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
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, 1998 – May 30, 1998
Chronology
Related shows	Lamb Chop's Play-Along

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.

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 30 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (U.S. dates)
			Season premiere	Season finale
	1	20	January 5, 1998 (1998-01-05)	May 30, 1998 (1998-05-30)

Season 1

#	List of Episodes	Release Date
1	Back Story	January 5, 1998
2	My Dog Has Fleas	January 12, 1998
3	Musicians of Bremen	January 19, 1998
4	Blow Hard	January 26, 1998
5	Follow the Leader	February 2, 1998
6	Spooky Opera Show	February 9, 1998
7	A Pirate's Life	February 16, 1998
8	The Audition	February 23, 1998
9	Group Soup	March 2, 1998
10	Rapunzel	March 9, 1998
11	Toy Exchange	March 16, 1998
12	Charlie on the Run	March 30, 1998
13	Wise Queen	April 6, 1998
14	Star-Spangled Charlie	April 13, 1998
15	Charlie's Ant	April 20, 1998
16	Whistle While You Work	April 27, 1998
17	Jazzy	May 4, 1998
18	Hush Puppy the Hero	May 11, 1998
19	Can I Sing You My Song?	May 18, 1998
20	Drum Show	May 30, 1998

VHS Releases

There Are VHS Tapes in 1998 to 1999 Releases from PBS Home Video and Warner Home Video.

#	List of Volumes and more	Release Date
1	Volume 1	August 2, 1998
2	Volume 2	1998
3	Volume 3	1998
4	Volume 4	1998

Funding

• NAMM
• Remo
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Viewers Like You

External links

• The Charlie Horse Music Pizza at the Internet Movie Database
• PBS.org: "Charlie Horse Music Pizza"