting outside the Odeon Cinema for the doors to open. It only cost 30p for a good 2-3 hours entertainment. There were cartoons, Children's Film Foundation films and, of course, Chico the Rainmaker. Every time I saw that little head, I would smile. When Jill played the pan pipes and Chris played the drums, you knew Chico was about to do something magical. The story lines were straight out of the Enid Blyton school of writing, the acting was at some times funny, at others dreadful, but this show never failed to amuse and delight us.

It's almost 30 years since I last watched Chico, but I still remember the theme song after all this time. Chico will stay with me as a very happy memory of my childhood.

I saw this film as a young kid and thoroughly enjoyed it! not much else i can say but it was a long time ago at the pictures!

I Have always remembered this film even though i am 42 years old now!

lance Percival has a funny look and is suited to comedy movies even though i have mostly seen

him on chat shows of the like!

On the carry on films, he was quite funny, strange as it may seem , i always remembered him for the roll in this film, and the name was different at the pictures!

It was in fact called Chico

I saw this when I was a child in Blackpool, England around 6 years old maybe younger so around 1984/85. It was a series that was shown in the cinema before the main attraction. If memory serves me it was on before the Dark Crystal. It seems to have been shown in the cinema well into the 80's. Anyway I went to the cinema with my dad and brother and when this came on I was happy eating my goodies until the head appeared. I never screamed so much and I wouldn't stop. We had to leave the cinema as I was uncontrollable I was freaking out. To be honest I was traumatized for a few years. My brother remembers me being inconsolable for days. I used to have crazy nightmares about it rolling on the ground towards me in my bed.

To be honest I'd absolutely love to see it again to confront my demons.

This show totally freaked me out! I probably saw a ten-minute portion of a single episode, and that's all it took to scar me for life. That very night (I was probably 7 or 8 y/o) I couldn't sleep. I told my mommy that I just couldn't get that hideous head out of mine. In the show, a couple of kids had befriended a talking head that they kept in a shoebox. The head looked like the decapitation of "El Jefe" from The Three Amigos. ¡Ay Carramba! I don't really think about it often. I was just watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which reminded me of Chico the Rainmaker. (The way the President of the Universe flopped his head backward sparked the memory.) So, I decided to Google "chico rainmaker," and yadda yadda yadda, here I am sharing my pain.

"Chico, the rainmaker... Chico, the rainmaker..." I wonder how many other children were traumatized by this production.

Me and my sister can still sing the theme tune never forgot it. Used to watch this at the Saturday morning pictures.

Cannot remember in detail too much more but remember Chico with eyes that moved and just his head in the box talking and the children. Would be good to see this again its been years. Great memories of childhood in the 70s, is this out on DVD in the UK English version? Also not sure if anyone else remembers at the same time the show regarding the alien dragon with the space ship which was invisible and the start of the pictures with all the pigeons in London flying around the fountain.

Bring all these shows back.