The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

Jan 05, 1998 (en) Kids [30] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jan 05, 1998
  • Production
    Golden Books Family Entertainment, KCET, Lancit Media Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    100%
  • Original title
    The Charlie Horse Music Pizza
  • Release
    Jan 05, 1998
  • en
    -

Overview

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999, with infrequent airings throughout 2000. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play-Along and was hosted by Shari Lewis, whose strong belief in the benefits of music education for children led to the creation of the series. The show takes place around a pizzeria on the beach. Alongside the original cast of Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Shari, Charlie Horse Music Pizza introduced four new characters – Take-Out, a big anthropomorphized orangutan who makes deliveries on roller skates; Fingers, a giant purple raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria; Cookie the soft-hearted, opera-loving cook; and Junior, who works at the pizzeria part-time, and plays musical instruments, such as the tuba for his high school marching band. The series was put on hiatus after the May 30 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Bernard Rothman, Shari Lewis

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Shari Lewis

    Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)

  2. Dom DeLuise

    Cookie the Cook

  3. Gord Robertson

    Fingers (voice)

  4. Chancz Perry

    Takeout (voice)

  5. Wezley Morris

    Junior

  6. Burt Metcalfe

    Mr. Nichols

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 6 / Crews : 9

Season 1 ( 1998-01-05)

Back Story

Episode: 1

My Dog Has Fleas

Episode: 2

Musicians of Bremen

Episode: 3

Blow Hard

Episode: 4

Follow the Leader

Episode: 5

Spooky Opera Show

Episode: 6

A Pirate's Life

Episode: 7

The Audition

Episode: 8

Group Soup

Episode: 9

Rapunzel

Episode: 10

Toy Exchange

Episode: 11

Charlie on the Run

Episode: 12

Wise Queen

Episode: 13

Star-Spangled Charlie

Episode: 14

Charlie's Ant

Episode: 15

Whistle While You Work

Episode: 16

Jazzy

Episode: 17

Hush Puppy the Hero

Episode: 18

Can I Sing You My Song?

Episode: 19

Drum Show

Episode: 20
Jan 05, 1998 (en)
Kids
[30] Min
  • First Air Date Jan 05, 1998
  • Production
    Golden Books Family Entertainment, KCET, Lancit Media Productions
  • Rotten tomato 100%
Original Title The Charlie Horse Music Pizza
en

Overview

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999, with infrequent airings throughout 2000. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play-Along and was hosted by Shari Lewis, whose strong belief in the benefits of music education for children led to the creation of the series. The show takes place around a pizzeria on the beach. Alongside the original cast of Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Shari, Charlie Horse Music Pizza introduced four new characters – Take-Out, a big anthropomorphized orangutan who makes deliveries on roller skates; Fingers, a giant purple raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria; Cookie the soft-hearted, opera-loving cook; and Junior, who works at the pizzeria part-time, and plays musical instruments, such as the tuba for his high school marching band. The series was put on hiatus after the May 30 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Bernard Rothman, Shari Lewis

    Producer