In 1984, Allcroft secured the rights to the books and began working on adapting the stories for the screen. The result was ...

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

Running from 1984 to 2021, “Thomas & Friends” aired more than 500 episodes following the adventures, mishaps and lessons of Thomas the Tank Engine ... bring Awdry’s books to television ...

Thomas the Tank Engine and his railway friends have innocently entertained generations of children. But now a psychologist claims that the make-believe adventures of the steam engines could leave ...

An unseen version of the pilot episode of Thomas & Friends, the animated children's steam train series narrated by Beatles drummer Sir Ringo Starr, is to air for the first time. The original episode, ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by ... Allcroft also was behind Magic Adventures of Mumfie, an animated series about an elephant that was inspired by books written by Katharine Tozer.

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 ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s ... Beyond Thomas, her 1990s animated series Magic Adventures of Mumfie, about a sweet little gray elephant and ...

The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books. The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... with an expressive face who first appeared in British children’s books by the Rev. W. Awdry. The character and his fellow locomotives, like ...

She eventually secured the rights to the “Railway Series” books from which the character Thomas the Tank Engine was adapted ... and “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Biggest Christmas ...