The BEST episodes directed by Dianna Basso
#1 - Mucking About
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 14
Thomas enjoys the competition of Max and Monty but begins to question his friendship as Max and Monty mess about while working, affecting Thomas' work. Edward advises Thomas to ignore them. His suspicions prove correct as Max and Monty dump their waste on the rails, causing Thomas to derail.
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#2 - Confused Coaches
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 18
Spencer and Gordon upset their passengers when their competitive behavior gets extremely uncontrollable, causing them to accidentally board each other's coaches.
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#3 - Henry in the Dark
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 21
Henry is accidentally given some "glow-in-the-dark" paint at the Steamworks and is confused as to why everyone he comes across runs away from him. It is shown that his paint is glowing and laughs at the misunderstanding. When the others tease him for being a scaredy engine, Henry devises a plan to get them back.
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#4 - Dowager Hatt's Busy Day
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 3
While the Fat Controller is sick, his mother runs the railway and creates chaos by getting everyone to do the wrong jobs! Oblivious to all the mayhem, Dowager Hatt supervises the hanging baskets at Knapford Station - until Emily gets involved.
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#5 - All In Vain
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 16
James is asked to take the Mayor and the Fat Controller to a party at Callan Castle, but has to do other jobs first and every job he does, he gets dirtier and dirtier. He finally has the chance for a washdown, but James is horrified to find a scratch in his paintwork. He goes to the Steamworks for the scratch to be painted, but leaves before the paint dries and is mortified to find leaves, twigs and dust stuck to his paintwork.
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#6 - Henry Gets the Express
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 3
When Gordon is late pulling the express Henry is given the job instead and Gordon has to take goods for the rest of the day, causing much annoyance and turmoil for him.
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#7 - A Shed for Edward
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 13
When Edward's shed is being repaired he is first sent to Philip's shed, then the Steamworks, then Brendam Docks, but they are all too noisy for him to get a good night's sleep!
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#8 - Blown Away
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 9
When a storm arrives on the Little Western, Skiff tries to warn everyone about the storm. Whilst Captain Joe goes off to check on the pirate ship, Skiff's anchor breaks away and the sailboat is sent running down the branch line until he hits a fallen branch. Meanwhile, Duck and Oliver are tasked with bringing all the passengers home safely and Skiff realises it is up to him to save them and the passengers from certain disaster.
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#9 - Pouty James
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 8
James is showing off too much, so the Fat Controller takes away his coaches, telling him to change his attitude. The others only think he is being sulky. James is shut up in the shed until he promises to behave, though he is being so grumpy about pulling goods trains that he still causes trouble.
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#10 - Tit for Tat
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 18
Based on the story of the same name from Small Railway Engines. Some visitors come to the island to take photos of engines. They visit the Arlesdale Railway and take pictures of the small engines, but Bert is cross that they will not take pictures of him. As they are driving, they spray Bert with mud and Bert wants to take revenge on them. He devises a plan by giving one of them a soaking ride.
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#11 - Cautious Connor
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 15
Connor boasts of being a fast engine, but one day, he breaks down on the Island of Sodor and goes to the Steamworks to be repaired. Connor starts to get worried it will happen again if he goes too fast and after that, Connor starts to become the slowest engine on the island. They even start to worry that Connor would never go fast again.
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#12 - Bradford the Brake Van
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 5
The Troublesome Trucks are causing lots of trouble for poor Thomas. Samson's new brake van Bradford arrives from the Mainland and offers to keep them in order. He does so with skill and all of the engines want to travel with him. Things take a turn for the worse though as Bradford constantly urges the engines to strictly follow the rules, causing delays with their trains.
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#13 - Three Steam Engines Gruff
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 22
One night, Percy is frightened by a strange sound from under the bridge at the Watermill. Toby is worried, though Thomas does not believe it to be true, until he too hears the sound. Toby and Percy believe it is a troll telling the story of how three goats had to cross a bridge with a troll under it. All three engines become terrified of passing the bridge until it is revealed the sound was only coming from a cow stuck under the bridge.
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#14 - Love Me Tender
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 12
Donald and Douglas argue with each-other as they clear snow from the tracks. The argument becomes so heated that the two pull in opposite directions, resulting in Douglas' tender breaking away and Douglas being stranded in the snow. Donald soon realises this and hurries to find his twin.
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#15 - Buckled Tracks and Bumpy Trucks
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 17
One sunny day, the tracks buckle and bend and Dowager Hatt gives the Fat Controller a new hat, which everyone calls a safari hat. The Fat Controller gets sick of everyone teasing him and tries to find a way to get rid of it. Meanwhile, a piece of rubbish from Whiff's trucks falls out and lands on the ground causing a fire. Belle derails due to the buckled rails, meaning a solution has to be found.
