Leo Howard "Ted" Coneybeare (March 1925 - 16 January 2012) was a Canadian TV producer and educational consultant for acclaimed Canadian TV series Polka Dot Door produced for TV Ontario from 1972 to 1984.
[1][2] He was born in a farming family to Howard and Evelyn (Bloom) in March 1925 at Essex County, Canada .
[2][3][4] After living almost 40 years together, Coneybeare married Raymond Snell at Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church in October 2007.
[1] He enrolled in Armed Forces of Canada in Second World War, before taking up his first teaching job in a rural school in Windsor; and later adopted TV production as full time occupation.
Coneybeare retired in 1982 but produced 30 more episodes of Polka Dot Door as a consultant before leaving the show for good.