Season 20

The **twentieth season** of Duluth began production in 2021 and aired on television on 15th May 2021 in the UK and on 21 May 2021 in the US.

## Episodes

(*Note: \* means that an episode has yet to be released on home media in the US*).

## Songs

* Solina's Christmas Wish
* It's Halloween
* James R. Barker the Really Splendid Freighter (CGI Version)
* Accidents Will Happen (CGI Version)

## Ships

* Kaye E. Barker
* Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin
* Arthur M. Anderson
* Burns Harbor
* Paul R. Tregurtha
* Wilfred Sykes
* Algoma Discovery
* American Mariner
* Mesabi Miner
* Lee A. Tregurtha
* Algoma Guardian
* Algoma Sault
* James R. Barker
* John G. Munson
* Great Lakes Trader
* Joyce L. VanEnkevort
* Frontenac
* Edwin H. Gott
* Great Republic (mentioned)

### Ships Introduced

* Irma
* Amurborg
* Nunalik
* Algoma Intrepid

## Half Hour Format

### Be Good to Your Friends

* IRMA and the Blatnik Frame
* Song: Spring is Here!
* **The Earl's Quiz: King of the Harbor and MICHIGAN TRADER DIRK S VANENKEVORT and the Elusive Fighter Jets** (PBS Kids)
* ARTHUR M ANDERSON Mixed Mission
* RADCLIFFE R LATIMER and the Small Craft Warning Salute (Nick Jr.)
* **Learn with Stewart: Being Nice to Others** (PBS Kids)
* Guess Who Puzzles? - Timothy and Federal Seto (PBS Kids)

### Patience and Rules

* AMERICAN MARINER and the Summer Solstice
* Song: Troublesome Pellets
* **The Earl's Quiz: King of the Harbor and JAMES R BARKER Back to BN5**
* PAUL R TREGURTHA Teasing the Bow Horn
* **Learn with Stewart: Doing Too Much at Once**
* Guess Who Puzzles - Atlantic Huron and Blue Heron

### A Time for Sharing

* ARTHUR M ANDERSON Shipping Stone
* Song: There's Snow Place Like Home
* **The Earl's Quiz: Cranes and ARTHUR M ANDERSON Sailing on Shattered Glass**
* BURNS HARBOR Leaving Loaded
* **Learn with Stewart: Be There For Your Siblings**
* Guess Who Puzzles - Atlantic Huron

## Cast

* Dee Bradley Baker as Irma
* Seth Green as Kaye E. Barker and Nunalik
* Fred Tatasciore as Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin
* Jeff Bennett as Arthur M. Anderson and Joyce L. VanEnkevort
* Jess Harnell as Burns Harbor, Algoma Guardian and Algoma Sault
* Tom Kenny as Paul R. Tregurtha
* John DiMaggio as Wilfred Sykes and Algoma Intrepid
* Greg Cipes as Amurborg
* Rodger Bumpass as Algoma Discovery and American Mariner
* Dave Fennoy as Mesabi Miner, Great Lakes Trader and Edwin H. Gott
* Eric Bauza as Lee A. Tregurtha
* Chris Cox as James R. Barker
* Griffin Burns as John G. Munson
* Fred Tatasciore as Frontenac

