The Clangers
The Clangers were small pink knitted long-snouted mouse-shaped
creatures who lived on a small blue planet with the Soup Dragon
and ate blue string pudding and soup from said Dragon! Living
proof that 70s kids TV was in the hands of old acid headed hippies
from Woodstock or the Isle of Wight festival!
The Clangers planet was covered in metal lids under which they
hid from the cold and the numerous objects falling from space -
such a common occurrence that Major Clanger wore brass armour to
protect himself from the falling objects.
The other notable Clangers were Mother Clanger, Tiny Clanger,
Small Clanger and Granny Clanger. They shared their world not only
with the Soup Dragon but also with the Glow Buzzers (who provided
light for the Clangers caves and tasty Glow Honey) and the four
conjuring Froglets, inexplicable orange, oval stick-legged
creatures who travelled in a top hat and lived in a vertical pond
deep within the planet.
This was a world where music grew on trees and where musical
notes, when collected could be used to propel space-borne
helicopters and boats. Their closest neighbour was the Iron
Chicken, who lived on a spiky nest of old scrap-iron and bits of
machinery which she had gathered up in her travels.
Each episode of The Clangers invariably had a message
about we naughty Earthlings; polluting and over-crowding our own
planet, sending junk into space, "invading" other
planets with our space probes etc etc . . .
They don't make 'em like that anymore - They can't get the
drugs!
KNIT YOUR OWN CLANGER
According to the Smallfilms approved Clangers site, the
official knitting pattern is available from:
Peter Gregory
G K P Ltd
Springmill House
Baildon, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD17 6AD
England
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