Clangers: The Complete Series 2 [DVD]

My grandkids love the Clangers and I find them charming and educational. Since I came here from Scotland, and wanted to play some of my DVDs, I ordered a dual-compatible player that runs on 120 volts.

My husband and I are in our 40's and adore The Clangers! We have no children but love this show, we also purchased season 1. Will be also buying it for my niece.

Everything we knew it was.

Didn't realize it wasn't formatted for play in the USA.

A really lovely tv series from Oliver Postgate.If you don't remember it from your childhood, it's a series of simple (but imaginative and quaintly bizarre), gentle tales for young children. Each episode starts with an unusually philosophical voice-over about planet earth and the universe, while taking us out into the stars to the planet of the Clangers.Really delightful, musical, and gentle - and Oliver Postgate's has to be one of the most soothing, lyrical voices ever. I loved this as a child and was glad that my 4 year old loved it too.The disc came quickly from Amazon. Obviously, this is series 2, so it might be worth getting series 1 first, although each episode is stand-alone, so it's not necessary.I doubt that this'll affect anyone else, but my 4 year old got a bit scared by one episode where a visiting astronaut from earth is frightened by the clangers and falls down a crater. It's extremely mild peril - narrated in the gentlest of voices, and they rescue the astronaut, but he keeps his helmet on all the time, which I think added to the anxiety for her. We watched it a few times to the end to see that it ends okay, and now she's fine with it, but I thought I'd mention in case you have a similarly slightly sensitive child.

This follows the same format as the dvd for the first series of the show:No subtitles.Only language is English.Thirteen episodes that run for just under ten minutes each. And can be watched all in a row or individually.The main menu screen doesn't initially appear to do anything, but just press play and it will take you to the episode selection screen.Where you will find thirteen more episodes of the Clangers. Those long nosed whistling pink aliens on their faraway world, where they have adventures involving strange visitors and strange objects. Make music. And eat blue string pudding and soup.The picture quality is pretty good, considering this was made over forty years and hasn't been remastered. There are no extras. Just thirteen episodes of charming fun. For kids of all ages. And grown ups as well.

An excellent purchase. I did not realise that you really need to watch the Clangers in chronological order. Each episode introduces a character that makes up the whole i.e. The Froglets, then the Metal Chicken then the Music Tree then the Music Boat and The Soup Dragon's child and so on. Superb quality and the calming serenity of Oliver Postgate's mesmeric and legendary voice that created the stability of my generation's childhood.

The clangers offer us so much. We have lost imagination and the ridiculous in childrens' education/lives. We are obsessed with commentary of reality and the mundane. We have also lost risk!The clangers offer all of this. The animation and the music are first class and the modern world of technology should learn from the simple examples that Oliver Postgate gives us of how to present materials to children. This is the material that makes children think, wonder, imagineand manage to make their own decisions in daily life.

My son is three and a half and he absolutely loves Clangers. The stop motion animation is quite simple to modern eyes, but little'uns don't have such prejudices and the programme has plenty of charm, humour, fantasy and wonderful music: enough to compel my kid to want to see it again and again. It also has strong moral messages about the environment, vanity, materialism and so on embedded within the stories, but its sense of fantasy stops it being heavy. It is also narrated using many words that are way beyond young children, yet none of this deters my little son. I suppose he just focuses on what he likes. My wife thinks it has a subtlety, which makes it different from other kids' programmes.I, myself, just about missed it as a child, so I had no particularly fond memories of it. I was given it by my brother, as he knew my son also liked Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine, which were created by the same team: Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.