Brian Cosgrove as "The Magic Ball" and "Sally And Jake". After Stop Frame Productions was shut down both Cosgrove and Hall founded Cosgrove Hall Films there they produced some of the most well known animated children's shows and films in Britain such as "Danger Mouse", "Count Duckula", "The Wind in the Willows", which would later become a 52-episode TV series, "Noddy's Toyland Adventures", "Bill and Ben" and "Fifi and the Flowertots" until 2009. In 1989, Cosgrove directed and produced the animated feature film "The BFG", based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name. According to Cosgrove, this is one of
Count Duckula other than the name, is they are both vampire ducks with ambitions in show business with little actual talent. The previous version was an evil villain, willing to blackmail and force his way into stardom (as opposed to the current Count, who merely tries to get in the legitimate way) and was fixated on being a TV star, rather than settle for fame in some other branch of entertainment. He has far greater magical powers and makes much more use of them. He has a thick accent consisting of lisping, stuttering and occasional squawks. Most notably, he was not a