The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza
Genre	Family Entertainment
Written by	Colman deKay
Directed by	Niles Davenport Stan Jacobson
Presented by	Shari Lewis
Starring	Dom DeLuise Wezley Morris Chancz Perry
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	23
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Golden Books Family Entertainment KCET
Release
Original network	PBS (1998–99) PBS Kids (1999–2000)
Original release	January 5, 1998 (1998-01-05) – January 17, 1999 (1999-01-17)
Chronology
Related shows	Lamb Chop's Play-Along

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is an American children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January 1998 and 1999. Re-runs aired until late 2000. Re-runs are currently airing, again, on PBJ. 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. Just like Lamb Chop's Play-Along, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza was shot at the CBC Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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 (played by Chancz Perry); Fingers, a giant purple raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria (played by Gordon Robertson); Cookie the soft-hearted, opera-loving cook (played by Dom DeLuise); and Junior, who works at the pizzeria part-time, and plays musical instruments, such as the tuba for his high school marching band (played by Wezley Morris).

The series was put on hiatus after the May 18 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2 (1999)

VHS releases

There Are VHS Tapes in 1998 to 1999 Releases from Sony Wonder.

Funding

• The NAMM International Music Products Association
• Remo
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Annual financial support from Viewers Like You

External links

• The Charlie Horse Music Pizza at the Internet Movie Database