Little Bill
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Little Bill is a TV show for preschoolers on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. The show features Bill Cosby telling stories using his character of Little Bill. During these stories Little Bill normally learns some sort of lesson or moral. The show aired on CBS on September 16, 2000, then ended on September 7, 2002. The show came back on August 2, 2003, then ended again in March 2004. The show came back to Nick Jr. on CBS on September 16, 2004, then it stopped in September 2006.
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[edit] Cast
- Xavier Pritchett as Little Bill
- Zach Tyler Eisen as Andrew
- Gregory Hines as Big Bill
- Phylicia Rashad as Brenda
- Ruby Dee as Alice the Great
- Kianna Underwood as Fuschia
- Tyler James Williams as Bobby
- Monique Beasley as April
[edit] Characters
[edit] Little Bill
Little Bill loves Elephant his hamster and is a fan of the Blue Sox baseball team. He also likes Captain Brainstorm because he comes up with great ideas.
[edit] Elephant
Elephant (a hamster) made his debut in I love Animals and was asleep when Little Bill founded him, he also likes April because she thinks he's cute and lovely to look at and to also play with.
Elephant used to work in a factory in England, he was first known as 'Hamster', but was then known as Elephant. Elephant is also based on Mesocricetus.
[edit] April
Older than Bill and Bobby, she isn't really interested in what Elephant and Little Bill are doing. She is a basketball fan who plays it at school at breaktimes. She met Elephant when he came to their house after living at the pet shop. Half the time she gets quite bossy with Little Bill or Bobby.
[edit] Bobby
Bobby does not really care about the family, on the episode "Elephant on the Loose" he said nasty things like Elephant ran back to the pet store because he got tired of Little Bill, then said what if he got flushed down the toilet.
[edit] Big Bill
Father of Bobby, April and Little Bill. They have a very close relationship with their father. Is a housing inspector.
[edit] Trivia
- Sonia Manzano was a frequent writer for the show. Manzano is best-known for playing Maria Rodriguez on Sesame Street.
- The show took place not to far outside Philadelphia in almost every single episode, The Philadelphia Skyline was shown usually in the beggining of the episode and usually at the end. Although the skyline was not fairly accutrate, most of Downtown's most prominent buildings where shown conglomerated into One skyline. The buildings included where: One Liberty Place, Two Liberty Place, Mellon Bank Center, Bell Atlantic Tower, Blue Cross Tower , One and Two Commerce Square, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia City Hall, 1818 Market Street and more. The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge are also seen.
