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The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

1998 · 1 season · 30m per episode · Kids

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.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 20 episodes (January 5, 1998)

Cast

• Shari Lewis as Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
• Dom DeLuise as Cookie the Cook
• Gord Robertson as Fingers (voice)
• Chancz Perry as Takeout (voice)
• Wezley Morris as Junior
• Burt Metcalfe as Mr. Nichols

Details

Created by

Shari Lewis

First aired

January 5, 1998

Episodes

20

Genres

Kids

Network

PBS

Status

Ended

TMDB score

9.0 / 10 from 2 votes