Clangers

"Soup Dragon" redirects here. For the Scottish alternative rock band, see The Soup Dragons.
Clangers
Created by Oliver Postgate
Narrated by Oliver Postgate (1969–72, 1974)
Michael Palin (UK Narrator) (2015–present)
William Shatner (US Narrator) (2015–present)
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 78 (plus three specials)
Production
Running time 10 minutes per episode (1969–72, 1974)
11 minutes per episode (2015–present)[1]
Production company(s) Smallfilms (1969–72, 1974, 2015–present)
Coolabi (2015–present)[1]
Release
Original network BBC One (1969–74)
CBeebies (2015-present)
Original release Original series:
November 16, 1969 (1969-11-16) –
November 6, 1972 (1972-11-06)
Revival series:
June 15, 2015 (2015-06-15) –
present

Clangers is a British stop-motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of murine creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. They speak only in whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon and blue string pudding. The programmes were originally broadcast by BBC1 between 1969 and 1972, followed by the first of three special episodes that was broadcast in 1974.

The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator). Firmin designed the characters, and his wife knitted and "dressed" the Clangers. The music, often part of the story, was by Vernon Elliott.

A new series, narrated by Monty Python actor Michael Palin, started on 15 June 2015 on the UK CBeebies TV channel with successful viewing figures. Two short specials were broadcast before then. The new cartoons are still animated in stop-motion animation instead of computer-generated imagery, which replaced the original stop-motion animation in other children's programmes such as Fireman Sam, Thomas & Friends, and The Wombles

Clangers won a BAFTA in the Best Pre-School Animation category in 2015.

Background

The Clangers originated in a series of children's books which developed from another Smallfilms production, Noggin the Nog. Publishers Kay and Ward created a series of books from Noggin the Nog episodes, which were then extended into a series called Noggin First Reader, aimed at aiding initial reading skills.[2]

In the 1967 story Noggin and the Moonmouse, a new horse-trough was put up in the middle of the town in the North-Lands. A spacecraft hurtled down and splashed into it. The top unscrewed, and out came a largish, mouse-like character in a duffel coat, who wanted fuel for his spacecraft. He showed Nooka and the children that what he needed was vinegar and soap-flakes. So, they filled up the tanks in this little spherical ship, which then "took off in a dreadful cloud smelling of vinegar and soap-flakes, covering the town with bubbles".[2]

In 1969, the BBC asked Smallfilms to produce a new series for colour television, but did not specify a storyline. Postgate concluded that because space exploration was particularly topical, the new series should be set in space. He adapted the Moonmouse from the earlier story, removing its tail "because it kept getting into the soup".[2] The Clangers looked similar to mice, anteaters and, from their pink colour, pigs. They wore clothes reminiscent of Roman armour, "against the space debris that kept falling onto the planet, lost from other places, such as television sets and bits of an Iron Chicken",[2] and they spoke in whistles.

Storyline

The Clangers was described by Postgate as a family set in space. They were small creatures living in peace and harmony on – and inside – a small, hollow planet, far, far away, nourished by Blue String Pudding, and Green Soup harvested from the planet's volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon. The word "Clanger" is said to derive from the sound made by opening the metal cover of one of the creatures' crater-like burrows, each of which was covered with a door made from an old metal dustbin lid, to protect against meteorite impacts. In each episode, there would be some problem to solve, something invented or discovered, or perhaps some new visitor to meet. Music Trees, with note-shaped fruit, grew on the planet's surface, and music would often be an integral feature in the simple but amusing plots. In the "Fishing" episode, one of the Cheese Trees provided a cylindrical five-line staff for notes taken from the Music Trees.

Postgate provided the narration, for the most part in a soft, melodic voice, describing and accounting for the curious antics of the little blue planet's knitted pink inhabitants, and providing a "translation", as it were, for much of their whistled dialogue.

