Mr. Perkins' Storytime and Postcards

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Mr. Perkins' Storytime and Postcards were a series of segments in which Mr. Perkins either retells a Railway Series story or answers a letter from someone about different Sodor locations inside Mr. Edwards' Signal Box. After the death of Ben Forster on 2 January 2017, it was superseded by Storytime with Mr. Evans with Mark Moraghan.

Ten of the Storytime and Postcard segments were included on Thomas & Friends US, Canadian, UK, and Australian DVDs and digital releases from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth series. Most of these ten Storytime and Postcard segments have different UK/Australian and US/Canadian dubs when terms such as "trucks"/"cars" or "The Fat Controller"/"Sir Topham Hatt" are referred to. Most of these segments were also dubbed into other languages.

An additional ten Storytime segments were released exclusively on YouTube as part of Thomas' YouTube World Tour in 2015, all of which use US/Canadian terminology in the English dub and none of which were released on DVD. The Japanese dubbed version of these segments were exclusively uploaded on YouTube between November 2021 and June 2022.

Stories[]

The Flying Kipper - (Santa's Little Engine DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
Trucks! - (The Thomas Way DVD; UK, Spills and Thrills DVD; US/CAN, Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures DVD; UK/AUS)
Thomas and Gordon - (Spills and Thrills DVD; UK, Wild Water Rescue and Other Engine Adventures; US/CAN)
Pop Goes the Diesel - (Trouble on the Tracks DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
Thomas and the Breakdown Train - (Tale of the Brave DVD; UK/AUS, Engines to the Rescue DVD; US)
A Scarf for Percy - (The Christmas Engines DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
Thomas Goes Fishing - (Signals Crossed DVD; US/CAN/UK, The Adventure Begins PBS Kids Broadcast; US)
Edward and Gordon - (Dinos and Discoveries DVD; UK/US/CAN/AUS/ITA/POL/NL/FRA/SPN, The Complete Series 18; Dinos and Discoveries Bonus Disc)
Toby's Tightrope - (Trouble on the Tracks DVD; UK/AUS, Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures DVD; US/CAN)
Gordon Goes Foreign - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Thomas' Train - (Railway Mischief DVD; UK/AUS, Tales on the Rails DVD; US/CAN)
Henry and the Elephant - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Thomas Comes to Breakfast - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Thomas in Trouble - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Ghost Train - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Thomas and Bertie - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Percy and Harold - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Thomas, Terence and the Snow - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Sir Topham Hatt's Engines - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)
Trouble in the Shed - (Thomas' YouTube World Tour)

Postcards[]

Ulfstead Castle - (Santa's Little Engine DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
Blue Mountain Quarry - (The Thomas Way DVD; UK, Spills and Thrills DVD; US/CAN, Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures DVD; UK/AUS)
Knapford Station - (Spills and Thrills DVD; UK, Wild Water Rescue and Other Engine Adventures DVD; US)
The Dieselworks - (Trouble on the Tracks DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
The Steamworks - (Tale of the Brave DVD; UK/AUS, Engines to the Rescue DVD; US)
Tidmouth Sheds - (The Christmas Engines DVD; US/CAN/UK/AUS)
Bridges - (Signals Crossed DVD; US/CAN/UK, The Adventure Begins PBS Kids Broadcast; US)
Shunting Yards - (Dinos and Discoveries DVD; UK/US/CAN/AUS/ITA/POL/NL/FRA/SPN, The Complete Series 18; Dinos and Discoveries Bonus Disc)
Ffarquhar Quarry - (Trouble on the Tracks DVD; UK/AUS, Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures DVD; US)
Brendam Docks - (Railway Mischief DVD; UK/AUS, Tales on the Rails DVD; US)

Trivia[]

A Scarf for Percy is the only Storytime Segment to be based on its television series adaptation rather than its original Railway Series counterpart, possibly due to the latter being shorter than most Railway Series stories.
Gordon Goes Foreign is the only Storytime segment to be based on a Railway Series-only story.
Thomas Goes Fishing and Bridges are the only Storytime and Postcards segments to date to air on television, as they were shown with the PBS airing of The Adventure Begins.
The last illustration of Trouble in the Shed of Gordon and Henry is modelled after the second illustration of Hullo Twins! from The Twin Engines.
During the eponymous song in Pop Goes the Diesel, the lyrics "like a big black weasel" were altered to "like a great big weasel".

Goofs[]

Trucks!

Skarloey appears in one of the new illustrations, but he was away being repaired during this story.
The slate truck in the first illustration is derailed.

The Flying Kipper

When Mr. Perkins gets to the bit about the goods train waiting in the siding in the UK version, it is clear to see that it has been dubbed over the US version as when he says "goods train", his lip movements still read "freight train".

Gordon Goes Foreign

Duck is incorrectly depicted with a 2-6-0 wheel arrangement in the first illustration.

Thomas' Train

Henry is painted blue in the first illustration, but is painted green in the second.
Thomas' headcode changes while going under the bridge and changes back when he reaches the signal box.

Ghost Train

The seventh illustration depicts Thomas, Percy, and Toby being outside the sheds infront of the doors, despite showing them inside it in the previous illustration. And a bit of the ceiling can be seen between Toby and Percy.

Ulfstead Castle

Mr. Perkins refers to Stephen as "a Stephenson's Rocket", but there was only one original Rocket in the real world. Stephen previously identified himself as the original Rocket in King of the Railway.