The series is about a family of aliens who live under the surface of the Moon in caves. Subscribe For More Clangers Videos! The narrator explains what the Clangers are talking about and tries to make sense of their adventures on the Blue Planet. Other characters include the Froglets and The Soup Dragon, a dragon that gives out soup. 5. Original Clangers. Cult children’s TV show The Clangers is back after 45 years - after the lovable pink creatures were painstakingly recreated in Altrincham. The Clangers is a British children's television series. The Clangers is a British children's television series.The first episode was broadcast on the BBC on 16 November 1969. 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. Clangers (usually referred to as The Clangers) [citation needed] is a British stop-motion children's television series, made of short films about a race or family of shrew-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. The series is about a family of aliens who live under the surface of the Moon in caves.They looked like small, pink, knitted mice.Other characters include the Froglets and The Soup Dragon, a dragon that gives out soup.The family uses a US flag as a table cloth. 14 Things to Know about the U.S. premiere of the British stop-motion show Clangers on Sprout, featuring William Shatner as the narrator. The Clangers, 1969. It’s a rather nice relationship because he’s not saying ‘they should do this they should do that’, he’s just kind of following the action, translating and interpreting as he goes along. What will the Clangers do? The first episode was broadcast on 16th November 1969, with a further 25 episodes being made. They speak only in whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon and blue string pudding. They eat only green soup and blue string pudding. The distinctive whistles made by the Clangers, performed on swanee whistles, have become as identifiable as the characters themselves, much imitated by viewers. Historically, the clanger was made by women for their husbands to take to their agricultural work as a midday meal: it has been suggested that the crust was not originally intended for consumption but to protect the fillings from the soiled hands of the workers. 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. In the episode The Crystal Trees, the trees are made from ice and are actually filmed as they are melting, this is played backwards so they appear to be growing. 6. The first episode was broadcast on the BBC on 16 November 1969. They looked like small, pink, knitted mice. Like the original, it is made with wool and a lot of love. Clangers was the popular (now classed as cult tv) British stop-motion animated children’s television series. This new series retains that good heart. The Clangers was always a good-hearted show, the characters thoughtful and kind and full of joy. This is an advertisement. The Clangers are back - and made in Altrincham for new BBC series. Clangers returned to delight a new generation in 2015, made for Cbeebies by a new team that included Postgate’s son, Daniel, as well as Firmin. With Oliver Postgate. They speak only in a whistled language. As it turns out, behind most Manly Pies for Manly Men are resourceful women trying to feed way too many people on a tight budget. Their misadventures brought them into contact with such unlikely creatures as the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken and the Glow Buzzers. The series chronicled 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. The clever women who made the Bedfordshire Clanger possible. Cult children's TV series The Clangers will return to the BBC after some 40 … The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator). Clangers. Age: All Clangers is a British stop-motion children's television series, made of short films about a race or family of shrew-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. Mrs. Hyde from Barton remarked in 1949 that “If I had as many shillings as I have made clangers I’d be a rich woman now.” Maggie has been a Clangers fan since she was three years-old and, as she told the audience, it was the Clangers that inspired her whole career in science. Factory is very excited and proud to be producing the new series of the Clangers, the British cult classic that made its original debut in 1969.