Clangers: The Tablecloth

The Clangers try various materials to keep some Froglets warm.

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:09:27

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Swearing

The non-worded but scored script seemed to allow the Clangers to say almost anything, including swear words in the basic script.^[1] As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, but 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, after 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, and after the series became a comm

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