Tuesday, 8 September 2015

234 Paddington


First  watched  : Early  1976

Pddington  was  quite  slow  in  coming  to  TV  given  that  Michael  Bond  had  written  the  first  book  about  him  in  1958  , way  before  he  first  came  up  with  The  Herbs.  Nevertheless   it  was  enormously  popular  and  another  triumph  for   animator   Ivor  Wood  who  came  up  with  the  distinctive  3D/ 2D  blend  of  characters  for  the  show. Paddington  took  over  the  Magic  Roundabout  slot  and  the  stories  were  amusing  and  clever  but  somehow  I  remember  feeling  it  was  too  late  in  the  day  for  me  at  eleven years  old , that  this  was  something  for  the  younger  children  and  I  had  no  real  business  watching  it.

The  original  series  ran  from  1976  to  1978. Another  series  was  made  by  Hanna-Barbera  in  conjunction  with  CITV in  1989  and  then  another  shown  on  CITV  in  1997. A  film  was  released  last  year  and  another  is  said  to  be  in  the  works.


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