Production

The first episode was broadcast on BBC1 on 16 November 1969, and a further 26 episodes were made. The last of these was broadcast on 10 November 1972. The final programme, however, was a four-minute election special, broadcast on 10 October 1974. This was not shown at the usual slot during children's programmes. Oliver Postgate said in a 2005 interview that he wasn't sure whether this episode still existed[3] and it has been referred to as a "missing episode".[4] In fact the whole episode is available from the British Film Institute.[5]

The original Mother Clanger puppet was stolen in 1972.[6] Major Clanger and the second Mother Clanger are on display at the Rupert Bear Museum.[7]

The Clangers grew in size from the first to the last episode, to allow Firmin to use an Action Man model figure in "The Rock Collector."[2]

In October 2013, the BBC's CBeebies announced that a new series would be produced for their 2015 transmission schedules,[8] with Michael Palin narrating.[9] US pre-school channel Sprout added the series to their 2015 schedule, with William Shatner narrating.[10]

In November 2015, The Clangers won Best Pre-school Animation at the BAFTAs.


Awards

AWARD CATEGORY RESULT
British Academy Awards 2015 Best pre-school Animation Won
Pulcinella Awards (Italy) Best pre-school 2015 Won
VLV Awards for excellence in broadcasting in 2015 Best Children's TV Show Won
Broadcast Awards 2016 Best pre-school programme Won
Televisual Bulldog Awards 2016 Best Children's show Won
RTS Awards North West 2016 Best pre-school animation Nominee
British Animation Awards 2016 Best pre-school show Nominee
El Chupete International Awards (Spain) 2016 Best Children's Show Won

Characters

The principal characters are the Clangers themselves, the females wearing waistcoats and the males brass armour:

Other inhabitants

Visitors

The others appeared in only one or two episodes each:

Music and sound effects

One of the most noted aspects was the use of sound effects, with a score composed by Vernon Elliott under instructions from Postgate. Although the episodes were scripted, most of the music used in the two series was written in translation by Postgate in the form of "musical sketches" or graphs that he drew for Elliott, who converted the drawings into a musical score. The music was then recorded by the two, along with other musicians – dubbed the Clangers Ensemble – in a village hall, where they would often leave the windows open, leading to the sounds of birds outside being heard on some recordings. Much of the score was performed on Elliott's bassoon, and also included harp, clarinet, glockenspiel and bells.

The distinctive whistles made by the Clangers, performed on swanee whistles, have become as identifiable as the characters themselves, much imitated by viewers. The series creators have said that the Clangers, living in vacuum, did not communicate by sound, but rather by a type of nuclear magnetic resonance, which was translated to audible whistles for the human audience. These whistles followed the rhythm and intonation of a script in English. The action was also narrated by a voice-over from Postgate. However, when the series was shown without narration to a group of overseas students, many of them felt that the Clangers were speaking their particular language.

The song "No Smokes" by psychedelic rock band One in a Million was used in the episode "The Visitor".

John Du Prez, who wrote some of the music for Monty Python (another show Michael Palin was in) composed the score for the 2015 series.[12]

Episode listing

Series 1 (1969–1970)

The first series used to be on at 5:55pm on BBC1. Although the episode 'Chicken' was at 5:50pm because there was a 'Children in Need of Help' on at 6:00pm.

# Title Date of Release Summary
1 Flying 16 November 1969 Major Clanger builds a flying machine and Tiny Clanger gets stuck at the top of the cave with a balloon.
2 The Visitor 23 November 1969 The Clangers find a television set.
3 Chicken 30 November 1969 The Clangers build some fireworks, one of which collides into a passing Iron Chicken.
4 Music 7 December 1969 Tiny Clanger discovers music.
5 The Intruder 28 December 1969 An exploration rover lands.
6 Visiting Friends 4 January 1970 Tiny Clanger builds a helicopter to visit the Iron Chicken.
7 Fishing 11 January 1970 The Clangers build a flying music boat and Major Clanger goes fishing in it.
8 The Top Hat 18 January 1970 The Clangers find some Froglets in a top hat.
9 The Dragon Egg 25 January 1970 The Soup Dragon gets broody.
10 The Hoot 1 February 1970 A noisy metal creature is retrieved from space, disturbing the Clangers' peace.
11 The Meeting 8 February 1970 More Hoots arrive, and seem upset that the first Hoot has changed.
12 Treasure 15 February 1970 Tiny Clanger finds a bag of golden coins while fishing in space.
13 Goods 22 February 1970 A machine that makes plastic items is assembled, but cannot be turned off.

