Created in 1983, the five-minute episode introduced the signature elements of "Thomas & Friends," including Ringo Starr's ...

PEOPLE gets a first look at the reconstructed pilot, shared with fans in celebration of 80 years of Thomas Thomas the Tank ...

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

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

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of British children’s classic, Thomas & Friends, an original unseen version of the pilot episode will be available to wa ...

A rediscovered and restored version of the pilot episode of Thomas & Friends, the animated children's steam train series narrated by Sir Ringo Starr, is set to be shown for the first time since it was ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series ... Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the 1980s. The show first launched as “Thomas & Friends” in ...

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry ...

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

Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine in the 1980s ... and her husband to raise enough money to create the first 26 episodes of the show, Thomas & Friends, renamed Thomas ...

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 ...