Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday

"What was that?"

- The Fat Controller ducking after Tiger Moth swoops

"Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday" is a fifth season episode.

Plot
The Fat Controller and his family are going on holiday, but when they board Annie and Clarabel at Tidmouth Halt Lady Hatt calls them "beach huts". Annie and Clarabel are offended, but they say nothing and the family gets off at Dryaw to go to their holiday home in Harold. The flight is delayed by a low-flying bi-plane, Tiger Moth, but they get there, and holiday for several days before Harold comes with bad news: Tiger Moth has gone missing. The Fat Controller joins the search, and in the end they find it crashed in a haystack. The Fat Controller continues his holiday, boating on a canal. Unluckily, they become bogged down in mud and Percy has to help them back to Tidmouth Halt, where Annie and Clarabel, bearing fresh new paint, are waiting for them. Lady Hatt comments that the coaches look "much better than those old beach huts", but no one has the heart to correct her.

Featured Characters

 * Thomas
 * Percy
 * Harold
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Toby (does not speak)
 * Tiger Moth (does not speak)
 * Henrietta (does not speak)

Trivia

 * Stock footage from "Trucks", "Oliver's Find" and "Thomas and the Rumours" is used.

Quotes

 * ''"This is the life."

- The Fat Controller to Lady Hatt, just before the screen pans to show their boat on a flatbed pushed by Percy