The Adventures of Portland Bill is a British stop motion animated children's television series made in 1983.
Norman Rossington provides the voice of all the characters, with Portland Bill the principal keeper acting as the narrator of each episode.
The submission won the prize and was picked up by Graham Clutterbuck at FilmFair who went on to commission two series for ITV.
At the time, John Grace and Mik Parsons were colleagues teaching in the Graphic Design Department at Leicester Polytechnic (now DeMontfort University).
Series 1 John Grace/FilmFair Ltd MCMLXXXIII Series 2 John Grace/FilmFair Ltd MCMLXXXVI 13 editions from 4 October 1983 – 3 January 1984 (aired on Tuesdays) 12 editions from 9 April 1986 – 25 June 1986 (aired on Wednesdays) FilmFair Fun had released one single video containing five double-length stories from the first series on it: Sometime during 1988, FilmFair Fun had also released an extended single video with six double-length stories from the first series on it: Snapdragon Video released a collection of 10 Portland Bill stories from the second series: On 17 July 1995, Castle Communications Plc released three videos with four double-length episodes each: Abbey Home Media released two DVDs containing twenty four episodes from the first season.