She wanted to create an unconventional show that would enchant children. And she knew she found her perfect narrator in Ringo ...

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 ...

THOMAS the Tank Engine series creator Britt Allcroft has ... TV producer Angus Wright - raising funds to create the first 26 episodes. The show was a runaway success and ran for just shy of ...

“It is with great sadness that I share the passing of my friend and mentor ... She was the creator of “Thomas the Tank Engine,” which first launched as “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ...

Rest in peace.” Allcroft and her TV producer husband Angus Wright spent four years raising the money to create the first 26 episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine. The show became a huge success and ...

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry ...

"Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books to television for the first time, Britt introduced the beloved characters of Thomas the Tank Engine and friends to a new global audience and ...

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 ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children’s books (he based the train on a wooden toy made for his son). Allcroft’s first adaptation ...

The books would ultimately serve as the basis for "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends," which debuted in 1984 after the couple took four years to secure enough funding to produce the first 26 ...