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A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit. Credit: BBC, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Aardman Animations
A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit

A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit

  • TV comedy
  • Channel 4
  • 1989
  • 1 episode

Oscar-nominated claymation in which a Yorkshireman and his canine companion venture to the Moon. Stars Peter Sallis.

  • Repeated Wednesday at 10:45am on BBC2

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A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit trivia

Nick Park made Wallace say "Wensleydale" because it gave the character a good facial expression. What they did not know was that the Wensleydale factory was about declare bankruptcy. Happily, this film's success saved the factory.

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The film took over six years to make, almost all of it single-handedly done by Nick Park himself.

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Nick Park offered Peter Sallis £50 to voice the part of Wallace, and his acceptance to record the part greatly surprised the young animator.

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Nick Park produced this original Wallace & Gromit short as his graduation project for the National Film and Television School. It was initially screened at the 1989 British Short Film Festival.

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