Don Francisco (Birth Name: Mario Kreutzberger) says adios to 'Sábado Gigante' after 53 years - His variety show was filled with scantily & bikini dressed hot senoritas

There were songs. There were silly hats. Confetti and El Chacal, even. But the man of the three-plus hours did not cry.

Mario Kreutzberger, better known under his stage name Don Francisco, closed the decades-long book on Spanish-language mainstay “Sábado Gigante” with an emotional send-off celebration Saturday night at Univision studios in Miami.

After 53 years of being a familiar glow -- lit up by zany sketches, scantily-clad women, bizarre TV characters such as El Chacal, and Kreutzberger’s raucous stage persona -- that had been a fixture inside millions of Latino homes on Saturday nights, “Sábado Gigante” will beam no more.

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