TheLittleSongbird Words cannot describe how much I loved my childhood. Watching films like Beauty and the Beast, Bambi and the Wizard of Oz and shows like Pingu, Rosie and Jim and this, The Clangers. Since then I have gone on watching various films and TV show, animated and non-animated, and I always try to revisit my childhood favourites. The Clangers is one of those I revisit, it's just that I loved it as a kid and it still holds up for me.Visually, The Clangers is wonderful. Maybe not the most visually sumptuous I have seen, but it does have a unique visual style with lovely sets, props and colours. The music is also memorable and pleasant. The stories are often simple, but humorous too and rather cute. A major reason why The Clangers works so wonderfully is the narration of Oliver Postgate, I agree he is like a grandfather reading to his grandchild, and the narration itself is wonderfully written, a perfect balance of humour and whimsy. I love the mellow tone to his voice and his way of telling the story that he does with humour and excitement. And I have to say the characters are endearing, of course they're simple but they are memorable and likable I think.Overall, a childhood favourite and in my opinion a must watch for those not already familiar with it. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Tweekums As a child in the early seventies I loved The Clangers. Made at a time when space was the big thing and we all "knew" that there would be people living on the moon before the end of the century this was made to meet the interests of the youngest of space fans.Living on a distant planet which looks like a small version of the Moon the Clangers are a family of small mousy creatures who live in caverns under the surface, The don't talk as we do but are voiced by a Swanee whistle with the narrator explaining to us what they are saying. They have many adventures which are always gentle in tone they often feature other creatures such as the Soup Dragon and my personal favourite the Iron Chicken.The characters are all fairly simple, the Clangers themselves are knitted soft toys and the Iron Chicken is made of Maccano. The narration by the creator, the late Oliver Postgate, couldn't be better, he has a gentle tone that feels almost like a grandfather telling a story to his grandchildren. While a little Jerky the stop-go animation is charming, I'm sure this series will appeal to younger children today as well as too their parents and people who watched it when they were children themselves.

screenman Once more we have a highly inventive piece of television from the golden age of originality. And this time it's for kids.Gosh; why do we have so much cheap, unimaginative computer-generated crap from America when we can produce wonderful things like this? The Clangers were a functional nuclear family. Remember them? Nowadays the feminist fascists would have such a politically-incorrect piece of propaganda burnt. But in 1969, when sanity still had the upper-hand, this was top TV.Clangers are tiny mouse-like creatures that function by stop-go animation. They live on a small, seemingly arid moon. Their homes are in craters that are covered by dustbin lids. No explanation is offered for this incongruity, and none is required. They share their world with a soup dragon, which appears to be the only one of its species. No explanation is offered for this either. Take it or leave it.Each of the few episodes entails some simple, but interesting adventure. They speak with the voices of tin whistles, whilst mellow-voiced Mr Postgate translates and explains. It's a simple, well-worn British television formula dating back to 'Watch With Mother', and it works a treat. The story often entails some sly little social comment that probably went over the heads of most tots, but raised a grin from the parents. It was very much like the narration from 'The Magic Roundabout'.All's well that ends well, and The Clangers went to bed. Imagine 'The Wombles' on the moon and you're not far out. Then again; maybe you are.A classic, original and well-loved series that had a typically short run, but is at least available on DVD. Young kids couldn't be bought a better present.

didi-5 'The Clangers' is quite rightly looked upon as one of the greatest ever children's TV programmes. Created at the time that man walked on the moon for the first time, it benefited both from the interest in the space age, and the new availability of colour on television.Therefore the series is loud, inventive, colourful, and fun. The family, Father and Mother, and Small and Tiny Clangers, are inquisitive, sweet, and talk in strange whistling noises (sometimes putting in little jokes to irk the paymasters at the BBC!). Below them deep in the ground, the Soup Dragon stirs an ever-boiling, never-ending, supply of green gloop, while Mother Clanger makes her blue string pudding.Visitors to Clanger land never stay long, and always leave bewildered! The series was different to any which had gone before and has quite rightly become something of a cult.