The Boy with Two Heads

I saw this film in Hannover -Germany in 1978. I was living at the British Army barracks with no English TV. Every Saturday morning the bus would pull up and we all used to go to the Saturday morning pictures.

Chico the Rainmaker was my favourite, my 8 yr old memory of it was a weird scary wooden head that was kept in a football. He needed to be returned to the amazon and each week the children would get into all sorts of adventures whilst being chased by a couple of men who wanted to get their hands on Chico. I'd come home, popcorn in my hair, humming the theme tune! Great memories!

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.

Chico the rainmaker was a great show. I was six years old when it aired & my Dad would watch it with me on Sunday mornings.The show was a great way to learn to help others and to be a good friend and be their for each other no matter what got in the way. Everyone I ask says they never heard of it. I guess that makes us the chosen ones. I live in a small town in Eastern Canada where we don't have a lot of choices where to shop. I hope to find it someday to buy. It would be great to show my kids. If they're not too busy rolling around laughing at it! Thanks for bringing back a really cool memory of me and my Dad spending some "us" time together in the big lazy boy chair. Maybe PBS will dig it out and show it again for old times sake.

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.

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.