[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
children:
♪ They're two, they're four ♪
♪ They're six, they're eight ♪
♪ Shunting trucks
and hauling freight ♪
♪ Red and green
and brown and blue ♪
♪ They're the really
useful crew ♪
♪ All with different roles
to play ♪
♪ Round Tidmouth Sheds
or far away ♪
♪ Down the hills
and round the bends ♪
♪ Thomas and his friends ♪
[whistle toots]
[upbeat music]
male narrator: Sidney sings.
Sidney is
a very helpful engine.
[horn honks]
- Here you go.
Job done.
- Not again, Sidney.
These cars were meant
to be taken to the quarry.
narrator: But he's also
a very forgetful engine.
♪ ♪
Once Sidney had been left
hanging on the gantry
at the Dieselworks.
- Sidney?
How long have you been up there?
- Uh...
I forget.
- It's been about two years.
narrator: Percy helped Sidney
to get his new wheels,
and ever since the two
of them have been good friends.
♪ ♪
[man speaking indistinctly]
One day, Percy had an accident
and came off the rails
at the foot of Gordon's Hill.
- Oh, no!
What's happened?
- Percy's had a little accident.
There was a loose rail, and--
- I've damaged my wheels.
A bit like
when you damaged your wheels.
Remember?
- Uh...
not really.
- We need to get Percy
to the Steamworks, Sidney.
- [gasps]
I could take him!
I'm not doing anything.
- [laughing]
Yes you are, Sidney!
You're taking those cars
to The Blue Mountain Quarry!
- Am I?
[gasps]
Yes!
So I am.
[laughs]
Oh.
Bye now.
[horn honking]
- Isn't he going the wrong way?
- [chuckles]
He must be
the most forgetful engine ever.
[laughs]
narrator: A few days later,
Sidney found himself
at Knapford Station.
- Ah, Sidney!
Are you busy at the moment?
- Busy?
Uh, I don't think so.
- Well, in that case
I have a job for you.
Percy's new wheels have arrived
at Brendham Docks.
- Oh.
Um, why does Percy need
new wheels?
- Because of his accident.
- [gasps]
Percy's had an accident?
Oh, no!
- This is a very special job,
Sidney.
I want you to collect the wheels
and take them to the Steamworks.
- [gasps]
A special?
[gasps]
Ooh, how exciting!
And I'll be helping my friend,
Percy.
Oh, leave it to me, sir.
Oh, dear.
- What's the matter, Sidney?
- You know how forgetful
I am, Thomas.
I'm always setting off on a job
and ending up
in the wrong place.
And now I have to collect
Percy's wheels,
and I don't want to let
my good friend down.
- Sometimes when I want
to remember something important,
I make up a little song
to remind me.
- We like songs, don't we,
Clarabel?
- We love songs!
[laughs]
- Something to help you
remember, Sidney, like this...
[horn honks]
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
both: ♪ All the way
to Brendham Docks ♪
♪ To fetch
a very special box ♪
[laughter]
- That's great.
Thank you, Thomas!
As long as I keep
singing my song,
I can't go wrong!
[laughs]
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ All the way
to Brendham Docks ♪
♪ To fetch
a very special box ♪
♪ ♪
narrator: Now that he had
his song to help him,
Sidney was confident
he wouldn't forget.
- ♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ All the way to... ♪
♪ ♪
Gordon!
Gordon!
[horn honks]
Sir Topham Hatt has asked me
to do a special!
- Ha!
I've had more specials
than you've had hot boilers.
[whistle trills]
[whistle toots]
- Hm.
Silly old Gordon.
I'm a diesel.
I don't have a boiler.
[horn honks]
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ All the way to-- ♪
uh...
♪ Something important ♪
♪ But I've forgotten what ♪
narrator: Talking to Gordon had
made Sidney forget his song.
- Was it something to do
with boilers?
Oh, maybe I was on my way
to Whiff's Waste Dump
to pick up an old boiler.
Yes!
That must be it.
[chuckles]
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ All the way
to Whiff's Waste Dump ♪
♪ To fetch a boiler ♪
Or was it a pump?
♪ ♪
[crash]
♪ ♪
[horn honks]
- Hello, Sidney.
What are you doing here?
- Uh, I'm not sure.
But I think I might
be collecting a boiler.
- A boiler?
But we don't have any
boilers here at the moment.
- Oh, no!
I've forgotten
what I'm supposed to be doing.
- It's a shame you're not
an elephant, Sidney.
- An elephant?
Oh?
Why's that, Whiff?
- They say that
elephants never forget.
[chuckles]
- Oh, perhaps my special job was
something to do with elephants.
[gasp]
Yes, that's it!
I was supposed to pick up
an elephant.
[horn honks]
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ I must get there
before it's dark ♪
♪ To collect an elephant
from The Animal Park ♪
♪ ♪
Oh, dear.
There's no elephant here.
I must have got it wrong again.
Oh, I'll never remember
what my special job is.
I'll have to go back
and tell Sir Topham Hatt
that I've let him down.
narrator:
But at Knapford Station,
some of the passengers
had a different problem.
- Oh, dear.
Where has that train got to?
[horn honking]
- What's the matter?
- Our train hasn't arrived
to take us to Brendham Docks.
- We have to get there quickly
to catch our cruise ship.
- [gasps]
Maybe this is my special job!
♪ ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ A very special job for me ♪
♪ These people
are going on a trip ♪
♪ And I'm taking them
to catch their ship ♪
[boat horn blows]
- I don't believe it.
I sent Sidney to pick up
these wheels hours ago!
Where on earth has that
silly little diesel got to?
[horn honks]
♪ ♪
- Wonderful little diesel
you have here.
- A very useful engine indeed.
- [stammering]
- Job done, sir!
- But...
what about Percy's wheels?
- Huh?
W-w-what do you mean, sir?
- [sighs]
I wanted you to take Percy's
new wheels to the Steamworks.
- [gasps]
Oh!
You mean you want me to do
another special!
Oh, I'd be delighted!
♪ ♪
♪ Ah-ha, ha, ha ♪
♪ Ah-hee, hee, hee ♪
♪ Another special job for me ♪
♪ On me you know
you can depend ♪
♪ I'm going to the Steamworks
to see my friend ♪
[laughs]
♪ ♪
narrator: Poor Percy was still
waiting for his new wheels.
He'd been waiting all day.
[horn honks]
- Sidney?
Where have you been?
- Huh?
Ooh, well, I've picked up
an elephant from the waste dump
to bring Gordon the Earl's
new boiler, and--
- Elephant?
Boiler?
But what about--
[gasps]
My wheels!
- Huh?
Oh, yeah!
I brought your new wheels!
You didn't think I'd forget,
did you?
[laughs]
[both laughing]
- What are we laughing about?
♪ ♪
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle trills]
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
20x01 - Sidney Sings
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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.