Cockleshell Bay

Cockleshell Bay
Genre	Stop motion, Animation
Created by	Cosgrove Hall
Starring	Brian Trueman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(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

External links

• Cockleshell Bay at the Internet Movie Database
• Cockleshell Bay at ClassicKidsTV.co.uk