Shires Tonight

Shires Tonight
Genre	Comedy
Starring:	Charles Martinet Frank Welker Paul Winchell Pat Pinney Jim Cummings Alan Oppenheimer John Stephenson Pat Fraley Billy West Neil Ross Michael Bell Roy E. Shires
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Running Time	22 Minutes
Production Company	Matthew Mouse Television Cosgrove Hall Films
Original network	ITV (UK) Shires Channel ABC (US)
Original release	November 8, 1996 – October 8, 1998

Shires Tonight is an American-British live-action/puppet family-oriented television series created by Matthew Mouse Television, Cosgrove Hall Films, London Weekend Television and featuring The Shiresland. Much like the "Shiresland Television" segment of Children's Shires, the show was a continuation of The Shiresland Show, set in a television studio, rather than a theater.

Format

The premise of Shires Tonight was that Clifford the Cricket was the host of a variety/talk show on Theatre Royal. The show stuck closely to The Shiresland Show format of various skits (mostly featuring the show's human guest star) interspersed with some sort of crisis occurring backstage.

Episodes

Main article: List of Shires Tonight episodes

Characters and performers

• List of Shiresland

Sketches

• Mouse in Space: Deep Dish Nine
• Bay in Mousewatch
• Watch with Mother-OR

Broadcasters Around the World

• Britain: London Weekend Television (1996-1998)
• US: ABC (1996-1998), Shires Channel (1996-present)

Guest Stars

• Cat Deeley
• Tom Hanks
• Tim Allen
• Kelsey Grammer
• Tom Jones
• Matthew Corbett
• Michael Angelis
• Will Smith
• Robin Williams
• Roger Moore
• Ringo Starr
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Robert Redford
• Noel Edmonds