¿Qué Pasa, USA?
| ¿Qué Pasa, USA? | |
|---|---|
| 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 – 1980 |
¿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.
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.