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

Her original adaptation ... channel ITV as “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends,” later shortened to “Thomas & Friends.” Audiences were quickly drawn to the show’s life lessons packaged ...

Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

produced several shows for British television during the 1970s before securing the rights to the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. After forming the Britt ...

Britt Allcroft, the ‘visionary’ creator behind the hit children’s TV show based on Thomas the Tank Engine, has reportedly died aged 81. The tragic news was announced by friend and filmmaker ...

Thomas the Tank Engine became a household name thanks to the long-running children's TV series Thomas & Friends. Now, just a few years after the show went off the air, its creator Britt Allcroft ...

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 Mr. Conductor, the gentle show’s first narrator ...