“Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” began airing in the US in ... special “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Biggest Christmas Adventure” which premiered in Dec. 2024.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series ... holiday special “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Biggest Christmas Adventure” which premiered ...

Allcroft died on Christmas Day in Los Angeles ... was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Allcroft picked Ringo Starr to serve as ...

She was the creator of “Thomas the Tank Engine,” which first launched ... recent holiday special “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Biggest Christmas Adventure” premiered in December ...

She eventually secured the rights to the “Railway Series” books from which the character Thomas the Tank Engine ... and “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Biggest Christmas Adventure.” ...

Britt Allcroft, the visionary creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81. A statement from her family announced her passing and ...

Her daughter Holly Wright told the New York Times she died on Christmas in Los Angeles ... The first episodes of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” aired on British television just a ...

The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

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

Her original adaptation was a live-action production with a small budget that premiered in 1984 on the British channel ITV as “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends,” later shortened to “Thomas ...

Allcroft’s Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends first aired on ITV on 9 October 1984, directed by David Mitton, with narration by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and music by Mike O’Donnell and Junior ...