Ivor the Engine
Ivor the Engine is a British children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It is a children's television series relating the adventures…
Animation, Family • Series • 1976 • 5 seasons
Starring: Oliver Postgate, Anthony Jackson
Created by: Oliver Postgate
S1 E1 - The Railway
Nothing out of the ordinary even happens on this little railway in the top left-hand corner of Wales. But what ordinarily happens is often fairly extraordinary!
Jan 26, 1976 • 5m
S1 E2 - The Hat
Jones and Ivor bring back a package, which is supposedly a hat for Mrs Porty, but Jones and Dai discover to be a new telescope cover for Professor Longfellow and they go home for the night. In the morning, the package has gone.
Jan 27, 1976 • 5m
S1 E3 - Old Nell
A silly sheep has got itself stuck on a ledge in the hills. Jones tries to rescue it but ends up stuck himself. He ends up sending Ivor and Old Nell, the sheepdog, to get help.
Jan 29, 1976 • 5m
S1 E4 - Mr Brangwyn's Pigeons
Ivor has to deliver some pigeons to Mr Brangwyn. Thanks to Evans the Song, they end up escaping and on Miss Pryce's roof. There follow some amusing attempts to get them down
Jan 30, 1976 • 5m
S1 E5 - The Dragon
Going past Smoke Hill, an extinct volcano, Jones and Ivor spot smoke coming from the top. Jones discovers a fire inside the hill and a strange egg. He puts it in Ivor's firebox to keep it warm. Mr Dinwiddy does not have any idea what it is so they go off to choir practice. During the practice there seems to be a voice coming from inside Ivor.
Feb 2, 1976 • 5m
S1 E6 - The Proper Container
Dai Station is not pleased about Ivor's new friend, Idris, travelling in his firebox. He orders him into a box, which catches fire and then scares him off trying to extinguish it..
Feb 3, 1976 • 5m
S1 E7 - The Alarm
After choir practice Idris helps out Mrs Thomas, whose fish fryer is on the blink. While everyone is enjoying a fish supper, Evans the Song spots a worrying article in his bit of newspaper.
Feb 5, 1976 • 5m
S1 E8 - The Retreat
Idris is still missing when the representative of the antiquarian society arrives to interview Jones about him. After a few embarrassments, Jones and Ivor find Idris in the most obvious place.
Feb 6, 1976 • 5m
S1 E9 - The Visitor
A rock on the line turns out to be a wounded elephant. Jones and Ivor take the elephant, named Alice, and her keeper to Mr Hugh's gasworks to recuperate.
Feb 9, 1976 • 5m
S1 E10 - The Invalid
Jones and Evans the Song have great difficulty bathing Alice and giving her medicine.
Feb 10, 1976 • 5m
S1 E11 - The Boot
Mr Brangwyn provides a boot for Alice to wear until her foot heals.
Feb 12, 1976 • 5m
S1 E12 - Banger's Circus
Alice's circus, run by Mr Charlie Banger, is coming to Grumbly town. Bani and Alice are very excited.
Feb 13, 1976 • 5m
S1 E13 - Unidentified Objects
Jones and Dai are relaxing when they spot some strange objects in the sky. The source appears to be Mr Dinwiddy's goldmine.
Feb 16, 1976 • 5m
S1 E14 - Mrs Porty's Foxes
Mrs Porty shows Jones and Ivor the fox cubs in the wood near her house. As Ivor and Jones go to deliver Mrs Porty's Hat for the Institute Prize Giving, they save the fox from the fox hunt, by hiding her in the hat box.
Feb 17, 1976 • 5m
S1 E15 - Bluebell
Jones is cleaning Ivor when they are called off on an emergency, as Mr Dinwiddy needs his new boots. Jones leaves Bluebell the Donkey holding the bucket. She follows them all the way to the goldmine, so Jones and Mr Dinwiddy arrange for a mode of transport.
Feb 19, 1976 • 5m
S1 E16 - Dai and the Donkey
Dai Station is not too keen on Bluebell riding around with Ivor, but she soon proves her worth when the engine is derailed.
Feb 20, 1976 • 5m
S1 E17 - Gold
Mr Williams of head office breaks the terrible news to Jones and Dai that the railway is to be sold and Ivor might have to do shunting at Pontypool. Then Mr Dinwiddy has a brainwave.
Feb 23, 1976 • 5m
S1 E18 - Mrs Porty
After Mr Dinwiddy's idea falling through, Mrs Porty comes up with a solution to the railway being sold.
Feb 24, 1976 • 5m
S1 E19 - Cold
One morning Jones and Ivor spot some smoke beside the railway line. It turns out to be Idris the Dragon. They rescue him and he explains that Smoke Hill is now extinct.
Feb 26, 1976 • 5m
S1 E20 - The Endowment
Jones and Dai are not getting anywhere trying to find a home for Idris and the other dragons. Jones decides he must go to Lanmad and ask for the help of Mrs Griffiths.
Feb 27, 1976 • 5m
S1 E21 - DELETE ME
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S1 E22 - DELETE ME
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S1 E23 - DELETE ME
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S1 E24 - DELETE ME
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Ivor the Engine
Ivor the Engine is a British children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It is a children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive who lived in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and worked for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited. His friends included Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station, among many other characters.
Animation, Family • TV Series • 1976
Details
- Genre
- Animation, Family
- First aired
- Jan 26, 1976
- Last aired
- Dec 23, 1977
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 97
- Network
- ITV1, BBC Television
- Language
- English