Thomas and Friends

Thomas brags to Percy and Toby about how blue is the only proper colour for a really useful engine. He soon gets into a spot of bother when a coal hopper empties its load right beside him and covers him in coal dust.

Gordon and Henry tease Edward after some cows break part of his train away. However, it's Edward who has the last laugh when the two run into Bluebell the cow.

Thomas' fireman isn't able to come in to work one day and Bertie agrees to take his passengers. Edward, unaware of the change of plan, leaves before Bertie arrives.

At the scrapyard, Edward meets a traction engine called Trevor, who is due to be broken up, despite being in good condition. Edward is determined to save him, and finds the perfect person to do so.

After Edward makes him late, James makes rude comments about him, claiming him to be nothing but a load of "Old Iron". Not long afterwards, however, two boys meddle with his controls and render him a runaway, until Edward saves him.

Trevor is bored of working in the vicarige orchard, so Edward agrees to take him to help Thomas at the harbour. Slowly but surely, Thomas gains a respect for the traction engine, and eventually promises Trevor that he can help him again when the time comes.

Percy enjoys playing tricks on the other engines, but goes too far one day, getting James into trouble with the Fat Controller. He and Gordon decide to pay Percy out with the help of a signal...

The Fat Controller buys an engine named Montague (nicknamed Duck) to help out an overworked Percy. The big engines are rude to him, and start ordering him about. Duck and Percy decide to take matters into their own hands (or wheels) and deal with the engines themselves.

While at work on the new harbour, Percy meets Harold, a helicopter who calls the railway "slow, not much use, and quite out of date". Percy is determined to prove him wrong, and his chance comes on the way to the Wharf.

Thomas isn't feeling well and has to go to the works. Soon, he comes back, but with a small problem: his brakes aren't always working properly. This proves disastrous when the fireman forgets to tighten them properly while waiting for Henry's train, and Thomas puffs away.

One day at the Harbour Percy teases Henry about being afraid of water referring to the time he refused to come out of the tunnel in case the rain ruined his paint. However, on another day at the Harbour, Percy soon gets what he deserves when he ends up chin first in the water after foolishly persuading some trucks to push him past the same Danger sign Thomas ignored.

A diesel engine named Diesel arrives on the island and Duck is given the task of showing him what to do. Diesel boasts that his kind know everything, so Duck leaves him to shunt some trucks alone, with disastrous results...

Diesel is still cross with Duck, believing that he was to blame for the trucks being rude to him. In order to get revenge he decides to tell lies about Duck to the trucks, which insult the big engines at the same time.

During his stay with Edward, Duck finds himself of the receiving end of a runaway, but bravely manages to control them, despite crashing into a barber's shop.

The viaduct across the main line is being repaired. This makes Thomas cross with the other engines, and Bertie cross with Thomas. But when Thomas comes to the rescue after Bertie breaks down, the two decide being late isn't such a bad thing.

Donald and Douglas are twin tender engines whom the Fat Controller had bought from Scotland to help with the railway, although he had only ordered one engine. He intends to send one of them back, and a spiteful brake van doesn't help the twins at all.

Heavy snow has fallen on Sodor, but Donald and Douglas are used to it, using their snowploughs to clear the line. After they help Henry from a snowdrift, the other engines are determined to help them out.

Thomas's driver tells him that he could almost manage running the branch line without him. He is only joking, but Thomas doesn't realise this, and pays the price dearly after trying to move by himself the next day and crashing straight into the stationmaster's house at the end of the line. The accident leaves him severely damaged, and the Fat Controller Tells him that a diesel will replace him while he is away.

Daisy, a diesel railcar, has been bought to help Percy and Toby whilst Thomas is at the works. However, she proves to be very stubborn and even refuses to do the chores she hates.

Toby offers to swap jobs with Percy so he can have a rest from taking the milk Daisy keeps leaving behind. Unfortunately, Percy has never worked at the quarry before, and the trucks are quick to take advantage of this.

Bill & Ben are twin brothers who work at the China Clay Pits. One day, they are aghast when they discover that their trucks have gone missing. Down the line, they cause great problems and difficulty with a diesel called Boco, who they believe stole the trucks. Confusion regains until Edward explains everything.

Gordon believes that branch lines, such as Edward's, are vulgar, and that the Fat Controller would never approve of him running it. However, he ends up there due to a case of mistaken identity involving a lady's hat, and Bill and Ben are waiting...

Some tourists are visiting the Island of Sodor, and Edward is due to take them to meet Bill and Ben. On the journey back, however, one of his crank pins, which hold his side rods on, breaks off. Despite this, Edward presses on, and gets the tourists back safely.

Thomas doesn't believe Percy when the little engine tells him about a ghost his driver saw the previous night (which turns out to be a pretend one on TV). Percy wants to pay Thomas out, and a cartful of lime left on the track just might be able to help...

Percy is still teasing Thomas about the ghost incident. Thomas hits back by calling him a "Green caterpillar with red stripes". Things go wrong for the little engine soon afterwards after getting hit by a crate of treacle, then getting stuck on a hill, windswept with hay.

It's Christmas time and all the engines are hard at work getting ready for the Christmas Party. Thomas is sent to collect the Christmas tree, but gets stuck in a huge snowdrift on the way back. After the engines complain of Thomas being late, the Fat Controller explains what has happened. Donald and Douglas help him out, and as a reward, all the engines enjoy a huge Christmas Party, with Father Christmas as a special guest!