starting in the mid-1980s with her TV adaptation narrated by Ringo Starr. The series, which was later renamed Thomas & Friends, ran for more than three decades and featured other famous narrators ...

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Britt Allcroft, the producer behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series Thomas And Friends, has died. Brannon Carty, a filmmaker who made the documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away ... Company with her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years ...

Britt Allcroft, Creator of TV’s ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’ Dies at 81 She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr ...

"It's been a really special moment." Thomas & Friends is a British TV show based on The Railway Series books by Rev. Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, first published 80 years ago in 1945.

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.

Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV ... series, which was an instant success with fans. The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his ...

Awdry's Railway Series ... TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the necessary funding to produce the first 26 episodes of what was then called Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ...

By Isabella Kwai Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a ...

Britt Allcroft, the ‘visionary’ creator behind the hit children’s TV show based on Thomas ... the popular British children’s series Thomas & Friends which includes interviews with longtime ...