The Clangers

Mother, Major, Tiny, Small and Granny Clanger and all their friends on their little blue planet have settled into their new home on CBeebies. The Bafta award-winning new series of Clangers features the loveable, pink, mouse-like creatures who communicate in whistles and eat soup from their little blue planet’s soup wells.

Monday: The Ball
Tiny and Small are playing catch with a ball of Granny’s wool. Small goes for a huge throw up into the air - and the ball disappears out of sight. Searching for it, they spot a silver ball hovering in the sky. Small fetches it in the Music Boat and decides to play catch with it. But disaster strikes, and Small accidentally throws the ball through one of the holes inside the planet.

Major is in his workshop when he hears a ringing sound, which sounds a bit like a bell. He tells Tiny and Small and they’re puzzled - they didn’t hear the ball make a sound like a bell. To the amazement of all of them it bounces off him, glowing and making a ringing sound! They show Mother but she advises them to be kind and not throw the ball around. Will they be kind to the ball or ignore Mother’s suggestions and pay the consequences?

Tuesday: Planty
The Clangers are helping Granny to make her knitting space more special. Major makes her a special fan to keep her cool and they decide to get her a flowering plant. Tiny, Small and Mother go into the garden to get one. They come across a group of plants that they can’t remember planting, so they dig one up and take it to Granny and she calls it 'Planty'. Suddenly, Granny gets a surprise: Planty has moved to the edge of the room. Granny decides to have nap, when she wakes she thinks Planty has disappeared until she spots Planty down in the cave.

Tiny and Small say they’ll keep an eye on Planty in the cave, but they too fall asleep - and when they wake Planty has gone! Small and Tiny decide to investigate, will they find Planty and return her to Granny or will Planty be lost forever?

Wednesday: The Game  
A meteor shower comes to the Clangers planet and leaves a beautiful shower of gemstones. Baby Soup Dragon wants to keep them all, but Small thinks they should share them. They decide to start playing a game with the stones; they take it in turns to throw their stones and when someone gets one in the mug they win the others. After a few games Baby Soup Dragon wins all the stones - just what he wanted!

When he’s won he doesn’t want to play anymore. He decides to show his winning gemstones to the grown-ups, only to find everyone playing the game with ordinary stones - and so now Baby Soup Dragon wants to join in. Will Baby Soup Dragon learn to share his stones so they can all join in the fun?

Thursday: Granny and Small 
Small is bored and so Mother suggests he goes to see Granny, but he’s a little doubtful, as all she seems to do is knit and sleep! Granny is very pleased that Small has visited and she asks him to help tidy her knitting cupboard. After the tidying they decide to go on an adventure and take a packed lunch.

They reach a strange boulder that Small hasn’t noticed before, and Granny moves it aside and reveals a cave. They find pictures that Granny drew when she was a little Clanger and Small is amazed!

Granny tells Small that it used to be her special wishing cave, and Small asks Granny to make a wish. Granny has everything she needs and so the only thing she can think of to wish for is to be a little Clanger again. How will Small make Granny’s wish come true?

Clangers features the voice talent of Michael Palin.

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