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Paddington Bear

1976 · 2 seasons · 30m per episode · Animation

Paddington Bear is a series of British animated shorts based on the Paddington Bear book series by Michael Bond produced by FilmFair. This was the first television series based on the popular children's book Paddington Bear. In the United States it was usually shown on pay television as filler in between programs. Its narrator was actor Michael Hordern. It was one of the few television programmes to combine a puppet show with cartoon - Paddington himself was a puppet, but other characters in the series were depicted as cartoon characters. The series has a very distinctive art style. Paddington himself is a stop-motion animated puppet who moves within a 3-dimensional space and interacts with 2-dimensional animated drawings of the human characters, buildings, etc. The series, along with all other FilmFair productions is currently owned by DHX Media of Canada.

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Seasons

• Paddington — 30 episodes (January 5, 1976)
• The Adventures of Paddington — 26 episodes (October 22, 1979)

Cast

• Michael Hordern as Narrator

Details

First aired

January 5, 1976

Episodes

56

Genres

Animation

Network

BBC One

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.2 / 10 from 27 votes