Little Bill (TV Series) - Characters

Characters

William "Bill/Little Bill" Glover Jr.

A 5 year old inquisitive and imaginative boy who loves his hamster and is a fan of the (fictional) Blue Sox 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. He is known as Little Bill because his actual name is Bill Jr; his father's name is also Bill. Little Bill is African-American.

Elephant

Elephant is a small light yellow hamster who loves Little Bill. The only noises that are heard from him is his blinking eyes after Little Bill has spoken and he sneezes in one episode. When the rest of the family goes on vacations, he is left alone with Alice the Great, Little Bill's great-grandmother. He gets sick in one episode, but gets better at the end.

April Glover

The oldest of the Glover children, She is a 10-year-old highly talented basketball player on the school team, and also at basketball camp, where she won a trophy and is also in a choir. She is often seen getting bossy. (She sometimes argues with Bobby.) She is the only sister.

Robert "Bobby" Glover

Bobby is the most studious of the kids. He is 8 years old. 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!"

William "Bill/Big Bill" Glover

Father of Bobby, April and Little Bill. 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. Big Bill is 40 years old.

Brenda Glover

Little Bill, Bobby, and April's mother. Wife of Big Bill, she works for a bank (see "Mom's Trip"), but her hobby is photography. Brenda Glover is 38 years old.

Alice the Great

Great-Grandmother of Little Bill, Bobby, April and Jamal; Alice is also Brenda and Deborah's grandmother (see "The Magic Quilt"). Alice the Great has an older brother and older sister (see "The Surprise") and a cousin who lives in Cincinnati. Usually teaches Little Bill lessons and tells stories to him. She also lives with the family. Alice the great is 72 years old and turns 73 in Alice the Great's birthday.

Captain Brainstorm

Captain Brainstorm is an astronaut who has an orange rocket and an orange space suit. Little Bill is a fan of his TV show, Space Explorers. Captain Brainstorm has a dog called Spark-E whose tagline, "Ruff-Roo!", is in a dog accent.

Andrew Mulligan

Andrew is a 5 year old white, red haired, freckled 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 had a quarrel and Andrew called Little Bill a copy cat, but soon learns his lesson and apologizes to him. Andrew has a pet dog named Farfy. Andrew is sometimes seen with his cousins: Kevin (13) and Rachel (11).

Kiku Wong

Kiku is an 5 year old Asian-American friend of Little Bill's. Little Bill would say that she is the nicest of his friends. She loves nature (particularly flowers) and origami (her grandmother, Ms. Notsuko, showed Little Bill how to make origami in the episode "Shipwreck Saturday").

Fuchsia Glover

Fuchsia is the cousin of Little Bill, Bobby, and April. Her father Al (Big Bill's brother) runs a shop close to Little Bill's house. Fuchsia is 5 years old. Al is 39 years old. Fuchsia's mother is named Vanessa and is 35 years old.

Dorado

Classroom friend of Little Bill (see "New Foods" and "Natural Root Pals"). Teaches Little Bill about experiencing the Spanish lifestyle by inviting him to dinner. Dorado introduces Bill to arroz con guandules y platanos(chicken with rice and bananas). Dorado is a bit of a comedian and is 6 years old.

Monty

Grandson of Alice the Great's best 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 is the tyrannosaurus rex. Monty is 5 years old.

Michael Rhiley

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.

Miss Aisha Murray Clinkscales

Little Bill's teacher, who later marries Dr. Winthrop Clinkscales. (but the students are still allowed to call her Miss Murray, since they have trouble pronouncing her husband's name). Their engagement was mentioned in "The Ring Bear" and they were married in "Miss Murray's Wedding".

Dr. Winthrop Clinkscales

Mrs. Murray's new husband. He is a doctor and treats Little Bill when he breaks his arm in "A Trip to the Hospital".

Mrs. Shapiro

A Hawaiian lady, with a cat named Sophie. She was Little Bill's neighbor but then moved back to Hawaii, in the episode "Same Moon, Same Sun, Same Star," to live with her sister Mimi. She is 56 years old.

Mr. Miguel Rojas

Mr. Rojas is an old 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 called Lito who's good at doing tricks. He only appears in "The New Neighbours", "Doggie Magic", "The Early Bill", and "The Halloween party." and is 65. He has children, but they're all grown up and have families of their own.

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 fluglehorn and is about 69 years old.

Jamal Glover

Little Bill's baby cousin, son of Deborah (Brenda's sister) and Gary. He is around 9 months. Deborah is 34 and Gary is 36.

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.

Mr. Williams

A music store owner only seen in "The Musical Instrument". He is a talented musician and shows little Bill the piano, accordion, saxophone and drums (which happens to be his grandson's favorite instrument). He is 63 years old.

Isabella "Isabel" Rojas

Mr. Rojas' niece and little Bill's babysitter after Mrs. Shapiro leaves for Hawaii. She also likes Captain Brainstorm and does a good alien voice. Isabel is 17-years-old and in high school.

Tiny

April's best friend, also in basketball camp and the choir. She is a little older than April. Her full name "Tiffany". She was seen and mentioned in the same episode, but she was sick in that episode so she had to be taken home and miss her choir class. Little Bill replaced her in the choir.