I may be two days late to write this review sense Christmas is over, but I'm going to do this anyway.
This is the very first Xmas episode to be made for the show, and it's the perfect one to begin with. The story is such a classic and it's sorta based on The Railway Series but at the same time it doesn't because the book it's based on isn't part of any of the books except for the rescue scene. It was a third party book that was written for the first season.
To be honest, I think this should've been an episode for a different season like Season 2. Let me explain why: The two episodes before that was about Thomas and Gordon losing their permission to continue running the express and using the branchline. Where in this episode, we see Thomas pulling his coaches and running on his branchline. And they don't continue that story till the fourth season, so it always been a confusion and delay type of episode.
But other than that, it's one of those episodes that's perfect to watch at Xmas time. The sets are beautiful with the snow on them, the episode itself is very classic and it's well written of course.
If you ever want to watch an episode that fits into the holiday, than this is one of those episodes from the show that works great.
This is the very first Xmas episode to be made for the show, and it's the perfect one to begin with. The story is such a classic and it's sorta based on The Railway Series but at the same time it doesn't because the book it's based on isn't part of any of the books except for the rescue scene. It was a third party book that was written for the first season.
To be honest, I think this should've been an episode for a different season like Season 2. Let me explain why: The two episodes before that was about Thomas and Gordon losing their permission to continue running the express and using the branchline. Where in this episode, we see Thomas pulling his coaches and running on his branchline. And they don't continue that story till the fourth season, so it always been a confusion and delay type of episode.
But other than that, it's one of those episodes that's perfect to watch at Xmas time. The sets are beautiful with the snow on them, the episode itself is very classic and it's well written of course.
If you ever want to watch an episode that fits into the holiday, than this is one of those episodes from the show that works great.