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#16 - Useful Railway
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 20
Based on the story of the same name from Small Railway Engines. Mike is annoyed of always being stuck behind animals, Rex boasts to the small engines about how easy wool deliveries are. The Small Controller gives him the first wool train. Willie the tractor driver accidentally drops his load of wool onto the tracks, which causes Rex to derail.
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#17 - Emily in the Middle
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 15
Emily gets stuck in the middle while helping Donald and Douglas.
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#18 - Runaway Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 5
Millie is given extra work around the estate and gets agitated when Stephen and Glynn forget to clear up the garden waste. When Stephen also manages to hurt her feelings, and can't find her the next day to apologise, he thinks that she must have run away.
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#19 - The Railcar and the Coaches
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 13
Thomas is put on quarry duty and there is little passenger traffic on the Harwick Branch Line, so Daisy takes his passengers. Daisy only belittles Annie and Clarabel as she passes by their shed. One day, she has to use them and the coaches get their own back, though their plan does not work as intended.
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#20 - Toby's New Friend
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 2
Philip sees Toby for the first time and is under the impression that Toby is a diesel boxcab. He tries to befriend him, but Toby finds him too overwhelming. Philip persists however, insisting they have a race to the quarry, believing that friends have to like all of the same things.
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#21 - The Christmas Coffeepot
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 27
Marion hears a voice behind a tree and assumes the tree is talking. She tries to tell everyone, but nobody believes her. Thomas becomes curious and investigates, only to rediscover Glynn the Coffeepot Engine. He and Percy are worried he will be scrapped, but it turns out he will be restored by the Earl.
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#22 - Letters To Santa
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 11
Percy must deliver Santa's Christmas letters to Vicarstown urgently, but a sack of letters is left behind at Dryaw. Harold tries to take them to Percy, but the little engine only thinks he is only mocking his speed. After a snow heap blocks off a tunnel, Harold takes the mail to Vicarstown instead, but ends up getting stuck on the Mainland afterwards. Percy later finds him and decides to repay Harold for his good deed.
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#23 - Skiff and the Mermaid
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 26
Skiff hears word of a mermaid statue arriving at a museum at Arlesburgh Harbour, believing it is real. Later on when the Fat Controller and his grandchildren want to have a ride in Skiff, he mistakes a whale's tail in the water for a mermaid and ends up dragging the Fat Controller on him to the sea in search of it. The Fat Controller does not know how to drive him, resulting in the two of them getting stuck on an island at Bluff's Cove.
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#24 - Over the Hill
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 28
Stephen becomes jealous of all the attention Glynn is receiving from the Earl and becomes worried he will become a stationary attraction at his new railway museum. To determine who will be the exhibit, Stephen challenges Glynn to a race.
#25 - Mikes Whistle
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 19
Based on the story of the same name from Small Railway Engines. Duck's driver boils an egg in his whistle, which is now clogged and makes a funny noise. The engines tease Duck about his whistle, especially Mike who says engines without whistles are improper engines. Later, he pulls passengers on the line and encounters a cow. He blows his whistle so hard that it flies far away into a field. Mike insists they look for his lost whistle, but the passengers decide to whistle for him instead.
#26 - Hasty Hannah
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 7
While Henrietta is getting her seats refurbished, Toby is given a replacement carriage named Hannah. However, she is so headstrong and reckless that Toby gets fed up with her urging him to go faster and faster. But when he abandons her and she joins up with James, she learns to her cost that going too fast for a little carriage is not at all wise.
#27 - A Most Singular Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 2
Diesel makes mischief between Daisy and Harvey by telling them both that the other is boasting of being unique. However, the two become friends while assisting each other on a job, and Diesel does not understand why.
#28 - Springtime for Diesel
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 1
Diesel is always bumping into people and laughing, but when he does it to Daisy, her springs need fixing. In the Dieselworks, thinking that she is asleep, Diesel explains why he did it - it's his way of trying to make friends!
#29 - Chucklesome Trucks
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 23 - Episode 3
The engines fear Rebecca is in for a tough time when she is tasked with pulling Troublesome Trucks.
#30 - Stuck in Gear
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 4
A branch gets stuck in the open gears of his crane, but Harvey is too shy to ask for help. Instead, he tries to fix it himself and ends up derailing himself inside a tunnel.
#31 - Daisy's Perfect Christmas
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 17
Daisy is sad when her Christmas doesn't go exactly as planned.
#32 - The Way She Does It
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 10
The Fat Controller asks Daisy to take special passengers, making her so excited she boasts to other engines about it. Her stubbornness to impress them gets in the way and she does not allow any of her other passengers into her, only to find out her special passengers are puppet show managers and her other passengers were going to it.
