Home Along Da Riles

Home Along Da Riles
Genre Situational comedy
Created by ABS-CBN Entertainment Dept.
Written by Divino Reyes
Isko Salvador
Woodrow Serafin
Directed by Johnny Manahan
Victor de Guzman
Apollo Arellano
Starring Dolphy
Nova Villa
Theme music composer Homer Flores
Opening theme Home Along Da Riles sung by Dolphy, Vandolph, Claudine Barretto, Gio Alvarez and Smokey Manaloto
Country of origin Philippines
No. of episodes 531
Production
Executive producer(s) Linggit Tan-Marasigan
Running time 1 hour and 30 minutes
Release
Original network ABS-CBN
Picture format 480i SDTV
Original release December 7, 1992 (1992-12-07) – August 10, 2003 (2003-08-10)
Chronology
Followed by Home Along da Airport

Home Along Da Riles (lit. Home Along the Railway) is a Philippine situational comedy series that aired on the Philippine network ABS-CBN from 1992 to 2003. The title started out as a play on the feature film Home Alone and with the main character's first name taken as a direct copy from the film's protagonist.

Premise

The show depicts the lives of a poor Filipino family, the Kosmes, living alongside the railroad tracks. The main character, Kevin Kosme, strives to raise his four children on his meager earnings. Despite their situation, the family remains tight-knit and keeps a very positive outlook on life. As a running gag in the show, their house shakes violently when a train passes by.

Characters

Movie version

Home Along Da Riles
Directed by Johnny Manahan
Produced by Charo Santos-Concio
Lily Monteverde
Screenplay by Roy Vera Cruz
Loida Viriña
Starring Dolphy
Nova Villa
Cita Astals
Vandolph
Eddie Gutierrez
Music by Homer Flores
Distributed by Star Cinema
Release dates
  • August 26, 1993 (1993-08-26)
Country Philippines
Language English/Tagalog
Home Along Da Riles 2
Directed by Efren Jarlego
Produced by Charo Santos-Concio
Screenplay by Roy Vera Cruz
Loida Viriña
Starring Dolphy
Nova Villa
Babalu
Vandolph
Subas Herrero
Music by Homer Flores
Distributed by Star Cinema
Release dates
  • May 28, 1997 (1997-05-28)
Country Philippines
Language English/Tagalog

Star Cinema made two movies in junction to the series: Home Along Da Riles (1993) and Home Along Da Riles Part 2 (1997)

The first movie (1993) goes deeper into Kevin's history revealing he was an all-star chef at a hotel but was fired after an explosion in the hotel's kitchen, which ended up working as a messenger in a placement agency thereafter. The family was also implicated from trying to expose corrupt practices of a corrupt politician to the Presidential Anti-Crime Task Force, which nearly cost their lives.

The second movie (1997) follows Kevin and his family after he "inherits" a family estate from his late uncle. While at the family estate, the family solves the real problem of why a business tycoon was trying to seize its inheritance, which the tycoon also owns and operates the polluted factory near the estates' land.

In 2014, the first film was digitally restored into HD and to be release via Kapamilya Blockbusters.

Home Along Da Airport

See also

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