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"British Television Eccentricity at its Best"
The Clangers, the show Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin created in response to the BBC's request for them to do something modern, perhaps to tie in with the recent moon landings, gets a DVD and Blu-ray release from Fabulous Films.
If you haven't seen the show, the Clangers of the title are large pink mouse-like creatures who wear outfits that look like armour, walk on their hind legs, and communicate via whistling sounds. They live underground and access the surface of their tiny planet by opening the saucepan lids that guard their egress holes.
Other inhabitants of this strange place include the soup dragon, who guards the soup wells. Soup is a Clanger dietary staple, as is blue string, which looks like badly made spaghetti bolognese with bits of mould stuck to it.
We also get to meet the iron chicken in episode three, shot out of space by a clanger rocket and reassembled by the clangers so it can fly back home. Don't ask why a chicken can fly - it's already made of metal and talking to pink mice on a planet filled with soup. A flying chicken is the least weird thing about all of that. There are also the froglets, which are tiny orange bits of plastic with eyes.
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Clangers
British children's TV series (1969–1974)
"Soup Dragon" redirects here. For the Scottish alternative rock band, see The Soup Dragons.
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| Created by | Oliver Postgate |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
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| Camera setup | Single camera |
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| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 16 November 1969 (1969-11-16) – 10 October 1974 (1974-10-10) |
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| Release | 15 June 2015 (2015-06-15) – 11 March 2020 (2020-03-11) |
Clangers (usually referred to as The Clangers)[2] is a British stop-motionanimatedchildren's television series, consisting of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. They speak only in a whistled language, and eat green soup (supplied by the Soup Dragon) and blue string pudding. The programmes were originally broadcast on BBC1 between 1969 and 1972, followed by a special episode which was broadcast in 1974.
The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postg