Buffer Bother

October 10, 2002

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Thomas & Friends - S6 - E19

When Ben gets new buffers fitted, Bill gets jealous. Mavis advises him to forget about it, but Bill becomes so obsessed with it that he loses focus on his own work and has an accident.

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Thomas & Friends: Season 6 - 26 Episode s

6x1 - Salty's Secret
September 16, 2002
Salty, an old diesel, arrives on Sodor. He loves working by the sea but is most disappointed to find that the Fat Controller has sent for him to help out with the work at Centre Island Quarry, resulting in him of course not being able to work by the sea as he had hoped for. However, Salty is soon given a pleasant surprise...
6x2 - Harvey To The Rescue
September 17, 2002
Harvey the Crane Engine arrives in Sodor on trial. Some of the engines tease him for his strange looks but when Percy has an accident with some trucks, they soon change their minds...
6x3 - No Sleep For Cranky
September 18, 2002
Cranky is always feeling, well... cranky! This is because every night he has to stay up late to load and unload important goods being imported and exported at the harbour. Then one day, Salty (unintentionally) gets on the crane's nerves so much that in a fit of rage, Cranky drops some pipes that knock over a shed resulting in blocking the Main Line! Harvey won't be able to clear the shed till morning so how will the time be able to be passed?
6x4 - A Bad Day For Harold The Helicopter
September 19, 2002
Percy likes taking the Post Train but when he is held up at a broken signal one day, Harold decides to deliver the loads instead, but all at once, which turns out to be a very big mistake!
6x5 - Elizabeth The Vintage Lorry
September 20, 2002
Thomas, by accident, discovers an old sentinel lorry named Elizabeth who has been left in a shed for years.
6x6 - The Fogman
September 23, 2002
Cyril is a fogman and the engines like him a lot. He puts out detonators to warn them when there is fog ahead. However the Fat Controller decides to replace him with a very loud fog horn. The foghorn however causes a rockslide which crushes the foghorn, and Thomas is just down the line...
6x7 - Jack Jumps In (Part 1)
September 24, 2002
Thomas delivers Jack the Front Loader to a construction site where a team of vehicles from the Sodor Construction Company - "The Pack" is working under the supervision of Miss Jenny. But Jack gets too excited about working and runs into a right spot of bother and Miss. Jenny wonders if he is not ready to join.
6x8 - A Friend In Need (Part 2)
September 25, 2002
Ned the Steam Shovel accidentally knocks loose the important keystones from an old rail bridge, and Thomas is just down the line. Jack, however, with a bright idea, jumps in...
6x9 - It's Only Snow
September 26, 2002
It's Christmas and Thomas and Toby have to deliver a Christmas tree to one of the villages on Thomas' branch line. However the snow is getting deeper and deeper, and when Thomas' snowplough breaks, will the special train make it to the village?
6x10 - Twin Trouble
September 27, 2002
Donald and Douglas have an argument and refuse to speak to or work with each other. However when Donald comes off the tracks, only one engine can come and help him...
6x11 - The World's Strongest Engine
September 30, 2002
Diesel is back after Henry has an accident, and annoys the other engines by boasting about how he is the world's strongest engine. To prove it, Diesel tries to pull 20 trucks at once, but they all have their brakes on and cause a coupling to break resulting in Diesel being launched down the yard...
6x12 - Scaredy Engines
October 1, 2002
On Halloween, Edward tells the engines spooky ghost stories. The stories make Percy scared and so Thomas teases him about this. On the same night, Thomas, Percy and Duck are sent to the Smelter Yard. But when Thomas says he can manage alone to finish off the job, off Percy and Duck go, but how brave is Thomas when he's on his own?
6x13 - Percy & The Haunted Mine
October 2, 2002
Percy goes to collect some goods at the Abandoned Mine, and sees an old chimney there sink to the ground. Percy is spooked, and hears from Donald and Douglas the next morning that the "naughty gnomes" are responsible...
6x14 - Middle Engine
October 3, 2002
Percy hates being a "middle engine" where he has trucks both in front and behind him. 'Arry and Bert, the Smelter Yard diesels, trick him into being a middle engine, and James boasts at the shed to the others that the pair wouldn't be able able to trick him. They do however and James, annoyed at being a middle engine, refuses to move...
