Paddington Bear (TV Series)

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. 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. During the intro, the word "Bear" does not appear on screen, only "Paddington" followed by a panning shot that leads to the "bear" in question, thus the series has also been referred to as simply "Paddington". The series, along with all other FilmFair productions is currently owned by Cookie Jar Entertainment of Canada. PLOT: Paddington Bear is a child-like honey-bear from South America (Peru) with a passion for marmalade sandwiches, who is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Brown when they find him sitting on his suitcase at Paddington Station.