Fun Fact: When Thomas & Friends was brought to the US in 1989 courtesy of the PBS series Shining Time Station, Ringo Starr, who narrated all 52 episodes of the first two seasons of the series in the UK, reprised his role as the narrator for the US dub, where he redubbed several episodes with US terminology (the most common changes were Freight Cars instead of Trucks and Sir Topham Hatt being referred to by his proper name rather than by his nickname The Fat Controller) in addition to playing the character Mr. Conductor.
After the first season of Shining Time Station concluded in 1990, Starr left the series and the late comedy legend George Carlin took on the role of the US narrator and Mr. Conductor for the rest of Shining Time Station's run.
Despite renarrating a majority of the episodes from the first two seasons of Thomas, Starr didn't renarrate all of them by the time he left (possibly due to them airing out of order), leaving ten episodes unrecorded by him in the US.
As a result, these episodes are only available in the US with Carlin's narration (Carlin, in addition to narrating the third and fourth seasons of the series, also redubbed the first two seasons for consistency).
Whistles and Sneezes (this is the only episode from the first season that was not renarrated by Ringo Starr for the US, and aired long after all the other episodes from said season)
Break Van (retitled Donald and Douglas in the US)
Daisy (this episode and Percy's Predicament never aired on Shining Time due to the producer's dislike of the title character and were instead released on home video in 1993)
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