The Charlie Horse Music Pizza(1998)
Kids
First Air Date: 1998-01-05
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 20
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
Episodes: 20E01
Back Story
Air Date: 1998-01-05
Charlie Horse, Lamb Chop, Shari, and Fingers clash stories on how The Music Pizza was founded. MUSICAL TIE-IN: Shari ...
E02
My Dog Has Fleas
Air Date: 1998-01-06
A dog has wandered off the beach to the Music Pizza, and both Lamb Chop and Hush Puppy coax Shari to keep him—at le...
E03
Musicians of Bremen
Air Date: 1998-01-07
Lamb Chop is banging away on anything remotely like a drum. It's up to Junior to quell her by telling the story of th...
E04
Blow Hard
Air Date: 1998-01-08
Charlie Horse is at first upset when his best friend attend to his grandfather. But the old hand shows Charlie the tr...
E05
Follow the Leader
Air Date: 1998-01-09
Charlie Horse and the others want to play in the Fourth of July parade, but none is on pace with anybody else. MUSICA...
E06
Spooky Opera Show
Air Date: 1998-01-12
With Cookie taking his birthday off work, everyone agrees to stage the perfect gift for him: an opera. Their inspirat...
E07
A Pirate's Life
Air Date: 1998-01-13
Hush Puppy discovers what appears to be a treasure map, but does it make any sense? The only clues are the opening st...
E08
The Audition
Air Date: 1998-01-14
Lamb Chop is ready to go to any length to land a role in the school production of Little Red Riding Hood. It comes to...
E09
Group Soup
Air Date: 1998-01-15
Charlie Horse doesn't want to study for his American History test with his friend Chris. At the same time, Chris's mo...
E10
Rapunzel
Air Date: 1998-01-16
It's Lamb Chop's birthday, and Shari gets her a tape recorder as a present. At Lamb Chop's request, the tape recorder...
E11
Toy Exchange
Air Date: 1998-01-19
Junior comes down with the flu, putting a huge crimp on the toy exchange Charlie Horse is trying to stage. MUSICAL TI...
E12
Charlie on the Run
Air Date: 1998-01-20
Charlie Horse has been taking ice cream from just about everybody. He has to get a job to try and pay the ice cream m...
E13
Wise Queen
Air Date: 1998-01-21
Shari has to show Lamb Chop that a variety of music is better than one kind. She tells a story of a land that has to ...
E14
Star-Spangled Charlie
Air Date: 1998-01-22
Why has Charlie Horse bailed out of the scouts? Perhaps it's the requirements for one of those badges. Sensing he nee...
E15
Charlie's Ant
Air Date: 1998-01-23
Shari wants no part of Charlie Horse's ant farm, even though it is his school project. The ants must go before Cookie...
E16
Whistle While You Work
Air Date: 1998-01-26
Shari is prepared to sell the Music Pizza, provided she can clean it up for the prospective buyer. The real problem i...
E17
Jazzy
Air Date: 1998-01-27
Shari wants to help a friend get a dog for the deaf. It's the inspiration for the Music Pizza's concert. MUSICAL TIE-...
E18
Hush Puppy the Hero
Air Date: 1998-01-28
Charlie Horse makes up a story about a sea monster, moving Hush Puppy to an extreme. Cookie offers driving lessons to...
E19
Can I Sing You My Song?
Air Date: 1998-01-29
Junior books a birthday party at the Music Pizza, and then has to scramble to deliver the goods. Maybe Charlie Horse ...
E20
Drum Show
Air Date: 1998-01-30
Shari is tired of everybody using the phone constantly using the phone. Maybe things will change when a Haida nation ...
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