Series 2 (1971–1972)

Episodes 1 and 2 were on at 4:50pm, episodes 3, 5 and 6 were on at 5:05pm, episodes 4 and 8 were on at 5:00pm, episode 7 was on at 4:40pm, episode 9 was on at 5:30pm, episodes 10, 11, 12 and 13 were on at 4:00pm on BBC1.

# Title Date of Release Summary
14 The Tablecloth 18 April 1971 The Clangers try various materials to keep some Froglets warm.
15 The Rock Collector 25 April 1971 An astronaut arrives to collect rocks, but falls in the soup when Tiny Clanger startles him.
16 Glow Honey 2 May 1971 Small Clanger wanders off into some caves, looking for glow-honey, and gets lost.
17 The Teapot 9 May 1971 A teapot fished from space is less useful than the Clangers thought it would be.
18 The Cloud 16 May 1971 The Cloud is invited to Mother Clanger's birthday party, and rains on the Froglets.
19 The Chicken Egg 23 May 1971 The Iron Chicken lays an egg, and the Clangers try to look after it.
20 The Noise Machine 30 May 1971 The Clangers assemble a machine they find in space, and the iron chick gets into trouble.
21 The Seed 6 June 1971 The Clangers tend a seed and soon their planet is covered with vegetation.
22 Pride 13 June 1971 Small Clanger finds a mirror, and vanity almost costs him his supper.
23 The Bags 13 October 1972 A Gladstone bag appears on the Clangers' planet – a strange, new life-form.
24 The Blow Fruit 27 October 1972 Small Clanger and Baby Soup Dragon cause trouble playing with jet-propelled fruit.
25 The Pipe Organ 3 November 1972 When the soup-trolley loses a wheel, Major Clanger tries to make a soup-pump.
26 The Music of the Spheres 10 November 1972 Tiny Clanger is accidentally hoisted away into space by the Hoot planet.

There was also an election special produced in 1974, entitled "Vote for Froglet". Inspired by what Postgate refers to as the "Winter of Discontent" (a phrase usually used by others to refer to the winter of 1978–79, but in his case to the miners' strike of 1974), and by his recollection of post-war Germany,[2] it was broadcast on the night of the second election in 1974.[13] The narrator explains the democratic process and demonstrates it by asking the Clangers to vote between the Soup Dragon and a Froglet. The Soup Dragon wins the election on a policy of "No Soup for Froglets", but the Clangers are dissatisfied with the result.[3]

Series 3 (Revival) (2015)

Episodes 1 - 26 were first broadcast at 5:30pm, Episodes 27 - 52 at 6.00pm on CBeebies.

