| Los Beverly de Peralvillo | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Beverlys of Peralvillo |
| Genre | sitcom |
| Written by | Mauricio Kleiff |
| Directed by | Antonio Fernández |
| Starring | Guillermo Rivas Leonorilda Ochoa Arturo Castro Amparo Arozamena |
| Country of origin | Mexico |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | approximately 120 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 14-17 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Telesistema Mexicano (now Televisa) |
| Broadcast | |
| Picture format | black-and-white (1968-70) Color (1971-73) |
| Original run | January 8, 1968 – 1973 |
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Los Beverly de Peralvillo (English: The Beverlys of Peralvillo) is a Mexican family television sitcom that originally aired from 1968 to 1973 on the Canal de las Estrellas network.[1] The series stars Guillermo Rivas, Leonorilda Ochoa, Arturo Castro, and Amparo Arozamena. As Mexico's answer to The Beverly Hillbillies, the sitcom was probably the most popular family television series in Mexico before El Chavo.
The cast members, who usually had minor unsignificant roles before, were offered principal roles in the series. The series spawned two theatrical releases, Los Beverly de Peralvillo (1971) and Que familia tan cotorra! (1973). Both films featured the same series' cast.
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The sitcom centers on the Beverlys, a low-income family consisting of ten people who live in under the same house in Colonia Peralvillo, Mexico City. El Borras, (politically merged into the family) is married to La Pecas, the daughter of Doña Chole. El Borras works as a taxi driver to sustain his family, the Beverlys.
The series' intro billed the actors in this order: Rivas, Ochoa, Castro, and Arozamena, with each character saying a joke before the credit appears.
The setting in the series was a low-income departamento, consisting of two sides; exterior and interior
The sitcom could be assumed to be the forerunner of "comedic dysfunctional family" sitcoms of Mexico such as La familia P. Luche and Una familia de diez.
In 2006, 20 episodes of the series were released in two disc packages by Televisa Home Entertainment. The first DVD is "Los Beverly de Peralvillo Vol. 1" and the second is "Los Beverly de Peralvillo Vol. 2", both contain ten episodes. The DVDs' special features include a photo gallery and an interview with the series' writer, Mauricio Kleiff.[2]