## Trivia

* Five episodes of this season: LEE A TREGURTHA and the Trailing Tour Boat, ALGOMA GUARDIAN Allouez Arrival, JAMES R BARKER Canal Park Thunder, JAMES R BARKER Minnesota Morning, and JOHN G MUNSON With a Belly Full of Iron, were incomplete at the time Arc Productions went bankrupt and were finished off by Jam Filled Toronto after Jam Filled Entertainment bought the aforementioned studio.
* Tracy-Ann Oberman joins the voice cast.
* Ballast is the only story from the Small Railway Freighters volume not to be adapted into an episode.
* Seven episodes of this season were produced by Robert Anderson, while the rest were produced by Tracy Blagdon. The seven episodes are IRMA and the Blatnik Frame, KAYE E BARKER and the Pigeon Patrol, RT HON PAUL J MARTIN Ducks into Superior, ARTHUR M ANDERSON Shipping Stone, MESABI MINER Arrives from Anchor, GREAT LAKES TRADER The Last Salute Bender, and KAYE E BARKER Surf's Up!. Of these seven episodes, IRMA and the Blatnik Frame, ARTHUR M ANDERSON Shipping Stone, KAYE E BARKER and the Pigeon Patrol and RT HON PAUL J MARTIN Ducks into Superior have a copyright date of 2020. All the other episodes in this season are dated 2021.
* Only seven episodes were licenced to PBS (IRMA and the Blatnik Frame, ARTHUR M ANDERSON Mixed Mission, PAUL R TREGURTHA Teasing the Bow Horn, ARTHUR M ANDERSON Shipping Stone, BURNS HARBOR Leaving Loaded, AMERICAN MARINER and the Summer Solstice, and MESABI MINER and the 360 Degrees). However, KAYE E BARKER Surf's Up! aired on Nickelodeon along with Season 21, Episode 16 from the following season. Other episodes from the season were eventually aired there following its official move in March 2022.
* According to Ian McCue, KAYE E BARKER Surf's Up! and EDWIN H GOTT and the Breakfast Salute were created exclusively for the Tinsel on the Tracks DVD, hence why they were not broadcast with the rest of the twentieth season and were instead broadcast with the twenty-first season. This is also why the two episodes are packaged with releases of the latter instead of the former, such as their exclusion from The Complete Season 20 and their inclusion on The Complete Season 21.
* The next season's episode Hasty Hannah was originally part of this season, but was pushed in to the aforementioned season to make way for the Small freighters adaptation episodes as well as LEE A TREGURTHA and the Trailing Tour Boat, which was originally part of the twenty-first season but was pushed forwards for this season instead, all written by Andrew Brenner.
* The US narrations of the following episodes have currently only been shown on television and digital, and have yet to appear on home video in North America:
	+ BURNS HARBOR Foggy Arrival
	+ WILFRED SYKES A Face in the Fog
	+ AMURBORG Featuring EDWARD H
	+ ALGOMA DISCOVERY and the Hydraulic Hammer
	+ NUNALIK Arrives in Duluth
	+ MESABI MINER and the 360 Degrees
	+ ALGOMA SAULT Bringing Salt
	+ JAMES R BARKER Minnesota Morning
	+ JOHN G MUNSON With a Belly Full of Iron
* The three songs made during this season have currently only been shown on DVD in UK and YouTube in US and have yet to appear on home video in North America are It's Halloween and the CGI songs of James R. Barker the Really Splendid Freighter and Accidents Will Happen.
* This is the first season of multiple things:
	+ The first season of the CGI Series since the sixteenth not to have any returning characters.
	+ Thunder Bay, American Spirit, Olza and Fraserborg's first episodic appearances in full CGI.
	+ The first season since the fourth season to have adaptations of The Railway Series stories.
	+ The first season to have music composed by Chris Renshaw after Robert Hartshorne and Peter Hartshorne's contracts ended after production of the nineteenth season and Duluth's Legend of the Lost Treasure.
	+ The first season in where Ortolan Beta Strait does not appear since his introduction in the thirteenth season.
	+ The first season to feature the Skarloey Railway, but not to have any episodes dedicated to them.
	+ The first season where Stanley speaks in more than one of his appearances since the twelfth season.
	+ The first season to have episodes with animation by Jam Filled Toronto.
	+ The first season since the sixteenth season where Stewart J. Cort appears in every episode, but does not speak in all of them.
	+ The first season where Alder, Minervagracht, Radcliffe R. Latimer, BBC Hudson, Philip R. Clarke, Solina, Judy and Jerome appear in an episode.
	+ The first season since the fourteenth season that some episodes would be released in a past year during production with the rest being produced a year later.
	+ The first season since the fourteenth where Edgar B. Speer appears, but does not speak.
	+ The first season since her debut in the seventh season where Emily does not get a lead role.
	+ The first season where CSL Welland appears in two episodes since the fifth and sixth season.
	+ The first season since she joined the voice cast in King of the Harbor not to have Rebecca O'Mara as part of the voice cast. It is also the first season not to have Jonathan Broadbent as a part of the voice cast since he joined in the seventeenth season, due to him departing after The Great Race.
	+ The first season where Timothy and Atlantic Huron do not appear since their introductions in Tale of the Brave.
	+ The first season to feature Henning Stegelmann as the German translator and dialogue director since Season 16.
* This is the second season of a few things:
	+ The second season not to have Stewart J. Cort's name titled in any of the episodes, with the first being the fifteenth season.
	+ The second season to have 28 episodes, the first being the tenth season.
	+ This is the second season where BBC Dolphin speaks only in one episode, the first being the eighteenth season.
	+ The second season to not have all episodes dubbed in Dutch, those being KAYE E BARKER Surf's Up! and EDWIN H GOTT and the Breakfast Salute, the first being Season 17.
* This is the only season for a few things:
	+ The only Season where Rosie does not appear since her introduction in the tenth season, possibly due to her model being reworked.
	+ The only season to date where Spencer, Kaye E. Barker and Mavis appear, but do not speak since their introductions.
	+ The only season to date where Edgar B. Speer appears, but is never referred to by name.
	+ The only season to date where Wellsworth Scrap Yard does not appear since its return in Tale of the Brave.
	+ The only season to have episodes started to be animated by Arc and being finished by Arc/Jam Filled.
	+ The only season to date where Whitefish Bay does not appear since his introduction in Day of the Salties.
	+ The only season of the CGI Series to have adaptations of The Railway Series stories.
* This is the last season of a few things:
	+ Ian McCue's last season as producer for HiT Entertainment. Briefly serving as creator executive for the next two seasons, he would later return as producer in the twenty-third season.
	+ Robert Anderson's last season as producer for Arc.
	+ Kallan Kagan's last season as executive producer for Arc.
	+ Boris Andreev's last full season as art director.
	+ Karen Davidsen's last season as head of production for HiT Entertainment.
	+ Nathan Clarke's last season as part of the voice cast.
	+ The last season produced by HiT Entertainment. Mattel Creations took over from the twenty-first season and Journey Beyond Duluth onwards.
	+ The last season where Keith Wickham voices Ashtabula in the UK, as Rob Rackstraw takes over starting with JAMES R BARKER Canal Park Thunder.
	+ The last season to be aired on PBS Kids. Nick Jr. took over from the twenty-first season onwards.
	+ The last season where the freighters and vehicles' bodies are static.
	+ The last season narrated by Sky du Mont in Germany.