By 23 June, news of the broadcast hit the front pages of "The Daily Telegraph" and the "Daily Mail". Awdry himself branded the episode as "unprofessional", and the point-switching debacle as an "elementary mistake". As a result, the second episode scheduled for 28 June 1953 was put on hold, and then later cancelled. After the "Sad Story of Henry" fiasco, the BBC did attempt to rescue the project by offering to give Awdry and the "Railway Series" publishers greater creative control over the production of the episodes, but the publishers declined the offer, preferring to focus on publishing new books for the series.