| Edward, Henry and the Coal/Double Trouble | |
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| Season 2, Episode 1 | |
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| Written by | ElmoRudy55 |
| Directed by | ElmoRudy55 |
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- “Blue is the only proper colour for an engine."
- "Oh, I don't know. I like my brown paint."
- "I've always been green. I wouldn't want to be any other colour either."
- "Well.. well anyway... blue is the only colour for a Really Useful Engine. Everyone knows that!”
- ―Toby, Henry and Edward talking about their colours
Edward, Henry and the Coal, retitled Double Trouble in American releases, is the first episode of the second series. It is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, More About Thomas the Tank Engine.
Plot[]
One beautiful morning on Sodor, Edward is puffing happily along his branchline with Annie and Clarabel when he arrives at Elsbridge station. After Percy compliments Thomas on his paintwork, he brags to Henryand Toby about having the best paintwork on Sodor. When they tell him they like their paint, Thomas disagrees and says that blue is the only colour for a Really Useful Engine before he puffs away.
Later that day, Thomas is resting by the coal hopper when Percy arrives to fill up some trucks. Thomas decides to be cheeky, warning Percy of the trucks' antics and some unsafe buffers on the siding behind him. The trucks then push Percy into the siding and the last truck passes the coal chute causing a large pile of coal to bury Thomas and cover his paintwork in coal dust from smokebox to bunker. He cries for help and calls to Percy to get him out. Percy is worried but he cannot help laughing as Thomas' blue paint is ruined. It takes so long to clean Thomas that he is not ready in time for his next train, so Toby has to take Annie and Clarabel instead.
That night at the sheds, Thomas is cross at Percy. Toby thinks it was funny, but Percy becomes cross at Thomas for thinking he ruined his paintwork on purpose and they continue arguing for the rest of the night.
The next day, Thomas is feeling more cheerful as Percy brings in some trucks from the junction. Percy is thirsty, so he goes into the siding where the water tower is. The siding there however has faulty buffers and as Percy heads to the siding, he finds himself unable to stop, crashes through the buffers and lands in a pile of coal. Thomas has seen everything and laughs as he leaves when his signal turns green.
That night, after Percy is cleaned, he and Thomas apologise to each other for what happened and promise to be more careful with coal next time.
Characters[]
- Thomas
- Percy
- Toby
- Troublesome Trucks
- Annie and Clarabel
- Sir Topham Hatt
- James (cameo)
- Bertie (cameo)
Locations[]
- Tidmouth
- The Branch Line Bridge
- The Branch Line Cutting
- Elsbridge
- The Carriage Shed
- Elsbridge Engine Sheds
- The Watermill (deleted scene)
Trivia[]
- This episode marks the first for a few things:
- The first episode adapted from a story written by Christopher Awdry.
- The first appearance of a truck with a resin face.
- The first episode to feature red Express Coaches, Cattle Trucks, LNER 12 Ton Vans and an SR 25 Ton Brake Van.
- The first appearance of Tidmouth Station and Yard, Ffarquhar Sheds, The Ffarquhar Stationmaster's House, The Branch Line Bridge, The Branch Line Cutting, The Carriage Shed and Elsbridge Engine Sheds in the television series.
- The first episode where Thomas' front and rear brake pipes become smaller and where the colour of the supports under his whistle change from blue to gold.
- The first episode where Toby's bell has a new ring sound and pitch to it, which would carry on for the rest of the season and in the third series.
- In the UK narration, when the coal pours down on Thomas, he shouts "Help, I'm choking!" But in the US narration, he instead shouts "Help!" twice. It was changed due to the "choking" concept being too much for young viewers. Despite this, all narrations have the line "'I'm not disgraceful!' choked Thomas," kept in the episode.
- When the narrator says, "It took so long to clean Thomas, that he wasn't in time for his next train," a first series-style truck is seen.
- In later versions of this episode, Christopher Awdry is not listed in the credits.
- The beginning of the Latin American Spanish version features a brief clip of Thomas passing the Watermill from the sixth series episode, Percy's Promise.
- This episode was filmed after Thomas Comes to Breakfast, as the hole in the Stationmaster's house can be seen in the shot of the narrator saying "Percy was worried, but he couldn't help laughing."
- The line It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything. became a popular internet meme in 2016.
- This episode was aired before Duck Takes Charge and Percy and Harold, so the audience would not know how Percy had been moved to Ffarquhar Branch Line, despite having officially there in the former.
Quotes[]
- Percy: Hello, Thomas. You look splendid.
- Thomas: Yes, indeed. Blue is the only proper colour for an engine.
- Toby: Oh, I don't know. I like my brown paint.
- Percy: I've always been green. I wouldn't wanna be any other colour, either.
- Thomas: Well, well, anyway, blue is the only colour for a really useful engine. Everyone knows that!
- [he huffs away]
- Narrator: Percy said no more. He just grinned at Toby.
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- Thomas: [watches the hopper load coal into Percy's trucks] Careful. Watch out with those silly trucks.
- Trucks: Go on! Go on! Go on!
- Thomas: And by the way, those buffers don't look very safe to me.
- [Percy accidentally hits said buffers; the last load of coal pours down on Thomas]
- Thomas: UK: Help! I'm choking! / US: Help, Heeeellllp! Get me out!
- Narrator: Percy was worried, but he couldn't help laughing! Thomas' smart blue paint was covered in coal dust, from smoke-box to bunker!
- Percy: Ha-ha! You don't look really useful now, Thomas. You look really disgraceful.
- Thomas: I'm not disgraceful. You did that on purpose! Get me out!
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- Annie: (to Clarabel) Poor Thomas.
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- Percy: (arguing with Thomas) Fancy, a really useful blue engine like Thomas, becoming a disgrace to the Fat Controller's railway!
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- Narrator: It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything.
Merchandise[]
- Ofuro de MiniCar
- Buzz Books - Thomas, Percy and the Coal
- Magazine stories - Thomas, Percy and the Coal
- Ladybird Books - Thomas, Percy and the Coal/Saved from Scrap
| << Series 1 | Series 2 | Series 3 >> |
| #01 Thomas, Percy and the Coal | #14 Double Header | #27 Wrong Road |
| #02 Cows | #15 The Fat Controller's Engines | #28 Edward's Exploit |
| #03 Bertie's Chase | #16 Domeless Engines | #29 Ghost Train |
| #04 Saved from Scrap | #17 Pop Geos the Diesel | #30 Woolly Bear |
| #05 Old Iron | #18 Dirty Work | #31 Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree |
| #06 Thomas and Trevor | #19 A Close Shave | |
| #07 Percy and the Invisible Engine | #20 Better Late Than Never | |
| #08 Three Steam Engines Gruff | #21 Break Van | |
| #09 Percy and the Signal | #22 The Deputation | |
| #10 Duck Takes Charge | #23 Thomas Comes to Breakfast | |
| #11 Percy and Harold | #24 Daisy | |
| #12 Percy Takes the Plunge | #25 Percy's Predicament | |
| #13 Gordon Goes Foreign | #26 The Diseasel | |
| Cancelled: The Missing Coach |