Percy's Promise

"Percy's Promise" is the second episode of the third season. It first aired on Shining Time Station in the episode Washout in 1991.

Plot
Thomas is busy and asks Percy to take the children home from Sunday School. Percy accepts, but when he leaves the weather turns bad and it begins raining. Percy braves battles onward, but has to pass through a flooded field and his fire goes out. The crew chop up floorboards from the brakevan, and Harold thoughtfully drops hot drinks for them - unluckily landing on Percy's boiler. Percy makes it home safely, and is lauded by Thomas and the passengers.

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Percy
 * Harold
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
 * James (cameo)

Trivia

 * In a rare picture look closely and you can clearly see that the background of mountains is clearly painted.

Goofs

 * At the beginning of the episode, Thomas is puffing along Toby's old tramway.
 * In the restored version, the shot of Percy arriving at Elsbridge with Annie, Clarabel and the brakevan is replaced by an extended shot of Thomas waiting for Percy.
 * When the narrator says "the river was rising fast" it is obvious that the water for the river is coming from a pipe.
 * When Percy plunges onto the flooded tracks, water appears to come above his firebox however in the next shot the water is below the bumpers.
 * Why did Percy use a brakevan for the guard insead of Clarabel?