A Spoonful of Paddington" – Paddington takes up spoon bending after seeing Uri Geller on Blue Peter. Party at the Palace: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for jubilee celebrations". BBC . Retrieved 5 June 2022. Please do not pit Paddington and Pooh against each other". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 16 June 2022.

In the summer 1958, just months before the first Paddington book was published, some of the worst race riots in Britain ignited, particularly the Notting Hill Riots. The value of kindness and politeness to all with Paddington 2". Into film.org . Retrieved 16 June 2022.

Cadbury launched a Paddington Bear branded chocolate bar in 1977. [79] Paddington was featured on the Royal Mail 1st class stamp in the Animal Tales series released on 10 January 2006 and had previously been featured on one of the 1st class Greetings Messages stamps, released by Royal Mail on 1 February 1994. [1]

For the bear’s 50th anniversary, Bond attempted a contemporary book, Paddington Here and Now, in which the bear was arrested (he is, after all, an illegal immigrant) when his trolley was clamped, and then doorstepped by the tabloids. His most recent Paddington story, Paddington’s Finest Hour, was published in April. The Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington; A play for children (1974) adapted by Alfred Bradley from the stories by Michael Bond. Music by Bert Chappell. Lyrics by Bert Chappell, Brenda Johnson, and Alfred Bradley. Published and licensed by Samuel French Ltd. London. A full-length small-cast musical play in two acts. The play opened in 1973 in the Nottingham Playhouse and the Duke of York Theatre in London the following year. [37] In 2010, Paddington Bear was first used in marketing for Robertson's, appearing on the jars of their Golden Shred marmalade. [84] [85] In November 2014, a balloon with Paddington Bear was introduced in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. [1] A song about Paddington Bear, " Shine" was released on 13 January 2015 by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams, to coincide with the U.S. release of Paddington. [86] Statue of Paddington, donated by the British Embassy in Lima, in Parque Salazar, Miraflores, Lima

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A Spot of Decorating" – Paddington tries to help Mr Brown by decorating his room whilst the family is out.

Paddington Goes to Court" – Mr Gruber aims to explain to Paddington the workings of the law. On a trip to the Royal Courts of Justice, Paddington gets unexpectedly called as a witness. One of the best-known adaptations of Paddington Bear is the stop-motion animated BBC television series Paddington. The series was written by Michael Bond and directed and animated by Ivor Wood at London-based animation company FilmFair (now WildBrain). It was first broadcast on 5 January 1976. [44] The storylines were based on comedic incidents from the books, chosen to appeal to the TV audience which included much younger children than those the books were written for.

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A Birthday Treat" – The Browns visit the seaside resort of Brightsea to celebrate Paddington's birthday. Whilst there, Paddington takes an interest in a new leisure activity. Paddington Bear featured in the Marmite television advertisement (first broadcast in the UK on 13 September 2007), [80] in which he tries a marmite and cheese sandwich instead of his traditional marmalade sandwich. [81]