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.

In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. She spent four years alongside her husband - TV producer Angus Wright - raising funds to create the first 26 episodes. The show was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series ... in 1943 and got her start as a TV producer at the age of 21. PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths: 2024's ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81 ... Awdry that she could transform the stories into a successful TV show given ...