Editing Clangers (section)

==Episodes from the original series==
===Series 1 (1969–1970)===
The first series was transmitted on BBC1 at 5:55pm, except for the episode "Chicken" which went out at 5:50pm because there was a ''Children in Need'' appeal at 6:00pm.
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!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| Title
!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| First broadcast
! style="background:#ccf;"| Summary
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || "Flying" || 16 November 1969 || Major Clanger builds a flying machine, and Tiny Clanger gets stuck at the top of the cave with a [[balloon]].
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || "The Visitor" || 23 November 1969 || The Clangers find a [[television set]].
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| style="text-align:center;"| 3 || "Chicken" || 30 November 1969 || The Clangers build some [[fireworks]], one of which collides with a passing Iron Chicken.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || "Music" || 7 December 1969 || Tiny Clanger discovers music.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 5 || "The Intruder" || 28 December 1969 || A [[rover (space exploration)|Lunar rover]] lands.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || "Visiting Friends" || 4 January 1970 || Tiny Clanger builds a [[helicopter]] to visit the Iron Chicken.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 7 || "Fishing" || 11 January 1970 || The Clangers build a flying music boat, and Major Clanger goes fishing in it.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || "The Top Hat" || 18 January 1970 || The Clangers find some Froglets in a [[top hat]].
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| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || "The Dragon Egg" || 25 January 1970 || The Soup Dragon gets broody, and gains a son.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || "The Hoot" || 1 February 1970 || A noisy metal creature is retrieved from space, disturbing the Clangers' peace.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || "The Meeting" || 8 February 1970 || More Hoots arrive, and seem upset that the first Hoot has changed.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || "Treasure" || 15 February 1970 || Tiny Clanger finds a bag of [[golden coin]]s while fishing in space.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 13 || "Goods" || 22 February 1970 || A machine that makes plastic items is assembled, but cannot be turned off.
|}

===Series 2 (1971–1972)===
The second series episodes were also transmitted weekly on BBC1, but in a wide variety of differing timeslots. Episodes 1 and 2 were seen at 4:50{{nbsp}}pm; episodes 3, 5 and 6 at 5:05{{nbsp}}pm; episodes 4 and 8 at 5:00{{nbsp}}pm; episode 7 at 4:40{{nbsp}}pm; episode 9 at 5:30{{nbsp}}pm; and episodes 10, 11, 12 and 13 (which followed episode 9 after a gap of more than a year) at 4:00{{nbsp}}pm.

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!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| Title
!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| First broadcast
! style="background:#ccf;"| Summary
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| style="text-align:center;"| 14 || "The Tablecloth" || 18 April 1971 || The Clangers use various materials to try to keep some Froglets warm.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 15 || "The Rock Collector" || 25 April 1971 || An [[astronaut]] arrives to [[geology|collect rocks]], but falls in the soup when Tiny Clanger startles him.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || "Glow Honey" || 2 May 1971 || Small Clanger wanders off into some [[cave]]s, looking for glow-honey, and gets lost.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || "The Teapot" || 9 May 1971 || A [[teapot]] fished from space is less useful than the Clangers thought it would be.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 18 || "The Cloud" || 16 May 1971 || The Cloud is invited to Mother Clanger's birthday party, and rains on the Froglets.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || "The Chicken Egg" || 23 May 1971 || The Iron Chicken lays an [[egg (biology)|egg]], and the Clangers try to look after it.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 20 || "The Noise Machine" || 30 May 1971 || The Clangers assemble a machine they find in space, and the iron chick gets into trouble.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || "The Seed" || 6 June 1971 || The Clangers tend a seed, and soon their planet is [[introduced species|swamped]] with vegetation.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || "Pride" || 13 June 1971 || Small Clanger finds a mirror, and vanity almost costs him his supper.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || "The Bags" || 13 October 1972 || A [[Gladstone bag]] appears on the Clangers' planet – and is mistaken for a strange, new life-form.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 24 || "The Blow Fruit" || 27 October 1972 || Small Clanger and the Baby Soup Dragon cause trouble playing with [[jet propulsion|jet-propelled]] fruit.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || "The Pipe Organ" || 3 November 1972 || When the soup-trolley loses a wheel, Major Clanger tries to make a soup-pump.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || "The Music of the Spheres" || 10 November 1972 || Tiny Clanger is accidentally hoisted away into space by the Hoot planet.
|}

===Specials===
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!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| Title
!  style="background:#ccf; width:24%;"| First broadcast
! style="background:#ccf;"| Summary
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || "Vote for Froglet" || 10 October 1974 || Oliver Postgate tries to persuade the Clangers of the merits of party politics.<ref name="player.bfi.org.uk"/>
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The first of these was an election special, produced in 1974, entitled "Vote for Froglet". Inspired by what Postgate referred to as the "Winter of Discontent" (a phrase from Shakespeare's play ''Richard III'', usually employed to refer to the [[Winter of Discontent|winter of 1978–79]], but Postgate was referring to the miners' strike in the winter of 1973-74), and inspired partly by his recollections of post-war Germany,<ref name="CliveBanks"/> it was broadcast on the night of the October 1974 General Election.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/clangers_v4.shtml |title=Classic TV – Clangers Video |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref> The narrator explains the democratic process, and demonstrates it by asking the Clangers to vote between the Soup Dragon and a Froglet. The Soup Dragon wins the election on a policy of "No Soup for Froglets", but the Clangers are dissatisfied with the result.<ref name="CliveBanks"/> This special was believed to be a lost episode for many years,<ref name="CliveBanks"/> but it was released in full for free by the British Film Institute to coincide with the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 UK General Election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-vote-for-froglet-1974-online|title=Vote for Froglet|website=BFI Player|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>