(lighthearted flute music)
(Thomas & Friends theme song)
(trumpet fanfare)
- [Narrator] It was an
important day in the yard.
Everyone was busy and excited,
making notes and
taking photographs.
A special visitor had arrived
and was now the
center of attention.
"Who is that?" Whispered
Thomas to Duck.
"That," said Duck
proudly, "is a celebrity."
"A what?" Asked Percy.
"A celebrity is a very
famous engine," replied Duck.
"Driver says we can
talk to him soon."
"Oh," said Thomas, "he's
probably too famous
to even notice us."
Just then, Gordon arrived.
"Puh," said Gordon, "who cares?
A lot of fuss about
nothing if you ask me."
And he steamed away.
Later that night,
the engines found
that the visitor wasn't
conceited at all.
He enjoyed talking
to the other engines
'til long after
the stars came out.
He left early next morning.
Gordon was still complaining.
"Good riddance," he grumbled.
"Chattering all night.
Who is he, anyway?"
"Duck told you," replied
Thomas, "he's famous!"
"As famous as me? Nonsense!"
"He's famouser than you,
he went miles an hour
before you were
even thought of."
"Huh, so he says,"
huffed Gordon.
"But I didn't like his looks.
He's got no dome!
Never trust domeless engines,
they're not respectable.
I never boast, but I'd
say miles an hour
would be easy for me.
Goodbye!"
(train chugging)
Duck took some freight
cars to Edward's station.
"Hello," called Edward.
"That famous engine came
through this morning.
He whistled to me!
Wasn't he kind?"
"He's the finest engine in
the world," replied Duck.
Then he told Edward
what Gordon had said.
"Take no notice,"
soothed Edward.
"He's just jealous.
He thinks no engine
should be famous but him.
Look, he's coming now!"
Gordon was running very fast,
his wheels pounded the rails.
(train chugging rapidly)
"He did it, I'll do it,
he did it, I'll do it!"
Gordon's train rocketed
past and was gone.
"He'll knock himself to
bits," chuckled Duck.
(train chugging rapidly)
Gordon's driver eased him off.
"Steady Gordon! We
aren't running a race."
"We are then," said Gordon,
but he said it to himself.
Suddenly, Gordon began
to feel a little strange.
"The top of my boiler
seems funny," he thought.
"It feels as if
something is loose!
I'd better go slower."
But it was too late.
On the viaduct, they met the
wind, it was a teasing wind
which blew suddenly
in hard puffs.
Gordon thought it wanted
to push him off the bridge.
"No you don't!" He said firmly.
But the wind had other ideas.
It curled 'round his boiler,
crept under his loose dome,
and lifted it off and away
into the valley below.
(forlorn music)
Gordon was most uncomfortable.
The cold wind was
whistling through the hole
where his dome should be,
and he felt silly without it.
At the big station, the
freight cars laughed at him.
(freight cars laughing)
Gordon tried to
'weesh' them away.
But they crowded around
him no matter what he did.
On the way back to the shed,
he wanted his driver to
stop and fetch his dome.
"We'll never find it
now," said the driver.
"You'll have to go to
the works for a new one!"
Gordon was very cross.
(train chugging steadily)
"I hope the shed is empty
tonight," he huffed to himself.
But all the engines
were there waiting.
"Never trust domeless
engines," said a voice
from somewhere behind him.
"They aren't respectable."
(Thomas & Friends theme music)
03x04 - Gordon & the Famous Visitor
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British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.
British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.