A Better View for Gordon is the third episode of the fifth series. It aired back to back with Gordon and the Gremlin on Storytime with Thomas in the US. One morning, Gordon is complaining.
Gordon remarks the "view" to be boring and says that important engines should have a panoramic view so that people can see him, but is relieved when it is time for his return journey. On the return journey, Gordon tries to build up speed, but he breaks down and comes to a complete stop in a siding.
Gordon is delighted to discover the broken wall has been turned into a panoramic window, affectionately named, "Gordon's View." The Fat Controller tells him that it is here to stay and he trusts that he will always see through it from the safety of his own rails. Gordon heartily agrees.
His fireman tells him that something inside of him is broken and that he is in dire need of repairs at the Works. When James arrives to collect his coaches, he tells Gordon that he was too puffed up in his smokebox and it serves him right. ''Well, Gordon, I know you wanted a panoramic view, but this is not the way to achieve it''.
Gordon remarks the "view" to be boring and says that important engines should have a panoramic view so that people can see him, but is relieved when it is time for his return journey. On the return journey, Gordon tries to build up speed, but he breaks down and comes to a complete stop in a siding.
This is annoying James, who asks why the blue express engine complains all the time. Gordon replies that he is a big engine that knows everything and shall complain whenever he wants, while James is just a small red engine with ideas above his station and that one day he will show just what a big engine can really do.
Later, Gordon is ordered by the Fat Controller to pull an empty express train to Kirk Ronan for a dress rehearsal to test the new station building. At first he does not want to do it since Henry usually likes idling in stations, but the Fat Controller does not care and tells him to do as he is told.
In the shot of Kirk Ronan before Gordon crashes, a fake wall is used for Gordon to crash through. The Hindi narration of this episode credits Michael Angelis as the narrator.
Trivia. Gordon's crash at Kirk Ronan was inspired by the Gare Montparnasse derailment in Paris, France. On 22nd October 1895, the Granville-Paris Express ran through the buffer stop, across the station concourse, and crashed through the station wall, landing in the Place de Rennes below.