Talk:Clangers

Early comments
''Headings added in this section, to lift Table of Contents to top, and for clarity. No text changes made. EdJogg (talk) 09:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)''

Election Special episode
Has the Clangers election special actually been wiped? According to http://www.clangers.co.uk/clip.htm it's stored in the BBC archive at Brentford. But then, that page was last updated over 5 years ago --PS4FA


 * The BBC isn't into wiping these days, so if it really is in the archive it's safe. Presumably the reason it hasn't been repeated is that it's no longer topical. -- Lee M

Peter Firmin only said that it had 'probably' been wiped. ISTM that Clangers was a filmed colour series and so would be less prone to 'wiping' than its monochrome video'ed contemporaries.David Farmbrough 4/Apr/'05

Article title - 1
The show's title according to the opening title and DVD set, is Clangers rather than The Clangers. Should the page be moved to reflect this? -- Lee M


 * Most people know it as The Clangers, so i guess it's probably OK to leave the title as just that. Maybe there should be a redirect from Clangers --PS4FA

Dustbin lids?
The article says ...the sound made by opening the metal cover of one of the creatures' burrows.... If my memory serves (hey, it's only 30 years) aren't these metal covers little shiny dustbin-lids? -- Finlay McWalter 02:15, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * Yes, they are.

Saucepan lids. The handle is different. Also the scale would be too large if they were dustbin lids.David Farmbrough 4/Apr/'05

On the moon?
Didn't they live on the Moon...not "a small, hollow planet far far away," --Scuzzmonkey 21:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Atmosphere
Where is it specified the planet atmosphere is absent and a vacuum? Yes, I know it's picky! Steve 03:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Here Dugo 00:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Episode one shows a Clanger inflating a balloon using a foot-pump. That balloon provides lift. Also, Major Clanger's flying machine flaps its wings to fly, as does the iron chicken in another episode. A vacuum? I think not! Macmic77 22:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Clangers-album.jpg
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Clanger f/x
I sampled a toy Clanger that my mother bought me as a present a few years back. The ogg is up on Commons here, I don't know how to use the embedded player to add this in to the article. --Brianmc 11:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced material
The following is unsourced information:


 * In an episode of the British Whose Line Is It Anyway?, an audience member suggested The Clangers during the game Film and Theatre Styles. Host Clive Anderson had no idea what the person was talking about. Even after contestants Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence used The Clangers successfully in their scene, Anderson still expressed cluelessness about what it was.


 * A popular internet parody of moon landing hoax theories employs pictures from the show. It shows photographs purported to be from the Apollo 11 moon landing and points out revealing mistakes such as incorrect shadows, and problems with the stars in the background, ignoring the little creatures who increasingly appear in the photos.


 * In a couple of episodes, an astronaut from Earth appears on the Clangers' planet. Hedging the creators' bets as to which of the superpowers would first make it to their planet, the flag he carries is a combination of US and Soviet emblems.


 * [1] The Clanger toys' voice-boxes play a line "spoken" by Major Clanger on the occasion when the mechanical double-doors of the cave jam as they are opening. Scripted as "Oh sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again!", this line was never actually broadcast as the BBC objected to the language (although it remains in the video collection). Postgate claims he chose this sentence for the toy as ironic revenge.


 * 'Vote For Froglet', the election special from 1974, has never been repeated - partly because the rights are owned by the BBC rather than Smallfilms, and partly because Oliver Postgate felt it was rushed and not up to the usual standard.

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 12:03, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * In 1973 the British New Scientist magazine published an amusing article about the ecosystem of the Clangers' planet.

Article title
There's a brief (two entry) discussion about this above, but I'm of the opinion the article should be moved to "Clangers" as the article-less version is undisputably the title of the series. As this article covers the series rather than the set of characters, I think we should move the article to "Clangers" over the redirect and establish "The Clangers" as a redirect to it. Majorclanger (talk) 15:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It's been close to a week, and given the lack of any comment, I'm going to go ahead with the rename. Majorclanger (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems a reasonable move, I've taken away the . - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 11:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

6th Clanger
In at least one scene (ep 23, 'Bags', at around the 5 min 40 sec mark) six clangers can be seen in shot simultaneously. Our article only lists 5 - anyone know who the 6th clanger is? Squiddy | (squirt ink?)  11:05, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Reply to Squiddy 6th clanger: there are actully 8 clangers, the three others not noted down were Auntie Clanger who wears blue and Uncle Clanger with blonde hair and Granddad Clanger with red hair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhinomantis88 (talk • contribs) 09:23, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

People on the television?
Who are they?

IceDragon64 (talk) 17:32, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

I think the napolean guy is Oliver Postgate in disguise and the rocker is Jimmy Mcculloch from the band one in a million. (ThePuppetBoy (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2015 (UTC)) No it's Oliver's step-son Krispian Myers.

"Missing episode"
The Production section talks about the 1974 election special possibly being a "missing episode". However, it's currently available (to Brits) from the BFI archives at http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-vote-for-froglet-1974/. It's also almost 7 minutes long, instead of 4, so I'm not sure whether this is a different cut, but it's almost certainly the same episode. 86.190.71.5 (talk) 18:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

character section overhaul?
Can I suggest an overhaul of the character section, especially with the new series coming up? Visokor (talk) 17:51, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Murine?
Seems a leap of faith, is this not just an editor's opinion? Stub Mandrel (talk) 10:56, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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How is Thomas a BBC show
Did it air on CBeebies? Because it says that "CGI has replaced stop motion in othe BBC kids shows like Fireman Sam and Thomas.

series 4 episode list
I think we need an episode list for series 4 here... Visokor (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I concur, I can add in a few of them hopefully in order then if somebody wants to they can make a table for them, since I know S4 is ongoing as I havce seen some of it's episodes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.89.177 (talk) 15:19, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Missing link to "Smallfilms"
Since none of the references to "Smallfilms" is a link, I assumed there wasn't a Wikipedia article on it - but there is, with a link from the article on its co-founder Oliver Postgate. I don't know how to create links, but I hope someone with the right technical knowledge can do so.213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:23, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


 * There was one link in the infobox to Smallfilms, but I have added another in the intro. MilborneOne (talk) 16:41, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

article intro needs better image
the word "Clangers" on a generic starry background communicates absolutely nothing about the show. we already know the title. if there is to be an image at the top, it should at least show some of the characters so that a reader could potentially recognize the show. an image succinctly communicates so much more than is possible with words alone. the "mice" looked nothing like i expected based on reading the description. i came here wondering what "being a soup dragon" meant. how about this image that shows both the soup dragon and one of the "mice"? https://www.flickr.com/photos/chough/6291764489 perhaps the author can be convinced to release it as GFDL or some other compatible license. most people simply aren't aware of the problems caused by CC-BY-NC licenses. 157.131.250.246 (talk) 07:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * If and when we get permission, I would agree.Slatersteven (talk) 10:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

add more summary for more revival episodes
Can anybody type down the summary of more episodes from series 4 and series 5 or should I say series 2 and series 3 in the revival series of the Clangers without any copyright content copied from the BBC website? 87.112.76.144 (talk) 21:56, 1 August 2022 (UTC)