Cockleshell Bay

Cockleshell Bay
Genre	Stop motion, Animation
Created by	Cosgrove Hall
Starring	Brian Trueman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original 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
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	6 May 1980 – 1 July 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. The family had moved to the Bay from an unknown city, because their parents had wanted to leave city life behind, and their father no longer wanted to work in a factory. Although Robin and Rosie frequently argued with each other, it was clear that they much enjoyed each other's company. Gran Routy (who was no relation to the family, but was known as "Gran" due to her large number of grandchildren) helped out at the house. Robin and Rosie's friends included Mr. Ezikiel Shipham (known locally as Mr Ship), Mr. Paddy Fingal and his donkey Fury (whom Mr. Ship looked after), as well as Ben Gunn the "pirate seagull". In the later series Robin and Rosie had a baby sister called Holly.

Thames Colour Production

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