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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Allcroft, originally from Worthing, England, transformed children’s television with the creation of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, based on the Railway Series by Reverend W. Awdry. Premiering in ...

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 ...