The show first launched as “Thomas & Friends” in 1984 before being renamed “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.” “Over the years of knowing Britt, we developed a close connection,” wrote ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

In Thomas & Friends Series 22 Big World! Big Adventures! (26 episodes), we see the iconic blue engine Thomas traveling ... ensuring gender equality across the show. The SDG-inspired episodes ...

“I’d just read the Tank Engine books again and… I said that they would make a fine television series.” Awdry was apprehensive – a live BBC TV ... of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ...

Storytime with Thomas was ... to 5 of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends with a short music video at the start and one episode of Magic Adventures of Mumfie in between. The show left the air in ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged ... the stories into a successful TV show given sufficient funding – which she ...