Tramway Characters was a Kids' WB! book spoof to Tramway Engines, featuring two Season 2 episodes and two Season 3 episodes, all told by Ringo Starr and Michael Angelis for UK audiences and in restored quality.
Characters[]
- Ash Ketchum as Thomas
- Mary as Percy
- Clemont as Toby
- Giovanni as Diesel
- Sandra Larson as Mavis
- Homer Simpson as the Fat Controller
- Beedrill as Troublesome Trucks
- Toni and Mika Morgan as Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
- Scooby-Doo as Terence (cameo)
- Sonic the Hedgehog as Bertie (cameo)
Episodes[]
- Ghost Girl
- Woolly Girl
- Sandra Larson
- Clemont's Tightrope
Trivia[]
- Stories adapted from the book and told by Starr/Angelis for UK and in restored quality.
Script[]
Ghost Girl[]
- (Noctowl hooting twice, followed by ghostly air horn)
- Mary: And every year, on the date of the accident, it runs again as a warning to others, plunging into the gap, shrieking like a lost soul.
- Ash: Mary, what are you talking about?
- Mary: The ghost train. Driver saw it last night.
- Clemont: Where?
- Mary: He didn't say. Oh, it makes my shoes wiggle to think of it.
- Ash: Pooh! You're just a silly little girl. I'm not scared.
- Mary: Ash didn't believe in ghosts.
- Ringo Starr: Mary's driver laughed.
- Mary's Driver: Neither do I. It was the pretend ghost on television.
- Ringo Starr: Mary was disappointed. That evening, she came back from the harbour. Mary knew where she was, even in the dark.
- Mary: Crowe's Farm Crossing. We shan't be long now.
- Ringo Starr: She liked running at night. The rails hummed and the signal light shone green. But a broken cart load of lime lay ahead. Sam the Farmer had just gone for help.
- (Mary's scream sounded and a loud crash is heard as she hits the cart)
- Ringo Starr: Mary broke the cart to smithereens. Lime flew everywhere. She puffed quickly to the nearest signal box. Mary's driver explained what had happened.
- Signalman: I'll see to it. But you better clean Mary, or people will think he's a ghost.
- Ringo Starr: Mary chuckled.
- Mary: Do let's pretend I'm a ghost and scared Ash. That'll teach him to see I'm a silly little girl.
- Ringo Starr: Clemont promised to help.
- (Clemont leaves Mary and heads back to the sheds)
- Ringo Starr: Ash was being oiled up for his evening train.
- Clemont: Mary's had an accident!
- Ash: Poor girl. Botheration! That means I'll be late!
- Clemont: They've cleared the line for you, but there's something worse.
- Ash: Out with it, Clemont, I can't wait all evening.
- Clemont: I've just seen something. It looked like Mary's ghost. It said it was coming here to warn us.
- Ash: Pooh! Who cares? Don't be frightened, Clemont. I'll take care of you.
- (We can hear Mary's moan and a loud brake sound)
- Mary: (ghostly voice) Peep, peep, peep-peep-peep, peep! Let me in, let me in!
- Clemont: No, no! Not by the ball on my Poke Chim Chim!
- Mary: (ghostly voice) I'll chuff and I'll puff and I'll break your door in!
- (The doors open and reveal Mary all along)
- Ash: Oh dear! It's getting late. Oh, I have no idea. Oh, I must find Toni and Mika.
- Ringo Starr: It was morning when Ash returned.
- Clemont: Where have you been?
- Ash: Ah well. I knew you be sad about Mary, and I, um, I didn't like to intrude. I slept in the goods shed and...
- (Mary's moan is heard again, along with a ghostly one)
- Ash: Oh, sorry, can't stop. Gotta see a coach about a train.
- Ringo Starr: Mary was non a worse for her adventure, and was still enjoying herself enormously. She had heard everything.
- Mary: Well, well, well! What do you know about that?
- Clemont: Anyone would think, that our Ash had just seen a ghost!
Woolly Girl[]
- Ringo Starr: In summer, the gangers cut the long grass on the lineside, raking it into heaps to dry in the sun. At this time of year, Mary stops where they have been cutting. The men load up her empty wagons and she pulls them to the station. Clemont then takes them to the hills for the farmers to feed their stock.
- Mary: Wheeeeeeeesh!
- Ringo Starr: Mary gave a ghostly ???.
- Mary: Don't be frightened, Ash. It's only me!
- Ash:: Your ugly fizz is enough to frighten anyone. You're like...
