Animation · 1990s
Wallace & Gromit
The Wrong Trousers
A penguin, a pair of trousers, and the best toy train chase ever.
- Family-safe
- Good for kids
- Animated
Content note: A scheming penguin and a runaway train chase may be a bit much for the very smallest
BBC Two
1993
First shown 26 Dec 1993
- First shown
- 26 December 1993
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Runtime
- 29 mins
- Genre
- Animation
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It's Gromit's birthday, and Wallace has bought him the perfect present: a pair of mechanical techno trousers that take him for walks. Gromit is not impressed. Things get worse when Wallace rents out the spare room to a mysterious penguin, and before long the pair are embroiled in a jewel heist. Nick Park's Oscar-winning claymation is packed with Peter Sallis's cheerful tea-and-cheese voice, silent comedy from a dog with no mouth, and one of the great model train chases of all time. It was first shown on BBC Two on Boxing Day, so it's practically a family tradition. Cracking.
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