Cockleshell Bay

Cockleshell Bay
GenreStop motion, animation
Created byCosgrove Hall
StarringBrian Trueman
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series8
No. of episodes104
Production
Executive producerJohn Hambley
ProducersBrian Cosgrove, Mark Hall
Running time10 minutes
Production companyCosgrove Hall Productions
Original release
NetworkITV
Release6 May 1980 (1980-05-06) 
1 July 1986 (1986-07-01)

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).