The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican is an American animated television series that debuted on local stations in Chicago during the 1950s.

On the DVD, Beck states that he has not found any evidence that this particular animated adaptation was aired on TV, although there is evidence that the Paddy the Pelican character began in 1950 as a local TV puppet show on Chicago's WENR-TV (now WLS-TV), with Helen York and Ray Suber as puppeteers.

The show is noted for its pencil tests that were never finalized to the actual animation, reused animation, rambling and apparently improvised voiceovers by the creator himself, a muffled and poorly synchronized soundtrack made by an organ, and general low-budget problems.

[citation needed] The only music is a few chords played on an organ, although the title card is accompanied by a man making noises apparently intended to sound like a pelican squawking.

A boy wants to have a bigger balloon, so a mischievous elf makes it so big that it flies him all the way to "The Land of More", where things don't go the way he hoped.