Lamb Chop (puppet)

Publicity photo of Shari Lewis and her puppets Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse from The Ford Show, April 7, 1960.
Shari Lewis and her puppets Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse from The Ford Show, 1960

Lamb Chop is a sock puppet anthropomorphic sheep created by the puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. The character first appeared during Lewis's guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956 and later appeared on Hi Mom (1957–1959), a local morning show that aired on WRCA-TV in New York, New York.