Editing Clangers (section)

==Characters==
The principal characters are the Clangers themselves, the females wearing tabards and the males brass armour:

* '''Granny Clanger''': an elderly Clanger, she is fond of knitting and often falls asleep. She wears a black tabard in the original show, but a lilac one in the new version. She is also Major Clanger's mother.
* '''Major Clanger''': the father and head of the family, he is determined to get all things right on their planet, and can be grumpy. He wears brass armour. Narrator of the 2015 series, Michael Palin, said that Major Clanger is one of his favourite characters.<ref>{{cite web|last=Braxton |first=Mark |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-06-15/michael-palin-clangers-is-one-of-the-best-things-ive-ever-been-offered |title=Michael Palin salutes the return of the Clangers after 40 years |website=Radiotimes.com |date=15 June 2015 |access-date=18 September 2016}}</ref>
* '''Mother Clanger''': mother to Tiny Clanger and Small Clanger, Mother Clanger is the matriarch of the family and is often seen preparing and dispensing the Clangers' soup or Blue String Pudding, though her favourite thing to do is gardening. She wears a red tabard.
* '''Small Clanger''': the son of Mother and Major Clanger, and the older brother of Tiny Clanger, Small Clanger is very inquisitive and inventive, which - despite his best intentions - has sometimes led to some element of chaos amongst the Clangers, the soup pump being a classic example. Small Clanger is often the focus of the episodes, as he is the most adventurous of the family. He wears brass armour in the original show, but wears a blue tabard in the new version.
* '''Tiny Clanger''': youngest of the family, daughter to Mother and Major Clanger, and younger sister to Small Clanger, Tiny Clanger often plays a key role in the episodes too. She has a kind and gentle nature, that is apparent in many episodes in which a new visitor arrives, as she usually tries to communicate peacefully with them. She wears a red tabard in the original show. This changed to a bright pink one in the first series of the new version before turning to a reddish pink in later series.
* Three other Clangers, two males with different coloured hair and a female wearing blue, also appear in the original episodes, but they have been dropped for the 2015 revival.

===Other inhabitants===
* '''Soup Dragon''': a benign, female creature with a penchant for Green Soup. The Soup Dragon dwells in the soup wells within the Clangers' planet. She is often summoned by tapping on the top of what look like small inactive volcanoes; she slides the lid back, and then takes a jug from (usually) Small Clanger, which she fills for them to eat. A green glow is visible beneath her when she emerges, suggesting the presence of a substantial lake of green soup.
* '''Baby Soup Dragon''': the Soup Dragon's son, Baby Soup Dragon was brought into the Clangers' world when the Soup Dragon became broody, which meant the Clangers could not get any soup. Tiny Clanger called the Iron Chicken by radio, for advice, and she told Tiny to get the egg which she had left on the surface of the planet and to fill it with ingredients. Then they made a nest with macaroni sticks, not far from the soup wells, and placed the egg in the middle. The Iron Chicken asked the Clangers to stand back while she shot the iron egg with a beam from her nest: this had an effect, and the Soup Dragon saw the egg and instinctively sat upon it, moments after the beam was shut off. Then the Soup Dragon was startled and leapt up to find that the egg was hatched and she had a Baby Soup Dragon.
* '''Froglets''': a trio of small orange [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] with black, stalk-like legs and large eyes, who travel around in a [[top hat]]. In the 2015 series, they can change colour to yellow and blue (and, on one occasion, Green). In "The Medal", a series 3 episode of the revived series, 6 froglets can be seen together, and in series 2, one episode has 4, including the green one.
* '''The Cloud''': a [[cotton wool|cotton-wool]] cloud that floats over the surface of the planet, releasing musical raindrops. In the 2015 series, it displays the ability to change its shape.
* '''Music Trees''': the two small Music Trees are a permanent fixture on the surface of the Clangers' planet. They sit in a small divot on the surface (in the 2015 series, they sit atop a small hill) and are often harvested by the Clangers for their musical notes, although the Clangers always politely ask the trees first, after which the trees release some of their notes onto the ground, suggesting some form of sentience.
* '''Glow Buzzers''': [[Electric light|lightbulb-like]] creatures which live around the Clangers' caves, in hives that they fill with "Glow Honey". They helped Small Clanger find his way out of the flower caves when he followed them one time to find out where they got the Glow Honey from. The Glow Buzzers are rendered digitally in the new series.
* '''Iron Chicken''': a "[[bird]]" made of scrap metal (modelled from [[Meccano]]), which lives in an orbiting nest made of metallic junk. The pieces were found around the Smallfilms studio.
* '''Iron Chick''': the Iron Chicken's chick, who appeared in two episodes of series 2, and in the 2015 series.
* '''Sky Moos''': large, flying, blue [[Cattle|cow-like]] creatures that appear in several episodes. They are always hungry, which can come in handy.
* '''Singing Flowers''': a pair of singing flowers introduced in the 2015 series who are friends of Tiny Clanger.

===Visitors===
Other characters appeared in only one or two episodes each:
* '''Hoots''': small horn-like creatures with three legs, speaking like trumpets.
* '''A Spaceman''': an [[astronaut]] who arrives to collect rock samples. Upon landing, the Clangers observe his movements and discover that he is digging up rocks. Small Clanger peeks out of a hole and takes the wicker basket he is (rather humorously) placing the collected rocks in. The astronaut turns to find his basket gone and begins to look for it, searching the surface until he lifts the lid off one of the holes only to find Tiny Clanger within. This clearly scares the astronaut, who proceeds to run away, and falls straight down one of the holes into the planet where he then falls into a soup well. After the Clangers retrieve him and clean him up, he appears to be still in shock, as he then begins to run around again in panic, at which point he accidentally runs himself into orbit around their planet. Small Clanger retrieves him with a fishing rod and a magnet. The Clangers eventually bundle him back into his spacecraft and send him home.
* '''Lunar Rover''': the rover appeared when the Clangers were building a structure on the surface and one of them noticed an incoming object. They all dived below for safety, and on impact the rover destroyed the structure they were building, much to the Clangers' annoyance. They all observed the rover, staying just out of its sight. When it began to dig - and seemingly eat - some of the surface, Major Clanger intervened and stopped it. It then turned to face him and they attempted to shake hands, at which point the Rover's "nose" came off in Major Clanger's hand. He tries to return it, but the Rover drives off, finds a suitable bit of ground, then launches itself back into space. Major Clanger exclaims that it is "Marvellous".
* '''Eggbots''': a group of egg-shaped, [[nesting doll]]-like robots who make sounds based on the [[solfège]] scale (each smaller Eggbot emitting a successive musical note (''Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do'')).
* '''Metal Caterpillar''': a metallic caterpillar who hatched from a metal egg which Small Clanger found in space. It ate anything that was metal, until it wove a cocoon and became a moth.
* '''Wols''': metallic colorful owls, who fly by spinning. The Iron Chicken had to look after three baby Wols whilst their parent was away
* The Tin Bird visited the Clangers' planet during an episode of the 2017 series, looking for a place to build a nest.