Trucks

"Trucks", retitled "Rusty Helps Peter Sam" in American releases, is a fourth season episode. It first aired on October the 7th, 1994.

Plot
Sir Handel is advised by Gordon that if he were ill, he couldn't shunt trucks. Sir Handel takes the hint, and when he pulls a "sickie" the next day Peter Sam is allocated his trucks. He takes them to the slate mines and waits for his full ones, but the trucks mistake him for Sir Handel and brake their coupling, smashing into him and cracking his funnel and denting his boiler. Rusty helps him, and the Fat Controller reprimands Sir Handel for not warning Peter Sam.

Featured characters

 * Sir Handel
 * Peter Sam
 * Rusty
 * Gordon
 * Harold
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rheneas (cameo)
 * Duke (cameo)
 * Bertie (cameo)
 * Thomas (cameo)
 * Percy (cameo)

Goofs

 * In the first shot Rheneas appears, but he is supposed to be at the works.
 * When Harold speaks to Rusty his battery latch is visible underneath him.
 * When Sir Handel shunts trucks, the sound is noticably off.
 * As Peter Sam puffs away with the trucks and coaches in the American narration, he has Skarloey's whistle sound.
 * In the aerial shot of Peter Sam a stage light is visible in the top left of the screen.
 * The narrator says "Empty trucks at the bottom of the slope are hitched to a steel rope", but the rope isn't steel. In the American narration it says that they are hitched to a cable.
 * When the rope is connected to the empty trucks it reduces slack like it is being pulled, but in the next scene the trucks at the top of the slope are stationary.
 * How could the trucks not see properly? Sir Handel and Peter Sam both have vibrant colours.
 * After the trucks crash into Peter Sam, they appear to crash into him again and more debris appears on the ground, indicating that the film was cut. In addition, the truck flying toward the aqueduct fades away at the last second.
 * The trucks' faces are missing when they crash into Peter Sam.
 * When Sir Handel says "I didn't think" and he rolls his eyes his left eye sticks and drops back into his head.
 * On the back of "Thomas' Trackside Tunes" this episode is said to have never been released on video; but it appeared on the "Rusty to the Rescue" video.
 * The same VHS shows the British title and then credits George Carlin as the narrator.