Ivor The Engine - Episodes

Episodes

The original series was in black and white and comprised six episodes which told the story as to how Ivor wanted to sing in the choir, and how his whistle was replaced with steam organ pipes from the fairground organ on Mr Morgan's roundabout. There then followed two thirteen-episode series, also in black and white. Black and white episodes were 10 minutes each.

In the 1970s, the two longer black and white series were re-made in colour, with some alterations to the stories, but they did not remake, or re-tell, the content of the original six. The colour series consisted of 40 five-minute films. These would often each form part of a longer story.

Although the six original black and white episodes were subsequently released on video, the two longer black and white series (totalling 26 episodes) were not and for many years were thought to have been lost. In October 2010, however, film copies of all 26 episodes were discovered in a pig shed.

When the colour series was subsequently released on DVD, some of the episodes whose content linked, were edited together, with the relevant closing and opening titles and credits removed.

The colour series episodes were:-

  • 1. The Railway
  • 2. The Egg
  • 3. The Proper Container
  • 4. The Alarm
  • 5. The Retreat
  • 6. The Hat
  • 7. Old Nell
  • 8. Mr. Brangwyn's Pigeons
  • 9. The Visitor
  • 10. The Invalid
  • 11. The Boot
  • 12. Banger's Circus
  • 13. Unidentified Objects
  • 14. Mrs. Porty's Foxes
  • 15. Bluebell
  • 16. Dai and the Donkey
  • 17. Gold
  • 18. Mrs. Porty
  • 19. Cold
  • 20. The Endowment
  • 21. Snowdrifts
  • 22. Cold Sheep
  • 23. The Fire Engine
  • 24. Sledging
  • 25. The Rescue
  • 26. The Water Tower
  • 27. Mrs. Bird
  • 28. The Cuckoo-clock
  • 29. The Trumpet
  • 30. Time Off
  • 31. The Seaside
  • 32. The Lost Engine
  • 33. The Outing
  • 34. Half-Crowns
  • 35. Sheep Herding
  • 36. Juggernaut
  • 37. The Bird House
  • 38. Chickens
  • 39. St. George
  • 40. Retirement

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