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 which introduced the idea that sunlight destroyed vampires into modern interpretations of vampires and vampirism in general. It may also be a reference to the fact that Dracula, whom the character is based on, was able to move about by daylight in the original novel, though with his powers reduced or rendered nonexistent until the sun set. In the episode "Doctor Goosewing and Mr. Duck", Count Duckula briefly turns into a "proper" vampire, desiring blood from the villagers outside the castle (much to Igor's great delight), due to a serum slipped to him by von Goosewing that he presumed would