The Diseasel

"The Diseasel" is a second season episode. It first aired on October the 24th, 1986.

Plot
Bill and Ben are shunting china clay trucks and leave to collect some more, but return to find them gone. Their crews deduce that the thief is a diesel, and the two go to find the diesel. They soon find him in the yard, and to pay him out confound him into thinking there is one engine capable of teleporting onto different lines, until Edward shows up and explains. The twins apologise to the diesel, who calls himself BoCo, and leave Edward and BoCo to make humour of the situation.

Featured characters

 * Edward
 * Bill and Ben
 * BoCo

Trivia

 * BoCo's faces are really Daisy's with the makeup removed.

Goofs

 * One of Bill and Ben's drivers say "We'll take away your names and numbers", but the twins don't have numbers.
 * When Bill and Ben leave their trucks, there appear to be fingers pulling them away.
 * In the scene after Bill and Ben leave Brendam, the twins don't disappear. They just stop right at the top of the screen.
 * When Bill and Ben puff through Wellsworth a studio beam is visible at the top.
 * As Bill and Ben puff into the shed behind BoCo's train, look to the left of the shed to see what appears to be a soup can.
 * The narrator says Ben (on BoCo's right) went forward, but he goes to the left in the next shot.
 * When Ben comes up next to BoCo, BoCo looks to his right, but when Bill comes up Boco doesn't look to his left.
 * In the British narration Ringo Starr says "Bill pretended to be frightened", but in the American narration he says "Bill pretended not to be frightened".
 * When Ringo Starr says "Bill took his place" the track where Ben was previously bounced up.
 * When Edward arrives his bogie is derailed.
 * When the twins apologise to BoCo, Edward disappears.
 * As the camera moves towards BoCo at the end of the episode, you can see part of the studio reflected in his windows.

Episode
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