Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Cranky Bugs & Other Thomas Stories [VHS]
Cranky the Crane gives little engines Thomas and Percy a lot of grief  in the title story. To make matters worse, big engines Gordon and James side  with the ill-tempered lifter and the little guys get nervous and begin making  mistakes on the job. They redeem themselves, however, when Cranky topples in  a storm and Thomas and his buddy put him back upright. Other stories feature  twin engines Bill and Ben having "teething troubles," Toad the brake van's  forward-thinking ambition, grumpy Gordon crashing through a station wall, and  storyteller Alec Baldwin adopting a falsetto as Lady Hatt, Sir Topham Hatt's  wife and birthday girl. In lieu of a seventh story, a chorus of kids sings  "Night Train" while the model trains steam through darkness in a series of dramatic scenarios.--Kimberly Heinrichs