6x15 - James & The Red Balloon
October 4, 2002
A red hot air balloon has arrived on the Island of Sodor and Thomas is sent to fetch it. The balloon becomes a popular tourist attraction, but James worries it will take his passengers away.
6x16 - Jack Frost
October 7, 2002
The weather is getting colder so the Fat Controller asks James and Percy to make extra coal deliveries. Thomas seemingly warns Percy that he should be careful or else scary Jack Frost will get him. James thinks this is a load of nonsense, but Percy believes him. But when night comes and Percy has to make a delivery of coal to Lower Suddery both he and then later James think differently, but not as you would probably expect!
6x17 - Gordon Takes A Tumble
October 8, 2002
Gordon says that pulling trucks "wouldn't be dignified" and Salty teases him about this and acting "too big for his buffers". Gordon becomes cross and wants to show Salty a thing or two but ends up in a rather "undignified" situation instead!
6x18 - Percy's Chocolate Crunch
October 9, 2002
There is a water shortage on the Island of Sodor and Percy is upset because he can't be washed down as often as he would like. He gets very dirty very quickly and so decides to deliver some sugar to the Chocolate Factory - after all, he can't get dirty doing that, can he? But an oil spillage on the track leading straight to the Chocolate Factory spells disaster - and dirtiness!
6x19 - Buffer Bother
October 10, 2002
When Ben gets new buffers fitted, Bill gets jealous. Mavis advises him to forget about it, but Bill becomes so obsessed with it that he loses focus on his own work and has an accident.
6x20 - Toby Had A Little Lamb
October 11, 2002
Snow has arrived on the Island of Sodor, but for a farmer this has caused trouble. His lambs are trapped on the hills and only Toby can help him rescue them.
6x21 - Thomas, Percy and the Squeak
October 14, 2002
An opera singer, Alicia Botti, has been invited to the Island of Sodor and Thomas is to take her to her concert. He is cleaned up ready for the journey, but when boarding Annie, Alicia discovers a mouse onboard!
6x22 - Thomas and the Jet Engine
October 15, 2002
Thomas is sent to the harbour to pick up a jet engine, but when Cranky accidentally turns the switch on with his arm, Thomas finds himself whizzing down the line!
6x23 - Edward The Really Useful Engine
October 16, 2002
Gordon comments that "Edward is a useless old steam-pot" and that he should retire. The other big engines agree with him but Percy gets upset at this and tells the Fat Controller. In the end, Edward proves to be a Very Useful engine indeed when Duck and Gordon have a spot of bother...
6x24 - Dunkin' Duncan
October 17, 2002
Duncan is so hasty that he is not uncoupled and goes up the incline with the trucks, but the coupling on the truck his coupling is tangled up with can't hold his weight. It snaps, and down Duncan goes, and there's a muddy pond waiting beyond...
6x25 - Rusty Saves The Day
October 18, 2002
Faced with the threat of forever working in the quarry if their line is not repaired, Skarloey and Rheneas get worried. Rusty though, is onhand, along with the help of Elizabeth, after persuading her that is! Will the line be able to be repaired in the 2 week time limit the Fat Controller has allowed?
6x26 - Faulty Whistles
October 21, 2002
Duncan shows off his whistle, and blows it so hard that it shoots into the sky and lands in a field. Duncan's driver says they don't have time to find it, but they need a whistle for safety reasons though. Luckily a school headmaster has an organ they can use as a whistle, much to Duncan's horror.

6x1 - Salty's Secret

6x2 - Harvey To The Rescue

6x3 - No Sleep For Cranky

6x4 - A Bad Day For Harold The Helicopter

6x5 - Elizabeth The Vintage Lorry

6x6 - The Fogman

6x7 - Jack Jumps In (Part 1)

6x8 - A Friend In Need (Part 2)

6x9 - It's Only Snow

6x10 - Twin Trouble

6x11 - The World's Strongest Engine

6x12 - Scaredy Engines

6x13 - Percy & The Haunted Mine

6x14 - Middle Engine

6x15 - James & The Red Balloon

6x16 - Jack Frost

6x17 - Gordon Takes A Tumble

6x18 - Percy's Chocolate Crunch

6x19 - Buffer Bother

6x20 - Toby Had A Little Lamb

6x21 - Thomas, Percy and the Squeak

6x22 - Thomas and the Jet Engine

6x23 - Edward The Really Useful Engine

6x24 - Dunkin' Duncan

6x25 - Rusty Saves The Day

6x26 - Faulty Whistles

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