Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada | |
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Also known as | Chespirito |
Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Roberto Gómez Bolaños |
Written by | Roberto Gómez Bolaños |
Directed by | Enrique Segoviano Roberto Gómez Bolaños |
Starring | Roberto Gómez Bolaños María Antonieta de las Nieves Ramón Valdés Rubén Aguirre Carlos Villagran Florinda Meza Édgar Vivar Angelines Fernández |
Opening theme | "A Blessed Event" by Riz Ortolani |
Country of origin | Mexico |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 290 [1] (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Camera setup | Thomson TTV-1530 ; General Electric PE350 |
Running time | 21–26 minutes |
Original release | |
Release | 20 June 1971 – 6 January 1980 |
Related | |
Chespirito (TV Series) |
Los Supergenios De La Mesa Cuadrada (often shortened to Chespirito) is a Mexican television sitcom, popular in Latin America, Spain, and the United States, among other countries. [2]
Chespirito first appeared in 1968 was produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). [2] [3]
El Chavo episodes in syndication average 91 million daily viewers in all of the markets where it is distributed in the Americas. [4] Since it ceased production in 1992, it has earned an estimated US$1.7 billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa. [4]