Percy and the Haunted Mine

"Double bouncing buffers!"

- Percy

Percy and the Haunted Mine is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season.

Plot
The stations are preparing for a Best Dressed Station competition and Percy has to collect some trucks from Maithwaite. On the way, he has to stop by an old mine. He is terrified when he sees a mine chimney sinking into the ground and when he tells Donald and Douglas, they claim it is the naughty gnomes which makes him feel even more scared.

Later, when Percy is to collect garden gnomes for a station, he sees the warehouse sink and is convinced it is the naughty gnomes. He bumps some trucks, and garden gnomes fall out. Percy is terrified and runs back to Lower Tidmouth station, where Sir Topham Hatt explains that in fact the gnomes were garden gnomes and that the buildings were just sinking into old mine shafts. The next day, Lower Tidmouth wins the Best Dressed Station competition, due to the fact that they had the gnomes.

Characters

 * Percy
 * Donald and Douglas
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Thomas (cameo)
 * Henry (cameo)
 * Gordon (cameo)
 * James (cameo)
 * Toby (cameo)
 * Duck (cameo)
 * Oliver (cameo)
 * Stepney (cameo)
 * Stephen Hatt (cameo)
 * Bridget Hatt (cameo)
 * Cyril the Fogman (cameo)
 * Farmer Trotter (cameo)
 * The Storyteller (cameo)
 * Nancy (deleted scene cameo)

Locations

 * Lower Tidmouth
 * Dryaw
 * Callan
 * Maron
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Maithwaite Quarry Mine
 * Tidmouth Bay
 * Maithwaite (mentioned)

Trivia

 * A scrap Thomas and Lorry 2 model are seen at the mine.
 * Several of the miniature garden gnomes were preserved by The Coffey Man Preservation after they were all sold from the Prop Store in Los Angeles.
 * The large scale models of the garden gnomes are used in the shot where Percy runs away from the mine.
 * When the quarry mine is first shown, the garages next to the shed in Boo! Boo! Choo-Choo can be seen next to the scrap model of Thomas.

Goofs

 * In the long shot of Percy leaving Tidmouth Sheds, the steam platform blows steam too late.
 * In the close-ups of Percy during the scene of the Fat Controller telling him about the gnomes (except when he says "Garden gnomes?") the sky is grey.
 * The narrator said that Percy "buffered up" to the trucks, but he stopped some distance away from them.
 * When Percy enters Dryaw and when he leaves to return to the vans, his steam platform is visible.
 * Stepney has Skarloey's whistle sound.
 * In the US narration, Alec Baldwin does not give Donald and Douglas Scottish accents.
 * The narrator says the Percy steamed back to Lower Tidmouth station, even though he had not come from there in the first place. The Fat Controller had not even told Percy to take the garden gnomes to Lower Tidmouth station before that.

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway - Haunted Mine
 * Books - Percy and the Haunted Mine and Percy and the Haunted Mine (Germany only)

UK

 * Brave Little Engines
 * The Complete Sixth Series

DVD Boxsets

 * Classic Collection

US

 * Thomas and the Jet Engine and Other Adventures
 * Thomas' Halloween Adventures

DVD Boxsets

 * Adventure On the Tracks
 * Thomas' Halloween Adventure/Percy's Ghostly Trick Double Feature
 * Thomas Gets Tricked and Other Stories/Thomas' Halloween Adventures
 * Play Date Pack
 * Totally Thomas Volume 8

AUS

 * Twin Trouble
 * The Complete Sixth Series

DVD Boxsets

 * 60th Anniversary - Limited Edition Boxset
 * Complete Series 1-10

NOR

 * Scaredy Engines (Norwegian DVD)

ITA

 * Percy and the Haunted Mine (Italian DVD)

SWE/DK

 * The World's Strongest Engine (Swedish DVD)

JPN

 * Strange Story of Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Thomas the Tank Engine Series 6 Vol.4

PHL

 * The World's Strongest Engine (Philippine DVD)

MYS

 * Scaredy Engines and Other Thomas Adventures
 * Scaredy Engines and Other Adventures

TWN

 * Thomas and Friends Volume 14 (Taiwanese DVD)