Episode Overview: Busy Going Backwards

There will be a overall review at the end of each season instead of the "My Own Thoughts" section.

Season 5, Episode 23

Air Date:  October 29th, 1998

Writer(s): Britt Allcroft, David Mitton, David Maidment

Narrator: Alec Baldwin

Summary

Toad the brake van was complaining to Oliver because he never got to go forward, the cars had a plan to get back at Toad. When Oliver was all most to the top of the hill the cars broke free. Then Toad speed past Gordon and James nearly crashing in to them.

Then he passed Henry, meanwhile Oliver was trying to catch Toad, then the signal man warned everyone about the runaway train. Then there was trouble, some workmen were working on a bridge up ahead, they diverted Toad in to a siding, right in to a pond. Oliver joked that a pond was a good place for a toad.

That night Toad apologized to Oliver for causing a embarrassment and that he would look forward to going backwards.