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Once Upon a Time is the first family special and the sixty-seventh episode of Shining Time Station.

Plot

When Becky makes a wish, a cowboy painting on the mural comes to life. His name is Ned Kincaid, and he became great friends with Stacy Jones. No one knows that Ned Kincaid was just a fictional cowboy coming from the mural from many centuries earlier. Schemer becomes jealous when no one pays attention to him so he decided to start a train full of passengers in order to impress everybody.

Suddenly, the train started to move, so Schemer gets scared and he jumps out. The train is moving at high speed, but there is no driver. Ned Kincaid comes to the rescue and runs after the train on his horse. He manages to jump onto the engine and save everybody from a big accident. By the end of the day, Ned Kincaid disappears back into the painting in the mural. That evening, as Stacy is preparing to lock up, a man who missed his train comes to the station and asks for a ride into town. To her surprise, the man is very similar to Ned and his family name is also Kincaid; he turns out to be the great-grandson of Ned Kincaid.

Characters

Thomas Stories

Jukebox Band Song Segment

  • Lonestar Trail Medley
  • Buffalo Gals Medley
  • What's New Pussycat? (The Rat Pack)

Quotes

  • Mr. Conductor: Oh dear! Oh deary, deary me! But how? The wishing star...
  • Mr. Conductor: Well, diary, Becky had made a wish to meet a real cowboy from long ago, and her wish had come true. Now I had Mr. Ned Kincaid from 100 years ago to worry about. And I wasn't the only one worried...
  • Dan: Stepney got what he wanted; he ran the main line.
  • Ned Kincaid: So you're telling me that it was magic, the magic that brought me here for a day.
  • Mr. Conductor: That's right, Ned. Becky made a wish and it came true. You're it.
  • Schemer: It is just that... that you've been paying so much attention to that Mr. Kincaid guy that I thought that maybe if I got a new jukebox or maybe if I learn to drive a train then maybe you would pay attention to me and then maybe you will like me again.
  • Stacy: Oh, Schemer, I do like you, not because you learn to drive a train or you have a new jukebox, it's because I know you, because we're friends.

Trivia

  • This is the first televised appearance of the Jukebox Puppet Band's manager, J.J. Silvers. Silver's previously appeared in the direct-to-video release A Day in the Life of The Jukebox Band.
  • This is the only appearance of the new jukebox as well as its puppet band, the Rat Pack.
  • Washboard Hank guest stars as the One Man Band, albeit, uncredited.
  • The episodes marks the first of a few things:
    • The return of Shining Time Station in 1995.
    • The first to feature scenes filmed outdoors, not counting the Season 3 episode, Billy's Runaway Train.
    • The first special to feature the Britt Allcroft logo after the end credits.
  • This is the first and only time Schemer has verbally interacted with members of the Jukebox Band, via telephone to JJ Silvers.
  • The special does not credit who performed as The Rat Pack. However, Craig Marin revealed that he played the lead singer Dorian Graymouse, while Olga Felgemacher-Marin played the pussycat Kitten Baboodle, and Jonathan Freeman and Peter Baird played the rats Ruff and Tuff.
  • This special marked the last appearance of Jerome Dempsey as Mayor Osgood Bob Flopdinger, who first appeared in the Season 1 episode Too Many Cooks.
  • This is one of two episodes in the whole series to feature a Thomas story that features Daisy, due to her only making a cameo in Rusty to the Rescue, in which her face was hidden.
  • In real life, Schemer could've been arrested for causing the runaway train.

Goofs

  • While Mr. Conductor's whistle and sparkle, as well as the Jukebox background music, sound lower in the other three family specials and Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales, they still sound the same in this special as it did in Seasons 2 and 3.

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