Brian Cosgrove Brian Cosgrove Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE (born 6 April 1934) is an English BAFTA Award winning director, producer, animator, designer and sculptor best known as the creator of the animated children shows "Danger Mouse" and "Count Duckula". Born in North Manchester, Cosgrove studied at Manchester College of Art and Design, there he met his future work partner Mark Hall. Cosgrove started career by producing television graphics at Granada Television. He later on joined Stop Frame Productions, which Mark Hall founded, there he worked on many public service films, commercials for companies like TVTimes and directing and produced animated shows such
Animated series The first animated television series was "Crusader Rabbit". Animated sitcoms first appeared in the 1960s, with "The Flintstones" (1960–1966), followed by "The Jetsons" (1962–1987). From 1972 to 1974, Hanna-Barbera produced "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home", an adult-oriented sitcom in the style of "All in the Family". The 1980s and 1990s was a renaissance of the cartoon children's television series and adult's television series. Various broadcast networks and media companies began creating television channels and formats designed specifically for airing cartoon series. Companies that already had these types of formats in place began to revamp their existing models during this