Los Beverly de Peralvillo

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
External links
Website

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.

Premise

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.

Characters

• "El Borras" (portrayed by Guillermo Rivas) is a taxi driver who fell in love with "La Pecas". Not knowing that her clan is an anti-labor bunch, Borras gladly accepts to marry her. "Doña Chole, Pecas' mother, forces Borras to provide for the whole family. To help things out, Borras calls his friend "El Bigotón", to come and help him out with the matter. Besides having appeared in the series, Borras has appeared in the two spin-off films, Los Beverly de Peralvillo and Que familia tan cotorra!.

• "La Pecas" (portrayed by Leonorilda Ochoa) belongs to the lazy family of the Beverlys, and is the wife of El Borras. Pecas' family includes her uncle "Tío Froilan", and her grandfather "El Abuelo". She has a light voice and has freckles. She is the daughter of Doña Chole.

• "El Bigotón" (portrayed by Arturo Castro) is a mustached fellow who is a friend of El Borras. He was invited to live with the Beverlys by Borras, who wants his help. Bigotón has a love interest for Pecas' mother Doña Chole, who actually likes El Comanche. He is also a taxi driver like his friend.

• Doña Chole (portrayed by Amparo Arozamena) is the eccentric mother of La Pecas, and mother-in-law of El Borras. Her love interest is El Comanche. Borras does not have a good relationship with her, he calls her "La Tarantula".

Production

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

Impact

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.

DVD releases

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]

References

1. ^ Recuerda y ríete nuevamente con 'Los Beverly de Peralvillo', Retrieved January 7, 2011.
2. ^ Televisa Home Entertainment - Los Beverly de Peralvillo Vol. 1, Retrieved January 8, 2011.

External links

• Los Beverly de Peralvillo at the Internet Movie Database