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The Colour Episodes - Series 1

Season 4

The Colour Episodes - Series 1

The Colour Episodes - Series 1

Season 4

The Colour Episodes - Series 1

  • Air date:1976-01-26
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  • Number of episodes:20

List of Episodes

The Railway
S4E1
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Air date: 1976-01-26

Runtime: 5 min

It 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.

The Hat
S4E2
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Air date: 1976-01-27

Runtime: 5 min

Jones 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...

Old Nell
S4E3
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Air date: 1976-01-29

Runtime: 5 min

A 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.

Mr Brangwyn's Pigeons
S4E4
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Air date: 1976-01-30

Runtime: 5 min

Ivor 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.

The Egg
S4E5
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Air date: 1976-02-02

Runtime: 5 min

Going 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.

The Proper Container
S4E6
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Air date: 1976-02-03

Runtime: 5 min

Dai 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.

The Alarm
S4E7
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Air date: 1976-02-05

Runtime: 5 min

After 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.

The Retreat
S4E8
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Air date: 1976-02-06

Runtime: 5 min

Idris 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.

The Visitor
S4E9
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Air date: 1976-02-09

Runtime: 5 min

A 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.

The Invalid
S4E10
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Air date: 1976-02-10

Runtime: 5 min

Jones and Evans the Song have great difficulty bathing Alice and giving her medicine.

The Boot
S4E11
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Air date: 1976-02-12

Runtime: 5 min

Mr Brangwyn provides a boot for Alice to wear until her foot heals.

Banger's Circus
S4E12
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Air date: 1976-02-13

Runtime: 5 min

Alice's circus, run by Mr Charlie Banger, is coming to Grumbly town. Bani and Alice are very excited.

Unidentified Objects
S4E13
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Air date: 1976-02-16

Runtime: 5 min

Jones and Dai are relaxing when they spot some strange objects in the sky. The source appears to be Mr Dinwiddy's goldmine.

Mrs Porty's Foxes
S4E14
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Air date: 1976-02-17

Runtime: 5 min

Mrs 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.

Bluebell
S4E15
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Air date: 1976-02-19

Runtime: 5 min

Jones 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.

Dai and the Donkey
S4E16
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Air date: 1976-02-20

Runtime: 5 min

Dai Station isn't too keen on Bluebell riding around with Ivor, but she soon proves her worth when the engine is derailed.

Gold
S4E17
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Air date: 1976-02-23

Runtime: 5 min

Mr 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.

Mrs Porty
S4E18
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Air date: 1976-02-24

Runtime: 5 min

After Mr Dinwiddy's idea falling through, Mrs Porty comes up with a solution to the railway being sold.

Cold
S4E19
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Air date: 1976-02-26

Runtime: 5 min

One 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.

The Endowment
S4E20
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Air date: 1976-02-27

Runtime: 5 min

Jones 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.

Top Cast

Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate

Narrator (voice)

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