SMD70 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Just found this sneak peek of the new Clangers series narrated by Michael Palin no less! I used to love the Clangers back in the day. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/clangers-sneak-peek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver66 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Why is this quality documentary on children's televsion? Will be watching anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 It's not the same! This used to be family entertainment, and now it's just a kid's programme. Tiny and Major Clanger just don't look right, and as for the iron Chicken -- why did she have to have a politically correct makeover? I'll just have to watch every episode and get grumpy week in and week out about each one being messed about with... And those ridiculous stories; not like they were back in the 70s when they dealt with important social issues with a biting satirical wit... [sorry, just thought I'd say it before anyone else did....] ;-P bestest, M. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 When does it start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayson Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Not soon enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 "Poor old Tiny Clanger". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 I got redirected to International and it won't show it now. Tsk! Is it true that Roger Whitaker did the whistling on the original show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 No. No it isn't. Probably. Almost everything was done by Oliver Postgate and his pal Peter Firmin back in the day, so the cost of adding a dodgy person to the roster wouldn't have been justified. So there! Apart from Michael Palin's voice not being particularly sharp (I miss Oliver Postgate's) I think they seem to have done quite a nice job if that's typical of the series. My late lamented best buddy Andi bought me a Clangers DVD as a joke one year, and Christopher loves it, so I know my subject matter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev67 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 ...only Oliver Postgate could have used a swanee whistle to "voice" Major Clanger saying "Oh, S*d it, the Bl**dy thing's stuck again" with such accuracy and precise whistle-diction that they had to cut it out (although the knitted Major Clanger based on the original design that came out for collectors a few years ago DOES have that phrase amongst his electronic playbacks...)... bestest, M. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Son paused Games of Thrones to watch it. He thought it was a spoof and was waiting for a punch line! I'm sure Tiny Clanger said "Eh oh!" at one point... Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 The Roger Whittaker thing was a wind up. I can still hear the sound of the narration, in my mind, This one and Noggin the Nogg! Maybe we watched them as there wasn't much choice at the time, but they do endure and are still entertaining. Pete, (Who has recently obtained Do not adjust your set & At last the 1948 show). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I always thought that the preambles to each episode of the Clangers were quite down on Earth, calling us names and generally not being very kind to our rather noisy, aggressive and self-destructive society. If you listen to them from an adult point of view it's quite sad. Didn't seem to bother the Boy though, but the constantly changing volume from episode to episode on the DVD transfer was a bit annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I know: that bit about important social issues and satirical wit wasn't ironic at all... Oliver Postgate was a quiet revolutionary, and rather angry in a gentle British way. I still remember the one with the machine that just goes on making things that they don't need, and the Election Special... Read Stewart Lee's introduction to the recent Smallfilms book; it'll bring a tear to your eye with his definition of Britishness... Bestest, M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew March Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Looks better than Thundercraps are go, so it will get my watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Gordon Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 ...only Oliver Postgate could have used a swanee whistle to "voice" Major Clanger saying "Oh, S*d it, the Bl**dy thing's stuck again" with such accuracy and precise whistle-diction that they had to cut it out (although the knitted Major Clanger based on the original design that came out for collectors a few years ago DOES have that phrase amongst his electronic playbacks...)... bestest, M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsMZKwqw3w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rogers Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 We got a three set DVD for our Grandaughter, it's got all the original Clangers episodes as well as Ivor the Engine and Bagpuss. Grandaughter is a bit ambivolent towards them, but I love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Already set the HDD on series record for this... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_landings.htm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Series starts on Monday 15th at 5.30pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I know one little boy that will be watching... so will my son! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) Just watched the first episode, and... ...what were they thinking of? It's so unrealistic. I mean, a "big wind" blowing the notes away, where anyone can see from how clear the skies are that there's no atmosphere on the Clangers planet. You'd think that they'd try to get the basics right, at least those old knitted models and cardboard props behaved like real things because they were!. And as for the breakneck pace... kids today have no attention span, obviously, and can't cope with a story that doesn't have an explosion every two minutes. The characterisation was very weak -- all the Clangers seem just the same, so they've had to sew initials on the front of their costumes. They don't respect the proper sets, either -- I mean, Mother Clanger has a garden now? What??? There a baby Soup Dragon now, what's all that about? I can't even tell what they're saying any more -- how's a child supposed to understand when this adult doesn't? And as for Michael Palin -- why did they think they needed a Monty Python voiceover? I dunno. Anyone would think it had been made just for children. Still, I shall watch all the rest and vent my spleen after every episode. Hah. bestest, M. Edited June 16, 2015 by cmatthewbacon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I liked it. And it was better than the Thunderbirds reboot! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew March Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I liked it and so did my three year old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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