A Grand Day Out is a 1989[4] British stop-motion animated short film and the first installment in the Wallace & Gromit series.

[9][10] The film received critical acclaim and was followed by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 2024's Vengeance Most Fowl.

While deciding on where to go on their bank holiday, the cheese-loving inventor Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his dog, Gromit, find their fridge empty.

It repairs a broken piece of landscape, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and is annoyed by an oil leak from the craft.

Nick Park started creating A Grand Day Out in 1982 as a graduation project for the National Film and Television School.

[11] To make the film, Park wrote to William Harbutt's company, requesting 1 long ton (1,000 kg) of Plasticine.

Inspired by how Sallis drew out the word "cheese", Park chose to give Wallace large cheeks.

[14] According to the book The World of Wallace and Gromit, Park originally planned the film to be forty minutes long and to spoof Star Wars with numerous characters and a fast food restaurant on the Moon.

[citation needed] The short was released on Blu-ray by Lionsgate Home Entertainment as part of Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection on 22 September 2009, in time for the 20th anniversary of the franchise.