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"It's sails are all broken, its roof's falling in and there's a tree growing out of the wall."
"I know! It's perfect!"
"Perfect? It's old and useless."
"Just you wait and see!"
― Thomas and Ruth regarding the windmill

Thomas and the Inventor's Workshop is the fourteenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.

Plot[]

Thomas shows Ruth around Sodor to help her find a place to live. Ruth gets the idea to search along where Thomas works -- his branch line. Eventually, they come across an old windmill. Ruth renovates the windmill into her new, energy-efficient workshop.

Characters[]

Locations[]

Cast[]

UK[]

US[]

  • Joseph May as Thomas
  • Kerry Shale as Gordon
  • Christopher Ragland as Percy
  • Tracy-Ann Oberman as Daisy
  • Jamie Campbell Bower as Skiff
  • Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
  • Mike Grady as Sir Robert Norramby
  • Dominique Moore as Ruth

Trivia[]

  • Going by production order, this is the twelfth episode of the twenty-fourth series.
  • This episode, along with James the Super Engine, were the first two episodes from the twenty-fourth series to be leaked.
  • Suddery and Norramby are both mentioned in this episode.
  • This episode marks the last of a few things:
    • The last appearances of Daisy, Rex, Sir Robert Norramby, the Birdwatcher and Albert.
    • The last episode where Annie and Clarabel do not have eyebrows.
    • The last appearances of Duck, Annie, Clarabel and Skiff in the original series.
    • The last episode written by Camille Ucan and Rose Johnson.
    • Harwick's last appearance.
  • Thomas racing towards the electrical wire is a homage to the 1985 movie, Back to the Future.
  • In Poland, this episode premiered before A New Arrival, so the audience would not know who Ruth is.
  • This episode was never aired in Germany and South Korea.
  • In the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Baltic Russian dubs, the UK dub can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.
  • Albert, his wife, little Thomas, and Fuzzy can be seen walking past Ruth at Tidmouth Town Square.

Goofs[]

  • The captions on the Paramount+ release of the episode mistakenly refer to Gordon as Norman, despite Norman not appearing in the episode.

In Other Languages[]

Language Title
Baltic Russian Томас и мастерская изобретателя
Brazilian Portuguese Thomas e a Oficina da Inventora
Czech Tomáš a vynálezkyně
Dutch Thomas en de Uitvinder
Estonian Toomas ja Leiutaja Töökoda
Greek Ο Τόμας και το εργαστήρι του εφευρέτη
Hebrew תומס ובית הממציאנית
Italian La Casa Perfetta per I'inventrice
Japanese はつめいかのルースさん
Latin American Spanish Thomas y el taller de la inventora
Latvian Tomass un Izgudrotāja Darbnīca
Lithuanian Tomas ir Išradėjo Dirbtuvės
Polish Tomek i Warsztat Wynalazcy
Russian Дом для Рут
Turkish Thomas ve Mucitin Atölyesi

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