Ivor The Engine - The Dragon

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Jones and Ivor desperately need to find the birds a home, but Mrs Porty has an answer to this problem. Ivor is having a lovely time in the snow. With a winch attached to his front, he is pulling the children on sledges up the hill. He pulls too many at a time and ends up wheel-deep in the snow. Various rescue attempts prove futile. Evan Evans is the portly choirmaster of The Grumbley and District Choral Society. He is also Jones the Steam's wife's uncle . Mrs. Porty

The locomotive of The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited. Unlike real steam locomotives, Ivor has a mind of his own. He can drive himself and, using his whistle, can speak. His fondest dream is to sing with The Grumbley and District Choral Society, a dream that is realised when his whistle is replaced with three pipes from an old Fairground Organ. He becomes first bass of the choir, as well as providing them with a means of getting from place to place. Jones and Dai are relaxing when they spot some strange objects in the sky. The source appears to be Mr Dinwiddy's goldmine. Ivor the Engine hears the sound of a Welsh choir for the first time, and wants to join in, though he knows this is impossible.Five-Episode Pilot: More like six. The original six episodes were made to show how Ivor got his three-tone whistle and joining the choir. The local postmistress, who is a bit batty and a bit of a gossip. She occasionally interacts with Jones and Ivor. Gideon Coe uses Ivor's Cruising Theme as the musical bed over his last song leading up to midnight on BBC 6 Music to say nighty night. A rich eccentric who enjoys the occasional glass of port and has new hats sent from London every week. She is also technically the owner of the railway, having bought it when the line was threatened with nationalisation. However, she does not bother much with the day-to-day running, and things remained much the same after she bought it. Mr. Dinwiddy When Idris' home Smoke Hill lost its heat, Jones and Ivor took Idris to see Mrs Griffiths in her shop in Llanmadd. After seeing Idris and his brethren, and Ivor's self-whistling, Mrs Griffiths apologises to Jones for thinking him mad and agrees to help the dragons. Mrs Griffiths and her fellows at the Antiquarian Society hire Mr Hughes the Gasworks to fit out Smoke Hill with gas heating and in the series one finale Smoke Hill, now a gas-fired volcano, is reignited and all the characters sing in gladness. However, the gas-heating includes a gas meter that only takes half-crowns, which are no longer "legal tender". On a few occasions, the gas meter runs out and Jones and Ivor have to search high and low for more half crowns.

Mrs Griffiths is a member of the Welsh Antiquarian Society and a passionate believer in Dragons. She first came to seeking Jones the Steam in hopes of finding Idris the dragon, after hearing that dragons had been sighted in Llannyog. Idris had already run away by this point after learning that people were looking for him so Jones misled Mrs Griffiths into giving up the search by pretending to be an insane person who spoke to railway engines (Ivor enhanced Jones' performance by not blowing his own whistle). 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. Ominous Pipe Organ: Averted: Ivor's whistle is made out of three pipes from a steam organ for a merry-go-round (called a roundabout in the series), and uses them to communicate and sing in the Grumbly and District Choral Society. He may have three notes, but he sings them beautifully. Jones discovers Ivor has gone and Mrs Porty suspects bandits. It isn't bandits, of course, and they find the engine at Tewyn beach. There are some problems with Smoke Hill again. So, Jones, Ivor and the dragons go to Merioneth to see Mrs Griffiths. While there, Gaian and Blodwen encounter an old enemy.

The distinctive puffing sound made as Ivor moved was voiced by Postgate, and the show's music was composed by Vernon Elliott. Ivor's 'voice' was mostly sounded by a bassoon. Wales is where you have little railways going along the tops of hills, which is much less boring that hurtling up the slumbering Midlands plain in the middle of the night," he told science fiction enthusiast Clive Banks, "so we decided it would be nice to set it in Wales." 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. allow her bad foot to be washed with boiling water by Jones and Evans. The only person allowed to do that is Bani The Unmasqued World: The existence of dragons in Wales is covered up by everyone to protect Idris and his family from being disturbed, until their existence is threatened by their volcano lair becoming extinct. Afterwards, the Antiquarian Society pitches in funds to help reheat their home using a half-crown operated gas meter. When money goes decimal (see Old British Money), the Society declares the project uneconomical and the dragons dangerous, leading to them arranging for heated cages in the National Museum. To help them escape this, Mr. Dinwiddy the gold miner blasts open a spacious cavern in his mine that is naturally heated by a volcanic fault.

The local fish-and-chip shop owner. A plump woman with a big voice, she is kind and cheerful and serves the choir with food after their sessions. An elephant keeper from India, who works for Charlie Banger's Circus. He is in charge of the elephants Alice, George, Margaret and Clarence, who all obey him without question. The Dragons have nearly run out of Half-Crowns for their gas meter at Smoke Hill. Jones and Ivor find some in one of the most unlikely places. In April 2011, Smallfilms collaborated with mobile gaming company Dreadnought Design to launch an Ivor the Engine game under the newly created Smallworlds brand. [18]National Anthem: "Do you know 'Land of My Fathers'?" asks Idris when he first hatches from Ivor's firebox. The Grumbly and District Choral Society, delighted to see a real Welsh dragon, oblige by singing their national anthem, accompanied by Ivor and Idris. Ivor has gone off on his own again. Dai gets quite cross about it, while Jones finds Ivor at Mr Pugh's farm along with some guests.