Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81.

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 ...

"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.

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 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 beloved children series Thomas the Tank Engine, has died.She was 81. On Thursday, Jan. 2, filmmaker, Brannon Carty announced the legendary producer's death in a poignant ...

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 ...

Allcroft’s first adaptation, which she financed by mortgaging her house, was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Allcroft picked Ringo ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created in the 1940s by author Rev. V. Awdry and his son Christopher in The Railway Series. It was adapted to the screen as Thomas & Friends by the award-winning ...