The Clangers

The Music Tree notes for Tiny Clanger’s marvellous new melody are blown away when a big wind blows across the planet. No one can find them. But Tiny hears Mother Clanger whistling a tune while she gardens. It’s Tiny’s tune – and she heard it coming from high in the sky!

A Sky Moo gives Small Clanger a strangely shaped “little thing” made of metal that it has found in space. None of the Clangers has a clue what it is. Small decides to give it to the Iron Chicken for her nest, but as she is flying back down in the Music Boat she sees a “big thing” with a strange piece missing in its side. Reuniting the little thing and the big thing has a very surprising result!

When Major Clanger decides that the Soup Dragon must be fed up with dishing up soup for them all every day, he invents a machine to collect the soup instead. But when he takes some soup without even asking the Soup Dragon, he overfills the machine and it gets stuck in the doorway. Only with the help of the Soup Dragon can it be freed, and as it is freed, it explodes everywhere. Perhaps some times it is best to leave things as they always were.

Major Clanger invents a knitting machine, thinking this will save Granny ever having to make the effort to knit again. But Granny likes knitting and when she sees the hideous garments the machine produces she challenges it to a great knit-off to determine who is the best knitter.

It’s Granny’s birthday and all the Clangers are planning their presents for her. Small asks Major Clanger if he can help him invent something for her but Major says his work is too difficult for such a young Clanger. So Small determines to invent something himself, something which involves puffballs, airfruit and three extremely acrobatic, or should we say aerobatic, froglets.

A strange little egg-shaped creature lands on the planet - an Eggbot. It sings a high note 'Doh'. It proceeds to explore and gets stuck in a cave deep underground, where it is heard by the sleeping Clangers. They are amazed when they hear another note, a low 'Doh' and find a giant Eggbot come to rescue the little 'Doh', with the help of six other singing Eggbots - Ray-Me-Fah-Soh-Lah and Te!