The show first launched as “Thomas & Friends” in 1984 before ... The storyteller got her start in television when she was 21 and produced shows like 1967’s kid’s quiz show “Get It ...

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 at the age of 81. Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows for British ...

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, 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 ...

It was introduced to American television in 1989 through the PBS series Shining Time Station. The show, originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, ran for decades, coming to an end in ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank ... would never experience the magical world of Thomas and friends on TV.” Another added: “Thank you Britt for making the childhood ...

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. The death was confirmed by Brannon ...

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. Thomas started out ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, has died. The pioneering TV producer played a crucial role in adapting Reverend Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series into the beloved ...

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 ...