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“If any engine should get their picture in the paper, it should be a modern diesel engine, like me.”
― Diesel

Wild Water Rescue is the twenty-sixth and final episode of the nineteenth series.

Plot

There has been a big storm on Sodor, and Percy is helping the Sodor Search and Rescue team to clear up the mess and rescue anyone who needs help. Back at the rescue centre, the Fat Controller proudly announces that the team have completed their one-thousandth rescue. To celebrate, the mayor is to present the rescue centre with a new alarm bell.

At Brendam Docks, Percy tells Thomas all about the mayor and the new alarm bell. Percy hopes that he will have his photograph taken and placed in the Sodor Newspaper. Thomas is sure that the photographer will only want photos of the rescue team, but Percy is too busy practicing his photo face to listen. Diesel overhears them talking, and believes that the only engine who should get his picture in the newspaper is a modern diesel engine, like himself.

Percy heads towards Knapford to pick up the mayor, still practicing his photo face. He stops at a level crossing, where Diesel pulls up next to him. Diesel tells him that the mayor is waiting for him at the old quarry. Percy is puzzled, but he does not want to be late to have his photograph taken, so he hurries away towards the quarry. Meanwhile, Diesel heads to Knapford and tells the Fat Controller that Percy has a problem and cannot take them to the rescue centre. So the Fat Controller and the mayor climb aboard Diesel's coach.

Percy arrives at the gloomy old quarry, unaware that Diesel has sent him on a wild goose chase. As he looks around for the mayor, he gets spooked by some crows and puffs straight into a flooded section of track. The water splashes his fire, leaving poor Percy stranded.

Meanwhile, at the rescue centre, the mayor proudly presents the team with their brand new alarm bell. A photographer arrives and asks the rescue vehicles to gather for their photograph. Diesel tries to get into the photo too, but the photographer only wants the rescue vehicles in his photo. So Diesel sheepishly reverses out of the frame.

Later that evening, Diesel brings the Fat Controller and the mayor back to Knapford, still sulking that he could not be in the photograph with the rescue team. Thomas overhears and becomes confused: he thought Percy was supposed to be at the rescue centre, not Diesel. Thomas then firmly asks him where Percy is, and Diesel remembers that he sent Percy to the quarry, so he hurries there at once.

Diesel finds Percy stranded in the water, which he finds quite amusing. He offers to help him, boasting that he has a generator instead of a firebox. But as Diesel oils into the water, his generator fizzes and sparks, and he breaks down right behind Percy. Percy feels very guilty that he has caused both engines to get stuck, but Diesel confesses that he tricked Percy into coming to the quarry so that he could pick up the mayor instead. He even tries to say sorry, but he cannot quite bring himself to say it. Suddenly, Harold appears above them, and the rescue team puffs into the quarry, along with Thomas, the Fat Controller, the mayor and the photographer, who manages to snap a picture of Diesel being lifted out of the water by Rocky.

The next day, Percy puffs into the Dieselworks and finds Diesel having his generator fixed. He thanks Diesel for trying to save him from the water, even if he did trick him in the first place. The Fat Controller arrives too and shows Diesel the newspaper. On the front cover is the photograph of Diesel being lifted by Rocky. Percy jokes that Diesel managed to get his picture taken after all, and Diesel cannot help but smile proudly.

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Cast

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Trivia

  • Going by production order, this is the twenty-first episode of the nineteenth series.
  • Just as in Toad and the Whale and Rocky Rescue, the Sodor Search and Rescue team's theme, which plays at various points during the episode, is an arrangement of Percy's and Harold's themes by Robert Hartshorne.
  • Edited stock footage from Henry Spots Trouble is used.
  • This episode was released on the Wild Water Rescue and Other Engine Adventures US DVD on 16th June 2015. Almost three years after the DVD's release, the episode aired on TV on 15th March 2018 on Nick Jr. It also took two years after the episode's first release to air in the UK.
  • The area where Harold helps rescue the lady appears to be a modified set of where Duck was stuck in the water on his branch line, as a railway bridge is positioned in the exact same position, with the rails removed. Both episodes have similar scenes of Harold flying over the bridge.
  • Despite the search and rescue team playing a major role in this episode, Harold and Rocky were the only ones who spoke.
  • In the Nick Jr US broadcast of the episode, it was paired with Blown Away.
  • The episode's plot points are similar to the tenth series episode, James the Second Best.
  • This marks the only episode of two things:
    • The only appearance of The Old Quarry.
    • The only time Elsbridge is mentioned by name in the television series.
  • This episode marked the last of several things:
  • This episode has Percy's third crash in water. The first was Percy Takes the Plunge and the second was Percy's Promise. Although he got an accident with water in Thomas and the Storyteller, it did not show how Percy got in to the flooded track.
  • In the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Baltic Russian and Vietnamese dubs, the UK English dub can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.

Goofs

  • David Bedella is not credited in the UK credits despite voicing the Mayor.
  • The brake van in Henry's train changes colours.
  • Despite the water going as high as Diesel's buffers, he has water stains on his face as he is lifted out.
  • When the picture is about to be taken, Diesel moves off the rails.
  • When the photographer tells Diesel to move, Rocky is in a different position.
  • Cranky is missing from his usual spot at Brendam Docks.
  • An announcement through a loudspeaker at Knapford can be heard saying "Now arriving at Platform 1 is the 3:10 from Elsbridge," but Diesel is the one pulling into Platform 1.

In Other Languages

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Language Title
Brazilian Portuguese Salvamento em águas Desertas
Czech Divoká Vodní Záchrana
Dutch Wild Water Redding
Japanese パーシーをきゅうしゅつせよ!
Korean 물에 빠진 퍼시
Latin American Spanish Rescate Acuático
Polish Ratunek w Starym Kamieniołomie
Romanian Salvarea din Apă

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