The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican
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| Release Date | 1950-10-13 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 32 minutes |
| Genres | Animation, Kids |
| Stars | Sam Singer |
| Directors |
| Release Date | 1950-10-13 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 32 minutes |
| Genres | Animation, Kids |
| Stars | Sam Singer |
| Directors |
The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican is an animated miniseries that first aired on ABC (US) in 1950. The show is notorious for a variety of factors including its unprofessional voice acting, simplistic animation, and inconsistent appearances of the title character.
Freddie Fox learns the secret hiding place of Kenny Crow's piggy bank and steals the piggy bank, framing Paddy Pelican in the process. Paddy has to prove his innocence to his friends before he can be arrested.
Two bears find an abandoned boat at sea, but the boat is wrecked after the two bears attempt to start it up. The bears and the boat wash up to shore in front of the home of boat's owner. Thinking the bears broke his beat, the sailor threatens to eat the two bears. Paddy Pelican comes in and helps to save the bears from being eaten.
A boy named Tom buys a balloon thinking it to be a normal balloon and wishes for the balloon to be bigger, only to learn that it is a "wish balloon" that can grant three wishes. As his first wish was for the balloon to be bigger, the balloon grows larger than Tom's house and floats him to The Land of More. As he struggles to navigate this land where everything is inconveniently large, Tom comes to appreciate his small, simple home. Paddy does not appear in this episode.
Joco and Mary, friends of Paddy, work with a Native American tribe to stop Pirate Pete from stealing the tribe's gold.
Pelicanland owes 50 bushels of corn to the neighboring state of Swania, but the 50 bushels disappear on the day that the payment is due. It is up to Paddy Pelican to find out what happened to the corn they owe to Swania.
Upon realizing that he has no plums to use in his plum pies, Jack Horner heads to Plum Valley with Paddy Pelican.
