Chicken

The Clangers have made a rocket. They set it off and, as all the best rockets do, it bursts in a cloud of beautiful coloured stars. They let off another but this one hits something and of load of assorted metal debris falls on their planet. The Clangers take cover. Then they come out and look at the odd objects. They are obviously all parts of the same thing so they carry the pieces below and assemble it. It assembles into an iron chicken which thanks them cordially and walks away through the caves. Tiny Clanger and Small Clanger take the pole-car to fetch soup. On the way they see the chicken eating the leaves of the copper-trees. They run to tell the Soup-dragon about this. The chicken comes to the soup-wells and with amazing disregard for elementary etiquette starts to drink the soup straight from the soup-well. The soup-dragon beats it clangourously with her wooden spoon but it takes no notice. It rises, thanks them cordially, turns and walks away through the wall.

Small Clanger and Tiny Clanger take home the soup. While they are telling Mother Clanger what they have seen the ceiling cracks and the iron chicken falls in. It lands on their table block and starts to eat their meal of blue string pudding. Major Clanger is angry. He addresses the chicken sternly. It is upset and goes broody. Tiny Clanger brings it a necklace and speaks kind words to it. The chicken is happier. It lays an iron egg and presents it to Tiny Clanger. They walk outside together where the chicken says goodbye and flaps away towards its spiky nest somewhere in the sky.

Major Clanger, Mother Clanger, Small Clanger, The Soup Dragon, Tiny Clanger, The Iron Chicken

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