Editing Cosgrove Hall Films (section)

===Cosgrove Hall Productions===
Following the closure of Stop Frame Productions, Cosgrove and Hall were able to find new work in animation, specifically due to their earlier work on the 1972 series ''[[Rainbow (TV series)|Rainbow]]''. The producer of ''Rainbow'', [[Thames Television]],  an [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] franchisee, created a new [[subsidiary]] animation studio called Cosgrove Hall Productions in the following year, 1976.<ref name=guardian/> Thames hired and commissioned Cosgrove and Hall as lead [[animators]] to create new animated programmes, for this new studio, based on their earlier work with ''Rainbow''. Another bit of Thames commissioned work was the title sequence for the 1974 feature film The Best Of Benny Hill for Thames Television and EMI Films. Thames Television also hired [[John Hambley (producer)|John Hambley]] as Cosgrove Hall Films' first [[executive producer]].<ref name=guardian/> Its first series was ''[[Chorlton and the Wheelies]]'', the lead role being named after the suburb of Manchester where the company was based (the other characters were placed on wheels as this made the stop-frame animation easier). The pop singer and musician [[Bernard Sumner]] worked for Cosgrove Hall from its founding until 1979 as a tracer.

''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'' was one of the studio's earliest international successes. The studio made 161 episodes between 1981 and 1992. In each one, Danger Mouse, the world's greatest secret agent, and his well-meaning but useless sidekick, Penfold, outwit the evil Baron Silas Greenback and various scoundrels. In 1983, the studio made a 75-minute film, ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1983 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]'', based on [[Kenneth Grahame]]'s classic story [[The Wind in the Willows|of the same name]]. It won a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] award and an international [[Emmy]] award. Subsequently, the studio made a [[The Wind in the Willows (TV-series)|52-episode TV series]] based on the characters between 1984 and 1990. All the music and songs for the feature and series were written by [[Keith Hopwood]], late of [[Herman's Hermits]] and Malcolm Rowe. [[The Stone Roses]] guitarist [[John Squire]] worked on this series. ''[[Count Duckula]]'' was a [[Parody|spoof]] on the [[Dracula]] legend; its title character is the world's only [[vegetarian]] [[vampire]]. He aspires to be rich and famous. Originally he was a villain/henchman recurring in the ''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'' series, but got his own [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series in 1988 that rapidly became one of Cosgrove Hall's most successful programmes, and a Cosgrove Hall staple to spin-off characters from each successive cartoon. Both shows also aired on [[Nickelodeon]] in the U.S. during the late 1980s, and were popular in the ratings for the channel. In 1989, the studio produced a full-length feature based on Roald Dahl's ''[[The BFG (1989 film)|The BFG]]''.

''Truckers'', the first book in ''[[The Bromeliad]]'', was the studio's first collaboration with the best-selling author [[Terry Pratchett]]. The 1992 series follows the efforts of a group of nomes, whose spaceship crash-landed on Earth 15,000 years ago, to return home.
However, Cosgrove Hall Productions' days became numbered as on 31 December 1992, their financial backer and owner, [[Thames Television]] lost its [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] franchise and  began divesting/closing its subsidiaries.
The studio downgraded its operations following Thames' loss of ITV franchise, and eventually closed doors in 1993.