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After an overnight storm knocks the telephone poles down, the Fat Controller gives Thomas the task to take engineers to fix them. Thomas goes to Brendam Docks with Annie and Clarabel and whilst the engineers climb aboard his train, he sees a rainbow in the sky. Edward, who is shunting trucks nearby, tells Thomas that according to legend "you will find something magical at the end of a rainbow". This prompts Thomas to find the end of the rainbow.

During his journey, Thomas meets Percy at Bluff's Cove Junction, but doesn't have time to talk to his best friend as he wants to find the end of the rainbow. Climbing up Gordon's Hill, the end of the rainbow seems to be at the summit; but when Thomas gets there, the rainbow had moved. After dropping off some engineers by a bridge, Thomas ignores some children's call of "hello" as he carries on finding the rainbow. Unfortunately, Thomas gets so carried away trying to find the end of the rainbow that he ignores Henry's call for assistance with his trucks and Toby's warning that something is blocking the track ahead. It turns out to be a broken telephone pole, which Thomas runs into and derails.

Now Thomas cannot finish his job and, as all the telephone poles aren't fixed, his driver can't telephone for help. However, Thomas sees Percy passing by on another line and whistles for help to him, but Percy doesn't respond; Thomas thinks that Percy isn't listening because he didn't have time to talk to Percy. But Percy had heard Thomas' call for help and sends the message down then line. The message eventually reaches Harvey, who sets off to the rescue.

Finally Harvey arrives and gets Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel back on the rails; he also tells Thomas that all of his friends worked together in rescuing him. Thomas carries on with his work, but now ignores the rainbow. Once all the telephone poles are fixed, Thomas goes home to Tidmouth Sheds to find the end of the rainbow. The something magical is his friends.

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After an overnight storm knocks the telephone telegraph poles down, the Fat Controller gives Thomas the task to take of taking engineers to fix them. Thomas goes to Brendam Docks with Annie and Clarabel and whilst the engineers climb aboard his train, he sees a rainbow in the sky. Edward, who is shunting trucks nearby, tells Thomas that according to legend "you will find there is something magical at the end of a rainbow". This prompts the rainbow, prompting Thomas to find the end of the rainbow.

it himself.

During his journey, Thomas meets Percy at Bluff's Cove Junction, a junction but doesn't have time to talk to his best friend as he wants to find the end of the rainbow. Climbing up Gordon's Hill, the end of the rainbow seems to be at the summit; but when Thomas gets there, the rainbow had has moved. After dropping off some engineers by a bridge, Thomas ignores some children's call of "hello" as he carries on finding the rainbow. Unfortunately, Thomas gets so carried away trying to find the end of the rainbow that he ignores Henry's call for assistance with his trucks and Toby's warning that something is blocking the track ahead. It turns out to be a broken telephone telegraph pole, which Thomas runs into and derails.

Now Thomas cannot finish his job and, as all the telephone telegraph poles aren't fixed, his driver can't telephone phone for help. However, Thomas sees Percy passing by on another line and whistles for help him to him, help, but Percy doesn't respond; Thomas thinks that Percy isn't listening because he didn't have time to talk to Percy. But Percy, but Percy had heard hears Thomas' call for help and sends the message down then the line. The message eventually reaches Harvey, who sets off to the rescue.

Finally Finally, Harvey arrives and gets Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel back on the rails; he also tells Thomas that all of his friends worked together in rescuing to rescue him. Thomas carries on with his work, work but now ignores the rainbow. Once all the telephone telegraph poles are fixed, Thomas goes home to Tidmouth Sheds to find the end of the rainbow. The something magical "something magical" is his friends.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Thomas crashes and whistles Percy for help. When Percy just rushes off, Thomas thinks Percy isn't speaking to him because he ignored him earlier and mopes in guilt. In reality Percy was only in a hurry because he wanted to get help for Thomas.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The whole plot of the episode involves a rainbow with Thomas trying to find what's at the end of it.
* FriendToAllChildren: Thomas is described as this in the beginning narration along with being friends to everyone on Sodor.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Thomas realizes that focusing on the end of the rainbow caused him to not talk to his friends. Of course, when he thought that Percy isn't listening to him, he thought wrong as he did hear his whistle.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: This is what's magical about the end of rainbow at the end.

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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Thomas crashes and whistles Percy for help. When Percy just rushes off, Thomas thinks Percy isn't speaking to him because he ignored him earlier and mopes in guilt. In reality reality, Percy was only in a hurry because he wanted to get help for Thomas.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The whole plot of the episode involves a rainbow with Thomas trying to find what's at the end of it.
a rainbow.
* FriendToAllChildren: Thomas is described as this in the beginning narration along with being friends to with everyone on Sodor.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Thomas realizes realises that focusing on the end of the rainbow caused him to not talk to his friends. friends, which in return means Percy is ignoring his cries for help after his accident. Of course, when he thought thinks that Percy isn't listening to him, he thought is wrong as he did hear his whistle.
whistle, and went off to find help.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: This is Thomas spends the whole episode trying to find what's magical about at the end of a rainbow. The rainbow ends at Tidmouth Sheds where all of Thomas' friends are, which makes him declare that friends are the end.most wonderful thing of all.
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* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows

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* EverythingsBetterWithRainbowsEverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The whole plot of the episode involves a rainbow with Thomas trying to find what's at the end of it.
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'''Air date''': September 4th, 2005

After an overnight storm knocks the telephone poles down, the Fat Controller gives Thomas the task to take engineers to fix them. Thomas goes to Brendam Docks with Annie and Clarabel and whilst the engineers climb aboard his train, he sees a rainbow in the sky. Edward, who is shunting trucks nearby, tells Thomas that according to legend "you will find something magical at the end of a rainbow". This prompts Thomas to find the end of the rainbow.

During his journey, Thomas meets Percy at Bluff's Cove Junction, but doesn't have time to talk to his best friend as he wants to find the end of the rainbow. Climbing up Gordon's Hill, the end of the rainbow seems to be at the summit; but when Thomas gets there, the rainbow had moved. After dropping off some engineers by a bridge, Thomas ignores some children's call of "hello" as he carries on finding the rainbow. Unfortunately, Thomas gets so carried away trying to find the end of the rainbow that he ignores Henry's call for assistance with his trucks and Toby's warning that something is blocking the track ahead. It turns out to be a broken telephone pole, which Thomas runs into and derails.

Now Thomas cannot finish his job and, as all the telephone poles aren't fixed, his driver can't telephone for help. However, Thomas sees Percy passing by on another line and whistles for help to him, but Percy doesn't respond; Thomas thinks that Percy isn't listening because he didn't have time to talk to Percy. But Percy had heard Thomas' call for help and sends the message down then line. The message eventually reaches Harvey, who sets off to the rescue.

Finally Harvey arrives and gets Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel back on the rails; he also tells Thomas that all of his friends worked together in rescuing him. Thomas carries on with his work, but now ignores the rainbow. Once all the telephone poles are fixed, Thomas goes home to Tidmouth Sheds to find the end of the rainbow. The something magical is his friends.

!!Tropes featured in the episode:
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Thomas crashes and whistles Percy for help. When Percy just rushes off, Thomas thinks Percy isn't speaking to him because he ignored him earlier and mopes in guilt. In reality Percy was only in a hurry because he wanted to get help for Thomas.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows
* FriendToAllChildren: Thomas is described as this in the beginning narration along with being friends to everyone on Sodor.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Thomas realizes that focusing on the end of the rainbow caused him to not talk to his friends. Of course, when he thought that Percy isn't listening to him, he thought wrong as he did hear his whistle.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: This is what's magical about the end of rainbow at the end.
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