# Title Date of Release Writer Summary
1 The Lost Notes 15 June 2015[14] Dave Ingham The Music Tree notes for Tiny Clanger's marvellous new melody are blown away by a big wind.
2 The Little Thing 16 June 2015 Dan Postgate A Sky Moo gives Small Clanger a strangely shaped little thing that it has found in space.
3 In The Soup 17 June 2015 Dave Ingham Major Clanger decides that Soup Dragon must be fed-up with dishing up soup.
4 The Knitting Machine 18 June 2015 Dan Postgate Major Clanger invents a knitting machine to save Granny ever having to knit again.
5 The Flying Froglets 19 June 2015 Dan Postgate It is Granny's birthday and all the Clangers are planning their presents for her.
6 I Am the Eggbot 22 June 2015 Dan Postgate A strange little egg-shaped creature lands on the planet and gets stuck in a cave.
7 The Giant Plant 23 June 2015 Dave Ingham The planet is overrun with vegetation when Tiny and Small sing a growing song to a plant.
8 Tiny's Lullaby 24 June 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny's radio hat develops a fault, so she can't hear the Iron Chicken's lullaby.
9 The Crystal Trees 25 June 2015 Myles McLeod Crystal-shaped seeds that sparkle and glow land on the Clangers' planet.
10 The Curious Tunnel 26 June 2015 Dave Ingham Tiny and Small discover a strange tunnel that appears to suck things upwards.
11 Space Tangle 29 June 2015 Myles Mcleod Small has invited the Iron Chicken to a picnic. But the Iron Chicken is late.
12 Lonely as a Cloud 30 June 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny, Small, the Froglets and Baby Soup Dragon are having fun playing games with the Cloud.
13 In a Spin 1 July 2015 Dave Ingham While playing a game, Tiny and Small accidentally knock over a tankard.
14 Tiny's Orchestra 2 July 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny is stuck for ideas for a new tune to make up.
15 The Metal Bug 3 July 2015 Dan Postgate Small Clanger finds a strange ball while out fishing in space.
16 Mother's Melody 6 July 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny Clanger suggests that Mother Clanger makes a tune.
17 Crash Bang Chicken[15] 7 July 2015 Dave Ingham A Sky Moo accidentally knocks the Iron Chicken out of her nest.
18 Major's Meteor[16] 8 July 2015 Dave Ingham Small misses seeing two meteors streaking across the sky.
19 The Singing Asteroid[17] 9 July 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny and her flower friends hear a strange voice joining in with their music.
20 Small's New Star[18] 10 July 2015 Dan Postgate The Iron Chicken dumps a huge bundle of unwanted junk metal on to the Clangers' planet.
21 Baby Soup Clanger[19] 13 July 2015 Dave Ingham Baby Soup Dragon decides he wants to be a Clanger.
22 Holes[20] 14 July 2015 Dan Postgate Tiny and Small find two circles of cloth that are actually holes, one leading to another.
23 Bubble Trouble[21] 15 July 2015 Lisa Akhurst Small and Tiny can't resist trying out Major Clanger's cleaning machine.
24 Dragon Day[21] 16 July 2015 Dan Postgate Small decides that there should be a Dragon Day to thank the Soup Dragon for her soup.
25 Home Sweet Hoot[22] 17 July 2015 Chris Parker A little Hoot lands on the planet and causes mayhem with its incessant mischievous hooting.
26 Find the Eclipse[23] 20 July 2015 Dave Ingham The Clangers gather to watch a solar eclipse but Iron Chicken's nest blocks the view.
27 The Little Chill[24] 17 December 2015 Daniel Postgate There are problems for a Sky Moo when the weather turns cold, but the Clangers try to help.
28 The Brilliant Surprise[25] 14 December 2015 Daniel Postgate The Iron Chicken say something is coming. Everyone seems to know what it is except Tiny Clanger.
29 The Ball 23 May 2016 Dan Postgate Tiny and Small find that the Ball they were playing with has friends of its own.
30 Planty 24 May 2016 Hickey & McCoy A family of plants arrives, and are happiest together with Granny.
31 The Game 25 May 2016 Dan Postgate The Baby Soup dragon learns a lesson about sharing.
32 Granny and Small 26 May 2016 Dave Ingham Small finds that there's more to Granny than she thought.
33 Tiny's Good Idea 29 May 2016 Dave Ingham Mother's flowers are wilting. Tiny comes up with a brilliant idea to help her water them.
34 Star Roses 30 May 2016 Myles McLeod & Dave Ingham Tiny and Small are rewarded for their patience and quick-thinking.
35 Chairs 31 May 2016 Dan Postgate Major tries to invent a replacement chair for Granny.
36 Sweet Music 1 June 2016 Lisa Akhurst A radio falls out of the sky, and Tiny, Small and Baby Soup Dragon are fascinated by it.
37 The Box 2 June 2016 Lisa Akhurst Small finds some 'space treasure' but doesn't know what it is for.
38 Snapper 5 June 2016 Dan Postgate A robot lands on the planet, and the Clangers are scared of it.
39 The Chicken Waltz 6 June 2016 Chris Parker Tiny and Small come up with a tune for the Iron Chicken to dance to.
40 The Puzzle 7 June 2016 Dan Postgate Major, Mother, Tiny and Small become lost while exploring a new planet.
41 The Little Bag 8 June 2016 Dan Postgate Small gives Tiny a lovely sparkly bag that he caught while fishing in space.
42 Hide-and-Seek 9 June 2016 Dan Postgate Baby Soup Dragon cheats in a race around the planet, but a Froglet spots him.
43 Rainbow Star 12 June 2016 Dan Postgate Small catches seven coloured stones floating in space.
44 Busy Buzzers 13 June 2016 Dave Ingham Small and Major Clanger discover a bowl of glow honey in a crater.
45 Calm in the Caves 14 June 2016 Dave Ingham Tiny and Small discover the froglets sitting abnormally silent and calm in their cave.
46 The Golden Planet 15 June 2016 Dan Postgate Major invents a new two-seater rocket for special trips.
47 All Change Day 16 June 2016 Dan Postgate Major Clanger is making too much noise, so Mother suggests they swap jobs.
48 The Wols 19 June 2016 Dan Postgate The Iron Chicken looks after the baby Wols with help from Tiny.
49 The Discovery 20 June 2016 Dan Postgate Major Clanger discovers some wonderful wall pictures in an underground cave.
50 Blob 21 June 2016 Dan Postgate The Froglets produce a noisy, bouncy, purple blob from the Top Hat.
51 Building Bridges 22 June 2016 Dave Ingham The new table Major has made collapses, spilling soup everywhere.
52 Things 23 June 2016 Dan Postgate Three pale things drift towards the planet seeking music, heat and light to revive them.

