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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
[QUOTE 2712130, member: 259"]They always made perfect sense to me.[/quote]
When The Clangers was first made, Postgate and Firmin took tapes to an international TV conference, to see if they could sell it to foreign networks. They didn't have a voice over narration in dozens of languages, so just showed it with the Clanger dialogue. Afterwards, they asked a couple of executives whether they could follow the story. "But of course!" said a German man, "They spoke perfect German!" "No, No," said a Norweigian. "It was Norweigian they spoke!"
The 'swearing' Phil refers to is when one of them can't get the lid off his crater and says "Oh, sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again". Get hold of a 'talking' Clanger toy, and squeeze it, and that is the line you hear.
I haven't heard much about the revival, who's doing it etc. I fear the worst. I saw an updated cartoon version of Peter Rabbit recently and winced all the way through....
When The Clangers was first made, Postgate and Firmin took tapes to an international TV conference, to see if they could sell it to foreign networks. They didn't have a voice over narration in dozens of languages, so just showed it with the Clanger dialogue. Afterwards, they asked a couple of executives whether they could follow the story. "But of course!" said a German man, "They spoke perfect German!" "No, No," said a Norweigian. "It was Norweigian they spoke!"
The 'swearing' Phil refers to is when one of them can't get the lid off his crater and says "Oh, sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again". Get hold of a 'talking' Clanger toy, and squeeze it, and that is the line you hear.
I haven't heard much about the revival, who's doing it etc. I fear the worst. I saw an updated cartoon version of Peter Rabbit recently and winced all the way through....