First shown weekly on WAPA-TV, and later on TeleIsla (then called WRIK-TV, Rikavision Channel 7), it depicted the life of a local fictional family, as well as that of some of their neighbors.
The two most successful ones, La Familia Pérez and Gloria y Miguel, featured comedic variations on real-life stories about married couples, essentially premiering sitcoms in Puerto Rico.
Since broadcasts were live, and airings were frequent, Muñiz, who was the writer for these programs as well, felt that the family sitcom format was quite challenging to sustain.
He reluctantly agreed, and when no actor was available to play the main role, he took a gamble and decided -against his own wishes- to star in the comedy as well.
When Tommy Muñiz first sketched his new production, he intended the starring role to reflect an everyday man from Puerto Rico.
García was a self-made man who thrived after his orphaned childhood and became a handyman and freelance set designer for Puerto Rico's television stations.
Juan Bautista needed a daughter -who would be Godofredo's girlfriend, and mutual family friends referred Gina Beveraggi, who had no previous stage experience, to Muñiz.
Mutual references also contacted Manela Bustamante, a very successful Cuban-born comedian, famous for her role of Cachucha in Cuban radio and television.
Muñiz's staff then recruited Gladys Rodríguez, a former child- and later internationally known dramatic actress, for the role of Teresa García Albano, Pablo's wife.
She had come out of semi-retirement by the time the series' pilot was filmed, after playing various major dramatic roles around Latin America.
Their acting chemistry was such that many years later, when Jacobo Morales cast his Academy Award nominated film Lo que le pasó a Santiago, he selected Muñiz for the main role and Rodriguez as his romantic interest.
Ad libbing would sometimes have its consequences, since the show was taped but otherwise acted live and not edited: in one episode Rodríguez called Doña Toni by Manela's name and all actors -including Bustamante- had to refrain from cracking up a laugh.
Juan Bautista García lived with his family in a fictional neighborhood called "Parque Florido", with his wife Teresa, and his children, straight-as-an-arrow teenage daughter Ginny and impish tween (later teen) Junito.
She pressed Juan (sometimes angrily or hysterically, for comic effect) to do household chores, correct mistakes, or solve misunderstandings.
A common practice in the program was for Juan, Don Pepín (and very rarely, Doña Toni) to break the fourth wall and talk directly to the camera.
His nosy attitude was a source of comedic conflict with his domineering wife, Rebecca (occasionally played by Valentina Rivera).
Doña Toni, on the other hand, would sometimes start talking extremely fast (a skill that she had perfected while playing her Cachucha character in Cuba).
After the end of Los García's successful run, the members of the show went on to do other things: Rafo Muñiz quit acting for a while, returning sporadically to the profession that first gave him popularity, but he became a successful show producer, representing many singers in Puerto Rico with his Promotores Latinos company.
In 1989, he produced a version of MTV's Remote Control, but the United States network threatened to sue and the show was taken off the air.
On Saturday, June 17, 2006, Los García reunited for a prime time special aired on Telemundo entitled "El Reencuentro" as a homage to series creator Tommy Muñiz.
The cast included Gina Beveraggi, William Garcia, Edgardo Rubio, Christie Miró, Edgar Cuevas and Rafo Muñiz.