Paddington

On the data. Three films, and a fourth announced without a date. Release order and chronological order are identical, so there is nothing to work out. Four separate Paddington television series exist and none of them is listed here. The stop motion series that began in the mid seventies, the Hanna-Barbera series from 1989 and the Cinar series from 1997 are independent adaptations of Michael Bond's books, made decades apart, sharing no continuity with the films or with one another. The Adventures of Paddington, the computer animated preschool series that ran from 2019 to 2025, is the closest call: Ben Whishaw voices Paddington in it as he does in the films, and Heyday and StudioCanal produced both. But it is a preschool show featuring a younger Paddington, built around letters to Aunt Lucy, and nothing in it states where it sits relative to the films. Slotting it between Paddington 2 and Paddington in Peru because that is when it aired would be guessing, so it is deliberately absent rather than overlooked. The naming is a genuine trap. The Adventures of Paddington refers to at least three different programmes: the retitled second run of the seventies stop motion series, the 1997 Cinar series called The Adventures of Paddington Bear, and the 2019 preschool series. Reference sources conflate them regularly. On dates, the films give almost nothing. None of the three states a year on screen. The first opens on an expedition to Peru decades before the main story, and the interval is described in summaries rather than captioned in the film, so no figure is given here. Neither sequel says how much time has passed. The only marker in the series is that Paddington holds British citizenship by the third film, which the story earns rather than announces. One frequently misattributed fact: Paddington in Peru was directed by Dougal Wilson, not by Paul King, who made the first two. The 2022 Platinum Jubilee sketch with Queen Elizabeth II is a short comedy segment made for a concert rather than a release, and is not listed.

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