Charlie Horse Music Pizza

Charlie Horse Music Pizza
Charlie Horse Music Pizza
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Genre Family Entertainment
Written by Colman deKay
Directed by Niles Davenport
Stan Jacobson
Presented by Shari Lewis
Starring Dom DeLuise
Wezley Morris
Country of origin  United States
No. of episodes 20
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Golden Books Family Entertainment
KCET
Broadcast
Original channel PBS
Original run January 5 – May 30, 1998
Chronology
Related shows Lamb Chop's Play Along

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. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play Along, and features the original cast from that show, including host Shari Lewis.

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 raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria), Cookie the Cook (played by Dom DeLuise), and Junior (played by Wezley Morris), a frequent customer to the pizzeria who played a lot of musical instruments.

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.

Funding

Episodes

Season Episodes Originally aired (U.S. dates)
Season premiere Season finale
1 20 January 5, 1998 (1998-01-05) August 31, 1998 (1998-08-31)
2 40 September 1, 1998 (1998-09-01) May 30, 1999 (1999-05-30)

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