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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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.. It aired on a variety of stations ...

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.

Thomas & Friends, under both of its titles, ran for 24 series and 584 episodes, from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021, with Allcroft stepping down as executive producer in the early Noughties.

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, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81.. The Context. Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows ...

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 ...