A TUGS episode referencing Prohibition would be insane

That order makes perfect sense, something not mentioned but also working with this order is Johnny cuba's arrival into port in high winds and hiding in "the old docks that hadn't been used for years". I always presumed these old docks were those being demolished and redeveloped in Warrior

II have a small clue to put in, if I may, which I think you have missed. In the episode ‘Munitions’, Captain Starr orders Sunshine to “Go to the Canal, pick up Mighty Moe, they finished the work on the bridge, take him home.” This is an indication of the railway bridge destroyed by the Z-stacks steel rig in the episode ‘High Tide’, this can also be tied in when Captain Starr says to Big Mac, “thanks for winning us the Steel Contract.” Meaning that the Starr Tugs beat the Z-stacks for the steel contract. The steel contract they were going for in 'High Tide'. So ‘Munitions’ come after ‘High Tide’. Happy Tugs day.

This is a job well done. For what it’s worth, what we got with one series of Tugs is just as ambitious for the cinematography, action, story and voice acting in the series and a lovely counterpoint to the second series of Thomas, hence the similar camera techniques.

Great timeline! And it keeps another thread from High Tides. It's there that Top Hat gains respect for Lord Stinker, the garbage barge and we see in Warrior that he doesn't seem to mind being assigned him when he suggests that the garbage barge can help push Izzy back up.

I honestly prefer High Tide before Munitions, as Munitions 20 clearly references the previous events of High Tide (the repairing of a railway bridge and a steel contract), and Quarantine after Munitions 20 as a previously neve-before-seen BTS photo of Quarantine shows Top Hat and Warrior towing a scorched Krakatoa and a faceless Johnny Cuba implies it was filmed production wise after Munitions, but that's what I like to stick based on only TVS canonical events

My order: 1. Sunshine (the pilot) 2. Pirate (Pirate was paired up with Sunshine for VHS & the Diesel tug was a wooden frame for these two, then become the red "oxide" hull) 3. Trapped 4. Jinxed 5. High Tide 6. Munitions (Bluenose is more prominent here than Regatta, plus we learn more about him here) 7. Quarantine (a behind the scenes image shows Top Hat and Warrior with the Kraka-Toa, all burnt up from the fire in Munitions) 8. Regatta (Grampus joins the Star Fleet, something never acknowledged again, Diesel Tug's engine is at Lucky's Yard so the hull is complete) 9. Warrior (Quaratine in June, Regatta in July, Warrior in August) 10. High Winds 11. Ghosts 12. Bigg Freeze 13. Up River

Great video and no One has done this so You did great

There's a prominent fan theory that the show actually takes place in the 1930, possibly over the span of several years with Sunshine taking place in 1929 before the stock market crash. There is visual evidence for this (1930s cars, mafia business, all the Navy stuff, the amount of abandoned docks and buildings, the Vienna/Mauritania being in her white livery, etc.), but this does make some other events not fit, like Grampus' decommissioning being moved way forward in time. But it's an interesting thing to think about. It's sad that the 20 minute cuts got cut because a lot of good continuity and story was lost.

Hello Thomas. I like the timeline but I have my own. There are some dates I estimated and some don't match but here it is. Sunshine: February 26, 1920 Jinxed: April 13, 1920 Pirate: Late April/Early May 1920 Trapped: June 1920 Regatta: July 4, 1920 Warrior: Mid/Late July 1920 High Tide: August 9, 1920 Munitions: August 26, 1920 Quarantine: September 26, 1920 Ghosts: Late October-Early November 1920 High Winds: November 13, 1920 Bigg Freeze: December 24, 1920 Up River: March 17, 1921

You are a mad Lad for doing this. Also probably insane for spending so much time

Amazing video, this stuff is so interesting to me for some reason lol. In Bigg Freeze, I believe you can see the destroyed factory from the end of Up River in the water's reflection, so I would swap those two around in the timeline. The original 20 minute long unedited versions of the episodes would be great to completely explain all the chronology.

I'am the unique that notes the biggest of the anachronistic of the show Puffa was based after the DRG Class 89.0 and the first members of the class roll out of the factory in 1927, for sure they didn't know that or Puffa would not be based after said engine class. Also curious that High Tide events get mention in Munitions even High Tide happen before the latter (but was broadcast after) and the fact the this became irrelevant if you only watch the TV VERSION since they cut that scene out, also we could assume that Porter did work in Bigg City Port (Taking the fact Bigg City Port is New York counter part in this universe and the H. K. Porter, Inc 0-6-0ST were use on the docks of NY). And work together with Puffa and The Goods Engine and also since Salty is a BR Class 07 number 2991 built in 1962 and seems that Salty works in Sodor for a while Porter maybe came to Sodor in the late 1960's or the 1970's.

Idea: Maybe it would take a while for the Salvage Fleet to lifts Big Mickey's corpse out of the water, and his essence floats to Sodor, and he tells the Fat Controller in his sleep to retrieve his old body. Brendam Docks needs a new crane, and the Fat Controller finds Big Mickey's body, but before it is taken to Sodor, O.J. "sees" Snatcher.

