Thomas Tries His Best

"Thomas Tries His Best" is a ninth season episode. It aired in October 16, 2005.

Plot
Thomas is looking forward to a fair, but on the day he is asked to take some chickens to Brendam. Farmer McColl has a flat tyre and is a long time arriving, and when Thomas finally unloads the chickens he is worried that he will have missed the fair; but the generator for the fair breaks down and Thomas takes the new one there.

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Edward (does not speak)
 * Henry (does not speak)
 * Percy (does not speak)
 * Toby (cameo)
 * Emily (cameo)
 * Henrietta (cameo)
 * Cranky (mentioned)

Trivia
During the night, Thomas is delivering the chickens to the Docks when he meets Emily. Emily offers to take the chickens in Thomas' place, so that he can get to the funfair. But, Emily takes the chickens in such a rush that Thomas decides to take the chickens again!
 * One of the Learning Segments featured in Season 9 showed a deleted scene from this episode:

Goofs

 * At the start of this episode, Thomas has Percy's whistle sound.
 * Throughout this whole episode, Gordon has Henry's whistle sound.
 * Farmer McColl has railway access at his farm, so there is no need for him to delivery the chickens to Dryaw station by lorry.