The BEST episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 6

Every episode of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 6!

The adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his engine friends on the Island of Sodor.

Last Updated: 9/21/2024Network: NetflixStatus: Ended
The World's Strongest Engine
star
8.70
68 votes

#1 - The World's Strongest Engine

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2003

Diesel is back after Henry has an accident, and annoys the other engines by boasting about how he is the world's strongest engine. To prove it, Diesel tries to pull 20 trucks at once, but they all have their brakes on and cause a coupling to break resulting in Diesel being launched down the yard...

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Paul Larson
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Percy's Chocolate Crunch
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8.30
10 votes

#2 - Percy's Chocolate Crunch

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/2003

There is a water shortage on the Island of Sodor and Percy is upset because he can't be washed down as often as he would like. He gets very dirty very quickly and so decides to deliver some sugar to the Chocolate Factory - after all, he can't get dirty doing that, can he? But an oil spillage on the track leading straight to the Chocolate Factory spells disaster - and dirtiness!

Directors: David Mitton
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James and the Red Balloon
star
8.00
11 votes

#3 - James and the Red Balloon

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/2003

A red hot air balloon has arrived on the Island of Sodor and Thomas is sent to fetch it. The balloon becomes a popular tourist attraction, but James worries it will take his passengers away.

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Jenny McDade
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Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry
star
7.78
41 votes

#4 - Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/10/2003

Thomas, by accident, discovers an old sentinel lorry named Elizabeth who has been left in a shed for years.

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Paul Larson
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Gordon Takes a Tumble
star
7.66
38 votes

#5 - Gordon Takes a Tumble

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/2003

Gordon says that pulling trucks "wouldn't be dignified" and Salty teases him about this and acting "too big for his buffers". Gordon becomes cross and wants to show Salty a thing or two but ends up in a rather "undignified" situation instead!

Directors: David Mitton
Jack Frost
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7.59
39 votes

#6 - Jack Frost

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/27/2003

The weather is getting colder so the Fat Controller asks James and Percy to make extra coal deliveries. Thomas seemingly warns Percy that he should be careful or else scary Jack Frost will get him. James thinks this is a load of nonsense, but Percy believes him. But when night comes and Percy has to make a delivery of coal to Lower Suddery both he and then later James think differently, but not as you would probably expect!

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Paul Larson
Scaredy Engines
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7.51
64 votes

#7 - Scaredy Engines

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2003

On Halloween, Edward tells the engines spooky ghost stories. The stories make Percy scared and so Thomas teases him about this. On the same night, Thomas, Percy and Duck are sent to the Smelter Yard. But when Thomas says he can manage alone to finish off the job, off Percy and Duck go, but how brave is Thomas when he's on his own?

Directors: David Mitton
Middle Engine
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7.40
10 votes

#8 - Middle Engine

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/2003

Percy hates being a "middle engine" where he has trucks both in front and behind him. 'Arry and Bert, the Smelter Yard diesels, trick him into being a middle engine, and James boasts at the shed to the others that the pair wouldn't be able able to trick him. They do however and James, annoyed at being a middle engine, refuses to move...

Directors: David Mitton
Rusty Saves the Day
star
7.40
10 votes

#9 - Rusty Saves the Day

Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/7/2003

Faced with the threat of forever working in the quarry if their line is not repaired, Skarloey and Rheneas get worried. Rusty though, is onhand, along with the help of Elizabeth, after persuading her that is! Will the line be able to be repaired in the 2 week time limit the Fat Controller has allowed?

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Paul Larson
Thomas the Jet Engine
star
7.35
37 votes

#10 - Thomas the Jet Engine

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/4/2003

Thomas is sent to the harbour to pick up a jet engine, but when Cranky accidentally turns the switch on with his arm, Thomas finds himself whizzing down the line!

Directors: David Mitton
Faulty Whistles
star
7.25
36 votes

#11 - Faulty Whistles

Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/10/2003

Duncan shows off his whistle, and blows it so hard that it shoots into the sky and lands in a field. Duncan's driver says they don't have time to find it, but they need a whistle for safety reasons though. Luckily a school headmaster has an organ they can use as a whistle, much to Duncan's horror.

Directors: David Mitton
It's Only Snow
star
7.21
68 votes

#12 - It's Only Snow

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/2003

It's Christmas and Thomas and Toby have to deliver a Christmas tree to one of the villages on Thomas' branch line. However the snow is getting deeper and deeper, and when Thomas' snowplough breaks, will the special train make it to the village?

