9 minSeason 2 • Episode 13
LatestThere are concerts in the most unlikely places.
Chronicles the melancholically funny lives of the Clangers, a flutey-voiced family of woolen, knitted aliens living below the surface of a knobbly little planet far out in space. Their misadventures brought them into contact with such unlikely creatures as the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken and the Glow Buzzers.
Sound
Swanee whistle dialogue—Oliver Postgate invented alien linguistics.
Practical Effects
Hand-knitted puppets, no CGI, maximum soul.
Writing
Postgate's narration: dry, warm, devastatingly British.
Creator
Oliver Postgate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Postgate and Firmin created this in a disused cowshed in Kent, funding it with BBC children's department pocket change.
The Clangers were censored once: the BBC cut a scene where Small Clanger said 'oh sod it' in whistle-language. Postgate insisted it was 'oh sound of a rocket misfiring.'
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