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“Hmm. Look and listen. If he's a tuba player, he might be playing the tuba.”
― Harvey

Thomas and the Tuba is the first episode of the eighth series.

Plot

It is Lady Hatt's birthday, and a big party is being held. A brass band is going to be playing and the Fat Controller tells Thomas to collect them, much to the annoyance of James and Gordon. When Thomas arrives at Knapford with Annie and Clarabel, he is very excited. Unfortunately, he is so excited that he accidentally leaves the tuba player behind, and it is only when he arrives at Maithwaite that the band leader realizes this. The band players know they can not play at the party without him. Embarrassed about what happened, Thomas goes to find him, unaware that the tuba player is already at the bus stop under the railway bridge. Bertie takes the tuba player as far as he can.

Thomas makes it back to Knapford, only to discover that the tuba player is no longer there. So, he looks for him somewhere else. Bertie drops him off at another bus stop, and then Elizabeth gives him a lift. Thomas is in such a rush looking for the tuba player that when he flies through the crossing, he does not see Elizabeth with the tuba player, or hears the tuba player playing his tuba. Elizabeth takes the tuba player to the windmill, where Trevor gives him a ride. Once again, Thomas is rushing about looking between trucks and coaches, and does not see or hear the tuba player aboard Trevor when he passes them.

Thomas is looking around Knapford Yards when he sees Percy shunting trucks of bunting. He applies his brakes, but it is too late. He crashes into Percy and sends bunting in the air. After Harvey arrives and Thomas tells him what happened, Harvey advises him to look and listen. So, taking Harvey's advice, Thomas searches more carefully until he hears the tuba player aboard Trevor and then takes him to Lady Hatt's birthday party.

Characters

Locations

Trivia

Goofs

  • The narrator says that the Fat Controller arrived at Tidmouth Sheds, but Thomas, Gordon and James are at the Works.
  • The narrator calls Elizabeth's container a wagon, then later a flatbed, but she does not have a wagon or flatbed.
  • The narrator says that Thomas and the trucks of bunting came off the track, but Thomas is not derailed.
  • Elizabeth does not make the sounds of a steam-powered vehicle, instead sounding like a conventional petrol-driven engine.
  • In some close-ups of Elizabeth, her eye mechanism is visible in her cab.
  • Trevor's eyes are misaligned when Thomas leaves for Maithwaite.
  • Thomas travels through the same factory complex twice; once when he looks inside the Express Coaches, and once when he passes George.
  • In the US dub, Michael Brandon mispronounces the word tuba as "tuber" when the Tuba player is on Elizabeth's container.
  • In the Russian dub, the tuba player is misreferred to as a "trumpeter".

Merchandise

In Other Languages

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Language Title
Brazilian Portuguese Thomas e a Tuba
Chinese Mandarin 托马斯和大号
Croatian Tomica i tuba
Czech Tomáš a trubka
Danish Thomas og tubaen
Dutch Thomas en de Tuba
Finnish Tuomas ja Torvisoittokunta
German Thomas und die Tuba
Hungarian Thomas és a tubás
Italian Thomas e il Suonatore di Tuba
Japanese トーマスとチューバ
Korean 토마스와 나팔 연주자
Latin American Spanish Thomas y la Tuba
Norwegian Thomas og tubaen
Polish Tomek i Tuba
Romanian Thomas și Tuba
Russian Томас и трубач
Swedish Thomas och tubaspelaren

Home Media Releases

UK

DVD Boxsets

AUS

  • All Aboard with the Steam Team (Direct-to-Home Video)
  • The Complete Series 8

DVD Boxsets

US/CAN

DVD Boxsets

ZA

DVD Boxsets

NL

NOR/SWE/DK

FIN

GER

MYS

THA

POL

HUN

  • Thomas the Tank Engine 4 - Gordon, the Role Model

DVD Boxsets

CZ

ROM

DVD Packs

JPN

SPN

DVD Boxsets

HK

TWN

KOR


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