Debruge, Peter (25 October 2009). "Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review". Collider . Retrieved 2 October 2022. Gromit! It has been 25 years". The Daily Telegraph. 4 November 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2015. Media Monkey (4 November 2009). "Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday present from Google Doodle". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2015. Park unveiled Wallace and Gromit to an unsuspecting public on this day in 1989 at an animation festival at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol. Manger, Warren (5 June 2017). "Peter Sallis dead aged 96 after decades as Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and unlikely Hollywood success with Wallace & Gromit". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017 . Retrieved 18 August 2019.

According to the book The World of Wallace and Gromit, original plans were that the film would be forty minutes long, including a sequence where Wallace and Gromit would discover a fast food restaurant on the Moon. Regarding the original plot, Park said:

Martins, Holly (September 2000). "13th BBC British Short Film Festival". Netribution. Archived from the original on 29 July 2001 . Retrieved 15 August 2015. The short debuted on 4 November 1989 at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK, and debuted in the United States on 18 May 1990. It was also shown on Channel 4 on 24 December 1990 in the UK.

A Grand Day Out". Wallace & Gromit. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008 . Retrieved 22 August 2015. A Grand Day Out was finally finished and transmitted on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve, 1990 - 6 years after production began! Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Lionsgate Home Entertainment later released it on Blu-ray for the first time, under the release's name Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection, on 22 September 2009 in time for the 20th anniversary of the franchise. [15] Release [ edit ] Every device we sell or rent on the musicMagpie Store goes through an extensive in-house refurbishment process to ensure you're getting a great quality device for a great price. Here's everything you need to know! The short debuted on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. [5] [6] [7] [8] It was first broadcast on 24 December 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4. [9] [10] A Grand Day Out is followed in the series by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death.The short film was released on VHS in the 1990s by BBC Video. It was also reissued as a DreamWorks Pictures release along with The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave in the Wallace and Gromit in 3 Amazing Adventures DVD on 20 September 20 2005 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment. In the United States, it was released on DVD on 10 February 2009 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment. In the United Kingdom, it was again released on DVD in the 2000s. The short won the first BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation awarded in 1990, beating out Park's other nominated short, Creature Comforts. Annual Report 1990" (PDF). Channel 4. p.20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 15 August 2015. Midgley, Neil (26 November 2010). "Christmas telly is a reassuring British tradition". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 25 November 2014. a b Farndale, Nigel (18 December 2008). "Wallace and Gromit: one man and his dog". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 18 December 2008.

Park wanted Wallace to have a Lancastrian accent like his own, but Sallis could only do a Yorkshire voice. Inspired by how Sallis drew out the word "cheese", Park chose to give Wallace large cheeks. When Park called Sallis six years later to explain he had completed his film, Sallis swore in surprise. [11] The original story was that Wallace and Gromit were going to go to the Moon and there were going to be a whole lot of characters there. One of them was a parking meter attendant, which was the only one that remained— the robot cooker character— but there were going to be aliens, and all sorts. There was going to be a McDonald's on the Moon, and it was going to be like a spoof of Star Wars.

A Grand Day Out (1989)". British Film Forever. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015 . Retrieved 15 August 2015.