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The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

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.

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The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

January 5, 1998
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Cast (6)

Dom DeLuise
Cookie the Cook
Gord Robertson
Fingers (voice)
Burt Metcalfe
Mr. Nichols
Shari Lewis
Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
Chancz Perry
Takeout (voice)

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Shawn Williamson
Associate Producer
Mallory Lewis
Supervising Producer
Shari Lewis
Producer
Larry Lancit
Executive Producer

Sound

Art

Jack McAdam
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