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: James Mason
Harvey to the Rescue
star
7.15
66 votes

#13 - Harvey to the Rescue

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2002

Harvey the Crane Engine arrives in Sodor on trial. Some of the engines tease him for his strange looks but when Percy has an accident with some trucks, they soon change their minds...

Directors: David Mitton
A Friend in Need (2)
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7.14
35 votes

#14 - A Friend in Need (2)

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/15/2003

Ned the Steam Shovel accidentally knocks loose the important keystones from an old rail bridge, and Thomas is just down the line. Jack, however, with a bright idea, jumps in...

Directors: Steve Asquith
A Bad Day for Harold the Helicopter
star
7.09
69 votes

#15 - A Bad Day for Harold the Helicopter

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/9/2003

Percy likes taking the Post Train but when he is held up at a broken signal one day, Harold decides to deliver the loads instead, but all at once, which turns out to be a very big mistake!

Directors: David Mitton
Edward the Very Useful Engine
star
7.07
36 votes

#16 - Edward the Very Useful Engine

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/5/2003

Gordon comments that "Edward is a useless old steam-pot" and that he should retire. The other big engines agree with him but Percy gets upset at this and tells the Fat Controller. In the end, Edward proves to be a Very Useful engine indeed when Duck and Gordon have a spot of bother...

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: David Mitton
Salty's Secret
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7.01
97 votes

#17 - Salty's Secret

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/2002

Salty, an old diesel, arrives on Sodor. He loves working by the sea but is most disappointed to find that the Fat Controller has sent for him to help out with the work at Centre Island Quarry, resulting in him of course not being able to work by the sea as he had hoped for. However, Salty is soon given a pleasant surprise...

Directors: David Mitton
Toby Had a Little Lamb
star
7.00
9 votes

#18 - Toby Had a Little Lamb

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/2003

Snow has arrived on the Island of Sodor, but for a farmer this has caused trouble. His lambs are trapped on the hills and only Toby can help him rescue them.

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Jenny McDade
Twin Trouble
star
6.98
66 votes

#19 - Twin Trouble

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2003

Donald and Douglas have an argument and refuse to speak to or work with each other. However when Donald comes off the tracks, only one engine can come and help him...

Directors: David Mitton
Thomas, Percy, and the Squeak
star
6.98
63 votes

#20 - Thomas, Percy, and the Squeak

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/2003

An opera singer, Alicia Botti, has been invited to the Island of Sodor and Thomas is to take her to her concert. He is cleaned up ready for the journey, but when boarding Annie, Alicia discovers a mouse onboard!

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Jenny McDade
Dunkin' Duncan
star
6.97
35 votes

#21 - Dunkin' Duncan

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/6/2003

Duncan is so hasty that he is not uncoupled and goes up the incline with the trucks, but the coupling on the truck his coupling is tangled up with can't hold his weight. It snaps, and down Duncan goes, and there's a muddy pond waiting beyond...

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Jenny McDade
The Fogman
star
6.92
66 votes

#22 - The Fogman

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/2003

Cyril is a fogman and the engines like him a lot. He puts out detonators to warn them when there is fog ahead. However the Fat Controller decides to replace him with a very loud fog horn. The foghorn however causes a rockslide which crushes the foghorn, and Thomas is just down the line...

Directors: David Mitton
Jack Jumps In (1)
star
6.92
65 votes

#23 - Jack Jumps In (1)

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/14/2003

Thomas delivers Jack the Front Loader to a construction site where a team of vehicles from the Sodor Construction Company - "The Pack" is working under the supervision of Miss Jenny. But Jack gets too excited about working and runs into a right spot of bother and Miss. Jenny wonders if he is not ready to join.

Directors: Steve Asquith
No Sleep for Cranky
star
6.89
122 votes

#24 - No Sleep for Cranky

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/2002

Cranky is always feeling, well... cranky! This is because every night he has to stay up late to load and unload important goods being imported and exported at the harbour. Then one day, Salty (unintentionally) gets on the crane's nerves so much that in a fit of rage, Cranky drops some pipes that knock over a shed resulting in blocking the Main Line! Harvey won't be able to clear the shed till morning so how will the time be able to be passed?

Directors: David Mitton
Writer: Paul Larson
Percy and the Haunted Mine
star
6.86
35 votes

#25 - Percy and the Haunted Mine

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2003

Percy goes to collect some goods at the Abandoned Mine, and sees an old chimney there sink to the ground. Percy is spooked, and hears from Donald and Douglas the next morning that the "naughty gnomes" are responsible...

Directors: David Mitton