IMO, Quarantine has to come after munitions. This is because there's a deleted scene in that epsiode that involves Top Hat and Warrior towing away the wreckage of Kraka-Toa (the ship that was destroyed in munitions) Other than that though, I think this is a solid theory that could make sense

Lovely video and analysis. I’m impressed with the decisions made in the timeline. I haven’t checked when writing this but have you checked anything on Twitter relating to TUGS research? The is a goldmine there of development info. Also TUGS Day is the best proposal I’ve heard.

My theory is that Munitions was originally after all the other episodes featuring Big Mickey in episode order, but they changed it so he appears afterwards so the kids see him after he falls and didn't think he died.

Awesome man!

Great job, you are very dedicated 🛥

Interesting video. Nice to see something like this.

I like the fact that Quarantine is in 1921 and we are still some kind of quarantine 100 years later. haha

Quarantine has a deleted scene where the tugs are taking away the burnt krackatoa

Well uh, tiny thing. First, the Empress of Britain actually was operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship company, and sailed from Canada, to the UK. It's more likely the Princess Alice is, either the WSL's Homeric, or one of the 2 funnel liners from Red star line. Oh, and Mauretania is pronounced "Maure-tay-nia" and Imperator "Imp-eh-rah-ter", don't ask me why, i didn't name the ship-

As someone who has never seen TUGS this wants me to watch it thank you

Wow. Interesting.

Dat snatcher face is pretty creepy

I going to watch the tugs series in this order now

The snatcher fact was interesting

I personally spent a while trying to sort out a timeline; based around seasonal settings, character introductions & the tone of certain episodes. Ignoring scenes we never got to see, the best I could come up with was: Sunshine Trapped (Introduction of Billy & Little Ditcher) High Winds (Introduction of Scuttlebutt Pete & Princess Alice enters port) Regatta (Introduction of Lillie, Grampus, Bluenose & Princess Alice hosts the regatta) Quarantine (set during the summer, like Regatta) Warrior (Warrior getting a job other than garbage for once [addressed during the first scene]) Ghosts (winter starts) Bigg Freeze (peak of winter) Up River (winter begins to end, introduction of Puffa & Boomer is seen at work) Pirate (no real fixed spot for this after Regatta, the "new respect for Warrior" IMO wouldn't linger for characters like Top Hat) High Tide (events from this directly tie into Munitions) Munitions (hijinks ensue) Jinxed (the munitions company who were established prior appear)

Hmm….while this timeline placement seems plausible, but from the TUGS Iceberg explained by EN2, at the end, mentions about the navy as a whole and how they relate to Munitions and their presence in Bigg City. There was also a book story mentioning of a German UBoat sneaking around the harbor. They were preparing for WW2. The whole setting has little tidbits of models and hints of vehicles and areas that are abandoned and unused for YEARS. They are in the 1930’s, The Great Depression. Mentioning the 1920’s is a front to have producers tricked into letting a 1930’s story on air. Hell, there were hints of a diesel tug secretly being built while the others don’t notice and Bigg Freeze was suppose to be the season finale to have the steam tugs have a chance against the Diesel Tug cause they are unreliable in cold weather.

I had no idea about the Big Mickey ghost thing

Actually SS Vienna is based off of German line are called kizer willhelm de grosse at least I think that’s how you spell it although I think the Mauritania is a much better guess because Kaiser sank in ww1 because she was scuttled a.k.a. set a light on purpose

So all of them are 100 years old?

Great information, but I'd say that the Duchess is more like the RMS Olympic, but still, great content

0:46 don't worry i've got this you can sit back and let ME do that timeline

Quarantine is before trapped because Nantucket is the tramper

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@The Unlucky Tug

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I found another clue to the timeline - the factory from Up River The factory was destroyed in Up River, then in Bigg Freeze when Ten Cents is talking to OJ we can see the demolished factory behind him. Therefore Bigg Freeze and Up River should be swapped. So currently the timeline should be -Sunshine -Pirate -Trapped -Regatta -High Tide -Quarantine -Up River - Bigg Freeze -Jinxed -High Winds -Warrior -Munitions -Ghosts If I find any other clues that point to a different order I will update this comment with the clues and explanations

if this is 1920's then why is so much abandoned

There is the season 2 of tugs and it is call salty Lighthouse

So season 2 was gonna take place in 1923 and 1924 EH?

Um pirate takes place after jinxed because a deleted scene from jinxed shows izy Gomez crashing into a floating warehouse similar to the one from pirate + in big freeze the destroyed munishons factory from up river in a Walter refashion

I only have one problem with this timeline....in high tide big Mac and warrior are fighting for the steel contract with the Zeds....in munitions captain star thanks big Mac for winning the contract....that means that munitions should be one or two episodes after high tide, yet here they are a year apart

Season 2 bruh

I have my own order for tugs episodes here is my order Sunshine Reggata High tide Trapped Up river Pirate Jinxed Warrior Munitions Quarantine High winds Ghosts Bigg freeze

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