User Reviews

As others have mentioned the "Adventures of Jeremy the Bear" appeared on TV-Ontario from the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s. The show chronicled approximately 60, 15 minutes adventures of Jeremy. As a child with no cable TV-O was one of only 3 channels my family got and I spent considerable time watching Jeremy who aired 3 or 4 times a day at times.

The show as I later discovered was made in Poland - it combined stop animation and real animation and cost $50,000 an episode in 1970 currency. When Corigol came to Canada he was renamed Jeremy - however, in England he was named Barnaby and given an adult's voice.

From what I gather there is a massive legal dispute between the producer and distributer of the show which is preventing it from been re-aired or packaged in a box set (although you can get the first 8 episodes on e-bay). However, if your polish is good enough you can allegedly buy all of the episodes in Poland.

My favourite episodes, and I'm going from memory now because its impossible to see the episodes, is when Jeremy flies to the Moon and when Jeremey and Raven 12 travel through a dozen or so countries in search of their lost friend the mouse.

As the other comment suggests the show was also a real tear jerker. In one early episode Jeremey tires of the circus he joined and decsides its time to go back home to his parents. Along the way he takes a nap in a busshel of hey. He is then discovered by the Ring Master and locked in a cage so he would not run away. The next episodes show how the town hears of Jeremy forced confinement and the town works as a team to get his freedom. Very heartwrenching indeed.