Thomas and Friends Ranked: Best To Worst

Henry collides with a goods train while pulling "The Flying Kipper". The Fat Controller sends him to Crewe for repairs and he comes back with a new shape and a larger firebox meaning that he no longer needs special coal.

The other engines don't believe Henry when he says he's sick, but soon even the crew notices and try to figure out what to do for him. It turns out the problem can be solved if a special kind of coal can be gotten for him.

Rusty is worried about a boulder that appears to be watching him. One day, the boulder falls off it's ledge and chases Rusty and his friends down the track.

When Edward points out to Douglas that Trevor was spared from becoming scrap-metal and that help is needed, Douglas, who narrowly escaped the fate himself, is inspired that night to rescue Oliver, a stranded steam-engine, from diesels.

Skarloey tells Duncan the story of Rheneas' bravery and hard-working attitude even after suffering a breakdown, hoping Duncan will learn a thing or two. A few days, Rheneas returns to the railway.

Percy is complaining because he feels overworked. The other engines were unsympathetic, but their attitudes change after Percy is involved in a disastrous accident at the coal mine.

Percy, Toby and Duck want to hear a story, so Thomas tells them the story of Duke . . .

Duncan makes fun of Peter Sam's accident by saying he'll be haunted by his damaged freight-cars, and Rusty tells him a ghost-story and, when he acts bored, Peter Sam has Duncan's crew help make him think he's being chased by the ghost.

Though Duck silences them, Diesel blames him for the freight-trucks' taunts. Henry protests that nobody confides in the trucks, so Diesel tells them jokes about the biggest three, saying they're Duck's, since the trucks want revenge.

Toby is by the river just in time to see that the dam is breaking, so is quick to leave to give out a warning. But he is forced to cross the bridge over the flooded river when it breaks and drifts off toward a waterfall.

James' brakes catch fire and his freight-trucks push him out of control, forcing Thomas to use a breakdown-train to help him and to deal with the trucks that he has gotten used to.

Edward has trouble even starting up, earning scorn from James and Gordon, but his biggest problem is when he has to put all his strength and determination into finishing a journey through a storm that damages him.

Donald and Douglas are well-loved especially since they're a big help in winter, but worry that they will be sent away and turned into scrap. Edward suggests someone should talk to the Fat Controller, and the hard job falls to Percy.

Sir Topham Hatt runs into bother on the way to his wife's birthday party.

Duck loves to watch sailboats at the harbor and wonders what it's like to go elsewhere when Harold tells him he's been there, until he annoys Percy by discussing his wishes. But he's reminded of how good his work is by helping Harold.

It is a proud day for all the engines on The Fat Controller's Railway as the Queen is coming to visit. Henry misses the chance at pulling the Queen's train when a pot of paint gets tipped over him, but Gordon and Thomas are there to help out.

Stepney goes to help Toby and Mavis and works hard, even taking a special train. But he starts his return late and follows a point set up wrong so that he ends up lost - and in the area he fears the most, the diesels' scrapyard.

Sent to Edward's station until the big engines' anger at him over Diesel's lies cools, Duck has to avoid a group of runaway trucks that try to force him into an accident.

Oliver is always teased by the freight-trucks so not even Duck, Thomas, and Percy can silence them. His brake-van Toad convinces him to put all his energy into forcing the trucks to move when they refuse so they'll leave him alone.

James is complaining about working with dirty freight cars instead of taking passengers.

Henry believes that ghosts are haunting him while taking a late night goods train.

When Rusty hears that another engine is needed to help run his favorite line, he asks Douglas if he knows of any stranded in the scrapyard he saved Oliver from. Only diesels go there now, so Rusty ventures out and meets Stepney.

Edward is teased by James about his weakness, but when his controls are tampered with and he goes out of control, James has to hope that Edward will be fast enough to pull him to a stop.

Thomas is mad at James for boasting about his shiny new coat of paint.

Hard-working Duck is unimpressed with the flattering trial-engine Diesel who claims there's nothing his kind doesn't know since they're so great. Duck challenges him to shunt, and Diesel runs into trouble when he tries.