[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]
male narrator:
Hugo and the airship.
male narrator: A new engine had
arrived on the Island of Sodor.
[whistle toots]
[horn blows]
His name was Hugo
and he didn't look
like any engine
anyone had ever
seen before.
He was known
as a rail zeppelin,
and was very popular
with the passengers.
Sir Topham Hatt
liked Hugo too,
but he did have some concerns,
as did the railway inspectors.
- I see.
- A propeller.
- Hmm.
- We're not used to propellers
in stations, Hugo,
so you must be careful.
[chuckles]
It's usually helicopters
that have propellers,
or aeroplanes,
not railway engines.
- Yes, sir,
and knowing this,
my propeller is
always switched off
before coming
into a station.
It does not
start up again
until I'm fully clear
of the platform.
- And does this propeller
make you go
as fast as they say it does,
Hugo?
- Hugo's the fastest engine
in the world.
- Incredible.
- Is he really?
- Mm.
[whistle blows]
- Carry on, Hugo.
Off you go now.
[horn blows]
Oh, not again.
all: Hmm.
narrator: One day, as Henry was
coming back from the mainland,
he saw something that gave him
a very big surprise.
- Hugo! You're flying!
[whistle toots]
narrator:
Henry couldn't wait
to tell the others
what he'd seen.
- I knew he wasn't really
a proper engine.
He was only pretending.
- But how can Hugo fly?
Surely he's too heavy.
- Maybe you should
ask Hugo.
- Yes.
what is it you
would like to ask?
- I saw you, Hugo.
What's it like
up there in the sky?
- I don't understand what
this is you are talking about.
- I just saw Hugo.
He was flying in the sky.
Hugo?
[grunts and coughs]
But...how come you're here and
in the sky at the same time?
- This is indeed
a mystery.
narrator:
Thomas was pulling the local,
when Hugo caught
up with him.
- Hello, Thomas.
[horn blows]
Have you seen this flying thing
that looks like me?
- What flying thing,
Hugo?
- I don't know.
I have not seen it yet.
narrator: Hugo raced
up Gordon's Hill so fast
that Thomas thought he was
going to take off into the sky.
[adventure music]
It was only later that Thomas
did see the flying thing.
- Wow.
That really does look like Hugo.
- Oh, what looks
like Hugo?
- Hugo looks like Hugo.
[laughs]
- No, Annie. I was talking
about that airship, not--
- That is where I should be,
Thomas, up there in the sky.
- But you're not
an airship.
- Airship?
They're calling it a zeppelin,
and everyone is calling me
a rail zeppelin,
so I think I should be
flying too.
- Oh, I can see Hugo now.
And the other Hugo too--
the flying one.
[laughs]
[blows whistle]
[whistle toots]
[adventure music]
♪ ♪
- Huh? Ohh.
♪ ♪
narrator: Hugo continued
to follow the airship
as it made its way
across the island.
- It's much quieter
than a helicopter
or an airplane.
- It's a bit like
a big balloon.
narrator:
He followed it all the way
to the end
of the island.
- Whoa!
Hello.
I'm Skiff.
What's your name?
- I am Hugo, and I should be
flying like this zeppelin.
- Oh, you mean like me.
- You can fly?
- No, I meant I can go
on the tracks and in the water,
and you can go on the tracks
and fly up in the air.
- This is what I am meant to do,
but I can't.
- Oh.
[whistle toots]
- You know, Hugo, sometimes
I wish I could fly too.
Sometimes I dream
I have wings,
but I know
I'll never really fly.
I'm too heavy.
You and I, Hugo,
we're built for the railway.
We have to have our adventures
down here on the ground.
- You might not be able
to fly, Thomas,
but Hugo looks
just like a flying machine.
I'm sure he can fly,
if he really tries.
- That little railboat
is right.
I should be able to fly.
I just have to try harder.
narrator: Hugo raced
back across the island
to Gordon's Hill,
and spinning his propeller
as fast as he could,
rushed for the top
and tried to launch himself
into the sky.
- [groans]
narrator: But Hugo's wheels
wouldn't leave the rails.
- [gasps]
- Oh!
narrator:
Hugo tried again.
And again.
- Come on! Come on!
Oh!
[groans]
narrator: His wheels
wouldn't leave the tracks.
He didn't give up until the sun
finally started to go down.
- [groans]
narrator: Thomas was right.
He was too heavy to fly.
[horn blows]
- Oh, Thomas,
this is impossible.
Why can't I fly?
- [gasps]
Ah, ha ha ha ha ha!
- Hugo! Hugo!
Your propeller!
- Oh.
Sorry, sir.
I was not thinking.
I have been trying
to make myself fly.
- Huh?
[groans] Oh.
- But this has not
been working.
- Eh? Oh.
[chuckles]
Oh, dear.
[clears throat]
Oh, Hugo.
If your designer had
wanted you to fly,
he would have given you wings.
[chuckles]
Oh. As well as making you
considerably lighter.
[chuckles]
You, Hugo, are a rail zeppelin,
and that makes you
very special--
the fastest vehicle
on land no less.
You don't need to fly.
You just need to be proud
of all the things you can do,
with that amazing propeller.
- Yes, sir.
Maybe this is correct.
- [laughs]
Again, again! Hugo.
Hugo, do that again.
- Skiff here wants another blast
of your propeller breeze, Hugo.
[laughs]
- Oh, okay.
[chuckles]
But let me back out
from the station first.
[chuckles]
- Whee! [laughs]
[laughter]
- Look at him fly!
[whistle tooting]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
[whistles toot]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
20x24 - Hugo & the Airship
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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.