Brum and the Runaway Rickshaw | |
Series 5, Episode 8, Overall 64 | |
Director | Vic Finch |
Producer | Chris Wood |
Writer | Dave Ingham Robin Rigby |
Air date | 21 October 2002 |
Previous | Brum and the Bank Robbers |
Next | Brum and the Paint Pandemonium |
Brum and the Runaway Rickshaw is the eighth episode of series 5 in 2002.
Summary[]
Mr. Brillo is happily riding in a rickshaw with his gnomes as part of the Big Town parade. While the driver stops for an ice cream, the rickshaw rolls away and crashes into a fence on the edge of a high building and teeters perilously over it. Brum saves the day by pulling the rickshaw and Mr. Brillo to safety.
Trivia[]
- This episode aired on the same day as the Thomas and Friends episode: Faulty Whistles.
- The scene where the rickshaw breaks through the fence and balances on the edge is probably a reference to the 1969 film, The Italian Job and later a reference to the Tobot episode Two Boys Two Bots when Dolly and her mom's car was on the bridge.
- When it was aired in the USA for Ready Set Learn, it came after Brum and the Airport Adventure.
- The small Purple balloon on the rickshaw is a smaller version of the cream balloon in the previous episode Brum and the Cream Balloon.
- The scene where the rickshaw crashes through the bunting would later be referenced in the Thomas & Friends episode: Best Dressed Engine, where Gordon gets the banner stuck to his front.
- The scene where the rickshaw crashes through the railings and dangles over the edge of the cliff and Brum pulls it to safety would later be referenced in the Thomas & Friends episode: Thomas and the New Engine, where Thomas pulls Neville to safety of the broken bridge.
- This marks The Visiting Man and Granny Slippers' last appearance.
- This also marks the last episode narrated by Sarah Wichall.