A Dog's Life is the seventh episode of the second season and overall the twenty-eighth episode of Shining Time Station.
Plot
At Shining Time Station, Ginny Johnson arrives at the station to drop off some stuff, noting to Stacy that her dog has gone missing since this morning. Before leaving she gives Kara, Dan and Becky some apples from her farm where they later sit with Mr. Conductor as he tells a story about James and his accident with some tar trucks.
Meanwhile in the arcade, Schemer is setting a nickel trap in his jukebox as numerous times he's seen people putting nickels in the jukebox and yet finds the deposit box empty. Inside the jukebox, Tito Swing sees the nickel and grabs it despite the bands protest to let go. Soon a tug-of-war occurs between Schemer and the Jukebox gang, ending with both sides losing the nickel. Fed up, Schemer decides to crank up security at his arcade to prevent any more nickels thefts.
Sometime later, Schemer has rigged the arcade with tripwires, an alarm system with a camera, a net and a guard dog which he tells Stacy that he just found.
Cast and Characters
Main Cast
- George Carlin as Mr. Conductor
- Didi Conn as Stacy Jones
- Tom Jackson as Billy Twofeathers
- Erica Luttrell as Kara Cupper
- Ari Magder as Dan Jones
- Danielle Marcot as Becky
- Brian O'Connor as Schemer
The Flexitoon Puppeteers
- Jonathan Freeman as Tito Swing
- Olga Felgemacher-Marin as DiDi
- Craig Marin as Rex
- Peter Baird as Grace Bass
- Kenny Miele as Grace Bass
- Alan Semok as Tex
Guest Starring
- Barbara Hamilton as Ginny Johnson
- Richard Yearwood as The Arcade Customer
Mentioned
Thomas Stories
Jukebox Band Segment Song
- Home on the Range
Trivia
- It is revealed that Mr. Conductor can speak to animals, just like his cousin before him.
- Richard Yearwood guest stars as the Customer in this episode. He would later become known to be the voice actor of Donkey Kong in the computer animated series Donkey Kong Country.
- Another version of the Jukebox Band's song in this episode was filmed, but was not used until Lullaby was produced and released.
Goofs
- The Thomas stories are listed in reverse order in the end credits.
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Series 3 >> |
| #01 Scare Dares | #10 Washout | #19 Jingle, Jingle, Jingle |
| #02 Oh, What a Tangled Web | #11 Crackpot | #20 All's Fair |
| #03 The Magic is Believing | #12 Yabba, Yabba, Yabba | |
| #04 Win, Lose or Draw | #13 Nickel in a Pickle | |
| #05 Sweet and Sour | #14 Stop the Press | |
| #06 Achoo | #15 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | |
| #07 A Dog's Life | #16 Double Trouble | |
| #08 Field Day | #17 Is Anybody There? | |
| #09 Wrong Track | #18 Do I Hear | |