Thomas and Friends - 3x4 - Gordon & the Famous Visitor
Season 3, Episode 4 (US)
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00:00It was an important day in the yard. Everyone was busy and excited, making notes and taking photographs.
00:10A special visitor had arrived and was now the center of attention.
00:16Who is that? whispered Thomas to Duck.
00:23That, said Duck proudly, is a celebrity.
00:26A what? asked Percy.
00:28A celebrity is a very famous engine, replied Duck. Driver says we can talk to him soon.
00:34Oh, said Thomas, he's probably too famous to even notice us.
00:40Just then Gordon arrived.
00:43Ha, said Gordon. Who cares? A lot of fuss about nothing, if you ask me.
00:49And he steamed away.
00:54Later that night, the engines found that the visitor wasn't conceited at all.
00:59He enjoyed talking to the other engines till long after the stars came out.
01:05He left early next morning. Gordon was still complaining.
01:09Good riddance, he grumbled, chattering all night. Who is he anyway?
01:14Duck told you, replied Thomas, he's famous.
01:18As famous as me? Nonsense.
01:21He's famouser than you. He went a hundred miles an hour before you were even thought of.
01:26Ha, so he says, huffed Gordon. But I didn't like his looks.
01:30He's got no dome. Never trust domeless engines. They're not respectable.
01:35I never boast, but I'd say a hundred miles an hour would be easy for me.
01:40Goodbye.
01:43Duck took some freight cars to Edward's station.
01:46Hello, called Edward.
01:48That famous engine came through this morning. He whistled to me. Wasn't he kind?
01:53He's the finest engine in the world, replied Duck.
01:56Then he told Edward what Gordon had said.
01:59Take no notice, soothed Edward. He's just jealous.
02:03He thinks no engine should be famous but him.
02:06Look, he's coming now.
02:09Gordon was running very fast. His wheels pounded the rails.
02:14He did it. I'll do it. He did it. I'll do it.
02:18Gordon's train rocketed past and was gone.
02:22He'll knock himself to bits, chuckled Duck.
02:32Gordon's driver eased him off.
02:34Steady, Gordon. We aren't running a race.
02:38We are then, said Gordon, but he said it to himself.
02:45Suddenly, Gordon began to feel a little strange.
02:48The top of my boiler seems funny, he thought.
02:51It feels as if something is loose. I'd better go slower.
02:55But it was too late.
02:57On the viaduct, they met the wind.
02:59It was a teasing wind which blew suddenly in hard puffs.
03:03Gordon thought it wanted to push him off the bridge.
03:06No, you don't, he said firmly.
03:09But the wind had other ideas.
03:11It curled round his boiler, crept under his loose dome
03:14and lifted it off and away into the valley below.
03:19Gordon was most uncomfortable.
03:22The cold wind was whistling through the hole where his dome should be
03:25and he felt silly without it.
03:31At the big station, the freight cars laughed at him.
03:37Gordon tried to wheesh them away.
03:42But they crowded round no matter what he did.
03:47On the way back to the shed, he wanted his driver to stop and fetch his dome.
03:51We'll never find it now, said the driver.
03:54You'll have to go to the works for a new one.
03:57Gordon was very cross.
04:01I hope the shed is empty tonight, he huffed to himself.
04:09But all the engines were there waiting.
04:16Never trust domeless engines, said a voice from somewhere behind him.
04:21They aren't respectable.
04:30.