Banjo and the Bushfire (Australia)

: “Cinders and Ashes!"
: "Exactly.”
: ―Thomas and Ranger Jill
Banjo and the Bushfire is the twenty-fourth episode of the twenty-second series.
== Plot ==
Thomas offers a lift to a ranger while working in the Australian Rainforest. Thomas is excited to learn from her all about the animals that live there, but he is too loud and impatient to be very useful.
== Characters ==
* Thomas
* Tamika
* Annie and Clarabel
* Ranger Jill
* Sir Topham Hatt (as a crocodile)
* Thomas the Baby (fantasy)
* Diesel (stock footage)
* Philip (stock footage)
* 'Arry and Bert (stock footage cameo)
* Farmer McColl (stock footage cameo)
* Gordon (mentioned)
== Locations ==
* Australia
** The Kuranda Rainforest
** Cairns
* Island of Sodor
** Knapford
** Knapford Station Yard
== Voice Cast ==
=== UK and AUS ===
* John Hasler as Thomas
* Rose Robinson as Tamika
* Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
* Keith Wickham as the Fat Controller
* Tariro Mavondo as Ranger Jill
=== US and CAN ===
* Joseph May as Thomas
* Rose Robinson as Tamika
* Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
* Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt
* Tariro Mavondo as Ranger Jill
== Trivia ==
* At the end of this episode, Thomas mentions the events of the twenty-first series episode, Philip's Number, and the twentieth series episode, Diesel and the Ducklings. Stock footage from both episodes are used.
* This is the only episode of the twenty-second series set in Australia where Shane, Isla, Aubrey and Aiden are absent. It is also Tamika and Ranger Jill's only appearances in the twenty-second series, while being the only episode of the twenty-second series set in Australia not to have Shane Jacobson, Rachael Miller, Genevieve McCarthy and Tim Bain as part of the voice cast.
* Tariro Mavondo and Rose Robinson join the voice cast.
* This is the third time in the TV series a newborn/living thing has been named after Thomas, with the first being one of Farmer Trotter's piglets in the thirteenth series episode, Thomas and the Pigs and the second being Albert and his wife's baby in the nineteenth series episode, Thomas the Babysitter.
* Before its UK broadcast, this episode was shown at the Princess Anne Theatre (BAFTA) in London alongside Number One Engine, Forever and Ever and What Rebecca Does on Saturday September 1st, 2018.
* The design of the bag caught on the bird resembles the standard design manufactured of Lay's.
== Goofs ==
* When Thomas is speeding down the line, the chuffing sound effect does not match with how fast he is going.
== Home Media Releases ==
=== UK/AUS ===
* Monkey Trouble!
== In Other Languages ==
Language 	Title
Brazilian Portuguese	Banjo E O Fogo Na Mata
Dutch 	Banjo en de Bosbrand
German 	Banjo und das Buschfeuer
Hebrew 	בנג'ו ושריפת היער
Polish 	Banjo i Pożar w Lesie
Spanish 	Banjo y el Incendio en el Matorral