As a young autistic kid growing up, Thomas the Tank Engine stories by the Rev W Awdry, and later, his son Christopher, were ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

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 ...

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, died on Dec.

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.

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, an English Anglican minister and train enthusiast. Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty ...

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Captivated by the charm of Awdry’s characters, she envisioned bringing the books to television. In 1984, her dream became a reality with the launch of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ...

Matthew Atkinson (Thomas Forrester) and RJ Forrester (Joshua Hoffman ... Amanda loves poking fun at celebrity train-wrecks and over-analyzing soap operas. She is a proud internet addict, devotes ...