The Charlie Horse Music Pizza backdrop
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza poster
📺 Series

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

📅 1998 ⭐ 10.0 🕐 30m US US

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 & Episodes
Season 1 20 episodes
E1
Back Story 1998-01-05
E2
My Dog Has Fleas 1998-01-06
E3
Musicians of Bremen 1998-01-07
E4
Blow Hard 1998-01-08
E5
Follow the Leader 1998-01-09
E6
Spooky Opera Show 1998-01-12
E7
A Pirate's Life 1998-01-13
E8
The Audition 1998-01-14
E9
Group Soup 1998-01-15
E10
Rapunzel 1998-01-16
E11
Toy Exchange 1998-01-19
E12
Charlie on the Run 1998-01-20
E13
Wise Queen 1998-01-21
E14
Star-Spangled Charlie 1998-01-22
E15
Charlie's Ant 1998-01-23
E16
Whistle While You Work 1998-01-26
E17
Jazzy 1998-01-27
E18
Hush Puppy the Hero 1998-01-28
E19
Can I Sing You My Song? 1998-01-29
E20
Drum Show 1998-01-30
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