"The Clangers" - the beginning

I was 17 when this first aired - so I never saw it.

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  Film & Animation

[SebMModerns]

Only five Minutes this one? I own a video tape of The Clangers that has only a very few episodes on, and they were each ten minutes long. I suppose, because this was The Pilot Episode.

[FlashHarry621]

Could be. Some pilots (like The Munsters - which was in COLOUR!) only give you HALF an episode, to "tempt" the client into greenlighting the REST! But in this case, I cannot remember...

[Timo Mitselakis]

I cannot understand why you did not see it when you were 17, was it censored for people of that age group?? I was 30 something when it started on TV and I watched every episode.....

[FlashHarry621]

LOL! I think it was like "The Magic Roundabout" - you had to be under 10 or over 30 to appreciate it!

[PlanetTharg]

A voice I would dearly donate significant body parts for - he could read the phone book and I'd listen spellbound.

Many thanks for posting.

[FlashHarry621]

Oliver postgate - also The Clangers' writer. And he wrote The Pingwings - THAT I remember. I liked the music - which was written by the same guy as here. Vernon Elliot. What a team!

[stevemonkey78]

thumbs up if you can understand what they are saying

[Toothless164]

This is the best tv programme ever !!!!!!!!!!!

[marcel911]

Hmm. I was born in '67 but don't remember watching the Clangers :-/ I have seen them when I was older but have no memories of when they were first aired.

[tripchop]

used primarily during the cold war and cuban missile crisis for sending covert msgs along what was then the 'soviet superhighway' progammes varied in length as certain scenes deemed far too sensitive,shown the once then edited, never entirely destroyed as to warrant suspicion. often said to be a parody of the Cambridge 5/Philby Blunt & Burgess had secret edited copies now known as VENONA aka soup dragon Le Carre's working title Tinker,Tailor,Clanger,Spy was given the 'bums-rush' rest is herstory

[SPARKIETHESPACESHIP]

Your kid will love my show. I rock out too… Take a look.

SPARKIE THE SPACESHIP

[Helen flute Jenner]

ahhh! " Poor major Clanger has had a hard day.. what he needs is a mug of Soup" love it, always have..

[Nintendomanic]

imagination is the best high ever

[ilokivi]

Brilliant. Original, creative and fascinating. Who needs CGI?

[WELLBRAN]

Yeah they were quite cool..the collest hip thing that was actually "KNITTED"...lol...and the narrator had a "cult" status in UK at the time...still does!

[borgduck]

I just watched this whole episode during a commercial break.

[segano1]

Probably why it was on East is East as a subliminal statement.