Clangers 1969
“A family of knitted aliens eking out a threadbare existence on a bleak and cold world”
- Status
- Ended
- First Aired
- November 16, 1969
- Format
- 2 seasons · 26 eps
- Total Runtime
- ~3.9 hours (9 min/ep)
- Created By
- Oliver Postgate
- Network
- BBC One
What is Clangers?
Clangers, also known as The Clangers, is a British stop-motion animated children's television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1972, with a new series beginning in 2015. It chronicles the melancholically funny lives of the Clangers, a family of mouse-like, woolen, knitted aliens living on and inside a knobbly little planet far out in space.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 1969
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 26
- Runtime
- 9 minutes
- First aired
- Nov 16, 1969
- Networks
- BBC One
- Genres
- Kids, Animation, Family
- Updated
At a glance
- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 7.1/10
- Format
- 2 seasons · 26 episodes
- Episode runtime
- ~9 minutes
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC One
How long to binge?
Estimate the schedule using 26 episodes and an average 9-minute runtime.
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Clangers, also known as The Clangers, is a British stop-motion animated children's television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1972, with a new series beginning in 2015. It chronicles the melancholically funny lives of the Clangers, a family of mouse-like, woolen, knitted aliens living on and inside a knobbly little planet far out in space.
Culturally significant as a classic BBC children's television series created through stop-motion animation, the show features distinctive characters with flutey voices. Their misadventures involve encounters with unusual entities such as the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken, and the Glow Buzzers, unfolding against the backdrop of a bleak and cold world where they eke out a threadbare existence.
Should you watch it?
“Discover the melancholically funny lives of a family of woolen, knitted aliens living on a small planet.”
- Witness the unique misadventures of a flutey-voiced family of woolen, knitted aliens.
- Explore the lives of creatures living below the surface of a knobbly little planet far out in space.
- Encounter unlikely characters such as the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken, and the Glow Buzzers.
- The family ekes out a threadbare existence on a bleak and cold world.
Watch it if you want to see short films about mouse-like creatures living on a small moon-like planet.
The tone is melancholically funny, depicting a family eking out a threadbare existence on a bleak and cold world.
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It holds a user score of 72 percent on Kinobox, reflecting its reception as a children, animation, and family series.
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The original series consists of short films broadcast between 1969 and 1972, but exact binge duration details are not provided.
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