Editing Lamb Chop (puppet) (section)

===Concept and creation===
Lamb Chop has been described as a "6-year-old girl, very intuitive and very feisty, a combination of obstinacy and vulnerability...you know how they say fools rush in where wise men fear to go? Well, Lamb Chop would rush in, then scream for help."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lamb Chop |url=http://www.tvacres.com/puppets_lambchop.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913021046/http://www.tvacres.com/puppets_lambchop.htm |archive-date=2012-09-13 |website=TV Acres}}</ref> Lamb Chop, in all her shows, had referred to her close friend, a girl named Lolly Pincus.

From 1960 to 1963, Lewis had her own [[musical film|musical]]-[[comedy]] [[television network|network television]] [[television program|program]], ''[[The Shari Lewis Show]]''. As children's programming turned more towards animation in the mid-1960s, she continued to perform in a wide range of venues. 

In 1992, Lamb Chop and Lewis began their own [[PBS]] children's show, ''[[Lamb Chop's Play-Along]]'', an [[Emmy Award]] winner for five consecutive years. The show was approximately 25 minutes per episode. On PBS, it premiered September 10, 1992 and was last shown on January 1, 1997. From 2007 to 2009, it was shown on [[Qubo]]. 

In 1993, when Lewis appeared before the [[U.S. Congress]] in an oversight hearing on the [[Children's Television Act]], Lamb Chop provided her own testimony.<ref>{{USCongRec|1998|E1544|date=August 4, 1998}}</ref>

In 1998, Lamb Chop co-starred with Lewis on the short-lived spin-off ''[[The Charlie Horse Music Pizza]]''. The show was canceled after Lewis' death in 1998.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Myrna |date=4 August 1998 |title=Puppeteer Shari Lewis Dies |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-08-04-9808040164-story.html |access-date=2019-06-07 |work=[[Hartford Courant]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The last episode of ''The Charlie Horse Music Pizza'' aired on January 17, 1999.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Edelstein |first=Andy |date=January 20, 1999 |title=Shari Lewis' Farewell / Ch. 13 to broadcast late puppeteer's last |url=https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/shari-lewis-farewell-ch-13-to-broadcast-late-puppeteer-s-last-1.442261 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209014008/https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/shari-lewis-farewell-ch-13-to-broadcast-late-puppeteer-s-last-1.442261 |archive-date=2022-02-09 |access-date=2019-06-07 |work=[[Newsday]] |language=en}}</ref>

Prior to her death, Shari Lewis sold the rights of Lamb Chop to [[Western Publishing|Golden Books Family Entertainment]]. When Golden filed for bankruptcy, Classic Media (later renamed [[DreamWorks Classics]] and now{{when?|date=March 2024}} part of [[NBCUniversal]]) acquired Golden's entertainment catalog.