Little Bill

Plot

Episodes

Characters

• William "Bill/Little Bill" Glover Jr.: An inquisitive and imaginative boy who loves his pet hamster named Elephant, and is a fan of the fictional Blue Socks baseball team. He also likes Captain Brainstorm because he comes up with great ideas. He enjoys going to kindergarten, although he misses Elephant, but he is still happy and content nonetheless. He is known as Little Bill because his actual name is Bill Jr* his father's name is also Bill. Little Bill is based on Bill Cosby's son, Ennis William Cosby, and was voiced by Xavier Pritchett.
• William "Bill/Big Bill" Glover Sr.: Little Bill, Bobby, and April's father, and is the husband of Brenda. They have a very close relationship with their father. He works for the Department of Housing, as a housing inspector. His hobby is collecting and listening to jazz records. He is also known as Big Bill because his actual name is Bill Sr. He was voiced by Gregory Hines.
• Brenda Glover : Little Bill, Bobby, and April's mother, and is the wife of Big Bill. She works for a bank, but her hobby is photography. She was voiced by Phylicia Rashad.
• April Glover: The oldest and only daughter of Brenda and Big Bill. She is a highly talented basketball player on the school team, and also at basketball camp, where she won a trophy and is also in a choir at the family's local church. She is often seen getting bossy and she sometimes argues with Bobby. She was voiced by Monique Beasley.
• Robert "Bobby" Glover: Bobby is the most studious of the kids. He is always reading and investigating things. He is the middle child, and oldest son of the Glover children. He can also play the violin, and sometimes he can say upsetting things, usually resulting in his family saying, "Bobby!". He was voiced by Devon Malik Beckford, and then Tyler James Williams.
• Alice the Great: Great-grandmother of Little Bill, Bobby, April, and Jamal* Alice is also Brenda and Deborah's grandmother. Alice the Great has an older brother and sister and a cousin who lives in Cincinnati. Usually teaches Little Bill lessons and tells stories to him. She also lives with the family. She was voiced by Ruby Dee and Anika Walker in a flashback in "Good Ol' Lightning".
• Elephant: Elephant is the family pet* a small, light yellow hamster. He is the only member of the Glover family who does not speak. When the rest of the family goes on vacations, he is left at home.
• Captain Brainstorm: Captain Brainstorm is an astronaut, who has an orange rocket and an orange space suit. Little Bill is a fan of his television show, Space Explorers. Captain Brainstorm has a dog called Spark-E, whose tagline, "Ruff Roo!", is in a dog accent. He was voiced by Bill Cosby, the creator of Little Bill.
• Andrew Mulligan: Andrew is an Irish-American boy who is Little Bill's best friend. Andrew and Little Bill have many things in common, they both like Captain Brainstorm or play with construction sets, etc. In one episode, "Copy Cat", Little Bill and Andrew have a quarrel and Andrew calls Little Bill a copycat, but soon learns his lesson and apologizes to him. Andrew has a pet sheepdog named Farfy. Andrew is sometimes seen with his cousins, Kevin and Rachel. He lives two houses away from Little Bill. He was voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen.
• Kiku: Kiku is a Japanese-American friend of Little Bill's. Little Bill would say that she is the nicest of his friends. She loves nature and origami. She was voiced by Eunice Cho and later Emily Cleckner.
• Fuchsia Glover: Fuchsia is the paternal cousin of Little Bill, Bobby and April. Her father Al runs a shop close to Little Bill's house. Fuchsia's mother is named Vanessa. She was voiced by Nakia Williams and Kianna Underwood. She goes to school with Little Bill.
• Dorado: Dorado is a friend of Little Bill who is Puerto Rican. He teaches Little Bill about Hispanic culture by inviting him to dinner. Dorado introduces Bill to "arroz con guandules y platanos". Dorado is a bit of a comedian. He was voiced by Vincent Canales
• Monty: Grandson of Alice the Great's friend Emmaline, uses a wheelchair to get around because he was born with cerebral palsy. He and Little Bill are good friends and pretend to be dinosaurs together* Monty's favorite dinosaur is T-rex. He was voiced by Cole Hawkins.
• Michael Riley: A classmate of Little Bill's who moves to the neighborhood from Miami, Florida. He is mean to Little Bill and his friends at first, but he soon learns his lesson. He is then a very good friend to Little Bill. He sleeps over at Little Bill's house in one episode and in the next episode, he plays in the snow with Little Bill for the first time. As revealed in "Michael Sleeps Over", he has a pet goldfish named Goldie, in which he got from Florida. He was voiced by Muhammad Cunningham.
• Miss Aisha Murray–Clinkscales: Little Bill's kindergarten teacher, who later marries Dr. Winthrop Clinkscales. Their engagement was mentioned in "The Ring Bear" and they were married in "Miss Murray's Wedding." She was voiced by Ayo Haynes and Melanie Nicholls-King.
• Dr. Winthrop Clinkscales: Mrs. Murray's husband, whom she married in "Miss Murray's Wedding". He’s a doctor, and treats Little Bill when he breaks his arm in "A Trip to the Hospital." The kids usually have difficulty pronouncing his last name.
• Mrs. Shapiro: Little Bill's neighbor, who moved back to Hawaii, in the episode "Same Moon, Same Sun, Same Star," to live with her sister Mimi. She was voiced by Madeline Kahn in her first appearance, and later by Kathy Najimy after Kahn's death.
• Mr. Miguel Rojas: Mr. Rojas is an elderly Mexican-American man who speaks English and Spanish. He moved into Mrs. Shapiro's house and met Little Bill in the episode "The New Neighbors." He has a dog named Lito who is good at doing tricks. He only appears in "The New Neighbors," "Doggie Magic," "The Early Bill," and "The Halloween Party." He has children, but they're all grown up and have families of their own. He was voiced by Victor Argo.
• Mr. Clark Terry: Alice the Great and Little Bill's new friend. He teaches Little Bill how to skip rocks and make music with a reed. He plays the flugelhorn. He was voiced by Clark Terry, whom he is named and modeled after.
• Baby Jamal Welsh: Little Bill's maternal baby cousin, son of Deborah and Gary.
• Percy Mulch: The owner of a pet shop. He knows all about animals, but is a bit clumsy, and has a hard time remembering the first names of Little Bill's parents. He was voiced by Doug E. Doug.
• Mr. Williams : A music store owner from "The Musical Instrument." He is a talented musician, and shows Little Bill the piano, accordion, saxophone, and drums.
• Aunt Deborah Kendall : Aunt Deborah is Brenda's younger sister, the wife of Uncle Gary and the mother of Baby Jamal. She’s Little Bill, Bobby and April's maternal aunt and she’s Big Bill’s sister-in-law. She appears in "Just a Baby" when she and Gary came over to her sister's house to show them baby Jamal.

  List of home media releases

Main releases

Episodes on Nick Jr. compilation DVDs

Awards

• 2003 – Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program – Gregory Hines
• 2004 – Outstanding Children's Animated Program

• 2001

  Video games