The BEST episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 20
Every episode of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 20!
The adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his engine friends on the Island of Sodor.
#1 - Mucking About
Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/5/2017
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.
#2 - Henry in the Dark
Season 20 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/24/2017
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.
#3 - All In Vain
Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/7/2017
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.
#4 - Henry Gets the Express
Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/7/2016
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.
#5 - Blown Away
Season 20 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2016
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.
#6 - Pouty James
Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2016
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.
#7 - Tit for Tat
Season 20 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/9/2017
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.
#8 - Cautious Connor
Season 20 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/6/2017
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.
#9 - Bradford the Brake Van
Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2016
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.
#10 - Three Steam Engines Gruff
Season 20 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/25/2017
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.
#11 - Love Me Tender
Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/2016
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.
#12 - Buckled Tracks and Bumpy Trucks
Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/8/2017
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.
#13 - Useful Railway
Season 20 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2017
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.
#14 - The Railcar and the Coaches
Season 20 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/2016
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.
#15 - Toby's New Friend
Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/2016
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.
#16 - The Christmas Coffeepot
Season 20 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/24/2016
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.
#17 - Letters To Santa
Season 20 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2016
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.
#18 - Skiff and the Mermaid
Season 20 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/31/2017
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.
#19 - Over the Hill
Season 20 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/24/2016
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.
#20 - Mikes Whistle
Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/12/2017
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.
#21 - The Way She Does It
Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/2016
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.
#22 - Diesel and the Ducklings
Season 20 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/2016
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.
#23 - Saving Time
Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/2016
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.
#24 - Ryan and Daisy
Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2016
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.
#25 - Engine of the Future
Season 20 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/26/2017
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.