"The Flying Kipper" is a first season episode.
Plot
Henry is taking a special train of fish called the "Flying Kipper" on a snowy night when he collides with a goods train. The Fat Controller takes the opportunity to rebuild him, and Henry returns feeling better than ever, and even gets to pull the Express.
Featured Characters
- Henry
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Gordon
- The Flying Kipper (does not speak)
- Fish Vans
- James (cameo)
- Edward (cameo)
Trivia
- This is the first episode where an engine crashes into a Brakevan.
Goofs
- In the scene before Henry crosses the viaduct, wires can be seen coming out of the lightboxes.
- In the scene of Henry passing the signal from his perspective, the tracks can be seen to end suddenly.
- One corner of the goods train's brakevan is raised above the frame.
- Play the scene of Henry approaching the brakevan in slow motion: the goods train moves slightly before the crash.
- Just before he crashes, Henry is in his new shape, minus the neck holders.
- The second Henry collides with the goods train, a hand appears to be pushing his tender.
- When Henry crashes, he is still on the track, but in the next shot he is on top of the trucks.
- The track beside the goods train disappears and reappears several times.
- In the last close-up of Henry he is in his old shape. In the previous episode, there was a nearly identical closeup only it showed Henry in his new shape. From this it can be judged that the episodes were filmed concurrently and the editors mixed up the footage