Cockleshell Bay
| Cockleshell Bay | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Stop motion, animation | 
| Created by | Cosgrove Hall | 
| Starring | Brian Trueman | 
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | 
| Original language | English | 
| No. of series | 8 | 
| No. of episodes | 104 | 
| Production | |
| Executive producer | John Hambley | 
| Producers | Brian Cosgrove, Mark Hall | 
| Running time | 10 minutes | 
| Production company | Cosgrove Hall Productions | 
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV | 
| Release | 6 May 1980 – 1 July 1986 | 
Cockleshell Bay is a stop-motion children's television series which was shown at lunchtime on ITV during the early 1980s. It was made by Cosgrove Hall Productions for its 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 is the show in which Cockleshell Bay began as a regular story feature (reflected in the rainbow design of Cockleshell Bay's logo).