Thomas & Friends: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Thomas & Friends Season 5.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Salty's Secret
Sep 16, 2002 · 5 min
Salty, an old diesel, arrives on Sodor. He loves working by the sea but is most disappointed to find that the Fat Controller has sent for him to help out with the work at Centre Is
Harvey To The Rescue
Sep 17, 2002 · 5 min
Harvey the Crane Engine arrives in Sodor on trial. Some of the engines tease him for his strange looks but when Percy has an accident with some trucks, they soon change their minds
No Sleep For Cranky
Sep 18, 2002 · 5 min
Cranky is always feeling, well... cranky! This is because every night he has to stay up late to load and unload important goods being imported and exported at the harbour. Then one
A Bad Day For Harold The Helicopter
Sep 19, 2002 · 5 min
Percy likes taking the Post Train but when he is held up at a broken signal one day, Harold decides to deliver the loads instead, but all at once, which turns out to be a very big
Elizabeth The Vintage Lorry
Sep 20, 2002 · 5 min
Thomas, by accident, discovers an old sentinel lorry named Elizabeth who has been left in a shed for years.
The Fogman
Sep 23, 2002 · 5 min
Cyril is a fogman and the engines like him a lot. He puts out detonators to warn them when there is fog ahead. However the Fat Controller decides to replace him with a very loud fo
Jack Jumps In (1)
Sep 24, 2002 · 5 min
Thomas delivers Jack the Front Loader to a construction site where a team of vehicles from the Sodor Construction Company - "The Pack" is working under the supervision of Miss Jenn
A Friend In Need (2)
Sep 25, 2002 · 5 min
Ned the Steam Shovel accidentally knocks loose the important keystones from an old rail bridge, and Thomas is just down the line. Jack, however, with a bright idea, jumps in...
It's Only Snow
Sep 26, 2002 · 5 min
It's Christmas and Thomas and Toby have to deliver a Christmas tree to one of the villages on Thomas' branch line. However the snow is getting deeper and deeper, and when Thomas' s
Twin Trouble
Sep 27, 2002 · 5 min
Donald and Douglas have an argument and refuse to speak to or work with each other. However when Donald comes off the tracks, only one engine can come and help him...
The World's Strongest Engine
Sep 30, 2002 · 5 min
Diesel is back after Henry has an accident, and annoys the other engines by boasting about how he is the world's strongest engine. To prove it, Diesel tries to pull 20 trucks at on
Scaredy Engines
Oct 1, 2002 · 5 min
On Halloween, Edward tells the engines spooky ghost stories. The stories make Percy scared and so Thomas teases him about this. On the same night, Thomas, Percy and Duck are sent t
Percy & The Haunted Mine
Oct 2, 2002 · 5 min
Percy goes to collect some goods at the Abandoned Mine, and sees an old chimney there sink to the ground. Percy is spooked, and hears from Donald and Douglas the next morning that
Middle Engine
Oct 3, 2002 · 5 min
Percy hates being a "middle engine" where he has trucks both in front and behind him. 'Arry and Bert, the Smelter Yard diesels, trick him into being a middle engine, and James boas
James & The Red Balloon
Oct 4, 2002 · 5 min
A red hot air balloon has arrived on the Island of Sodor and Thomas is sent to fetch it. The balloon becomes a popular tourist attraction, but James worries it will take his passen
Jack Frost
Oct 7, 2002 · 5 min
The weather is getting colder so the Fat Controller asks James and Percy to make extra coal deliveries. Thomas seemingly warns Percy that he should be careful or else scary Jack Fr
Gordon Takes A Tumble
Oct 8, 2002 · 5 min
Gordon says that pulling trucks "wouldn't be dignified" and Salty teases him about this and acting "too big for his buffers". Gordon becomes cross and wants to show Salty a thing o
Percy's Chocolate Crunch
Oct 9, 2002 · 5 min
There is a water shortage on the Island of Sodor and Percy is upset because he can't be washed down as often as he would like. He gets very dirty very quickly and so decides to del
Buffer Bother
Oct 10, 2002 · 5 min
When Ben gets new buffers fitted, Bill gets jealous. Mavis advises him to forget about it, but Bill becomes so obsessed with it that he loses focus on his own work and has an accid
Toby Had A Little Lamb
Oct 11, 2002 · 5 min
Snow has arrived on the Island of Sodor, but for a farmer this has caused trouble. His lambs are trapped on the hills and only Toby can help him rescue them.
Thomas, Percy and the Squeak
Oct 14, 2002 · 5 min
An opera singer, Alicia Botti, has been invited to the Island of Sodor and Thomas is to take her to her concert. He is cleaned up ready for the journey, but when boarding Annie, Al
Thomas The Jet Engine
Oct 15, 2002 · 5 min
Thomas is sent to the harbour to pick up a jet engine, but when Cranky accidentally turns the switch on with his arm, Thomas finds himself whizzing down the line!
Edward The Very Useful Engine
Oct 16, 2002 · 5 min
Gordon comments that "Edward is a useless old steam-pot" and that he should retire. The other big engines agree with him but Percy gets upset at this and tells the Fat Controller.
Dunkin' Duncan
Oct 17, 2002 · 5 min
Duncan is so hasty that he is not uncoupled and goes up the incline with the trucks, but the coupling on the truck his coupling is tangled up with can't hold his weight. It snaps,
Rusty Saves The Day
Oct 18, 2002 · 5 min
Faced with the threat of forever working in the quarry if their line is not repaired, Skarloey and Rheneas get worried. Rusty though, is onhand, along with the help of Elizabeth, a
Faulty Whistles
Oct 21, 2002 · 5 min
Duncan shows off his whistle, and blows it so hard that it shoots into the sky and lands in a field. Duncan's driver says they don't have time to find it, but they need a whistle f