The Colour Episodes - Series 1
20 episodes · Jan 26, 1976
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S4E1The Railway
Jan 26, 19765mIt is a typical day in the life of Ivor the Engine. Ivor delivers Coal to Grumbly Gasworks, tomatoes to Mr Davy and Fish to Mrs Thomas. Ivor also goes to choir practice.
S4E2The Hat
Jan 27, 19765mJones and Ivor bring back a package, which is supposedly a hat for Mrs Porty, but Jones and Dai discover it's a new telescope cover for Professor Longfellow and go home for the night. In the morning, the package has gone...
S4E3Old Nell
Jan 29, 19765mA silly sheep has got itself stuck on a ledge in the hills. Jones tries to rescue it but ends up stuck himself. He ends up sending Ivor and Old Nell, the sheepdog, to get help.
S4E4Mr Brangwyn's Pigeons
Jan 30, 19765mIvor has to deliver some pigeons to Mr Brangwyn. Thanks to Evans the Song, they end up escaping and on Miss Pryce's roof. There follow some amusing attempts to get them down.
S4E5The Egg
Feb 2, 19765mGoing past Smoke Hill, an extinct volcano, Jones and Ivor spot smoke coming from the top. Jones discovers a fire inside the hill and a strange egg. He puts it in Ivor's firebox to keep it warm. Mr Dinwiddy doesn't have any idea what it is so they go off to choir practice. During the practice there seems to be a voice coming from inside Ivor.
S4E6The Proper Container
Feb 3, 19765mDai Station isn't too pleased about Ivor's new friend, Idris, travelling in his firebox. He orders him into a box, which catches fire and then scares him off trying to extinguish it.
S4E7The Alarm
Feb 5, 19765mAfter choir practice Idris helps out Mrs Thomas, whose fish fryer is on the blink. While everyone is enjoying a fish supper, Evans the Song spots a worrying article in his bit of newspaper.
S4E8The Retreat
Feb 6, 19765mIdris is still missing when the representative of the antiquarian society arrives to interview Jones about him. After a few embarrassments, Jones and Ivor find Idris in the most obvious place.
S4E9The Visitor
Feb 9, 19765mA rock on the line turns out to be a wounded elephant. Jones and Ivor take the elephant, named Alice, and her keeper to Mr Hugh's gasworks to recuperate.
S4E10The Invalid
Feb 10, 19765mJones and Evans the Song have great difficulty bathing Alice and giving her medicine.
S4E11The Boot
Feb 12, 19765mMr Brangwyn provides a boot for Alice to wear until her foot heals.
S4E12Banger's Circus
Feb 13, 19765mAlice's circus, run by Mr Charlie Banger, is coming to Grumbly town. Bani and Alice are very excited.
S4E13Unidentified Objects
Feb 16, 19765mJones and Dai are relaxing when they spot some strange objects in the sky. The source appears to be Mr Dinwiddy's goldmine.
S4E14Mrs Porty's Foxes
Feb 17, 19765mMrs Porty shows Jones and Ivor the fox cubs in the wood near her house. As Ivor and Jones go to deliver Mrs Porty's Hat for the Institute Prize Giving, they save the fox from the fox hunt, by hiding her in the hat box.
S4E15Bluebell
Feb 19, 19765mJones is cleaning Ivor when they are called off on an emergency - Mr Dinwiddy needs his new boots. Jones leaves Bluebell the Donkey holding the bucket. She follows them all the way to the goldmine, so Jones and Mr Dinwiddy arrange for a mode of transport.
S4E16Dai and the Donkey
Feb 20, 19765mDai Station isn't too keen on Bluebell riding around with Ivor, but she soon proves her worth when the engine is derailed.
S4E17Gold
Feb 23, 19765mMr Williams of head office breaks the terrible news to Jones and Dai that the railway is to be sold and Ivor might have to do shunting at Pontypool. Then Mr Dinwiddy has a brainwave.
S4E18Mrs Porty
Feb 24, 19765mAfter Mr Dinwiddy's idea falling through, Mrs Porty comes up with a solution to the railway being sold.
S4E19Cold
Feb 26, 19765mOne morning Jones and Ivor spot some smoke beside the railway line. It turns out to be Idris the Dragon. They rescue him and he explains that Smoke Hill is now extinct.
S4E20The Endowment
Feb 27, 19765mJones and Dai are not getting anywhere trying to find a home for Idris and the other dragons. Jones decides he must go to Lanmad and ask for the help of Mrs Griffiths.