Amigo and Friends

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Amigo and Friends
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Genre	Animation
Running time	30 Minutes
Starring
Country of origin	Mexico
Original run	1980–1982
No. of episodes	52

Amigo and Friends, also known in Spanish as Cantinflas Show, Cantinflas y Sus Amigos, or simply Cantinflas, was an educational children's cartoon which was originally made in Mexico in the 1970s.

The show, which concentrated on a wide range of subjects intended to educate children, followed Amigo, a little Mexican character, who goes on educational adventures through time and space and got to visit Shakespeare, see the ancient pyramids, and even traveled to other planets.

The animated Amigo was based on the legendary character Cantinflas played by the Mexican actor and comedian Mario Moreno Reyes.

In the 1980s, Hanna-Barbera dubbed the series into English and retitled it to Amigo and Friends.