Duncan Gets Spooked

"Haunted bridge. Pah! It's as tame as a pet rabbit!"

- Duncan snorting at the bridge

"Duncan gets Spooked" is a fifth season episode. It aired in October 31, 1998.

Plot


When Peter Sam's trucks break away and fall into a ravine Duncan chortles that Peter Sam's trucks will return to haunt him, so Rusty tells him of an engine, called Zachary who tried to cross the same ravine and fell into the swamp below. Duncan is dismissive, but his crew plan to teach Duncan a lesson and take him across the bridge. After seeing Zachary's ghost heading towards him (though it's just an engine formed by fireflies) Duncan is spooked and runs back to the safety of the shed.

Featured characters

 * Rusty
 * Duncan
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Skarloey (does not speak)
 * Peter Sam (does not speak)
 * Zachary (does not speak)

Trivia

 * Zachary uses Skarloey's model and Percy's whistle.
 * The engine formed by the fireflies resembles Rheneas.

Goofs

 * When Skarloey passes by in the first scene a red wire is visible underneath him.
 * The slate trucks have the standered gauge truck's faces even though they had narrow gauge truck's faces in the episodes Trucks and Snow.
 * Peter Sam's trucks come off the bridge coupled, but when they fall into the ravine they fall one by one, uncoupled.
 * Duncan's face moves when he cries "Whoo-oo-oo!"
 * When Harry's ghost goes over the bridge there isn't any mist.
 * The narrator says that Duncan had to bring back slate trucks from the mines, but he pulls coal trucks.
 * When the fireflies form Harry, the lines behind them lead to a dead end.

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