[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
children:
♪ They're two, they're four ♪
♪ They're six, they're eight ♪
♪ Shunting trucks
and hauling freight ♪
♪ Red and green
and brown and blue ♪
♪ They're the really
useful crew ♪
♪ All with different roles
to play ♪
♪ Round Tidmouth Sheds
or far away ♪
♪ Down the hills
and round the bends ♪
♪ Thomas and his friends ♪
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[instrumental music]
♪ ♪
male narrator:
Henry in the dark.
[upbeat music]
male narrator:
It was another busy day
at the Sodor Steamworks...
Apart from all the repairs,
there were lots of things
that needed to be painted.
Not just engines and cars...
but signs and signals too.
♪ ♪
Some signs are painted
in a special luminous paint
that glows in the dark,
so that engines can see them
when they work at night.
One day, Henry was coming to
the Steamworks to be repainted.
He was very excited.
[whistle toots]
- Hello, everyone.
- Oh, hello Henry.
As you can see,
we are very busy today.
But if you could
just wait here
I'll get Kevin to fetch
your new paint.
Kevin!
- Who ordered
these new boiler tubes?
And, uh, what's happened
to the snifting valves?
- Kevin, stop rushing.
Please go and get
Henry's new paint.
- New paint?
Right.
I'm on it, boss.
[crashing]
Oops.
[chuckles]
[tires screeching]
[crashing]
- That's our Kevin.
- [chuckles]
- There you go, Henry.
[splats]
[dings]
Now where on earth are those
snifting valves?
[whistle toots]
- Thanks, everyone.
narrator:
When the job was done,
Henry left the Steamworks
very happy,
and very green.
But as the sun went down,
and it began to get dark,
something strange
began to happen...
Henry started to glow.
He didn't know it,
but Kevin had brought him
the wrong paint.
The paint that glows
in the dark.
Thomas was just finishing
his last job of the day
when he saw Henry.
- Wha--what's that?
[gasps]
A ghost!
[dramatic musical sting]
- That's strange.
I'm sure I saw Thomas.
[whistles toots]
- [gasps]
Oh, Gordon.
I just saw...
a ghost train.
- [chuckles]
Don't be ridiculous.
There's no such thing
as a ghost train.
But even if there was,
I wouldn't be afraid
of it.
[bird squawks]
- [gasps]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
- Ah. There's James.
[spooky music]
- [gasps]
♪ ♪
Wha--wha--wha--ahh!
- What?
Where did he go?
I don't understand.
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
- Watch out, Gordon!
There's a g--ghost train
ahead.
- Nonsense, James.
There's no such thing
as a ghost train.
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
Silly little engines.
Fancy being frightened
of a--
a--oh!
- Huh?
- It was horrible.
- All ghostly and glowing.
[whistle toots]
- [panting]
- Did you see the ghost train,
Gordon?
- I, uh, did see it, Percy.
But I'm not scared
of a-a silly ghost train.
narrator:
But it wasn't just the engines
who were scared
of the ghost train...
- Oh, no. Oh, no.
- Cranky, what's wrong?
Why is everyone
running away from me?
- Henry?
Salty! Porter!
It's only Henry.
- Henry?
Why are you glowing?
- Argh.
All lit up like a lighthouse.
- I don't know what any
of you are talking about.
- Wait there
and I'll show you.
- Oh, wow.
I must have been painted
with the wrong paint.
[gasps] That's why everyone
was running away from me.
They must have thought
I was a ghost train!
[whistle toots]
[chuckles]
narrator: Henry was still
chuckling to himself
as he got ready to pull
the Flying Kipper.
[whistle toots]
- Argh!
[both laughing]
narrator: By the time Henry
arrived back at Tidmouth Sheds
it wasn't dark any more,
so his paint wasn't glowing.
- I didn't get
a wink of sleep last night
thinking about
that ghost train.
Not a wink.
- Good morning, everyone.
I have something funny
to tell you all.
- That ghost train must be the
scariest thing I've ever seen!
- You must have seen it,
Henry.
You've been out all night.
- Well, the--the thing is--
- Is it really terrifying,
Henry?
James says
it has a ghastly glow
and a horrible
wailing whistle.
- Yes.
Well actually--
- I bet Henry was shaking
in his smokebox!
- We all know what a scaredy
engine you are, Henry!
- Once an engine
attached to a train
was afraid of
a few drops of rain!
[laughter]
- I'm not scared
of that ghost train!
And yes, I have seen it.
But it didn't frighten me
at all!
- Um, what did you want
to tell us, Henry?
- It doesn't matter.
narrator: The next evening
all the engines made sure
they were back in the sheds
before it got dark.
Nobody wanted to go out while
the ghost train was about.
- I'm not going out tonight.
You'll have to take
the mail train, Thomas.
- Me? [scoffs]
I'm not doing it.
How about Edward?
- I'm not setting one wheel
out there in the dark.
- What's wrong with you all?
Somebody has to deliver
the mail. Gordon?
- [chuckles] I'm not actually
frightened, Sir.
It's just I'm having trouble
with my boiler.
Otherwise I'd be happy
to help.
Well if Henry is out there
pulling the Flying Kipper,
surely one of you
can take the mail train.
- [gasps]
Henry?
Out there all alone?
With that terrifying
ghost train?
- He's so brave.
- You silly engines!
I'm telling you all
for the last time.
There is no such thing
as a ghost train!
[whistle toots]
Ahh!
[spooky music]
all: Argh!
♪ ♪
- Only me.
- Henry?
You mean you're the ghost train?
- Why didn't you tell us?
- I tried to.
But you all laughed at me.
And said I was
a scaredy engine.
- It's not fair.
We all got told off
by Sir Topham Hatt
because of you.
- Uh,
where is Sir Topham Hatt?
all: Argh!
- [coughing, sputtering]
Oh.
Well, it's perfectly obvious
what's happened, isn't it?
- Is it?
- [chuckles] Of course.
[grunts]
Henry must have been painted
with the wrong kind
of paint.
You'll need to return
to the Steamworks
first thing in the morning
and get yourself repainted
with some proper green paint.
- Yes, Sir.
I shall, Sir.
- However, since you were
the only engine working tonight,
you'll receive
a glowing report.
[laughing]
- Thank you, Sir.
[laughter]
- Oh.
- Oh, dear.
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle trills]
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle tooting]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
20x21 - Henry in the Dark
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British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.
British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.