Editing Clangers (section)

==Production==
[[File:Clangers 2016 V&A Museum of Childhood.jpg|thumb|Clangers and Iron Chicken puppets at the V&A Museum of Childhood in 2016.]]
The first of the 26 episodes (aired as two series of 13 programmes each) was broadcast on [[BBC1]] from 16 November 1969. The last edition of the second series was transmitted on 10 November 1972.

However, there was also one final programme, a seven-minute election special entitled ''Vote for Froglet'', broadcast on 10 October 1974 (the day of the General Election). [[Oliver Postgate]] said in a 2005 interview that he wasn't sure whether the 1974 special still existed,<ref name="CliveBanks"/> and it has been referred to as a "missing episode".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/trivia.shtml |title=Cult – Classic TV – The Clangers Trivia |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=10 October 1974 |access-date=18 September 2016}}</ref> In fact the whole episode is available from the British Film Institute.<ref name="player.bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-vote-for-froglet-1974-online/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220154643/https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-vote-for-froglet-1974-online |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 February 2018 |title=Watch Vote for Froglet online |website=Player.bfi.org.uk |access-date=18 September 2016}}</ref>

The original Mother Clanger puppet was stolen in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-from-bt/the-clangers-10-surprising-facts-about-the-childrens-tv-classic-11364025612680|title=The Clangers: 10 surprising facts about the children's TV classic|website=BT.com|language=en|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref> Today, Major Clanger and the second Mother Clanger are on display at the [[Rupert Bear Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Postgate's genius lives on at museum|url=http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=4324|publisher=Canterbury City Council|access-date=20 October 2010|date=16 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031161016/http://canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=4324|archive-date=31 October 2010}}</ref>

The Clangers grew in size between the first and last episodes, to allow Firmin to use an [[Action Man]] model figure in the episode "The Rock Collector".<ref name="CliveBanks"/>

[[BBC]]'s [[CBeebies]] channel and the American pre-school channel, Sprout, produced a new series for broadcasting in their 2015 schedules,<ref name=BBC24523203>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24523203|title=Clangers to make TV return|work=BBC News|date=15 October 2013|access-date=15 October 2013}}</ref> with [[Michael Palin]] narrating in place of the late [[Oliver Postgate]].<ref name="Remake">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29107225|title=Michael Palin to narrate The Clangers series|work=BBC News|date=8 September 2014|access-date=9 September 2014}}</ref> The American pre-school channel [[Universal Kids|Sprout]] were major funders and co-producers having commissioned the series in tandem with the [[BBC]], with [[William Shatner]] narrating.<ref name="today.com">{{cite web|title=William Shatner calls 'Clangers' a 'beautiful' children's show|url=http://www.today.com/popculture/william-shatner-clangers-beautiful-childrens-show-t26191|website=Today Pop Culture|date=15 June 2015 |access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref>

In November 2015, ''The Clangers'' won the Best Pre-school Animation award at the BAFTAs.<ref>{{Cite web|via=[[YouTube]]|title=Clangers wins Pre-School Animation {{!}} BAFTA Children's Awards 2015|date=23 November 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHc1FRHkc84|access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref>