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Queen for a Day is the final family special and the seventieth episode of Shining Time Station.

Plot

As the queen and the prince travel on a train, two thieves sneakily detach their train coach, thus the royal family accidentally ends up at Shining Time Station. Unfortunately, nobody knows that the queen is a real one. The queen also brings her jewelry in the station, but accidentally leaves it behind when she goes to Ginny's house for tea. It is Schemer who finds the jewelry and he secretly decides to keep it for himself. Meanwhile, the prince meets Becky, Kara, and Kit and became friends with them. He is very happy because he got the chance to hang out with ordinary people, a wish that he has always wanted to fulfill. The next day, it is the talent show at Shining Time Station. The kids perform a play, while Schemer shows his singing talents by participating in a barbershop quartet. The two thieves suddenly interrupt the show and begin to chase after the queen and Schemer in order to rob the jewels. Schemer and the queen escape on a motorcycle while the thieves chase them on Ginny's truck. The thieves are later stopped by J.B. King and Stacy Jones and arrested.

Characters

Thomas Stories

Jukebox Band Segment Song

  • The Lovely Ohio
  • Greensleeves/Scarborough Fair
  • Mrs. Murphy's Chowder

Trivia

  • Schemer sings a few notes of "King of the Forest" from the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz when he tries on the Queen's jewels.
  • The locomotive Stacy and Mr. King used to catch Biff and Bull is the same one from Billy's Party.
  • As the final family special of the series, this marks the last appearance of the majority of the episode's cast, except for Mr. Conductor who returned for his Thomas Tales in 1996. Stacey would reappear in Thomas and the Magic Railroad in 2000, and Schemer would return in The Magic Railroad Parody in 2019.

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