Ivor the Engine (1976) S01E06 The Hat

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00:00Ivo the engine. There he is, look, coming down into Tlanyoq Station. There's Dye Station waiting for him, looking worried as usual.

00:13Oh, there you are, Ivo. There you are, Jones. I've been wondering where you'd got to.

00:18Oh, oh, we had one or two things to attend to, down by the river.

00:21More fishing, is it? Well, you can forget that for a start. There is an emergency.

00:25Oh, yes. Mrs. Porty has been on the telephone about her new hat that's supposed to be coming from London.

00:32Ordered it special, as she did, for the Church Ladies Guild meeting tomorrow, and it hasn't turned up.

00:37Oh, there's disaster now.

00:38Well, I telephoned Llangobin Depot, and there's a box waiting there.

00:42All right, I, we're off.

00:49And to Llangobin they went, over hills and valleys and bridges, to collect Mrs. Porty's new hat.

00:55But when they came back in the evening, they noticed that the box was addressed to Professor Longfellow, not to Mrs. Porty.

01:03Oh, dear. That isn't Mrs. Porty's hat, after all.

01:07Oh, nothing we can do about it. If Mrs. Porty's new hat hasn't arrived, it hasn't arrived.

01:11She will have to wear one of the hundred other hats she's got.

01:15Oh, it's getting late. Time to go home.

01:16It was nearly dark by the time Jones the Steam had cleared out Ivor's fire and settled him down for the night.

01:23Soon it was night-time everywhere, and the little town of Laniog slept under the sky.

01:29Everybody was asleep.

01:32Well, nearly everybody.

01:34Young Willie Harris at number two station terrace was reading his cowboy book.

01:37Bandits, or...

01:51Thieves!

01:53Are you there, Dye Station?

02:03Oh, Professor Longfellow. Good morning.

02:06Good morning. Jones the Steam said there is a box for me here.

02:09That shall be the new cover for my telescope.

02:11Well, that's right. Where is it?

02:13Where did we put it? It was, um...

02:15It was stolen.

02:17Stolen, Mr. Dye Station.

02:19Stolen? Never.

02:20Bandits!

02:22Come in the night on horses!

02:24Carried it away!

02:25Look, there's hoofprints here.

02:28I see.

02:30Well, in that case, I shall have to ask you all to accompany me to the police house and make statements.

02:35Oh, well, hang on a minute.

02:36Let's have a statement from Ivor, shall we?

02:39Ivor, do you know where Professor Longfellow's telescope cover is?

02:44Good.

02:44Can you show us?

02:45Gentlemen, if you would care to accompany Ivor to, uh, wherever he takes us.

02:52The church hall.

03:02Hmm, that's where the church ladies' guild is meeting.

03:05I expect Mrs. Porter will be inside addressing the meeting.

03:07Now, the subject of my speech today will be personal honesty.

03:13So many of us tend to take lightly the small everyday obligations and observances.

03:21She's wearing it on her head.

03:22We must all remember the commandment.

03:24You could, sir, Professor.

03:25Of course I'm sure.

03:26That is a telescope cover, not a hat.

03:29Mrs. Porty wears some very remarkable hats, sir.

03:32No, that is my new telescope cover.

03:35She has stolen it.

03:36No, that is small, the deed or thought.

03:38It is the cleanness and purity of spirit, the personal knowledge, that even in the face

03:45of temptation, we have not given way.

03:48Constable Gregory, I am making a speech.

03:52I'm very sorry, Mrs. Porty, ma'am, but I'm afraid I have to arrest you.

03:56Arrest me?

03:57For what?

03:58Well, for stealing, as a matter of fact.

04:01Stealing?

04:01That's right.

04:03There's nothing personal, of course, you know, but you did break into the station in

04:06the middle of the night and...

04:08I went down to the station with Bluebell, my donkey, and I collected my new hat.

04:15Well, not quite, Mrs. Porty.

04:16That was a new cover for my telescope.

04:19Oh?

04:21Oh.

04:22Oh.

04:23There.

04:24I thought it was a bit unusual.

04:27Well, Constable, I suppose you'll have to arrest me.

04:31Put on the handcuffs.

04:33Oh, dear me, nor Mrs. Porty.

04:35I...

04:35I couldn't do that.

04:37Not in front of the church ladies' guild?

04:40Of course not.

04:42Nobody would dream of arresting Mrs. Porty.

04:44Oh, dear me, I'm sorry.

Ivor the Engine (1976) S01E06 The Hat

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