Clangers

1969 - 2020

Flying

16th November 1969

Episode 1

Major Clanger has made a flying machine. With some ceremony the Clangers pump up the compressed air balloons which power it. Major Clanger takes his seat, the machine leaps into action and flaps itself to pieces. Major Clanger is disconsolate but Mother Clanger sends Small Clanger and Tiny Clanger to the soup-wells in their pole-car (a sort of wheeled punt) to fetch some green soup for him. Major Clanger drinks the soup and settles down for a rest. Meanwhile Small Clanger and Tiny Clanger go outside to look at the remains of the flying machine. Tiny Clanger knocks one of the power-balloons and it comes off and shoots up into the sky. This interests Small Clanger who grabs the empty balloon and runs to the soup-dragon and asks her to blow into the balloon with light-airs from her cooking. She does this. Small Clanger ties Tiny Clanger to the balloon and, holding on to the string himself, leaps through the caves in long leaps supported by the balloon. The other Clangers come and dance around them. Suddenly the string comes undone and Tiny Clanger rises to the roof where she remains, squeaking, while the Clangers try various ways of fetching her down. In the end they bounce Small Clanger trampolinically in a tablecloth until he bounces high enough to grab her

The Visitor

23rd November 1969

Episode 2

The Clangers net a passing object but it makes life a bit too exciting.

Chicken

30th November 1969

Episode 3

Some chickens are mild and friendly, or would like to be.

Music

7th December 1969

Episode 4

Music hath charms."... and it grows well too, which is fortunate because the soup-dragon ate most of it.

The Intruder

28th December 1969

Episode 5

Visitors are always welcome... until they start eating the place.

Visiting Friends

1st January 1970

Episode 6

Tiny Clanger finds a novel and melodious way to visit her friend.

Fishing

11th January 1970

Episode 7

Major Clanger’s boat rises at last, on wings of song.

The Top Hat

18th January 1970

Episode 8

The Clangers entertain some unexpected guests.

The Egg

25th January 1970

Episode 9

Even a dragon has feelings and must be cared for.

The Hoot

1st February 1970

Episode 10

Be very careful what you plant. Some things grow very large and very loud.

The Meeting

8th February 1970

Episode 11

The Clangers give their friend a beautiful voice but it does not make him popular with his own kind.

Treasure

12th February 1970

Episode 12

Even to Clangers, wealth does not always bring happiness.

Goods

22nd February 1970

Episode 13

The Clangers suffer from a shortage of consumer goods, but they prefer life that way.

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The Clangers are strange, long-nosed, pink, woolly creatures that live inside a small blue planet, which lies far, far away in space.Under the dustbin-lidded craters that cover the planet's surface is the cave system where the these strange yet cuddly extraterrestrials live. They share their world with the bizarre Soup Dragon, who lives in a soup well and provides them with their staple diet of green soup and blue string pudding; the Glow Buzzers, which supply light and tasty glow honey; and the tiny orange Froglets, magical creatures that live inside a travelling top-hat. Other beings encountered by the Clangers are the Iron Chicken, originally found in pieces and who, once reconstructed by the little planet's inhabitants, now lives in a nest in the sky; the large, odd, blue-skinned Skymoos; and the water-providing Cloud.

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