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the moment shaun prendergast appeared on screen!!…. 🙈

This was fantastic

I stumbled across this documentary on Instagram, and have just spent 2 and a half hours on a Monday evening reminiscing about something that I fondly remember from my childhood. Watching Tugs on CITV as a 5 year old was so joyful for someone who was already madly infatuated by Thomas the Tank Engine. I can remember having the annual, the story books, the sticker books, and even the Board Game (I kind of wish I still had it now - but sadly I suspect it got 'lost' in one of the moves or many clearouts as I went through my teenage years). Thank you for making this wonderful documentary that has rekindled my long lost love for this show. I hope someday we get official DVD's of the whole series that I can get for prosperity (and to remind me again in another 30 odd years of my childhood).

2:01:12 hey it’s the unlucky tug

this video is so rewatchable

1:09:13. 1:16:10. Thomas and friends is mentioned

17:36 hope we see the art 🎨 from the book on the left at some point in future. 😊

I haven’t got to watch the video last year because I was busy working on my video projects for CZcams. But when I tapped on this video to watch it, this was the best documentary I’d ever watched. I love the history behind the show and all the detail about it. It made an impact for those who love Thomas like myself. Not to mention some of the crew members who were involved with TUGS were featured in this documentary, including the voice actors Sean Barrett or Shaun Prenderghast talking about the characters that they play in the show. Even Chris Tulloch, the voice of Zorran, is in this documentary. Great video! I personally would like to see Simon Nash and Shaun Prenderghast together in an interview, and maybe do their voices of Ten Cents and Sunshine to improvise a couple lines. What I personally love about TUGS is that the crew treat the show like a Steven Spielberg movie. They’d built some awesome models and sets. The effects and explosions were fantastic. And they’d done some breathtaking shots like the sunset or dawn shots in this show. The crew knows what they’re doing and David Mitton is a charismatic director who makes the show be like as a big Hollywood action movie. TUGS is not just a masterpiece in and of itself as a show, it’s a cinematic masterpiece. Happy 35th anniversary to the show itself.

Who else is here to watch this to celebrate TUGS' 35th Anniversary? Everything about this is almost tear-jerking. There is so much appreciation to be found here. I still can't get over on how many behind the scenes shots there are for "Munitions!"

Man, the ending really hit me in the feels. From Sean Barrett’s send off to Big Mac at 2:21:33 to Chris Tulloch and the fade out of Zebedee sailing off into the sunset at 2:25:57 with that background music. I loved all of this. This was really well made. Great work!!!!

I still can't get over the fact that Big Mac was voiced by the boring-voiced priest from the Father Ted Christmas special.

This looks amazing! Can’t wait to see the entire feature at the premiere night!

Good job

Nice job. Glad to help w/that. 🙂

Looks fantastic! Can’t wait to see the final product!

I’m amazed that Simon Nash didn’t get interviewed.

These sound like great ideas for films. I look forward to seeing these ideas when they are released 😀.

Thanks for the great update! I’ll look forward to seeing your future works, and hopefully 2024 will be a better year! Cheers!

Wonderful News

I will have something exciting to read when I come home from work tomorrow 😀.

That place must have been massive when you visited :) .

Fantastic Job Guys!

What a fantastic video. Very interesting to hear how Sean Ruttledge joined the project. It must have been an honour to have a big name like him join your production. I still love the 'Retrospective' video you all worked so hard on and I'm very proud of you all :) .

Was much an honour watching the Bigg Retrospective premiere and hearing the stories from the people that worked on Tugs. If I hadda known you lot were doing fan reviews at the time of filming, I might have come forward to be interviewed as an international Tugs fan from Australia 🇦🇺. Best wishes to you guys and your future projects. 😉 I can also impersonate Patrick Allen, I do so for my own Tugs series. But Sean I think did it better being a more professional VA to me.

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Thank you for taking my idea into consideration hopefully if there would be a reunion with those kids who are now adults for singing that Christmas Thomas song from 1996 possibly they could sing it at the same railway where it was originally filmed and it would be a lovely idea to get interviews with them.

Hello! Thanks for sharing your update! I would say the subject that grabbed my attention is having more TUGS related projects in the future. I’m eager to know what you guys will have in store once everything is idealized with passion. I’ll look forward to seeing more content from you. Keep it up! :) -Craig

Was there no chance of interviewing Robert Cardona? I know he is 93, but it would be interesting to hear what he thought of Tugs, why they made it and what he thinks of its renesanse.

Finally, after long 34 Years, Tugs already have something 🆕️ for hit Anniversary

It’s a shame really these people seem to love what they’ve done, and having it canceled way before anyone really expected it to.

I wish more show crew had more experiences like this….

Ringo Starr's Startling Studio, where the Tugs music by Mike O' Donnell and Junior Campbell was recorded, had previously been John Lennon's personal studio at his Tittenhurst Park home in Berkshire where he famously recorded his "Imagine" album. Ringo bought Tittenhurst Park from John in 1973, but sold it in 1988, therefore it is possible the Tugs music was amongst the last pieces recorded in that famous studio. It is interesting to note that Ringo Starr recorded "Goodnight Vienna" there in 1974 - what a coincidence?

Ringo Starr's Startling Studio was previously John Lennon's private recording studio at Tittenhurst Park Estate in Berkshire where he recorded "Imagine". Ringo sold it in 1988, so sounds like the Tugs music was amongst the last pieces recorded there.

I was never a tugs fan ( I barely watched Thomas as a child) but the sheer craftsmanship of the props and models used in both those shows is iconic. You could mix backgrounds from this show into a pile of unrelated backgrounds and they could be picked out easily. Just fantastic art direction overall

Amazing! Awesome job! I don’t even mind that my attempt to join was unsuccessful. This is incredible, I hope TUGS gets a Region Zero DVD release someday

Fantastic! Well made and very nostalgic. I loved this as a child. Introduced to it by my father a tug skipper and 33 years later i followed my goals, my heart, my family and now i too am a tug skipper. Proud to do what i do and live the life. Looking back its even more credit to the writers and team who have got so many narratives, jargon and features the same as the real world. In addition im a modeller too, im part of the making tracks model railway team, and document both these aspects of my life on my youtube channel "tugsntrains"

Such spectacular work, as well as it would've been awesome if we also saw an interview of the voice of Ten Cents himself, Simon Nash (many years ago, he did act alongside with John Hasler, who would later be a future UK dub voice of Thomas for Thomas And Friends). Also in the final part regarding on whether there will be a possibility of a remake of this defunct series, hope they keep everything the same way as it did (character designs, storytelling, etc.), as well as who knows, even possibly adding in actual human characters like it was done in Thomas And Friends instead of just being loudhailers. May the great legacy of Robert Cardona and late David Mitton live on for many years to come.

I accidentally discovered Tugs while I was originally searching Theodore the tugboat because I remember watching it as a kid, lol.

I loved this show as a kid. I was really into Thomas so it was excellent when this came along 👍

Which person in the documentaty is Ross King? I used to see his name on the end credits for Tugs, when I was a kid and I thought that he was the Scottish TV presenter from ITV, but I later found out that it was a different person called Ross King, who did the special effects for Tugs.