¿Qué Pasa, USA?
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¿Qué Pasa, USA? (Spanish: What's Happening, USA?) is America's first bilingual situation comedy, and the first sitcom to be produced for PBS. It was produced and taped from 1977 to 1980 in front of a live studio audience at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and aired on PBS member stations nationwide.[1]
¿Qué Pasa, USA? | |
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Created by | Manuel 'Cookie' Mendoza |
Written by | Luis Santeiro |
Starring | Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado Manolo Villaverde Velia Martínez Luis Oquendo Ana Margarita Menéndez Steven Bauer Barbara Ann Martin Connie Ramírez Bernie Pascual Glenda Diaz-Rigau |
Theme music composer | Luis Santeiro, performed by Paquito Hechevarría and the Fly Outs Band |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Running time | 27 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | PBS |
Release | 1977 (1977) – 1980 (1980) |
The program explored the trials and tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, as they struggled to cope with a new country and a new language. The series is praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population. Today, the show is cherished by many Miamians as a true, albeit humorous, representation of life and culture in Miami.