#33 - Cranky at the End of the Line
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 8
After Cranky is teased about his age, he works twice as hard and through the night to impress the Fat Controller. But the harder he works, the more mistakes he makes. When a big, new, shiny crane arrives, he thinks that his days at Brendam Docks are over!
#34 - Diesel and the Ducklings
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 4
Diesel struggles to maintain his rough demeanour after he finds some ducklings. Thomas comes across this and blackmails him to behave by threatening to tell 'Arry and Bert about Diesel's ducklings. Diesel tries to be kind, but he becomes split between being threatened by Thomas and looking tough in front of 'Arry and Bert.
#35 - Saving Time
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 6
Samson boasts to the other engines that he has been given a unique and important job by going to the Blue Mountain Quarry, only for Thomas to prove him wrong as he has been given the same task. Determined to prove himself special, Samson tries to save time by taking as many trucks as he can to the docks.
#36 - Phillip's Number
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 11
When he is teased about having 68 painted on his side, Philip tries to discover why he was given that number. Later, when he manages to avoid an accident after 68 sheep stray onto the line, Philip decides it is his lucky number!
#37 - Free the Roads
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 23 - Episode 1
Bulgy wishes for passengers to take the bus instead of a train and gets his wish after accidently tainting a water tower.
#38 - The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 12
When Rosie is painted red she is challenged to a race by fellow red engine James. A screeching sound leads Rosie to suggest that James should get his brakes checked, but he is too proud to do that, which leads to trouble.
#39 - Ryan and Daisy
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 7
The Fat Controller gives Ryan and Daisy new jobs, but Daisy does not feel like taking on the extra work. To get out of it, she manipulates Ryan into taking care of her new responsibilities. Ryan agrees, but has so many jobs at once that it results in confusion and delay.
#40 - The Big Freeze
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 14
Cold weather stops a delivery of coal arriving on Sodor, so the Fat Controller orders all engines to stay in their sheds. Thomas, however, thinks he has enough coal for one more run, but he gets stranded in the snow whilst the diesels take over the steam engine's jobs to keep the railway running.
#41 - Unscheduled Stops
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 10
When Bertie breaks down while they are racing, Thomas takes on his passengers. One elderly man says that Bertie always drops him off between stops. Soon Thomas is getting requests for lots of other unscheduled stops, which makes him run late and upsets his own passengers and the Fat Controller.
#42 - P.A. Problems
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 6
The Fat Controller splashes out on a new public address system, but the engines and passengers are struggling to hear the announcements. Holidaymakers end up at the quarry, quarry workers end up at the beach and Lord Callan ends up with an unexpected delivery of pigs!
#43 - New Crane on the Dock
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 9
Carly the new crane is so keen that she takes on all the work. After Cranky finds himself with nothing to do, he works harder and faster in a bid to keep up with her. But as the two cranes frantically try to outdo one another, their hooks become entangled and they find themselves stuck fast and unable to move...
#44 - Engine of the Future
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 23
When a rail Zeppelin called Hugo comes to Sodor, everyone at first is very impressed. However, Stephen is concerned they will be replaced by engines like Hugo, making the engines worry about their future. They take their anxiety out on Hugo, making him feel unwelcome.
#45 - Heart of Gold
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 23 - Episode 5
Toby fills in for Stephen at Ulfstead Castle and stops a pair of thieves from stealing King Godred's crown.
#46 - Diesel Do Right
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 23 - Episode 9
Diesel plays a trick on Rebecca to try to get the other engines in trouble for a change.
#47 - Hugo and the Airship
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 24
After word of an airship resembling Hugo spreads, Hugo feels he should be able to fly just like it. He gets some encouragement from Skiff and tries to take off into the sky like an airship on Gordon's Hill, like his non-rail aerial counterpart.
#48 - The Missing Breakdown Train
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 25
Judy and Jerome are upset that they are never taken out any more as Rocky is now the official crane of the island. Ryan, who feels sorry for them, takes Judy and Jerome out for a change of scenery. He takes them to Arlesburgh Harbour which they find boring after a while, leading to Duck and Oliver taking them around the island. Eventually, Daisy has an accident and Ryan has to find them.
#49 - Sidney Sings
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 20 - Episode 1
One day, Percy has an accident and the Fat Controller assigns Sidney to deliver a new set of wheels from the docks. Thomas comes up with a song to remind Sidney of his job, but Sidney gets distracted and he ends up going to numerous other places on the island.
#50 - Terence Breaks the Ice
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 21 - Episode 16
Terence takes a shortcut across a frozen lake while collecting Christmas trees.