One for @Arch - the Clangers are coming!

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[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 3267161, member: 259"]So it seems like the unthinkable is happening, with a new series of the small knitted things - and Michael Palin is going to narrate. it

As long as the iron chicken's there, I'm in![/QUOTE]


remember the moon landings were faked:

http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/nasa-fakes-moon-landing.html

 

[Profpointy]

Even with Palin ( a candidate "National Treasure"?) it's a brave thing to try and re-make. Postgate's original as well as the sublime narration are a hard act to match. Every one of Postgate's episodes was a slice of perfect joy.

And to Mort (the OP), you've cost me eight quid you've just (ahem) "forced" me to order the Clangers boxed set of Amazon


And I dare say I'm not the only old softie to shed a tear every time the Bagpuss poem is read at the end of each episode.

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 3267177, member: 259"]
Sorry - nights of study and self denial have brought me to this. We had 75 teenagers here last night [/QUOTE]

I loved a story Postgate himself recounted of the Clangers spaceman episode being broadcast the same evening as the moon landings. He wanted it rescheduled as had the Apollo landing had gone badly the Clangers would have seemed in very poor taste. BBC went ahead, and thankfully all was well with the landings.

The other tale I remember was when his script for the Clangers was being vetted by someone higher up. It contained the line "oh sod it!" spoken by one of the Clangers. "what's the matter with you? You can't put that in. It's a kids' programme for God's sake" says the exasperated exec. forgetting that the script was "performed" by swannee whistle.

Hurry up Mr Postman - looking forward to them now. Maybe I should only watch 'em when the Mrs is out - or should I risk it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3267177, member: 259"]We had 75 teenagers here last night [/QUOTE]

Sweet Jesus!...

 

[roadrash]

[QUOTE 3267161, member: 259"]So it seems like the unthinkable is happening, with a new series of the small knitted things - and Michael Palin is going to narrate it

As long as the iron chicken's there, I'm in![/QUOTE]

oh oh i hope they still have the soup dragon

 

[stephec]

Even with Palin ( a candidate "National Treasure"?) it's a brave thing to try and re-make. Postgate's original as well as the sublime narration are a hard act to match. Every one of Postgate's episodes was a slice of perfect joy.

And to Mort (the OP), you've cost me eight quid you've just (ahem) "forced" me to order the Clangers boxed set of Amazon


And I dare say I'm not the only old softie to shed a tear every time the Bagpuss poem is read at the end of each episode.

I found that in a bargain bin a few years ago, well worth three quid.

 

[Arch]

[QUOTE 3267161, member: 259"]So it seems like the unthinkable is happening, with a new series of the small knitted things - and Michael Palin is going to narrate it

As long as the iron chicken's there, I'm in![/QUOTE]

I'm so hoping they do it right!

I'm not sure what 'right' is, but I'll know if it's 'wrong'!

BTW, that "Sod it phrase was actually "Oh sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again" (the thing being one of their dustbin lid crater covers). If you buy one of those toy Clangers that whistle when you squeeze them, that's the phrase they utter.

Another piece of Clanger trivia. When they took the series to an international TV fair to try and sell it overseas, they showed it to executives without the narration. Afterwards, they asked a couple if they'd understood what was going on. "Of course, "said a German, "they spoke in German."
"No, no" said his Norwegian colleague, "they spoke Norwegian!"

 

[ScotiaLass]

[QUOTE 3267161, member: 259"]So it seems like the unthinkable is happening, with a new series of the small knitted things - and Michael Palin is going to narrate it

As long as the iron chicken's there, I'm in![/QUOTE]

 

[ScotiaLass]

[QUOTE 3267177, member: 259"]
Sorry - nights of study and self denial have brought me to this. We had 75 teenagers here last night [/QUOTE]
Bit early for trick or treat?

 

[roadrash]

and here it that phrase on QI


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvefhhMbbg

 

[Ganymede]

I think Michael Palin is a great choice - his voice is a little more tenor than baritone but I'm sure he will be able to reproduce that rather deliberate, unshowy, almost matter-of-fact quality of the originals. I am a massive Postgate fan - Noggin the Nog had me in thrall - and I'm sure a lot of the power of the programmes was in the voice, which never said "ME ME!!" and always said rather quietly and hugely: "look, and listen". The deeply unselfish Mr Palin is our man.

HURRAH!!!

 

[Profpointy]

I think Michael Palin is a great choice - his voice is a little more tenor than baritone but I'm sure he will be able to reproduce that rather deliberate, unshowy, almost matter-of-fact quality of the originals. I am a massive Postgate fan - Noggin the Nog had me in thrall - and I'm sure a lot of the power of the programmes was in the voice, which never said "ME ME!!" and always said rather quietly and hugely: "look, and listen". The deeply unselfish Mr Palin is our man.

HURRAH!!!

I'm inclined to agree - if anyone can do it, Palin can so best of luck to him

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think they should make this...........................

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3267393, member: 259"]Every day I try to get a little more like Nogbad the Bad.
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Work it, Mort, work it...