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It seems that Michael Palin is to narrate the new series of Clangers - excellent!
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Cody wrote:
It seems that Michael Palin is to narrate the new series of Clangers - excellent!
Sounds cool - I haven't heard of Clangers yet. If Michael Palin's involved I'm sure it's gotta be funny, too. :D
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CommRLock78 wrote:
Sounds cool - I haven't heard of Clangers yet.
Plenty on YT - here. They are legendary!
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That was pretty out there - thoroughly enjoyable stuff mate!
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Oliver Postgate, the creator and narrator, was a clever man...
The non-worded but scored script seemed to allow the Clangers to say almost anything, including swear words in the basic script. As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, and on reading the script for episode three they asked Postgate to remove some "Clanger-speak", explaining that, although whistled, "you can’t say that on children’s television... you just can’t". At the opening of the episode, before a rocket shoots down the Iron Chicken, Major Clanger kicks a door to make it work, and his first words are "Oh, sod it; the bloody thing’s stuck again". Postgate replied that viewers wouldn't recognize what was said, but the BBC replied "But people will know!" The offending Clanger-talk remained in the episode
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Cody wrote:
Oliver Postgate, the creator and narrator, was a clever man...
The non-worded but scored script seemed to allow the Clangers to say almost anything, including swear words in the basic script. As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, and on reading the script for episode three they asked Postgate to remove some "Clanger-speak", explaining that, although whistled, "you can’t say that on children’s television... you just can’t". At the opening of the episode, before a rocket shoots down the Iron Chicken, Major Clanger kicks a door to make it work, and his first words are "Oh, sod it; the bloody thing’s stuck again". Postgate replied that viewers wouldn't recognize what was said, but the BBC replied "But people will know!" The offending Clanger-talk remained in the episode
Explanation is here, in another clip.
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It appears that the Clangers even made it onto Doctor Who...
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Ranthe wrote:
It appears that the Clangers even made it onto Doctor Who...
As it happens I had a theory about that...

Space-Time for Clangers

There's also a rather fun fanvid about Clangers that might be of interest

Attack of the Clangers by Nathan Yeoman
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ffutures wrote:
There's also a rather fun fanvid about Clangers that might be of interest

Attack of the Clangers by Nathan Yeoman
That's very silly! :)
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Trying to teach my mother's cockatiel clanger speech. Got more success with Tom Good's working whistle. (UK TV The Good Life)
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