A Bad Day for Sir Handel

A Bad Day for Sir Handel is the sixth episode of the fourth season and the eighty-fourth episode of the series. It first aired on Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales in 1996 in the US. In this episode, Sir Handel is in a bad mood.

Plot
Peter Sam and Sir Handel arrive on the Skarloey Railway. Peter Sam is kind, but Sir Handel is bad-tempered and insults Skarloey and the sheds. Then Sir Handel is chosen to pull the train to the top station. He does so grudgingly, and, after insulting the coaches by calling them "cattle trucks" and surprising Gordon with his knowledge of coaches, makes his way to the top station. There, he is angry to discover by his driver that he is expected to go to the quarry and collect trucks, and refuses to do so, punctuating his point by deliberately derailing himself. In the end, Peter Sam helps Sir Handel back on the rails and the Fat Controller puts Sir Handel in the shed as punishment.

Characters

 * Gordon
 * Sir Handel
 * Peter Sam
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Skarloey (does not speak)
 * Rheneas (does not speak)
 * Thomas (cameo)
 * Percy (cameo)

Locations

 * Crovan's Gate
 * Skarloey Railway Engine Sheds
 * Lakeside
 * Lakeside Bridge
 * Sodor Castle
 * Skarloey
 * Skarloey Bridge

Errors

 * Gordon is missing his brake pipe.
 * When Sir Handel and Peter Sam first arrive, Percy is passing with a train of trucks. However, when Sir Handel looks at Skarloey, Percy is reversing for some reason, and a tar wagon has joined his train.
 * When Sir Handel backs onto his coaches and stops, he can still be heard puffing for another four seconds.
 * When Sir Handel and Gordon greet each other, a door can be heard closing in the background.
 * Gordon has Duck's whistle sound for the rest of the season.
 * When Sir Handel goes off-camera on the mountain ledge, the steam platform blows steam too late.
 * When Sir Handel derails, a small rod is sticking up from the tracks.
 * When the Fat Controller says "You're a very naughty engine", a fly crawls on the workbench beside Sir Handel.
 * Sir Handel has Rheneas' whistle sound and Rheneas has Sir Handel's.
 * The coaches are cross before Sir Handel calls them "cattle trucks".
 * Sir Handel claims that the coaches aren't what he's used to. This is, however, not true since in the television series, the models of the Skarloey Railway coaches are the same as the Mid Sodor Railway coaches.
 * In a picture of a deleted scene, a wire is visible beneath Sir Handel.