Parents are no stranger to hearing other people's opinions on children and screentime. You come across some who swear to never use it and others who are for it. Often times, though, parents may fall ...

Michael Imperioli learns about his maternal great grandfather's death as a train worker in New York ... Finding Your Roots is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

On this Community Connection we visit a Toy Train museum in Alamogordo New Mexico and learn about the history of the Rail Road system. Community Connection is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

MEGHAN Markle's estranged father Thomas has revealed he is quitting America - and fears he will never meet his grandchildren. The esteemed former lighting director has plans to relocate this year ...

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 ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children’s books (he based the train on a wooden ... Thomas rolled into the U.S. on PBS in 1989 as the spinoff ...

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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.

But her hard work didn’t gain steam until the 1980s when she created the beloved train ... “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” and crossed the Atlantic in 1989 to have segments air on the PBS ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as they worked each day on the railway under the command of the Fat Controller. Allcroft’s death ...

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 ...

The series found its way to American children in 1989, when Ms. Allcroft took it to PBS in the form ... from toys and train sets to posters and puzzles. “Thomas & Friends” is now one of ...