The BEST episodes written by Paul Larson
#1 - Thomas and the Stinky Cheese
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 19
Thomas is indignant when the diesels call him a 'stinky steamie'. But his determination to prove them wrong gets him into trouble when he is asked to make a delievery of cheese to the docks.
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#2 - Thomas and the Firework Display
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 11
Thomas wishes he could collect the fireworks stock to deliver to the Harvest Fireworks Display but feels most disappointed when James is chosen to do the job instead. James, however, breaks down...
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#3 - You Can Do It, Toby!
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 22
When Gordon becomes stuck on the Hill, Toby comes to help and push but will he have enough confidence in himself after Gordon saying earlier on to him that he's not a proper engine?
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#4 - James and the Queen of Sodor
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 7
After hearing that the Queen of Sodor is coming, James volunteers to get her - but his happiness is short lived when the Queen turns out to be an old, dirty coal barge. James tries to do his job and stay clean in the process.
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#5 - Duncan's Bluff
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 10 - Episode 24
Villagers, high up in the hills, need plenty of coal as Sodor is in the deep of winter. Duncan is taking coal there from the Wharf, which James delivers. For a lark, Duncan says he will race James. If Duncan delivers the coal first, he wins. If James arrives with more coal first, he wins. So, just who will win? Well, it certainly wouldn’t seem to be James when Duncan resorts to a spot of cheating…
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#6 - The World's Strongest Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 6 - Episode 11
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...
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#7 - Peace and Quiet
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 17
Murdoch is a new arrival on the Island of Sodor. What he especially likes is a bit of peace and quiet. However, this isn't to be...
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#8 - The Spotless Record
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 9
A new tank engine from the LMS called Arthur arrives on the island. He has a spotless record which means he's never been naughty or left a mess. The Fat Controller puts him to work with Thomas and Percy. Arthur's first job on the island is to take a train of closed vans full of fruit to market. The trucks start to sing rudely and Thomas then plays a trick and tells Arthur that The Fat Controller doesn't like the trucks singing and that Arthur should stop them from doing just that. This soon leads to a terrible accident...
#9 - Emily's Adventure
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 20
Emily finds that being unkind to others is the wrong thing to do when in need of help with a big job.
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#10 - The Old Bridge
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 4
Skarloey is crossing an old bridge when he notices the track is out of place and can't stop in time, thus leaving him dangling above the river from a long way up. Rheneas comes and rescues him with the breakdown train and the bridge is soon repaired. But Skarloey is terrifed of using the bridge again and has to shunt trucks and coaches in the yard. Rheneas has to do Skarloey's work now as well as his own. But when he runs out of water due to puffing too hard, he ends up stopping over the first quarter of the bridge and now Skarloey has to overcome his fear and must cross the bridge to save him...
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#11 - Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 6 - Episode 5
Thomas, by accident, discovers an old sentinel lorry named Elizabeth who has been left in a shed for years.
#12 - Henry's Hero
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 17 - Episode 7
Henry and Hiro take on some of the bad coal and start puffing black smoke. Will Hiro be able to deliver their loads when Henry goes back to the shed?
#13 - Jack Frost
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 6 - Episode 16
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!
#14 - Excellent Emily
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 12 - Episode 8
Emily is the only one who finishes her jobs on time, and thus is called "Excellent" by the Fat Controller. She is then given a job to take Trevor from Farmer McColl's farm, to the Airport to clear some rubble before Jeremy the Jet Plane lands, who is carrying The Fat Controller's Mother. Murdoch, Thomas and Duck inform Emily that some tracks are not safe, Emily ignores them, which lands her into trouble when he track on a muddy dip, sinks. Murdoch helps her out and Emily, who arrives at Farmer McColl's to take Trevor, now asks Murdoch to use which tracks, and delivers Trevor just in time, as Jeremy descends onto the Airport, with The Fat Controller's Mother.
#15 - Fish
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 19
Thomas is hasty and decides to haul all the trucks with loads of fish he has to deliver all at once. He soon finds that in doing so, they are too heavy to pull in one shot...
#16 - Don't Tell Thomas
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 9
The engines are hiding a big secret from their blue tank engine friend, but what could it possibly be?
