Shining Time Station/Fortune Teller Schemer

Fortune Teller Schemer
Season 3, Episode 8
Airdate	April 22, 1993
Written by	Ellis Weiner
Directed by	Wayne Moss Thomas director David Mitton
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Shining Time Station — Season Three

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Fortune Teller Schemer is the eighth episode of the third season of Shining Time Station, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Myra Fried (Passenger #1), Robert Desrosiers (Passenger #2), Gwendolyn Pacey (Passenger #3)

Co-Starring:

Plot Overview

Schemer's fortune-telling machine in his arcade correctly predicts bad weather, urging Ginny to take steps to avoid disaster. She therefore protects her tomato crop and sure enough, the weather gets really icy. After hearing of this, Schemer becomes convinced that his machine can actually predict the future. The passengers are stuck at the station as their trains delayed by the frost. Schemer lures them all into the arcade with his fortune telling machine. Ginny asks Schemer for his advice on whether she should get a new haircut. After looking at her currently gray and boring hair, Schemer says "definitely". Later on, Midge is talking to Stacy about Schemer predicting the future. Stacy almost has Midge convinced that Schemer cannot predict the future, when Schemer himself walks into the station, dressed in a mystical turban and robe, addressing himself as the great and powerful El Schemo. This gets Midge to have her fortune told. She interperets this fortune as a command to rip out her poison ivy with her bare hands. Mr. Conductor and the kids come up with a plan to discredit El Schemo, who currently is leading the passengers in chanting "Give Shining Time Station to him-o! Give Shining Time Station to Schemo!" Midge and Ginny storm back into the station. Midge shows El Schemo her rash that she got from ripping out her poison ivy and Ginny then shows everybody her new haircut, which many people shriek in horror at. El Schemo attempts to get an explanation from the machine, but at that point, the head of the doll inside becomes that of Mr. Conductor. The head talks, frightning El Schemo, and says that he told lies to get people's money. By the time he is done, all the passengers are furious at El Schemo. Then their train arrives and they run towards the platform. El Schemo beats them there, begging them to return. Stacy prompts El Schemo to apologize, at which he says "Apologize?! El Schemo?! HAH!" The passengers storm out of the station, now furious. El Schemo hastily apologizes, but he is too late. Schemer loses the El Schemo personality and vows never to do this again, "though it was fun while it lasted.".

Thomas Stories

• "Thomas and the Conductor" and "A Cow on the Line"

Jukebox Band Segment Song

• "Turkey in the Straw"

Credits

• Executive Producers: Britt Allcroft, Rick Siggelkow
• Producer: Nancy Chapelle
• Associate Producer: Julia Weinstein
• Jukebox Band Puppets and Marionettes by "The Flexitoons" Craig Marin, Olga Felgemacher Marin
• Puppets Staged by Craig Marin
• Additional Material Supplied by Craig Marin
• Additional Puppet Staging by Steven Feldman
• Jukebox Band Music by Steve Horelick
• Theme Composer: Joe Raposo
• Score Composer: Stacey Hersch
• Associate Directors: Larysa Fenyn, Joanne Malo
• Floor Director: Stephen Wright
• Technical Director: Gord Bell
• Continuity: Frances Handelman
• Production Coordinator: Lynne Buchman
• Post Production Supervisor: Toni Stevens
• Casting: Tina Gerussi Casting
• Art Director: Lisette St. Germain
• Production Designer: Harley Morden
• Costume Designer: Heather Blurton
• Lighting Designer: Barney Stewart
• Make-Up Artists: Barb Barkey, Lilly Marchenski
• Hair Stylists: Carol Bentley, Vincent Sullivan
• Children's Coordinator: Laurie Farrance
• 2nd Assistant Director: Tony Poffandi
• Production Secretary: Michelle Melanson
• Production Assistants: Tracey Anderson, Jim Chapman, James Christie, Elaine Falzon, Jason Palter, Miles Raine
• Props Assistants: Graham Smith, Kate Smith, William Roboly
• Wardrobe Assistant: Sue Ward
• Audio: Rick Penn, Gary Ventem
• Audio Assistant: Pete Kettlewell
• Engineering: Ron Deland
• Gaffer: Bentley Miller
• Lighting Assistant: Phil Sutherland
• Cameramen: Steve Cruickshank, Simon Dalrymple, Frank Harber, Ted Hart, Alfie Kemp
• Boom Operators: Mike Josselyn, Cory Siddall
• Video: Cliff Davis, Peter Tome
• VTR Operator: Glen Castello
• Editor: Dennis Kutchera
• Audio Engineers: Bruce Fleming, Bill Mather, Vlado Pavicic
• Assistant Editor: Paul Hessell
• Television Assistants: Chris Stoyan Eric Schurman, Chris Stoyan
• Series Advisor: Dr. Ron Slaby
• Additional Material by Brian O'Connor

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

• Based on the Railway Series by The Rev W. Awrdy
• Television Stories by Britt Allcroft, David Mitton
• Producers: Britt Allcroft, David Mitton
• Executive Producer: Angus Wright
• Production Supervisor: Steve Asquith
• Art Director: Robert Gauld Galleries
• Lighting Director: Terence Permane
• Music Composed and Arranged by Junior Campbell, Mike O'Donnell
• Editors: Rebecca De Burgh Mound, Michael Dixon, John Wright

• Facilities provided by Studioasis, Northern Edge Productions, YTV Productions, Inc., Soundsinterchange
• Executive Consultant: Jerry Hamza

Fox Family Edits

• The Juke Box Band song

Nick, Jr. Edits

• The Juke Box Band song