Thomas & Friends series 10
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, later renamed Thomas and Friends is a children's television series, based on the Railway Series, and which was first broadcast in 1984. Season 10 premiered on 2nd September 2006. Template:Spoiler
Episodes
1. Follow That Flour
Thomas arrives at the wharf, where the standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines meet. He met James there, and was supposed to collect James' truck of flour. But Thomas bumps the flour truck hard, causing the door of the truck to break! Thomas tries to play hide-and-seek with it, but James kept finding him because the flour created a path along the track. Eventually, Thomas realized this, and must collect more flour, but the mill is closed, and the trucks are all empty. Dusty Dave, however, points out one last full truck of flour. Together, Thomas and James move the other trucks out of the way and deliver the flour in time for the party.
- Introducing: Dusty Dave the miller
- Featuring: Thomas, James, Troublesome Trucks, Dusty Dave
- Cameos: Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Rusty, Duncan, Trevor
- First appearances: the Wharf, the Warehouse
- First mention of a Harvest Festival
2. A Smooth Ride
Sir Handel returns to the narrow-gauge railway after being at the stone quarry all summer. He is taking some apples and he must be careful not to bruise them. But Sir Handel has a problem. He cannot make it up the hill, being an old engine, and asks Peter Sam to help him. Hiding the fact that he is not feeling well, he claims that he delivered the apples on his own. The same happens when he needs Duncan's help while taking some sheep. Sir Handel is doing a good job of keeping his secret, but soon he has to take Mr. and Mrs. Percival on a picnic at the top of a mountain. Once he again, he rattles and rocks, and, at first, Mr. Percival wants to send him back to the stone quarry, the place for bumpy engines. But instead he brings a repairman to fix Sir Handel and restore his title as the smoothest engine on the narrow-gauge railway!
- Introducing: Mrs Percival, the Farmer, the Engineer
- First appearances: the Lake, the Stone Bridge, and the Sheep Paddock
- Featuring: Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Mr Percival, Thomas
- Cameos: Duncan, Mighty Mac, Mrs. Percival
3. Thomas & The Jet Plane
As Thomas is on his way to collect the children for their picnic, he meets Jeremy, a new jet plane, at his hangar. Jeremy believes that being a jet plane is the best; even better than being a steam engine. Thomas worries that jet planes are generally better, and that being a steam engine is no good at all. But when Jeremy spots a storm on the way, they must relocate the picnic. Thomas offers that they have it at Jeremy's hanger. Thomas soon realizes that being a steam engine has its good qualities, too.
- Introducing: Jeremy the jet plane
- Featuring: Thomas, Jeremy, The Fat Controller, Harold
4. Percy & The Carnival
The carnival was back on Sodor, and all of the engines, especially Percy, want to help out with it. Percy is disappointed when he has to deliver coal instead. He wanted an important job at the carnival, in comparison to just delivering coal. But then, because Percy does not do as he is asked, the other engines run out of coal! Percy quickly delivers the coal to the other engines, and soon learns that coal deliver is just as important as the other engines' jobs.
- Featuring: Thomas, Percy, Edward, Henry, James, Gordon, Toby, Emily, The Fat Controller
- The Chinese Dragon appears again, after a 7 Season absence.
5. The Green Controller
Sir Topham Hatt has lost his voice so Lady Hatt gives Percy the job of handing out his instructions for the day. Percy has lots of things to remember. Thomas offers to help, but Percy is determined to do it on his own. Percy goes to see James, Gordon and Toby but gets things muddled up, giving his friends some very silly jobs! Disaster strikes when James, Gordon and Toby crash into each other – all thanks to Percy. Percy is very sorry and asks Thomas if he will help after all. Thomas is only too pleased to help his friend and together they retrace Percy’s tracks. Percy finally remembers the jobs that Lady Hatt has told him and Percy puts everything right. Sir Topham Hatt is very pleased with Percy. He has been really useful!
- Featuring: Thomas, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Emily, The Fat Controller, Lady Hatt
- This is the first time in the TV series that an engine is painted differently from its normal coat (James)
6. Duncan Drops a Clanger
It is the country fair in the hills and Duncan is to take the bell from the clock tower to be specially polished. Duncan enjoys the sound the bell makes going over the bumpy tracks. He enjoys it so much that he does not listen to the foreman’s instructions to go slowly. He does not listen to anyone telling him to slow down, until disaster strikes and Duncan hits a dip in the track - the bell bounces off his flat-bed and down the hill. Duncan is horrified. In the quiet, he hears the bell chiming – it is stuck in a tree! Duncan races to it, just in time for it to fall back on his flatbed. Slowly and carefully Duncan takes the bell to the polishers. At the fair, the shiny bell rings and Duncan thinks it is the best sound in the whole world!
- Featuring: Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Rusty, Duncan and Mighty Mac
- First mention (and appearance) of a clock tower bell.
Characters Introduced
Characters that have been introduced in aired episodes:
- Jeremy (Thomas and the Jet Plane)
- Dusty Dave (Follow that Flour)
- Mrs. Percival (A Smooth Ride)
According to a press release from a Hit Entertainment press site, the following are characters to be introduced in the upcoming series, but the episodes featuring them have yet to be aired:
- Fearless Freddie (a warhorse narrow-gauge engine, who as a younger engine in years gone by was the daredevil of the hills)
- Rosie (a new purple tank engine who idolizes Thomas)
- Rocky (a railway breakdown crane who tries to be everyone's friend)
Places Introduced
- The Wharf (Follow that Flour)
- The Warehouse (Follow that Flour)
- The Lake (A Smooth Ride)
Rolling Stock Introduced
Trivia
- Rosie is Sodor's third female steam engine, after Emily and Molly from earlier series.
- Jeremy is the first new named aircraft since Tiger Moth of Season 5. He is also the third talking character without the traditional clay face-mask (after Harold and Caroline), and the first aircraft with moving eyes.
- Rocky is the fourth named crane in the series, after Cranky, Kelly from the Pack and Butch from earlier series. He is, however, the first breakdown crane that actually interacts with other characters
- Sir Handel appears for the first time since Season 4.
- Spencer appears for the first time since Season 8.
- The Chinese Dragon appears for the first time since Season 3.
- This season is the first to include Places around Sodor, a new inter-story segment that features stock footage from Seasons 8 and 9.
Featured Characters
These characters have either been confirmed by the airing of the episodes, or by verifiable sources and episode summaries that note their appearance:
- Thomas
- Edward
- Henry
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Toby
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Bertie
- Annie and Clarabel
- Trevor
- Harold
- Emily
- Diesel
- Harvey
- Skarloey
- Rheneas
- Sir Handel
- Peter Sam
- Rusty
- Duncan
- Mighty Mac
- Fearless Freddie
- Spencer
- Rosie
- Rocky
- Jeremy
- Troublesome Trucks
- The Chinese Dragon