PEOPLE gets a first look at the reconstructed pilot, shared with fans in celebration of 80 years of Thomas Thomas the Tank Engine has been a beloved constant for kids for 80 years! In celebration of ...

The original pilot of the iconic children’s TV show Thomas & Friends hadn’t been since it first hit the airwaves 43 years ago ...

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

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty shared the news of Allcroft’s death on Instagram on Friday, Jan. 3.

The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series, has died. She was 81. "It is with great sadness that I share with you the passing of Britt Allcroft ...

Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... Ian McCue, a producer of the series for a decade, told the BBC. The 5-minute episode was pieced together from multiple 35-mm film strips.

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children ... winning PBS some 1.2 million viewers — rivaling ...

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 toy made for his son). Allcroft’s first adaptation ...

Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer Angus Wright, spent four years raising the funds to make the first 26 episodes of the series ... of Thomas the Tank Engine.