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

was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Allcroft picked Ringo Starr to serve as Mr. Conductor, the gentle show’s first narrator ...

The series, which was later renamed Thomas & Friends, ran for more than three decades and featured other famous narrators such as George Carlin and Alec Baldwin. It has spawned TV spin-offs ...

Thomas the Tank Engine and his railway friends have innocently ... the screen in 1984 with former Beatle Ringo Starr as the narrator. At least 14 countries including Israel, Japan and the ...

The familiar voice of narrator Ringo Starr sets the scene ... mishaps and lessons of Thomas the Tank Engine, a train who chugs around the fictional island of Sodor with his fellow locomotive ...

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 the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... Starr was the original narrator of the series. George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, Pierce Brosnan and others followed. A vast majority of the many ...

Growing up in the south of England in the early 1950s, Britt Allcroft liked to stop at a railway bridge on her walk to school and wait for a steam train to come charging by. “That wonderful ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV ... ran for more than three decades and ...

CHLOE VELTMAN, BYLINE: Thomas the Tank Engine started out as a character ... for more than three decades and featured other famous narrators, such as George Carlin and Alec Baldwin.

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive ... envisioning a series with a narrator who hewed closely to the original books.