Thomas and the Runaway Car

"Oh no!"

- Arthur's horror at upsetting the fish

Thomas and the Runaway Car is an eleventh season episode.

Plot
Thomas has been given the important job of taking the Fat Controller's new car to the Sodor Show. Gordon himself has the job of taking the bandstand to the show and challenges Thomas to a race. Gordon manages to get a head start and Thomas is impatient to start, and when he does he forgets to have the truck coupled on; ergo, the truck breaks away on Gordon's Hill. Thomas follows in hot pursuit, but can't stop the truck from frightening Arthur and splattering Rosie with mud, and at last the truck crashes into some buffers and the car goes flying into a haystack. When Thomas sees Gordon again, he asks the big blue engine to get Rocky to put the car back on the truck, and to thank him gives him the car to deliver.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * Percy
 * Arthur
 * Rosie
 * Rocky
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * James (cameo)
 * Cranky (cameo)
 * Lady Hatt (cameo)
 * Jem Cole (cameo)

Trivia

 * The "new" car model is actually the same old one.

Goofs

 * Gordon has coaches in one scene and a flatbed in the next.
 * At the top of Gordon's Hill the couplings clang and drop before the flatbed moves away; but it was said that the flatbed wasn't coupled up.
 * When the flatbed speeds past Arthur he speeds up after his trucks clear the points.
 * When the flatbed passes Rosie it splashes mud all over her, but when Thomas runs by he doesn't.
 * The car was not secured to the flatbed, so it would have fallen off anyway.