Following the special a full series was commissioned for the summer of 2015. The series is narrated by Michael Palin and co-produced by Smallfilms with the involvement of Oliver Postgate's son Dan and Peter Firmin. The series is directed by Chris Tichborne and Mole Hill,[26] with music composed by John Du Prez. 52 11-minute episodes were commissioned.[1] The voices of the Iron Chicken, the Soup Dragon and the Baby Soup Dragon by Dan Postgate.

The first episode of the new series aired on 15 June 2015.[14] It turned out to be a massive hit for CBeebies. The BBC News Entertainment and Arts magazine revealed that 65% of the episode's viewing audience of 484,000 were adults, and that it was CBeebies' most watched programme of 2015 to date. The rating was more than double the previous record set by an episode of Alphablocks, Numberjacks, Waybuloo, Fimbles, Charlie and Lola, Teletubbies, The Lingo Show and The Octonauts that year, as well as other CBeebies favourites since their launch in 2002, although an episode of Numberjacks peaked at over 1 million back in 2009.

According to the 7 June 2015 issue of Parade magazine, actor William Shatner has been chosen to be the American narrator for the series when it begins airing on the cable network Sprout.

Specials

# Title Date of Release Summary
1 Vote for Froglet 10 October 1974 Oliver Postgate tries to persuade the Clangers of the merits of party politics.[5]
2 Eclipse of the Sun 19 March 2015 The Clangers and Michael Palin teach children how the solar eclipse happens and how to stay safe.
3 Meet the Clangers 12 June 2015 CBeebies Stargazer Maggie has made a very interesting discovery with her telescope.

Reception

Although not quite as popular as Bagpuss (which in 1999 was voted in a British television poll the best children's television programme ever made), since the death of Postgate in December 2008 interest has been revived in his work, which is considered to have had a notable influence on British culture throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 2007, Postgate and Firmin were jointly presented with the Action for Children's Arts J. M. Barrie Award "for a lifetime's achievement in delighting children".[27]

Legacy

A charity collector dressed as a Clanger in 2010

The Soup Dragons, a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, took their name from the Clangers character.[28]

In the Doctor Who story "The Sea Devils", The Master watches the episode "The Intruder".[29] He pretends to mistake it for a documentary on alien life, and expresses irritation when George Trenchard does not catch on that he is joking.

A Clanger (as a hand puppet rather than a stop-motion puppet) appears as a member of the "Puppet Government" in The Goodies episode "The Goodies Rule - O.K.?".

From the block's start until its discontinuation, the UK's Nick Jr. Classics block aired Clangers episodes specifically for parents who remembered the show.[30]

Tiny Clanger (also as a hand puppet) appeared on Sprout's programming block, The Sunny Side Up Show in honor of the US premiere of Clangers.