#17 - Percy Gets It Right
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 2
One day, Percy is travelling along Toby's old branch line and discovers the track is wobbly. He hurries back to the station to warn the other engines but gets frustrated when nobody listens to him. Later on, Thomas goes out onto the old line and gets stuck. Percy starts to worry when Thomas doesn't return home. Where could he be?
#18 - Rusty Saves the Day
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 6 - Episode 25
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?
#19 - James the Second Best
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 10 - Episode 27
A Railway Poster is to be produced, and the Fat Controller needs an engine to be the centre of it – and that engine is decided to be Edward. James is most jealous of Edward when he learns of the news. He wanted to be the engine on that poster. So James decides to try and prove to the Fat Controller that it should be him, and not Edward, who gets the gig.
#20 - Edward and the Mail
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 14
Edward is asked to step in and take the mail while Percy was away. However, he has no idea what to do and decides not to ask for help, resulting in disaster.
#21 - Something Fishy
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 7 - Episode 15
The Fat Controller opens a new fishing route and chooses Thomas to run it; Arthur wanted to do so, but he wasn't chosen and Thomas doesn't even want to run it! However, all is resolved thanks to quite an incident later on...
#22 - Gordon Takes Charge
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 12
Gordon shows off to Percy while teaching him how to pull passengers. In doing so, Gordon doesn't notice a dangerous icy section of line...
#23 - Emily's New Route
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 10
Emily is chosen to do the route running through Black Loch, but on her first run, she sees spooky shapes in the water which appear to be sea monsters!
#24 - Wash Behind Your Buffers
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 26
When the Engine and Car Rally comes around, Madge cares more about making sure the engines are clean than taking the Brass Band. But her mothering causes a lot of trouble!
#25 - Sticky Toffee Thomas
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 10 - Episode 14
A fancy dress party is being held for some children, where Thomas shall be giving them rides. Thomas wonders deeply about what he could possibly wear as a costume. Upon being given a good clean at the Washdown, Thomas comes up with the idea of going as a giant bubble bath! But his “bubble” is soon burst when he ends up crashing into Toby the Tram Engine, due not being able to see through the soap in his eyes! After two more incidents still, the first involving getting cloaked in toffee apple and the other getting covered in leaves and nasty branches, Thomas is in quite a state. But little does he know that his state will turn out all for the better.
#26 - Molly's Special Special
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 5
Molly, a lovely new engine with striking yellow paintwork and four, large drive wheels, but Molly doesn’t think pulling empty trucks is lovely. She wants to pull a nice, fully loaded goods train. Thomas makes a suggestion to her, but is it a wise suggestion? Molly, nonetheless, takes heed.
#27 - Henry and the Wishing Tree
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 4
Henry wishes he could pull passenger trains like Gordon instead of log trucks. However, Henry comes upon a Wishing Tree which Sodor's children regulary visit later on that day...
#28 - Henry's Lucky Day
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 8
After a great day with certain trucks, Henry believes that they are lucky. However, when Edward accidentally takes them, the green engine chases after him, determined to get his luck back.
#29 - Henry and the Flagpole
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 16
Henry fears the Fat Controller will use his favourite tree for a new flagpole, due him accidentally causing the one which was going to be used to be destroyed. Henry can’t bare the thought of losing something so precious to him, so sets out to find an alternative replacement.
#30 - No Sleep for Cranky
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 6 - Episode 1
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?
#31 - Mighty Mac
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 4
Everything is happening on the Narrow Gauge Railway. There is the new Controller, Mr. Percival, and there is the new locomotive, Mighty Mac. But this is no ordinary locomotive; in fact it has not one smokebox but two! At one end there is Mighty and at the other, Mac. On their first job they already start fighting, and in this case, over which way they should go to reach the proposed destination. Will they be able to reach a resolution, to work as one?
#32 - Steamie Stafford
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 17 - Episode 6
Upset that he doesn't make much noise being an electric engine, Stafford starts imitating a steam engine.
