Donald&Douglas1

Between May and June of 2011, me and my brother got a three week break off work. I decided to go over to my brother's house for five days. On the first day over, we were cleaning out the loft when we came across our old VHS tapes from when we were kids. Most of them consisted of shows such as Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat. However, I found a tape which read "Donald&Douglas1". We had never seen this tape before, so we decided to play it on my brother's old VHS player.

The episode started off with the nameplates and awkward silence. However, the

characters looked either angry or depressed. This went on for thirty seconds. The episode starts with the Fat Controller in his office when a worker in a blue suite came in and was speaking in Russian. The fat controller replied in English saying "Yes, of course". It then cuts to a scene where Donald and Douglas were pulling a goods train, this is where the episode got rather strange. When they passed another character, the other character looked depressed, but Donald and Douglas were still smiling and the first act ended.

The next act showed the two characters Donald and Douglas reversing into the shed, they were still smiling but the other characters still looked depressed. You could hear a sigh as the screen faded to black. The next scene began where the two twins were once again pulling a goods train, but they had to stop at a station. The crews of the engines started them up and jumped out the cab smiling. The guard from the brake van then jumped out and he too was smiling, then the scene ended.

The next scene showed them going towards a huge bridge that was under construction where a silver tank engine was standing nearby. Unfortunately, the two engines knocked the silver tank engine and some of the construction workers off the bridge. Instead of showing the accident, it showed the main characters in the

sheds at night time looking angry with pitch black eyes, as screams could be heard.

The screen then cut to the scene of the crash with parts of Donald, Douglas, and the silver engine everywhere, with blood all over the rolling stock. The credits played with the music in reverse and had the picture of the crash in the background. The credits were in Japanese. The tape then ended.