The Boy with Two Heads (1974– ) User Reviews

good, crazy fun

[SmashMonkey · 8/10 · 30 May 2007]

I loved this show!

Every Saturday morning, my sisters, my brother and I would be waiting outside the Odeon Cinema for the doors to open. It only cost 30p for a good 2-3 hours entertainment. There were cartoons, Children's Film Foundation films and, of course, Chico the Rainmaker. Every time I saw that little head, I would smile. When Jill played the pan pipes and Chris played the drums, you knew Chico was about to do something magical. The story lines were straight out of the Enid Blyton school of writing, the acting was at some times funny, at others dreadful, but this show never failed to amuse and delight us.

It's almost 30 years since I last watched Chico, but I still remember the theme song after all this time. Chico will stay with me as a very happy memory of my childhood.

Chico rocked!

[d_t_smith · 8/10 · 16 August 2008]

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.

From the depths of my memories...

[Greg75 · 2 August 2004]

For a very long time (until last year to be precise), I really thought that I had "dreamed" this serial, since noone around me ever remembered having seen it.It actually came only once on french TV, late summer 1978, and then vanished into thin air. Miraculously, the DVD got released in France last December, and through various internet forums I have managed to talk to a few people who DID remember it... and thought they were they only ones ! Actually this show was something to be remembered : it is the tale of two kids who find a shrunken jivaro head in a box stolen in an antique dealer shop, and who spend the whole series carrying it around, hidden inside a football, to preserve it from the hands of two evilish thugs who want to make money out of it. Of course, a second vision, almost 25 years later, of this naive and childish scary story really doesn't enhance the terrified memory I had of it. The shrunken head, which looked absolutely horrid when I was 7 now looks like a corny wooden puppet with two eyes that go from left to right. The mood of the story is more detective-like than terror-oriented, but the simple fact that it was a head with no body attached to it made the whole thing totally spooky. Actually, the whole thing looks more like an Enid Blyton one-shot than like an episode from the "Tales from the Crypt". But I probably should remain faithful to my memories and not slouch in the usual and obvious adult contempt, cynicism and mockery. After all, this was made for kids, and it worked. Well, for kids in the 70's it did. Today's would probably find "The Boy with Two Heads" atrociously ridiculous !

Strange kids' serial - great fun!

[CaptSpaulding71 · 6 June 2004]

I last saw this about twenty years ago as a cinema serial series, and loved every minute of it. If memory serves, a young boy discovers the enchanted head of an ancient rainmaker in a box, and as this is a talking head with magical powers, they become great friends(!). You'd think this would be the stuff of nightmares to young kids, but it's actually quite charming. Various villains see the money-making potential of the head and pursue the boy through a series of cliffhanger adventures. I also recall various spells the head could conjure up (while his eyes did a little jig), and the fact that you were invited to sing the theme song over the closing credits. Altogether now - "Chico-banna-walla - wanna make-a the rain!!!" Great stuff, I'd love to see it again!

Chico the Nightmaremaker

[Connect4Orchestra · 3 February 2006]

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.

Creepy abomination from the pit of all that is perverse. Really.

[jokono · 15 September 2005]

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.

Good kids film

[mikdik · 16 July 2005]

I saw this film as a young kid and thoroughly enjoyed it! not much else i can say but it was a long time ago at the pictures!

I Have always remembered this film even though i am 42 years old now!

lance Percival has a funny look and is suited to comedy movies even though i have mostly seen

him on chat shows of the like!

On the carry on films, he was quite funny, strange as it may seem , i always remembered him for the roll in this film, and the name was different at the pictures!

It was in fact called Chico

Chico the Rainmaker

[legodu · 13 August 2005]

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!

"Chico, Chico the Rainmaker..."

[rhondawest-1 · 24 May 2005]

I was just sitting here at my computer when the theme song to this show popped into my head. Why it sprang to mind, I don't know, but it prompted me to look it up here at IMDb and to my surprise, it's listed.

This was a very strange kid's mystery/adventure show, which I enjoyed as a child, although it took me a long time to actually be able to look at the head in the box. It did, literally, give me nightmares. (I was better once my Mom pointed out to me that it was wooden, and not a real head, but I still couldn't figure out how it talked!) It would be interesting to see it again after all these years, to see how it compares with my vague memories of it, but I don't think I would seek it out specifically.

Chico the Rainmaker

[sheila-mcghee · 26 September 2008]

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.