#33 - Thomas & Skarloey's Big Day Out
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 10 - Episode 28
Skarloey is in dire need of repairs, but the workshop is all the way over on the other side of Sodor. Thomas kindly comes forward, in that he will transport Skarloey there. Once Skarloey is on a flatbed truck, the Thin Controller warns Thomas about its coupling, as it could easily come loose. Skarloey is feeling very miserable, so Thomas tries as hard as he can to make the little chap feel better, by showing him sights around the island. When none of his efforts seem to work, Thomas comes up with the idea of showing Skarloey the view from the peak of Gordon’s Hill, but he has forgotten about that flatbed’s coupling…
#34 - Rheneas and the Dinosaur
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 10
The dinosaurs may be gone, but they still live on in the findings of their remaining bones, and it is such a find that has been made on Sodor. Rheneas & Skarloey both want to collect the bones, which need to be taken to the all new Transfer Yards area that has been constructed. But because of Skarloey’s clumsiness, Rheneas decides he will do the important work on his own, leaving poor Skarloey in the cold. What he fails to realize is dinosaur bones can be more heavy than one may think…
#35 - Skarloey the Brave
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 22
Skarloey sets out to try and prove himself to the others by being the bravest locomotive ever – by attaching himself to the Incline winch. Not smart…
#36 - Thomas to the Rescue
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 3
Some of the diesels receive a dose of contaminated fuel but will Thomas help fix the situation after Diesel calling him a "stinky old steam engine"?
#37 - Chickens to School
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 24
Emily offers to help Thomas with his loads, but Thomas refuses any help whatsoever his friend has to offer, or at least at first.
#38 - Thomas' New Trucks
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 9 - Episode 19
Thomas and James have both been given splendid new trucks to pull, from the Fat Controller. The two engines decide they will have a little competition between themselves to see who can keep their train of trucks looking spic ‘n’ span, with quite some results…
#39 - Too Hot for Thomas
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 8 - Episode 25
Thomas feels sad when he has to deliver ingredients to the Ice Cream Factory instead of taking children to the beach, but later feels much happier thanks to a nice little surprise...
#40 - Duncan Drops a Clanger
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 10 - Episode 6
The hill clock tower’s bell needs to be given a good polish off for the country fair. The Foreman tells Duncan to travel slowly with the bell, but Duncan ends up becoming so enraptured by the bell’s sound it makes, going along the bumpy sections of track, that he doesn’t listen. It is only when the bell flies off his flatbed truck, upon hitting a dip, that Duncan realizes he should have listened. Duncan will have to put in quite an effort to retrieve the bell – which has become dangerously stuck in a tree. Any second, it could fall.
#41 - Cool Truckings
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 23
Madge learns that slow and careful is the best way to be, when having fun in the snow turns into a hazardous activity.
#42 - Gordon and the Engineer
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 11 - Episode 6
Speedy yet impatient, Gordon is sent to collect an engineer to repair a damaged set of points. But his race to get the job done only causes more drama for him and the other engines!
#43 - Percy and the Bandstand
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Season 12 - Episode 18
A New Bandstand is being built at Great Waterton. Sir Topham orders Percy to collect Lady Hatt, but not tell her where she is going. But Lady Hatt asks Percy to take her to her favourite places.
#44 - Cadet Catastrophe
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 3
Ellie takes the Junior Cadets into the woods for a training day, but a small mishap causes a gas canister explosion.
#45 - The Why Files
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 6
Norman and Hannah set themselves up as The Why Files - investigators of the mysterious mysteries of Pontypandy and one of their first cases involves strange goings on near the cliffs.
#46 - Alien Bug Hunt
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 11
The kids become obsessed with a new internet craze, and attempt to be the first to complete it in Pontypandy.
#47 - James and the Giant Pumpkin
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 13
Pontypandy is holding a vegetable competition and the kids try to get there with their giant pumpkin, but trouble is caused when James and the pumpkin end up on a runaway go kart!
#48 - Pontypandy in the Park
Fireman Sam - Season 10 - Episode 25
The residents of Pontypandy have gathered in Pontypandy Park for the annual town festival.
#49 - Norman Man Vs Firedog
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 2
Norman Man and Atomic Boy are quick to test out their new-found powers when Joe's robotic dog goes on the rampage.
#50 - The Prince in Pontypandy
Fireman Sam - Season 11 - Episode 1
Pontypandy is a buzz with excitement when a royal prince comes to visit and the Pontypandy Fire Service are given the responsibility of organizing the event.