Clangers

Specials 1974 - 2015
NR

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Premiered1974-10-09T14:00:00Z on CBeebies
Runtime10m
Total Runtime41m (4 episodes)
CountryAustralia
LanguagesEnglish
GenresAnimation, Family, Children

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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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Oliver Postgate
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1974-10-09T14:00:00Z

Special 1 Vote For Froglet

1974-10-09T14:00:00Z — 11m

On a small blue planet far away, it's polling day for the Clangers! Coinciding with 1974's general election, this episode sees narrator Oliver Postgate trying to persuade the ever-popular woolly creatures of the merits of party politics. But the Clangers aren't taken with the prospect of a society ruled by one group - even though the Soup Dragon stands for election on a 'free soup for all' ticket.

There’s one episode called ‘Vote For Froglet’, which I’ve never seen.

And you won’t! It doesn’t exist [any more]. I was so angry in 1973, the Winter of Discontent, when the Miners Union and the government were locked in mortal combat and the economy of the country was going into the ground, that I honestly thought, having been in Germany at the end of the War and seen what happened when an economy collapsed completely, I really got frightened, I thought the process of government was completely buggered by inter-party squabbling. So I went to the BBC and said, “Can I do a little Clangers film about the election?” It’s basically about the narrator, that’s me, being the interlocutor as well, telling the Clangers that they’ve got to vote, either for the Froglet or for the Soup Dragon. And they refused point blank to have anything to do with it. It was a sort of tiny morality play really. It only lasted three to four minutes and I made it complete in three days.

Suggestions that this no longer exists are completely inaccurate. The British Film Institute has a copy which you can see for free on the web here

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-vote-for-froglet-1974/

2015-03-18T13:00:00Z

Special 2 Clangers and the Solar Eclipse

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Special 2 Clangers and the Solar Eclipse

2015-03-18T13:00:00Z — 10m

The Clangers teach children how the solar eclipse happens and how to stay safe.

2015-06-11T13:30:00Z

Special 3 Meet the Clangers

2015-06-11T13:30:00Z — 10m

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CBeebies Stargazer Maggie has made a very interesting discovery with her telescope... a small blue planet, home to some new CBeebies friends - the Clangers! Tiny and Small take Maggie on a journey around their home, where we meet the whole Clanger family as well as the other wonderful inhabitants - the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken and the Sky Moos.