[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ 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 blows]
[jaunty music]
male narrator:
"Dowager Hatt's Busy Day."
♪ ♪
narrator: It was early
morning at Tidmouth Sheds.
The engines were ready for
a busy day ahead
when Sir Topham Hatt arrived.
- Ah-ah-ah--
Achoo!
[moaning]
- Oh!
Uh, bless you, sir.
- T'ank you, Henry.
- Oh, are you feeling
all right, sir?
- Oh, yes, yes,
I'll be fine, Thomas.
Just a little--
ah-ah-ah-achoo!
- Oh, that's a nasty cold
you have there, sir.
- Oh, it's nothing.
I feel as fit as a f--
Achoo!
[coughing]
Now listen up, everybody.
Here are your jobs for the day.
- Ahem!
- Huh?
[rock music]
- Topham.
I thought I told you not
to come to work today.
- But I have a railway
to run, Mother.
- Not with a stinking cold
like that, you don't.
Now, back home
immediately.
- Impossible! Somebody
has to be in charge here.
- Well...
Well...
I'll do it then.
How hard could it be?
[chuckles]
- But you don't know
anything about railways.
- But I know a lot
about naughty boys
who won't stay in bed
when they're sick.
Take him back home, boys.
- But--but--I-I'm feeling
perfectly fine.
Achoo!
- [gasps]
- [groans]
- Ah, that's better.
Now let's get down to business.
You, Thomas, I'd like you to
pop down to Brendham Docks
and collect my new hat.
- But, ma'am,
I usually start my day
pulling passengers
on my branch line.
- Ah.
Hmm...
Uh, you, what's your name?
- Emily, ma'am.
- Emmeline can take
your passengers, Thomas,
while you're collecting my hat.
- Uh, excuse me,
but I already know my first job
is to take cars of scrap
to the scrapyard today.
- Ho-ho, don't worry about that,
Emerald.
I'll sort something out.
Right, then,
I'm off to Knapford.
I'll be able to run things
more efficiently from there.
[engine turning over,
tires screeching]
[rock music]
- Well, I guess I'm off to
Brendham Docks
to collect the hat.
[whimsical music]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
- Why is Thomas
picking up a hat?
- Dowager Hatt
is in charge today
and she's making
a few little changes.
- Ha, at least I'm not being
sent off on some silly errand.
- Ah, excellent.
Now, Jeffrey...
- Jeffrey?
Who's Jeffrey?
- Listen, Gregory,
since Ermentrude is tied up,
I'd like you to take her cars
of scrap to the scrapyard.
- Scrap?
Impossible!
I'm here to pull the express!
- [clicks tongue]
Goodness me!
You wouldn't talk to my son
like that, would you, Gerald?
- Uh, no, but--
- And I'm sure you wouldn't
want to disappoint
his sweet old mother.
- Uh, no, ma'am...
- Lovely, thank you, Gavin.
Off to the scrapyard
you go, then.
- Oh, the indignity.
[whistle blowing]
narrator: Meanwhile,
Thomas was still waiting
for Dowager Hatt's hat
to arrive.
- I mean, engines should be
doing important jobs,
not carrying hats.
- I agree, Cranky, but
while Sir Topham Hatt is ill,
Dowager Hatt is in charge.
[whistle tooting]
- Ahh, now, here's someone
who's ready to do a proper job.
- Sorry, Cranky, Dowager Hatt
wants me to go to Vicarstown
and deliver a cake to
her friend Lady Toffington.
- Cakes? Hats?
What next, balloons?
[exciting music]
[whistle blowing]
- Oh, no!
[whistle blowing,
elephant trumpeting]
[horns blaring]
- This is absurd!
None of us knows what job
Dowager Hatt wants us
to do next.
We're all stuck here,
waiting for her to finish
pruning her pelargoniums.
- Left a bit.
No, right a bit.
Back a bit.
Hold it.
Oh, yes, that certainly
brightens up
this dreary old platform.
Left a bit.
- Uh, excuse me.
- Hold it.
[whistle blowing]
- No...no!
Helena, what's the problem?
- The problem is
confusion and delay!
And it's all over Sodor.
- Surely not!
All the engines
are working hard.
- But nobody's doing the jobs
they need to do.
I was carrying
Thomas' passengers,
Gordon was
carrying my scrap--
[gasps]
Oh, dear.
If Gordon was
at the scrapyard,
then who was
pulling the express?
- Ah, now who did I ask
to pull the express?
- [straining]
- Percy! But Percy isn't strong
enough to pull the express!
- But he seemed
such a willing little engine.
- Dowager Hatt,
there are certain engines
that are suitable
for certain jobs
and other engines that are not.
- [sighs]
Oh, dear.
I didn't realize
it was so complicated.
Now Topham is going
to be all cross
and say I don't know
how to run his railway.
- Well, yes...
Or we can try
to get things sorted!
I'm happy to help you out.
- Really?
Would you?
Oh, that would be marvelous,
Esmeralda.
- It's Emily, ma'am.
And don't worry!
You and I will soon get
Sir Topham's engines
back on the right tracks.
- Oh!
[whistle toots]
Ah, no, you, up there,
I told you to hold it.
[jaunty music]
♪ ♪
narrator: Working together,
Emily and Dowager Hatt
started to get all the engines
back doing their regular jobs.
- Gordon, you're back
pulling the express.
♪ ♪
[whistle blowing]
♪ ♪
narrator: With Emily's help,
Dowager Hatt sorted out
the engines
so that they were all doing
their proper jobs again.
- That's right.
No, I said over there.
Nope, you're going to Knapford.
narrator: And just in time.
♪ ♪
- Oh...
- Topham?
What are you doing out of bed?
- I'm feeling
a lot better, Mother.
[chuckles]
Hmm...
Everything seems to be
running smoothly.
- Of course it is, dear, but I
can't take all the credit.
Emily here helped me.
- [gasps]
She called me Emily!
[laughs]
- I bet you thought I wouldn't
be able to run your railway.
But I think I've done
a pretty perfect job.
- I have to admit,
I had my doubts.
[chuckles]
I-I mean, well done, Mother.
- Ah!
- [laughs]
[whistle toots]
- Sorry I've been so long.
I've been waiting at
Brendham Docks all day
for this hat to arrive!
- B-but why?
- Everything's fine now, Topham.
Let's go and have ourselves
a nice cup of tea.
- Is there cake?
- Yes, Topham.
- Thank goodness
everybody's back
doing their proper job!
- I got this!
Not a problem!
I'm fine!
[groans]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[whistle tooting]
21x06 - P.A. Problems
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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.