- Mary: Ugly indeed. I'm...
- Ash: A ??? ??? with ??? ???. You ??? like one too.
- Mary: I don't!
- Ash: Who's been late every afternoon this week?
- Mary: It's the hay.
- Ash: I can't help that. Time's time, and Homer Simpson relies on me to keep it. I can't if you ??? in the hay till all hours.
- Mary: ??? ??? indeed.
- Ringo Starr: Mary set off to collect some hay to take to the harbour.
- Mary: Everyone says I'm beautiful, or at least nearly anyone. Anyway, my ??? are better than Ash's ???. Ash says I'm always late. I'm never late, or at least only a few minutes. What's that to Ash? He can always catch up time farther on.
- Ringo Starr: All the same, she and her driver decided to start home early. Then came trouble.
- (The crate of treacle appears held by a crane it falls down and lands on Percy with a loud Wham!)
- Ringo Starr: A crate of treacle was upset all over Mary. Mary was cross. She was still sticky when she puffed away. The wind was blowing fiercely.
- Mary's Driver: Look at that!
- Ringo Starr: The wind caught the piled hay, tossing it up and over the track. The line climbed here.
- Mary's Driver: Take a run at it, Mary.
- Ringo Starr: Mary gathered speed. But the hay made the rails slippery and her ??? wouldn't grip. Time after time she stalled with ??? ??? and had to wait until the line ahead was cleared before she could start again. Everyone was waiting. Ash seethed impatiently.
- Ash: Ten minutes late. I warned her. Passengers will complain and Homer Simpson...
- Ringo Starr: Then they all saw Mary. They laughed and shouted.
- (Passengers laughing)
- Mary: Sorry I'm late.
- Ash: Look what's crawled out of the hay!
- Mary: What's wrong?
- Ash: Talk about ??? ???. It's worth been late to have seen you.
- Ringo Starr: When Mary got home, her driver showed him what she looked like in the mirror.
- (Mary gets shocked in the mirror)
- Mary: ??? my ???! No wonder they all laughed. I'm just look like a woolly girl. Please clean me before Clemont comes.
- Ringo Starr: But it was no good. Ash told Clemont all about it.
- (Workmen are seen clearing the hay out of Mary)
- Ringo Starr: Instead of talking about sensible things like playing ghosts, Ash and Clemont made jokes about woolly girl ???, and other creatures which crawled about in hay. They laughed a lot, but Mary thought they were really being very silly indeed!
Sandra Larson[]
- Michael Angelis: Sandra is a Kodocha Character who works in the costume company arranging Beedrill in their sidings. She has brown hair and brown eyes and dressed as Marina. Sandra is young and full of her own ideas. She loves rearranging things too and began putting Clemont's Beedrill in different places every day. This made Clemont cross.
- Clemont: Beedrill should should be where you want them when you want them.
- Sandra: Fiddlesticks!
- Michael Angelis: And Sandra flounced away. At last, Clemont lost patience.
- Clemont: I can't waste time playing "Hunt The Beedrill" with you. Take them yourself.
- Michael Angelis: Sandra was pleased. Taking Beedrill made her feel important. At the station, Giovanni oiled up to her.
- Sandra: Clemont's an old fusspot.
- Michael Angelis: Giovanni sense trouble and was delighted.
- Sandra: Clemont says only ??? can manage Beedrill.
- Giovanni: How observe. Depend upon it, Sandra. Anything ??? can do, we ??? can do better.
- Michael Angelis: Giovanni knew nothing about Beedrill, but Sandra didn't realize this. Clemont's line crosses the main road behind the station, and for a short way follows a farm lane. Frosty weather makes the mud rock-hard and very slippery. Clemont stops before reaching the lane. His fireman halts the traffic at the level crossing and then he sets off again. By using the heavy Beedrill to push him along, he has no trouble with the frosty rails and the lane. It is the only thing safe thing to do in this kind of weather. Clemont warned Sandra and told her just what to do.
- Sandra: I can manage, thank you. I'm not an old fusspot like you.
- Michael Angelis: The Beedrill were tired of being pushed around by Sandra.
- Beedrill: It's slippery. Let's push her around instead. On, on, on!
- Michael Angelis: Sandra took no notice. Instead, she brought the Beedrill carefully down the lane and stopped at the level crossing. All traffic halted.
- Sandra: One of the headlamp for fusspot Clemont.
- Michael Angelis: But Sandra had stopped in the wrong place. Instead of taking Clemont's advice, she had given the Beedrill the chance they wanted.