Other countries

The series was not widely broadcast outside the UK in the 1970s, mainly because it did not require additional money from sales abroad to finance its production.[1] However the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation showed the series in 1970 and 1982, entitled Romlingane. It was narrated by Ingebrigt Davik, a popular author of children's books. It was shown on Swedish Television in the late 1960s and 1970s, entitled Rymdlarna. The first 13 episodes were also shown on Czechoslovak Television in August 1972, entitled Rámusíci[31] as a part of the children's evening program slot Večerníček.

The revived version in 2015 has received funding from Sprout, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, and has been pre-sold to other foreign broadcasters including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[1] The American transmissions are narrated by William Shatner.[10]

Soundtrack album

Clangers: Original Television Music
Soundtrack album by Vernon Elliott & Oliver Postgate
Released 2001
Recorded 1969–1971
Genre Classical, Children's music
Length 47:00
Label Trunk Records

In 2001, a selection of the music and sound effects was compiled by Jonny Trunk from 128 musical cues held by Postgate, who contributed act one, "The Iron Chicken and the Music Trees", of A Clangers Opera, with libretto that he had compiled.

Track listing

  1. Intro Music and Dialogue from "Episode One"
  2. The Start Of "Music"
  3. From "Visiting Friends"
  4. "Clangers running around the planet!"
  5. From "Fishing"
  6. From "Treasure"
  7. "Some Musical Sequences"
  8. From "Goods" (when the machine in the episode "Goods" went into continuous production of plastic objects)
  9. "An End Title"
  10. "Tiny Clangers Radio Hat"
  11. "Some Of Oliver's Special Clangers Effects including the Froglets"
  12. From "The Rock Collector"
  13. From "Glowhoney"
  14. From "Teapot"
  15. From "Cloud"
  16. From "The Seed"
  17. From "The Bags"
  18. From "Blow Fruit"
  19. From "The Pipe Organ"
  20. From "The Music of the Spheres"
  21. "A short, silent interval"
  22. "A Clangers Opera, Act One" "The Iron Chicken and the Music Trees" (compiled by Oliver Postgate)

VHS and DVD releases

In the early 1990s, three VHS cassettes of the Clangers were released by BBC Enterprises Ltd. Later, another six cassettes were released by Universal Pictures. A number of DVDs have also been released by Universal Pictures (original series) and Signature Entertainment (revived series).

VHS

VHS video title Year of release Episodes
Clangers (BBCV 4374) 2 July 1990 Chicken, Music, Glow Honey, Fishing, The Top Hat, Goods
Clangers 2 (BBCV 4625) 3 June 1991 The Egg, The Hoot, The Meeting, The Blow Fruit, The Pipe Organ, The Music of the Spheres
The Very Best of the Clangers (BBCV 4954) 5 April 1993 Chicken, Music, The Top Hat, Tablecloth, The Rock Collector, The Seed, Bags
The Complete Clangers: Series 1 18 March 1999 Flying, The Visitor, Chicken, Music, The Intruder, Visiting Friends, Fishing, The Top Hat, The Egg, The Hoot, The Meeting, Treasure, Goods
The Complete Clangers: Series 2 15 April 1999 Tablecloth, The Rock Collector, Glow Honey, The Teapot, The Cloud, The Egg (2), The Noise Machine, The Seed, Pride, Bags, The Blow Fruit, The Pipe Organ, The Music of the Spheres
Clangers: The Visitor and other stories 18 March 2001 The Visitor, Fishing, The Rock Collector, Goods
Clangers: Glow-Honey and other stories 18 March 2001 Glow Honey, The Seed, Bags, The Music of the Spheres
Clangers: Music and other stories 21 April 2003 Music, The Blow Fruit, The Pipe Organ, The Hoot
Clangers: The Egg and other stories 21 April 2003 The Egg, The Egg (2), Treasure, Chicken

DVD

Region 2
DVD title Series(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s)
The Complete Clangers 1, 2 4:3 26 270 minutes 15 October 2001
The Complete Series 1 1 4:3 13 120 minutes 4 April 2005
The Complete Series 2 2 4:3 13 123 minutes 7 November 2005
The Flying Froglets and Other Clangery Tales 3 16:9 11 121 minutes 19 October 2015
The Singing Asteroid and Other Clangery Tales 3 16:9 11 124 minutes 25 July 2016

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