Series

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

1998 · 1 season · Kids

IMDb

8.6

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.

Shari Lewis

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

Dom DeLuise

Cookie the Cook

Gord Robertson

Fingers (voice)

Chancz Perry

Takeout (voice)

Wezley Morris

Junior

Burt Metcalfe

Mr. Nichols

• Bernard RothmanProducer
• Shari LewisProducer
• Cecily Truett LancitExecutive Producer
• Larry LancitExecutive Producer

Charlie Horse Music Pizza KSPS Promo

First aired

January 5, 1998

Last aired

January 30, 1998

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

20

Genres

Kids

• Season 120 episodes · 1998