Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz (January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998), better known as Shari Lewis, was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer and television show host. She was best known as the original puppeteer of the sock puppet Lamb Chop, first appearing on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956 and then Hi Mom, a local morning television show that aired on WRCA-TV (now WNBC-TV) in New York City. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shari Lewis was a dancer, singer, and magician but is best known as the ventriloquist behind sock puppets Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and, of course, Lamb Chop. This lively doc charts the life, loves, and career hits and misses of this spunky perfectionist, who forever changed the face of children’s television.
Release Date: 2023-11-11
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.
Release Date: 1998-01-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
Episode Count: 20
Vote Count: 1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Release Date: 1996-06-10
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 14
Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting in on the action... Dom Deluise gets an education on the Seder plate and the significance of each item it holds, and neighbor Robert Guillaume delivers a song and dance explanation of the history of Passover.
Release Date: 1996-04-14
Character: Shari / Lamb Chop / Hush Puppy / Charlie Horse (voice)
Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and the gang discover the true meaning of Chanukah in this special holiday program. The story of the special holiday and all its traditions are celebrated with music and song along with Lloyd Bochner, Alan Thicke and Pat Morita.
Release Date: 1995-12-17
Character: Shari
Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
Release Date: 1994-10-21
Character: Self / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.
Release Date: 1993-11-03
Character: Shari Lewis
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1173
A comical and musical collection of yuletide appearances on the Ed Sullivan show. Timeless appearances by musical guests such as Johnny Mathis, Sergio Franchi and Bing Crosby are included along with comedic performers such as Topo Gigio and the Muppets.
Release Date: 1992-12-25
Character: archive footage
Vote Count: 1
Singer-actress Vicki Lawrence hosted this talk and entertainment show.
Release Date: 1992-08-31
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Lamb Chop's Play-Along is an American children's television series that was shown on PBS in the United States from 1992 until 1997, as well as on YTV in Canada. It was created and hosted by puppeteer Shari Lewis, and featured her puppet character Lamb Chop.
Release Date: 1992-01-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
Episode Count: 31
Vote Count: 2
After a frustrating day when an angry Lamb Chop forgets her manners, she decides to move out until the mysterious door to the Land of No Manners appears in her bedroom. It's up to Hush Puppy to rescue her! Follow her and Hush Puppy’s adventure to get back to their own bedroom! Illustrator Mort Gerberg draws and animates segments and teaches the audience to draw.
Release Date: 1989-08-20
Character: Self / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
Shari Lewis with help from Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy and Charlie Horse explores the world of classical music in a humorous fashion, with information about persons and terms painlessly slipped into the foolishness.
Release Date: 1984-04-30
Character: Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
While babysitting a monkey, "Rumplestiltskin," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Lion and the Mouse," and many others are sung and told by Shari Lewis, along with Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy.
Release Date: 1984-04-16
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
The entertainer is joined by puppets Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy to demonstrate and explain magic tricks for Charlie Horse's birthday.
Release Date: 1984-04-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Herself (Host) / Lamb Chop (voice) / Hush Puppy (voice) / Charlie Horse (voice)
The Alan Thicke Show was a Canadian talk show hosted by Alan Thicke. It aired on CTV between 1980 and 1983. The show aired in different versions also re-titled as Prime Cuts and as Fast Company. After the departure of the Alan Hamel Show from CTV's daytime lineup in 1980, Alan Thicke stepped in with his own successful one-hour talk show. Airing from September 1980 to fall of 1983, Thicke's show also birthed Prime Cuts, a prime-time half-hour series, using segments from the show. Produced at BCTV Vancouver, it facilitated easier access for U.S. guests. Thicke's Canadian run lasted three years before he moved to the U.S. for a similar but less successful syndicated show, Thicke of the Night.
Release Date: 1980-09-15
Episode Count: 1
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
Release Date: 1979-06-22
Character: Additional Muppet Performer
Vote Count: 624
A British magic show and variety show that aired on BBC1 from 9 June 1979 to 18 June 1994. Daniels' assistant throughout the series was Debbie McGee, whom he married in 1988. At its peak in the 1980s, the show regularly attracted viewing figures of 15 million and was sold to 43 countries.
Release Date: 1979-06-09
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
The Shari Show - Featuring Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop (1975, 1976)
Release Date: 1975-01-01
Department: Crew
Job: Creator
Character: Herself
Vote Count: 1
CBS gave the group a television variety show (entitled Tony Orlando and Dawn) from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, until December 1976. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor (with sketches featuring sarcastic back-and-forth banter between Orlando, Hopkins and Vincent, similar to the sarcastic dialogue between Sonny and Cher) and became a Top 20 hit. They are most famous for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" & "Knock Three Times"!
Release Date: 1974-12-04
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.
Release Date: 1974-10-21
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
Release Date: 1969-09-29
Character: Diane
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 17
Release Date: 1968-09-15
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Arabian Knights is an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series is based on Arabian Nights, a classic work of Middle Eastern literature.
Release Date: 1968-09-07
Character: Princess Nida (voice)
Episode Count: 18
Vote Count: 3
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Release Date: 1966-09-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1312
Sir Blur stumbles into a kingdom. A king is having trouble getting someone to marry his daughter because she's, to put it mildly, ugly. Guess who stumbles into the contest? Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
Release Date: 1966-08-08
Character: Gwendolyn (voice)
Honey Halfwitch meets a Giant.
Release Date: 1966-06-08
Character: Honey Halfwitch
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
Release Date: 1964-01-04
Character: Self - Singer / Ventriloquist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
Release Date: 1963-09-25
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
Release Date: 1962-10-01
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Release Date: 1962-10-01
Character: Self
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 71
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Release Date: 1961-12-11
Character: Self - Co-Host
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 7
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
Release Date: 1958-10-08
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
Release Date: 1956-10-05
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
Release Date: 1950-10-28
Character: Shari Lewis
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 15
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Release Date: 1948-06-20
Character: Self
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 20