

( Note: ***** means that an episode was seen on Mister Moose's Fun Time in 1998-2000.)

( Note: **** means than an episode was not released on DVD in US). ( Note: *** means that an episode was shown on both). ( Note: ** means that an episode was shown in the Shining Time Station spinoff, Mr. ( Note: * means that an episode was shown in the Shining Time Station Family Specials). This decision carried on into later series, in which he was seen on either a fictionalised Bluebell Railway or as a visitor helping out on the Fat Controller's railway. Stepney, a character based on a real-life engine and used to highlight the preservation movement in the books, was given an entirely different background when he was introduced. The characters would then be led by their television personas and no longer by their storybook roots.
#Talking tom and friends season 4 episode 26 series#
From the fifth series onwards, all stories would be staff-written, without using the Awdrys' books as a source until the twentieth series which would later finally introduce the Arlesdale Railway.

The episodes which used The Railway Series did take some liberties with the source material, in order to fill the runtime and make the stories more accessible. Half of the third series consisted of stories written by the show's staff, but only one original story, Rusty to the Rescue was written by Allcroft and Mitton for the fourth series. For ease of filming and reliability, the fifth series would introduce larger-scale versions of the characters and from the sixth- twelfth series, these larger models were used almost exclusively. The fourth series saw the introduction of the smaller narrow gauge engines.
