Gordon Takes a Tumble

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“Well, Gordon, you wanted to show Salty a thing or two and you've certainly done that. You've shown him how silly it is to ignore "go slow" signs!”

― The Fat Controller

Gordon Takes a Tumble is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season.

Plot

Gordon brags to Salty that it is not "dignified" for express trains to take trucks, but when Gordon is later told to take trucks, he swears to do it how an express engine should. He races along the mainline until he is accidentally diverted onto an old, rickety branch line, but he still goes fast even after he sees a "go slow" sign. The old rails finally give way and Gordon tumbles off the tracks and ends up bursting through a shed and stops in front of a scarecrow. Once he is repaired, Gordon is sorry for getting "too big for his buffers".

Characters

Locations

Trivia

Stock footage from The Fogman is used.
This is one of the few episodes of the sixth season to be re-narrated by Michael Brandon.

Goofs

In the first scene, Clarabel is facing the wrong way.
In the shot of Gordon on the old branch line, a cable is attached to his coupling.
When Gordon derails, his trailing wheels are slightly coming off.
When Gordon's trucks come off the rails, they come off differently in certain shots.
As the trucks derail and tumble down the slope, the ground bounces up and down.
A wire is visible pulling Gordon, at one point, when he is derailed.
Go slow signs do not just say "go slow", they should also show the exact speed limit.
If the trucks rolled over down the embankment into the field, then so should have Gordon. Instead he carries on upright the whole time during his derailment.

Merchandise

Take-Along (discontinued)

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Norwegian	Gordon får seg en luftetur	Gordon Gets a Tumble
Danish	Overlegen lokomotif	The Superior Engine
Japanese	すべったゴードン	Gordon Has Slipped
Welsh	Tymbl Gordon	Gordon's Tumble
Swedish	Gordon blir utom kontroll	Gordon Gets Out of Control
Czech	Gordon padá	Gordon falls

Gordon Takes a Tumble

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