Jack & the Sodor Construction Company

Jack & the Sodor Construction Company or Jack & the Pack was a mini-series devised by Phil Fehrle to be a spin-off of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Michael Angelis narrated all thirteen episodes in the UK, and Michael Brandon narrated for the US.

Production
The plan was soon scrapped when HiT Entertainment took over because they saw it as a rip-off of their other construction-based series, "Bob the Builder". Twenty-six episodes were planned, but only thirteen (half of the series) were filmed. The characters only appeared in two Season 6 episodes, Jack Jumps In and A Friend in Need. In 2006 a DVD, Thomas' Trusty Friends/On Site with Thomas and Other Adventures, was released. Since then, the Pack has made appearances in The Great Discovery and the twelfth season episode, Percy and the Bandstand. Jack returned in CGI in the 2013 special, King of the Railway], and appeared again in Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, in which Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty also returned. All five subsequently reappeared in the twentieth season episode Mucking About

For this series, large-scale models of Thomas and Percy were built. Two of these models are now on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan (previously on display at Thomas Town).

Current Thomas & Friends Headwriter Andrew Brenner stated on his CV that he has worked on this series since 2010.

Songs

 * The Work Song
 * One Friendly Family

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Percy
 * Jack
 * Alfie
 * Oliver
 * Kelly
 * Isobella
 * Ned
 * Byron
 * Max and Monty
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Jenny Packard
 * The Policeman
 * The Foreman
 * Henry (does not speak)
 * The Photographer (does not speak)
 * Gordon (cameo)
 * James (cameo)
 * Toby (cameo)
 * Salty (cameo)
 * Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
 * Trevor (cameo)
 * Elizabeth (cameo)
 * Jem Cole (cameo)
 * George (dropped)
 * The Horrid Lorries (dropped)

Characters introduced

 * Monty
 * Patrick
 * Nelson
 * Buster
 * Dryaw FC coach
 * The Experts
 * The Piano Lady
 * The One-eyed Truck (mentioned)
 * The Loader (mentioned)
 * Nigel (dropped)

Trivia

 * This series takes place following the sixth season as it was filmed in 2002.
 * This series was never shown in Latin America, Brazil, Norway, Finland, Japan, Greece, Israel, Poland, or Romania.
 * Percy's model for this series has red stepladders on the end of his running board instead of green, and a green dome instead of gold.
 * A large scale model of George was built for this series, but was reworked to make Buster.