Lamb Chop's Play-Along is a children's television series

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 that was shown on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 in the United States

United States

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 from 1992 until 1997, as well as on YTV in Canada. It was created and hosted by puppeteer

Puppeteer

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or...

 Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s...

, and featured her puppet character Lamb Chop

Lamb Chop (puppet)

Lamb Chop is a sock puppet sheep created by comedian and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. In 1957, Lamb Chop, a ewe, first appeared with Lewis on Hi Mom, a local morning show that aired on WNBC in New York....

. Appropriately, Lamb Chop was a sheep; other characters were puppets of other farm

Farm

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 animal

Animal

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s, including Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy. WTTW

WTTW

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 jointly distributed it with Paragon Entertainment Corporation to PBS stations across the country. The rights to the show are currently owned by Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media

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 through its control of Classic Media

Classic Media

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. Reruns of the first 26 episodes have recently begun to be broadcast on qubo

Qubo

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's digital channel, which is partially owned by Classic Media. The show can be seen as a skit in the Fairness segment of Kids for Character

Kids for Character

Kids for Character was a program that was released on VHS in 1996. It was a charity special about moral character that featured many different children's characters. It was produced by The Character Counts! Coalition and was distributed by Lyrick Studios...

.

Cast

• Pat Brymer - Head Puppeteer
• Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s...
  
  - Host/Lamb Chop/Hush Puppy/Charlie Horse

Lamb Chop's Playmates:

• Brian Ito
• Amanda McAdam
• Sabrina Sánchez
• Emma Pollard
• Annick Obonsawin
• John Creery
• Bryan Robinson
• Ramon Choyce
• Phillip Boutte
• Jade Schwartz
• Talia Gilboa
• Darran Doran
• Jason Guadalajara
• Zack McLemore
• Katie Orm
• Toni White
• Kevin Yee
• Rachel Sandor-Gough
• Zack Moses

Episodes

1992-1997

• Baby Lamb Chop
• Lonely Lamb Chop
• The Wallet
• The Talent Show
• Gold Diggers
• Runaway
• Stone Soup
• The Bike Contest
• First Fish President
• The Fellas
• The Ugly Duckling
• Hansel and Gretel
• King Solomon and the Baby Bee
• Teddy Bears and Black Eyes
• One Minute Story
• A Pair Of Underpants
• An Idiot

Theme song

The opening theme song was written by veteran Hollywood composer Bob Golden. Other songs were written by Square One TV songwriter, John Rodby. Two different arrangements of that song have been used; one involves bouncing, the other strength. The ending theme song featured the children and puppets singing "The Song That Doesn't End", while Lewis frantically attempted to stop them.

An instrumental version of the show's theme song was used for a most recent show of Mallory Lewis

Mallory Lewis

Mallory Hurwitz Lewis is an American writer, television producer, and puppeteer. Lamb Chop is a "sock puppet" of the mother and daughter. Like Shari's daughter, Lamb Chop remains a "sister" legacy to Mallory.-Early life:Mallory Lewis was born Mallory Tarcher in New York City...

 and Lamb Chop.

Kids for Character

The show can be seen as a skit in the Fairness segment of Kids for Character

Kids for Character

Kids for Character was a program that was released on VHS in 1996. It was a charity special about moral character that featured many different children's characters. It was produced by The Character Counts! Coalition and was distributed by Lyrick Studios...

.

Funding for Lamb Chop's Play Along

The show was funded primarily by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...

 and the financial support of Viewers Like You.

External links

• Lamb Chop's Play-Along
• Qubo: Lamb Chop's Play-Along Episode Guide