This article is about the episode. You may be looking for the magazine story. |
- "You're a very reliable engine!"
- ― Dowager Hatt to Percy
Percy and the Left Luggage, retitled Percy and the Baggage in American releases, is the twentieth episode of the eleventh series.
Plot
It is summertime on the Island of Sodor, which Percy enjoys. One day, the Fat Controller gives Percy four jobs: to deliver the holiday mail, deliver the lights for the town hall, take the children to their summer party and take Dowager Hatt's luggage to the airport before her flight leaves. Percy puffs out of the sheds excitedly.
Percy puffs to a junction, where he is tasked to make a decision: go left to Maithwaite and pick up Dowager Hatt's luggage, or go straight to collect his train at the postal depot. Percy assumes collecting the luggage will be easy and he can do it later, so he continues straight to collect his post train.
Percy makes several stops and uncouples trucks to be unloaded. Afterward, he comes to a junction, where he must once again make a decision: go left to Brendam Docks, or go straight to Maithwaite. Assuming it will be a simple job, Percy ignores Dowager Hatt's luggage again in favour of collecting lights at Brendam Docks.
After finishing his previous job, Percy goes to collect the children and take them to the party, as he has completely forgotten about Dowager Hatt's luggage. Percy collects the children and, later on, stops to take on water. Whilst at the water tower, Percy sees the Fat Controller's car driving to the airport. He then realises that he is late to collect the luggage and he cannot take the children to the party. Percy finds Edward in a siding and tells him everything. Edward is happy to help take the children to the party and Percy races to Maithwaite.
Percy goes as fast as he can to get to the airport before the Fat Controller arrives and is successfully able to make it. Percy and the Fat Controller watch as Jeremy flies with Dowager Hatt and Percy learns to never leave things until the last minute.
Characters
- Edward
- Percy
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Dowager Hatt (not named in US dub)
- Jeremy (does not speak)
- Thomas (cameo)
- Annie and Clarabel (cameos)
- Cranky (cameo)
- Stephen Hatt (cameo)
- Bridget Hatt (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt's Assistants (cameos)
- The Storyteller (cameo)
- Big Mickey (faceless, cameo)
- Gordon (stock footage cameo)
Locations
- The Church Runby
- The Fishing Village
- Tidmouth Sheds
- Tower Windmill
- Maithwaite
- Wellsworth
- Maron
- Peel Godred
- Four-Track Junction and Sidings
- Brendam Docks
- Three Tier Bridge
- Sodor Airport
- The Mail Depot (mentioned)
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the twenty-fourth episode of the eleventh series.
- A photograph from this episode was released as a Royal Mail stamp in 2011 to mark the Reverend W. Awdry's centenary.
- The US dub of this episode was never released on home media.
- This episode marks Thomas' only non-speaking role in the eleventh series.
- Stock footage from Dream On and Gordon and the Engineer is used, as well as edited and extended footage from Thomas and the Storyteller.
- This episode was never released on DVD or shown on television in Norway. It was only released on a website in 2015.
- This is the last episode of several locations and things:
- The final appearance of Wellsworth in the model era, its last appearance until Day of the Diesels, and its last appearance in an episode until the fifteenth series episode, Tree Trouble.
- The last appearance of Wellsworth Bridge in the model era and its last appearance until the sixteenth series episode, Sodor Surprise Day.
- The final episode to air on American television during David Mitton and George Carlin's lifetime before their deaths in 2008, not counting the UK DVD release of the Engines and Escapades made in the same year before they would air on American television.
- The last appearance of Peel Godred in the series until the All Engines Go reboot episode, The Super-Long Shortcut, not counting a map appearance in the 2015 special, Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.
- The final appearance of the Norramby Fishing Village in the model series.
- This episode is one of three which have had not appeared on German home media. The other episodes are Dirty Work and Thomas and the Stinky Cheese.
- Both this episode and the previous episode aired on Veterans Day 2007 in the United States.
Goofs
- Because stock footage of Gordon and the Engineer is used, although one is not seen, a shadow at the top of the screen reveals that there are three signals in the shot of Gordon with the express. However, there are only two tracks, so the third signal is redundant. Also, they are all up, so Gordon is technically passing a signal at danger.
- When Percy sees the Fat Controller's car for the first time driving past him as he takes on water, the car begins to stop at the end of the scene as it goes round the bend.
- In the Polish dub, Dowager Hatt is referred as male.
- In the close-up shot of Jeremy with Dowager Hatt, a bit of Jeremy's close-up model can be seen missing, due to the model not being completed.
- Some of the same people are at both Maron and Peel.
Merchandise
In Other Languages
View content | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home Media Releases
UKDVD BoxsetsAUS
DVD BoxsetsTHA/IDNSPNZADVD BoxsetsMYSINDJPNHK
TWN |
#01 Thomas and the Storyteller | #10 Thomas and the Big Bang | #19 Thomas and the Stinky Cheese |
#02 Emily's Rubbish | #11 Smoke and Mirrors | #20 Percy and the Left Luggage |
#03 Dream On | #12 Thomas Sets Sail | #21 Skarloey Storms Through |
#04 Dirty Work | #13 Don't Be Silly, Billy | #22 Cool Truckings |
#05 Hector the Horrid! | #14 Edward and the Mail | #23 Wash Behind Your Buffers |
#06 Gordon and the Engineer | #15 Hide and Peep | #24 Duncan Does It All |
#07 Thomas and the Spaceship | #16 Toby's Triumph | #25 Sir Handel in Charge |
#08 Henry's Lucky Day | #17 Thomas and the Runaway Car | #26 Ding-a-Ling |
#09 Thomas and the Lighthouse | #18 Thomas in Trouble | |