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Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions. Copyright: Aardman Animations / BBC
Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

  • TV comedy
  • BBC One
  • 2002
  • 10 episodes (1 series)

A collection of shorts featuring some of Wallace and Gromit's unusual and chaotic machines. Stars Peter Sallis.

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Press clippings

Wallace & Gromit: the films, ranked

With the most recent set to make it debut on our screens this Christmas, what better time to rank the Wallace and Gromit oeuvre?

Vicky Jessop, Evening Standard, 6th November 2024

Aardman Animations celebrates 40 years in Bristol

The creators of Wallace and Gromit, Morph and Shaun the Sheep are celebrating 40 years in the animation business..

BBC News, 5th September 2016

Here's a treat: a compilation first shown in Christmas 2002, followed at 7.25pm by a rerun of The Wrong Trousers. Only 15 minutes long, Cracking Contraptions actually began life as a pictorial calendar. The inventions are all brilliantly funny, but top marks in the first full World Cup week must go to the Preston North End Soccamatic.

Geoff Ellis, Radio Times, 17th June 2010

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