'The Top-Hat' by Oliver Postgate

We see Small Clanger fishing in the sky in his musical boat. He casts his line ad catches a grey top-hat. He takes it down to the planet where Major Clanger is waiting. Out of the top-hat hop three two-eyed froglets who hop away across the planet. Mother Clanger is laying the tablecloth and the three froglets appear from under the cloth. Mother Clanger is cross and the froglets tease her by hopping in and out of the bed-caves when Major Clanger and Small Clanger appear the froglets hop away again. Then Tiny Clanger turns up, very agitated. The froglets have collapsed in the music quarry. They take the inert froglets to the soup-wells and administer soup. This revives them but only for a moment. They try to put them back in the top-hat but they wont fit. The soup-dragon comes up with some very special blue and white pudding-soup. This revives the froglets and they demand more. The soup-dragon has no more and Small Clanger goes to the deep caves to fetch some more. On the way he comes to a flat pink wall which is a sideways lake. He throws a stone into it to make a sideways splash and out pops a creature. It is a two-eyed froglet. This froglet comes up and greets the three others and welcomes them. All the froglets retire to the sideways lake in the deep caves.

Original Conception:
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin

Scenery and Puppets:
Peter Firmin

Music:
Composed by Vernon Elliott

Filming and Editing:
Oliver Postgate

Film Company:
Smallfilms

TX:
18th January 1970 @ 5.55pm

Notes:
*This synopsis is the original outline written by Oliver Postgate for the BBC prior to production, and may differ slightly from the transmitted version.

*The Clangers voices were played on swannee whistles by Oliver Postgate and Stephen Sylvester.