Mavis (episode)

"Fiddlesticks!"

- Mavis

Mavis is the fourteenth episode of the third season. It first aired on Shining Time Station in the episode "Do I Hear?" in 1991.

Plot
Mavis is a young, inexperienced Diesel who insists on pushing her trucks into different places every day, to Toby's fury. Eventually, Toby loses patience and tells Mavis to take her trucks herself, and when Diesel creeps into the quarry he tells her steam engines are second to diesels, which only makes things worse. Mavis soon ignores Toby's advice on the hill outside of Ffarquhar, but when the trucks get revenge for her bumping them, she is stuck on the hill and cannot move. Toby goes to help so as not to incur the wrath of the Fat Controller, and manages to push her back. Mavis, ashamed, quickly shunts her trucks and scurries home.

Characters

 * Toby
 * Diesel
 * Mavis
 * Terence (cameo)
 * Bertie (cameo)
 * Jem Cole (cameo)
 * Sir Topham Hatt (mentioned)

Locations

 * Anopha Quarry

Trivia

 * This episode is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, Tramway Engines.
 * Stock footage from Donald's Duck is used.
 * This is the last episode to use the full outro music.

Goofs

 * Just before Mavis approaches the lane, a steam platform can be seen.
 * Mavis' last truck has a crooked face.
 * When Toby complains that he warned Mavis shadows pass over him in a couple of shots.
 * When Toby pushes Mavis out of the lane, the scene has obviously been cut.
 * Bertie is smiling when he is stuck at the crossing.
 * What is Diesel doing on Thomas' branchline, let alone on the North Western Railway?
 * The narrator states that Diesel knew nothing about trucks. However, being a Class 08, he knows plenty!
 * Terence disappears when Toby pushes Mavis out of the lane.

Episode
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