- Beedrill: Hold back! Hold back!
- Sandra: Grrrr up!
- Michael Angelis: The Beedrill just laughed and her ??? ??? helplessly. Workmen sanded the rails and tried to dig away the frozen mud, but it was no good. Everyone was impatient.
- Sandra: Grrrr agh!
- Michael Angelis: Clemont was in the yard when he heard the news.
- Clemont: I warned her.
- Clemont's Driver: She's young yet. And...
- Clemont: She can manage her Beedrill herself.
- Clemont's Driver: They're your Beedrill, really. Sandra is suppose to stay at the ??? if Homer Simpson finds out.
- Clemont: Mmmm, yes.
- Michael Angelis: Clemont and his driver agreed that'll be best to help Sandra after all. An angry farmer was telling Sandra just what she could do with her train.
- Clemont: Having trouble, Sandra? I am surprised.
- Sandra: Grrrr osh!
- Michael Angelis: With much ??? and ??? slipped, Clemont pushed Sandra and the Beedrill back. The hard work made his fire burn fiercely, and his fireman spread hot cinders to melt the frozen mud. At last they had finished.
- Clemont: Goodbye! You'll managed now, I expect.
- Michael Angelis: Sandra didn't answer. She took the Beedrill to the sheds, and scuttled home to the ??? as quickly as she could.
Clemont's Tightrope[]
- Michael Angelis: One day, Mary arrived in a quarry to collect some stone for her Beedrill. Snow and frost lay everywhere. There was not a sound to be heard. Mary ventured further. She found Sandra Larson resting in the shelter of some rocks.
- Mary: Cheer up, Sandra.
- Michael Angelis: Sandra was still remembering the trouble she had with Beedrill.
- Sandra: Manager says I don't listen for his advice. He says I'd no business chortling down Clemont's line. Clemont's a fusspot.
- Mary: Clemont has forgotten all about Beedrill than you'll ever known. You must put the Beedrill where he wants them, then you'll be a really useful girl. Now if you excuse me, I have to take these stones to the harbour.
- Michael Angelis: Sandra liked Mary, but she still wouldn't to her advice.
- Sandra: Why shouldn't I go on Clemont's line?
- Michael Angelis: The siding arrangements are awkward. The put the Beedrill where Clemont wanted them, Sandra had to make several journeys. She started making a plan.
- Sandra: If we used the teeniest bit on Clemont's line, we would save all this bother.
- Michael Angelis: Her driver suspecting nothing allow them to go as far as the level crossing. A few days later, the weather changed. As the soon melted, the ??? grew busy again. Some trains were so long that before leaving the Beedrill for Clemont, Sandra had to go beyond the level crossing with them. Now for her plan. She would go further down the line without it seeming her fault.
- Sandra: Can you keep a secret?
- Beedrill: Yes, yes, yes!
- Sandra: Will you bump me at the level crossing and tell no one I ask you?
- Michael Angelis: The Beedrill promised. But while Sandra was away, Clemont arrived. He decided to shunt the Beedrill himself. The Beedrill decided to bump him anyway. They reached the level crossing and Clemont's ??? came on. This was the signal for the Beedrill.
- Beedrill: On, on, on!
- Michael Angelis: Clemont was away. With the Beedrill screaming and yelling behind him. No one realize that melted snow had turned a stream ahead into a torrent and the bridge above it was about to collapse. The rails were now like a tightrope against the thundering water.
- Clemont: Stop, stop!
- Michael Angelis: Clemont's driver thought for control. They came nearer and nearer by the bridge. The driver braked hard. Clemont stopped still on the rails but with his ??? shredding the tightrope over the abyss. Sandra was horrified and quickly came to the rescue. Workmen anchored Clemont with chains while she pulled the Beedrill away. Then, she helped Clemont to safety.
- Sandra: I'm sorry about the Beedrill. I can't think how you manage to stop them in time.
- Clemont: Oh well. My driver told me about circus people who walked tightropes, but I just didn't fancy doing it myself.
- Michael Angelis: Later, Homer Simpson arrived.
- Homer: A very smart piece of work. Sandra, you did well too, I hear.
- Sandra: It, it was my fault about those Beedrill, sir, but if I could...
- Homer: Could what?
- Sandra: Come down the line sometimes, Sir? Clemont says he'll show me what to do.
- Homer: Certainly, if your manager agrees.
- Michael Angelis: And so it was arranged. Now Sandra is as happy as can be, and Homer Simpson thinks she's really useful indeed.