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Model animation (PAGE 1)On this page, you'll find details of all the Cosgrove Hall series made using models and sets. You can call it 3D animation or puppet animation if you want, but don't call it claymation or I'll put you in the Naughty Corner. One-off specials have their own page here.
The Animal Shelf
Merchandise Merchandise
Brambly Hedge
Merchandise
Another series from my mis-spent early youth. Unlike Jamie and the Magic Torch or Chorlton and the Wheelies, you can only truly appreciate this show if you are under five years old. It's so gentle and inoffensive, even my mum would be begging for Robin or Rosie to start swearing or taking drugs after a couple of minutes. The best thing about it was that you got to see Gran Routy's bloomers in the end credits, which made me laugh every time. Heh. Bloomers. Oh, and for all you trivia heads – the sailor's name was Mr Ship, and the seagull was called Ben Gunn.
Creepy Crawlies
Engie Benjy
Fetch the Vet Fetch's many four-legged and two-legged friends include a litle girl named Pippa, who also wants to be a vet, and her younger sister Lucy; Fetch's receptionist Kara, and her dog Puddles (another peeing dog! What is the world coming to?), and a goat named Trevor. His owner, Farmer Moffat, runs Whitecliff farm, and is also Pippa's uncle. His son Joe shares Fetch's love of football. There's also a petshop in Duckhurst, run by Mr Lionel Frogatt. He's got a cheeky cockatoo called Columbus, an iguana called Iggy, and an unwelcome admirer in the shape of local romantic author and cat-lover Violet Blush. Quite a rural idyll, eh?
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(Since I've never seen this, I'm quoting directly from the Itsy Bitsy TV Web Site): "On the wall in Timothy's bedroom is a shelf painted blue, and on this shelf live his five little special animals. There's GUMPA the bear, who is good-natured (if a little lazy), WOEFUL the mischievous monkey who likes to get his own way, STRIPEY the woollen zebra and his best friend GETUP the giraffe, who is losing the stuffing from her feet and is always falling down, and the soft and cuddly LITTLE MUTT who always seems to get things wrong."
Now that's the stuff. If you want a sure-fire hit, take a concept that has an established fanbase and make it look sexy for children of the millennium. It worked wonders for Noddy, and now those lovable speech-impaired flowerpot men and their friend Little Weed have gone the same way. This new series does away with the strings and introduces new friends for the boys, including Whoops the worm, Pry the magpie and a really cute hedgehog named Boo. Andy Pandy has also recently received a Cosgrove Hall makeover, so watch out for him in this section soon. Flobadobadob!
Beautifully realised series detailing the goings-on of the mice of Brambly Hedge, and all their friends. Based on the books by Jill Barklem. There were eight episodes in all, each typically being shown on a Bank holiday in a particular season. They were: Spring Story, Summer Story, Autumn Story, Winter Story, The Secret Staircase, High Hills, Poppy's Babies and Sea Story.
"Cockleshell Bay is a town near the sea, with sunshine, seagulls and sand. With shops that sell ices and bright-coloured kites that will fly from a string in your hand. There are buildings painted white along the sea front - this one's called the Bucket and Spade. It's where people come to stay, and two children play, with all the good friends they have made. So meet Robin...and Rosie...of Cockleshell Bay."
Cute-looking show for the younger kiddies, concerning a bunch of insects who live around the old broken sundial at the bottom of the garden. They were: a spider named Ariadne, Mr Harrison the snail, an elderly caterpillar called the Ancient, a ladybird, Suppose the depressed worm, a not-too-bright beetle named Lambeth and Anorak the woodlouse, who always insisted "I'm not a woodlouse, I'm a pill-bug." Every show ended with the sun setting over the old broken sundial. That's pretty much all I can remember about this one.
OK, confession time; I've seen about three minutes of this show, so I'm not very well qualified to talk about it. However, I can tell you it stars a blue-haired lad named - wait for it - Engie Benjy, who has a van called Dan and a dog called Jollop. He drives around fixing stuff. Weird, trippy things happen. Also, the one episode I saw featured Jollop the dog peeing, which I don't mind telling you I found rather shocking. When did it become OK to openly urinate in a kids' TV show?? I must be getting old, or turning into Mary Whitehouse or something. Oh yeah, it's also narrated rather nicely by TV's most ubiquitous double act, Ant and Dec.
Stories for wee ones about the life of affable local vet Tom Fetch, who lives in a sweet little village named Duckhurst. As you might expect, Fetch tends to the animals in the village (as well as finding time to sneak in a little football).
