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Tiny, Small and Baby Soup Dragon are outside playing when they hear the sound of something approaching from space. They look up and gaze in awe as they see a large space module hurtling towards the planet. It gets slower and slower as it nears them until eventually it lands a little way away, a door opens and from out of it steps a strange creature in a space suit – they don’t know what it is but we can see it’s a human astronaut! They rush back underground to tell the others.
The Iron Chicken is in her nest singing along to her radio, when suddenly it stops working. Major Clanger is fishing nearby and tries to repair it on the spot but in the end decides he will have to take it to his workshop. The Iron Chicken is distraught but Granny assures her that Major knows what he’s doing, and reluctantly the Iron Chicken returns to her nest where she receives a visit from the Wols, who suggest they create their own radio station – Radio Wol. It is a huge success.
Major is busy in his workshop and three froglets are helping. When he’s finished, Major is so pleased he gives each froglet a medal to thank them for their help. When the other froglets see the medals they all want one. But Major has no more work to do, and there are no more medals. The medal wearing froglets now see themselves as better than the other froglets, and soon the two groups are not talking to each other. It takes all of Major’s and Granny’s cunning to settle this froglet dispute.
It feels like an earthquake shakes the Clangers’ planet. Major and Small go out to investigate. The music trees’ notes have been shaken off, so Small puts them back on, before discovering what has happened to cause this - the eggbot has crashed onto the planet and is stuck in a crater. Meanwhile, Tiny discovers that the notes on the music trees are now in the wrong order. Small has an idea that if he can rescue the eggbot, the eggbot will be able to help get the notes back in the right order.
Tiny is poorly but Small thinks that some music might make her feel better. And he’s right!
Small comes to the rescue when Granny, Major, Mother and the Soup Dragon get into trouble.
Small finds a strange looking object in space. He gives it to Mother as a present for her garden – an ornament. But this is more than an ornament as Mother is the first to discover. This ornament can memorise tunes it hears - Mother singing, and the singing flowers, Tiny’s panpiping and even the music trees. And most amazingly, it plays them back together in perfect harmony. And the Clangers have a final surprise when it plays them musical sounds that they have never heard before!
Nothing is going right for any of the Clangers today. Mother’s new plant is drooping, Tiny’s new tune doesn’t sound very good, Granny’s knitting colours clash, Major’s rocket has broken down and Small’s night light has run out of glow honey. But suddenly a wave of beautiful coloured light from a strange star passes over the planet and has a magical effect - everything changes for the better. All the Clangers are delighted until they notice that the star is fading away before their very eyes.
The Skymoos have collected bits of metal from the Iron Chicken’s nest and are building a special nest of their own on the Clangers’ planet. The Clangers are intrigued - who can it be for? Tiny decides to decorate it with flowers from Mother’s garden, and Granny makes a special blanket for the nest. Soon a large group of Skymoos arrives. All the Clangers go indoors to give the Skymoos some peace. Granny realises something special is about to happen - the birth of a Baby Skymoo.
It’s Small’s birthday. Tiny is planning to put on a special show for him, which involves using her scooter and calling on help from the froglets and the singing flowers. But her scooter has developed a squeak. She calls on Major to help her mend it, but when Small accidentally overhears them talking about a scooter, he thinks that must be what he is getting for his present and he’s very pleased. But what he ends up with is not quite what he expected - but much more exciting.
Small is out fishing and Baby Soup Dragon is helping his mum, so Tiny has no-one to play with. He plays catch by himself but it’s not much fun. Major Clanger notices that Tiny looks bored and makes him a special cone-shaped gadget which launches a cotton ball up into the air for the user to catch in the cone. Mother calls Tiny to ask for some help in the garden and Tiny leaves the gadget on the floor while she goes off to help her mum. But when she gets back, the gadget has disappeared.
Tiny has invited the Wols for a day out on the Clangers Planet. She has planned a whole lot of activities for them all. She is going to show them her bedcave, introduce them to everyone they haven’t met before, give them soup to eat and then end with a wonderful musical extravaganza. But she hadn’t counted on the Wols curiosity and soon the Wols are leading Small and Tiny a merry chase. But all’s well that ends well – at least until Major Clanger decides to join in the music.
While out practising her flying, Baby Skymoo is relying on the Cloud to catch her if her flying abilities let her down. And the Cloud is happy to help. But this time Baby Skymoo flies in another direction, and the Cloud isn’t there to help. Helpless, Baby Skymoo falls through one of the holes in the Clangers’ planet and lands up in Mother’s garden. She isn’t hurt, but how is she going to get back out of the underground caves and find her mother again? Luckily, the Cloud is summoned to the rescue.
A strange, flying metal caravan lands on the Clangers' planet. It turns out to be a travelling shop, and its owner is a robot salesman. He has things he thinks the Clangers will like, and he's right - they do. However, they don't realise at first that the salesman wants to be paid. And when they do, they of course don't have any money.
The dilemma is resolved when the robot spots the one thing he would really like in return. Unfortunately, though, that thing turns out to be Tiny's precious radio hat!
