I remember watching this stop motion animated short features made in 1975 on tv as a kid. A combination of animated 3-d and 2-d card board cutouts for the characters, and the backgrounds were cut outs as well. Created in 1975 by Mr. Ivor Wood and narrated by Mr. Michael Horden, A friendly young bear from Darkest Parue had stowed away to find a better life, as his aunt Lucie bear was in a home for retired bears. While he made it to a London train station, the Brown family had taken notice of him and decided to take him into their home and cared for him, and decided to name him Paddington as that was the name of the train station they were at. Paddington bear wore a large black folded had, a blue trench coat and often carried a suit case with him containing the things he needed. Life in London was very difficult for Paddington as at first, as he wasn't used to all the modern conveniences of home life. Of course a lot of his day to day living was learning new things and skills in life, and often getting into large predicaments and sticky situations, even stickier than the jar of marmalade that he absolutely loved to eat as a sandwich. Often, he tries to help his next door neighbor Mr. Curry, whom doesn't often take kindly to Paddington, as he often makes huge messes and breaks things, but not on purpose. In one adventure, Mr. Curry had gotten a new steam bath sauna for Mr. Brown, and decided to test it out as it was very cold and wintery day. It all worked well, except that Paddington had placed his combination lock over the door and locked Mr. Curry in, which got him all steamed up.
Of course Paddington has had many adventures when shopping down town. In one episode he was taken to a department store by Mrs. Brown and their maid to get new pajamas. Of course it was difficult to find the right size for Paddington, but the store clerk seemed helpful but confused, but allowed Paddington to go to a fitting room to try on the pajamas. Paddington had problems finding an open and empty room, but managed to get into a room that was all set up for a bedroom. Paddington thought it was much too fancy for a simple fitting room, and got into his pajamas and went to the bed and fell asleep. Later that day, he woke up to a sound of people, as they were all watching him sleeping in the bed from outside the store display window. But Paddington didn't realize that he was in a store display window and not a fitting room. As a result, those very same pajamas he wore had sold like hotcakes and were in huge demand. There are lots of fun adventures that this brown fun loving bear has, and often get into mischief that will make you laugh. This is all available on DVD from Cookie Jar entertainment and runs for a little over 3 hours as there are a little over 30 adventures running no more than 10 minutes or so. Paws up, this is a great nostalgic DVD for kids or kids at heart whom remember Paddington bear's adventures. So make yourself a few marmalade sandwiches and watch this heartwarming dvd.
