The Clangers
Creator A Smallfilms production, created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
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Story
Across the vast starry stretches of outer space is a little blue planet, where music grows on trees and soup springs from underground soup wells. This planet is home to the Clangers, a family of pink knitted, whistling creatures that live in burrow-like craters. Together, they go on unusual adventures as they encounter curious creatures and unfamiliar objects from Outer Space.
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Why we chose it
The Clangers is a children’s television classic. Its gentle, warm-hearted characters communicating in their expressive whistles have captured the hearts of children over the years and made it one of the best loved children’s television series.
Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate were pioneers of stop motion animation, making their films in a barn behind Peter’s house.
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First shown
1969