Out fishing in the music boat, Small catches a strange-looking object. He doesn't know what it is, but he thinks Tiny might like it, so he gives it to her as a present.
At first she is really pleased and puts it in her bedcave. But when she tries to get to sleep, it makes strange shadows on the wall and becomes rather scary. Tiny decides she must get rid of it. But this is not as simple a job as it sounds! Wherever she puts it, it has a mysterious habit of coming back to her bedcave...
A meteor shower is about to hit the Clangers' planet. Major and Small shelter on the Iron Chicken's nest, while the others find cover in the living cave. But when the shower stops, they find that a giant meteor has fallen and blocked the double doors to the inside. With Major and Small not yet back, Mother, Granny and Tiny have to think of a way to remove the boulder themselves. They make their way to Major's workshop to see if they can invent a machine to help.
Major invents a Clanger finder, but it is not very useful – it always finds the Clanger who is holding it. Major is disappointed – he hadn't thought of that. But Granny comes up with a better suggestion to keep him busy: he could mend their clock, which hasn't worked for some time. Major Clanger has a think, then brightens up immediately. He can do better than that – he will build a new clock, and it will be his best invention ever. But it turns out the others don't agree.
Major invents a giant magnet. Everything metal flies towards it, from soup tankards to knitting needles. Mother and Granny tell Major to take it outside where it can't do any harm. But then the Iron Chicken lands, and after an unfortunate incident where she gets stuck to the magnet, she tells Major, Tiny and Small about a strange sound she has heard in space. They investigate and find a moon whale trapped in an old metal rocket booster. The magnet turns out to be the perfect thing for the rescue.
When Tiny is out fishing in the music boat, she catches four strange metal objects. They are a bit like hoots but much smaller. She takes them home to show Small, but when Small arrives and looks in the music boat with Tiny, the metal things have gone. Where could they be? Could they be living things? Tiny and Small don’t have to wait long for an answer. They can hear a 'tooty' noise nearby, and when Tiny plays a tune on her panpipes, the toots join in. Before long, toots and hoots are playing together.
Major’s spanner, Mother’s trowel, even Baby Soup Dragon’s cotton ball disappear on the same day. One moment they are there, the next moment they have disappeared! Tiny and Small search for them everywhere but with no luck. Granny decides to take their mind off the mystery by telling them a story about a hunt for treasure. And this gives Major, Mother and Granny an idea – they will set up a special treasure hunt for the little ones. This leads to unexpected results and a very happy ending.
There's going to be a dance fiesta on the Clangers’ planet with a glitterball trophy for the winner. Baby Skymoo really wants to take part, but she is a bit shy and isn't sure if she can dance very well. For the first few dances, Baby Skymoo just watches from the sidelines as Major leads a military twostep, the froglets indulge in some hip hop and Major and Mother excel in a tango. It is only in the final dance, a Viennese waltz, that Baby Skymoo lets go and shows her real dancing talent.
Baby Soup Dragon gets his tail stuck in the doors leading to the living cave. Annoyed, he wonders why he has a tail at all. His mother tells him it’s for balance, but as this seems a boring idea, Baby Soup Dragon determines that he will explore other possible uses. He tries using his tail as a cotton ball bat, as a steering aid, and even for fanning away glowbuzzers like a skymoo. But in the end he finds, in an exciting discovery, that balancing is not such a boring thing after all.
Tiny and Small are playing cotton ball, but the game keeps getting interrupted by froglets jumping out of the top hat. This distracts Tiny, and she ends up carelessly flipping the ball into the hat to see where it will go. But when she looks into the hat, she finds there is nothing there.
Curious as to where it has gone, she climbs into the hat and finds herself in a world of top hats, where each hat is the portal to a strange new place. She only gets back home with the help of the blobs!
Baby Soup Dragon is up early, looking for interesting things that might have fallen on the planet overnight. He finds several coloured jewel-like things and puts them in his collecting bag to show everyone. Small Clanger is also up early, fetching soup for breakfast as a surprise for the other Clangers. But when Baby Soup Dragon and Small’s soup trolley collide by accident in the soup wells, all the 'jewels' get scattered and covered in soup. No-one could have guessed what would happen next.
Four objects of various shapes and colours arrive on the Clangers’ planet. They disappear underground as a fifth one arrives. The objects can change shape to disguise themselves and hide from the Clangers, so they go unnoticed. But the fifth object is discovered upon its arrival, and Granny realises this is a group of 'hide and seekers', travelling the universe on an intergalactic game of hide and seek. Intrigued, the Clangers join in the seeker’s successful quest to find the four hiders.
A space dustcart drops a lot of rubbish on the Clangers’ planet. The Clangers notice that one of these bits looks surprisingly like a robot. Major Clanger tries to get it to work, and to his astonishment, he succeeds. The robot comes to life, and even more amazingly it seems able to speak in Clanger-ese, although in a voice different from the Clangers’ whistle. The Clangers soon discover that this is a household helper robot. But sometimes helpfulness can be too much of a good thing.
