But Allcroft made Thomas an international sensation, starting in the mid-1980s with her TV adaptation narrated ... Allcroft also said she aimed to create shows that gave children an antidote ...

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 ...

The episode, from 1983, was found in storage by accident. It was restored and made available for viewing for the first time ...

A rediscovered and restored version of the pilot episode of Thomas & Friends, the animated children's steam train series ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

The death has been announced of the Thomas The Tank Engine TV series creator Britt Allcroft, whose programmes were based on the books by Wilbert Awdry. The television show Thomas & Friends first ...

The "Thomas ... the Tank Engine & Friends," which debuted in 1984 after the couple took four years to secure enough funding to produce the first 26 episodes of the children's show.

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert ... Television and form her own production company to launch TV and stage shows. She discovered Thomas in 1979 while she was making a ...

Besides Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Allcroft worked on several other children's TV shows, including DanceCrazy, Mothers By Daughters among others, Moon Clue Game and Keepsakes. For all the ...

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 ...