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

Hales had been planning to invest his nestegg in property in the the south of France in the early 1990s but a conversation ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.

Videogame mods are a blursed creation. They're the door to many a quality-of-life tweak or straight-up fix to get some of the ...

From train rides with Thomas the Tank Engine to roarsome dinosaurs and an impressive steam engine collection, there's something on offer for everyone ...

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 ...

Allcroft’s Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends first aired on ITV ... with locomotives and other vehicles operated by radios, while human characters were static figures. Stop motion was used ...

The character of "Thomas the Tank" became popularized in the United States after Allcroft co-created "Shining Time Station" for PBS in 1989. English television producer and director Britt Allcroft.

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as ... In an interview, she said: “It really didn’t take me long to become intrigued by the characters ...

The Point Pleasant Beach Branch of Ocean County Library is in the midst of its annual Thomas the Tank Engine Week, when ...

Allcroft's work not only introduced generations of children to the iconic character of Thomas the Tank Engine but also shaped the landscape of children's programming for nearly three decades.