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Thomas & Friends Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1984 - 2025
Episode 0
Pilot: Down the Mine
5 mins
Produced in 1983 by Britt Allcroft, this pilot episode was seen for the first time since its creation on the official Thomas and Friends YouTube channel to mark the brand's 80th anniversary.
Episode 1
Thomas and Gordon
Sun, Jan 29, 19895 mins
The episode introduced Thomas, with six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler and a short stumpy dome, he likes to tease other engines, especially Gordon, one day, Gordon was resting on a siding, Thomas whistles at him and wakes him up, and Thomas needs to fetch Gordon's coaches, Gordon pulls Thomas all the way to Wellsworth, and Thomas learns a lesson not to tease other engines.
Episode 2
Edward and Gordon
Sun, Jan 29, 19895 mins
Gordon gets stuck on the hill and old Edward proves that he can still be a really useful engine when he comes to Gordon's rescue.
Episode 3
The Sad Story of Henry
5 mins
Henry, a big green engine, doesn't want to risk paintwork being ruined by rain, so refuses to leave a tunnel he enters on a trip. But he may end up being there longer than he wants as he ends up being bricked up.
Episode 4
Edward, Gordon and Henry
5 mins
When Gordon is involved in a bigger incident than Edward can help him out of alone, it happens near the tunnel Henry wishes to be released from.
Episode 5
Thomas' Train
5 mins
Thomas is jealous of those who get to pull coaches so jumps at the chance when Henry is sick, but ends up starting up unattached in his hurry.
Episode 6
Thomas and the Trucks
5 mins
Thomas's now fed up with his job shunting coaches and wants to see the world. Edward kindly offers Thomas some freight cars, while he'll shunt coaches for him. Thomas happily agreed. Edward warns Thomas to be careful cause the freight cars often play tricks on the other engines who are not used to them, but Thomas's too excited to listen. So Thomas prepares his train and gets coupled up. He starts to pull, but the cars are not ready. Thomas just ignores them as he puffs out of the station stubbornly. Thomas goes faster and faster passing through Henry's Tunnel and junction along the journey, but the increased speed makes the cars very cross. Thomas eventually slows downs as he came upon Gordon's Hill, but as he reached the top, the freight cars begin to push Thomas down the hill. He loses control until he swerved into the goods yard and stops in front of the buffers, narrowing preventing an accident. Sir Topham Hatt, having seen everything, questions why he came in so fast. Thomas explains that the cars pushed him, while Sir Topham Hatt advises Thomas that he has a lot to learn about freight cars and that after pushing them about in the yard for a few weeks, he will know much more about them as Edward. And then he will be a Really Useful Engine.
Episode 7
Thomas and the Breakdown Train
5 mins
James' brakes catch fire and his freight-trucks push him out of control, forcing Thomas to use a breakdown-train to help him and to deal with the trucks that he has gotten used to.
Episode 8
James and the Coaches
5 mins
James enjoys his day on the island of Sodor, but he pulls his train roughly and caused a hole in the coaches break pipe. The only way to mend it is a passenger's bootlace and James learns a very valuable lesson that he must never bump coaches again.
Episode 9
Troublesome Trucks
5 mins
Determined to be a useful engine after he damaged one of his coaches, Sir Topham Hatt assigns James to pull some freight cars. James has trouble with the freight cars while trying to climb up Gordon's Hill, but he managed to make the troublesome train behave, finally earns Sir Topham Hatt's respect and he allows James to keep his red coat.
Episode 10
James and the Express
Sun, Feb 26, 19895 mins
Gordon loves to tease James like Henry does, and to brag about how he knows the rails so well, until he and the express are put on the wrong route by mistake and James gets his wish to pull it instead.
Episode 11
Thomas and the Guard
5 mins
Thomas is so impatient after waiting for Henry's train that he leaves without his guard.
Episode 12
Thomas Goes Fishing
5 mins
Thomas always dreams of going fishing - until river-water is forced to be used to refill him.
Episode 13
Thomas, Terence and the Snow
5 mins
Thomas meets Terence, a tractor, but doesn't see the point of his way of doing things. In the winter they meet again when Thomas purposely damages his snowplow then gets stuck in a drift.
Episode 14
Thomas and Bertie
Sun, Mar 12, 19895 mins
Thomas strikes up a good-natured rivalry with a bus named Bertie who remembers how much Thomas relies on others and they decide to have a race to see who's faster.
Episode 15
Tenders and Turntables
5 mins
Gordon, Henry, and James hate the extra work without Thomas and they decide to rebel after Gordon and James each have an embarrassing experience with the turntable their size requires them to use.
Episode 16
Trouble in the Shed
5 mins
With the biggest three engines going on strike, the Fat Controller gets Edward to help out and hires a new tank engine, Percy. But with Gordon, James, and Henry giving the others a hard time, they remain the biggest problem to the railway.
Episode 17
Percy Runs Away
5 mins
Percy, Thomas, and Edward enjoy some free time for helping out, but Percy enjoys himself too much to be careful and is almost run into by Gordon - then has a delayed reaction and takes off backward.
Episode 18
Coal
5 mins
The other engines don't believe Henry when he says he's sick, but soon even the crew notices and try to figure out what to do for him. It turns out the problem can be solved if a special kind of coal can be gotten for him.
Episode 19
The Flying Kipper
Sun, Apr 2, 19895 mins
Henry collides with a goods train while pulling "The Flying Kipper". The Fat Controller sends him to Crewe for repairs and he comes back with a new shape and a larger firebox meaning that he no longer needs special coal.
Episode 20
Whistles and Sneezes
5 mins
Gordon is jealous of Henry's restructure so tries to spoil his good mood by saying he shouldn't whistle. He also has to put up with a group of children attacking him.
Episode 21
Toby and the Stout Gentleman
5 mins
Toby, a tram-engine with little work, gets a chance to spend time with people who truly appreciate him, like the Fat Controller whom he doesn't know, but soon faces his railway's closing down.
Episode 22
Thomas in Trouble
5 mins
Thomas has unknowingly been illegally going down the public quarry way without equipment, so is considered a problem. But it may be a second chance for Toby, the unused tram.
Episode 23
Dirty Objects
5 mins
James calls Toby and Henrietta "dirty objects" because of their shabby look. He tells them that you will never see his paint dirty. However, it's Toby who has the last laugh when James collides with some tar wagons.
Episode 24
Off the Rails
5 mins
Gordon scorns Henry for the accident that wasn't his fault, but Henry still gets to pull the Express, to his jealousy. Gordon doesn't want to pull freight-cars, so tries to jam the turntable, and sinks himself.
Episode 25
Down the Mine
5 mins
Thomas still likes to tease Gordon for forcing himself into the ditch. When he disobediently decides to explore a mine past the Danger zone and falls, Gordon is called in to dig him out.
Episode 26
Thomas' Christmas Party
5 mins
At Christmas, Thomas remembers a friend who saved him and Toby a year ago, so decides with the others to throw her a party in return. But he and Toby have the hard job of trying to help her out of her snowbound house.
