- Cockleshell Bay
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Cockleshell Bay Genre Stop motion, Animation Created by Cosgrove Hall Starring Brian Trueman Country of origin 
United KingdomLanguage(s) English, Finnish, Swedish, Hebrew, Hungarian, French, and Spanish No. of episodes 104 Production Executive producer(s) John Hambley Producer(s) Brian Cosgrove, Mark Hall Running time 10 mins Broadcast Original channel ITV Original run 6 May 1980 – 22 April 1986 Cockleshell Bay is a children's television series which was shown at lunchtime on ITV during the early 1980s. It was made by Cosgrove Hall for their parent company, the ITV broadcaster Thames Television. Other children's programmes in the same ITV time slot on the remaining four weekdays included Let's Pretend, Jamie and the Magic Torch, and Rainbow - the latter in which Cockleshell Bay began as a regular story feature (reflected in the rainbow design of Cockleshell Bays logo).
Twins Robin and Rosie Cockle were the main characters. They lived at the Bucket and Spade guest house run by their parents Helen and Christopher. Gran Routy (no relation but she was known as gran due to her large number of grandchildren) helped out at the house. Robin and Rosies friends included Mr. Ship (Ezikiel Shipham), Mr. (Paddy) Fingal and his donkey Fury (whom Mr. Ship looked after), and Ben Gunn the "pirate seagull". In the later series Robin and Rosie had a baby sister called Holly.
Credits
- Writer and Narrator
- Brian Trueman
- Music
- David Rohl, Stuart J. Wolstenholme
- Animators
- Sue Pugh, Andrea Lord, Steve Moss
- Puppet Design
- Bridget Appleby
- Illustrations
- Avril Turner
- Sets & Props
- Chris Walker
- Puppet Construction
- Peter Saunders
- Camera
- Jim Noble, Joe Dembinski
- Film Editors
- John McManus, Eilis Ward
- Executive Producer
- John Hambley
- Director
- Jackie Cockle
- Producers
- Mark Hall, Brian Cosgrove
- Cosgrove/Hall Productions Ltd © MCMLXXXII
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