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
Pinball Number Count Pinball Number Count Pinball Number Count (or Pinball Countdown) is a collective title referring to 11 one-minute animated segments on the PBS children's series "Sesame Street" that teach children to count to 12 by following the journey of a pinball through a rather fanciful pinball machine. These segments are notable for the colorful, imaginative animation as well as the funky "one, two, three, four, five..." soundtrack provided by The Pointer Sisters. "Pinball Number Count" was originally produced in 1976 by Imagination, Inc. in San Francisco, California for the Children's Television Workshop. It made its debut on "Sesame Street" in 1977.