She wanted to create an unconventional show that would enchant children. And she knew she found her perfect narrator in Ringo ...

Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

Hailing from Worthing, England, she served as a producer on a number of British television shows throughout the ... from which the character Thomas the Tank Engine was adapted on screen.

The death has been announced of the Thomas The Tank Engine TV series creator Britt Allcroft, whose programmes were based on the books by Wilbert Awdry. The television show Thomas & Friends first ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died ... Allcroft also said she aimed to create shows that gave children an antidote to hectic ...

fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the necessary funding to produce the first 26 episodes of what was then called Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in 1984. The show was ...

She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural ... Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert ... Television and form her own production company to launch TV and stage shows. She discovered Thomas in 1979 while she was making a ...

Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer Angus Wright ... The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine. A statement from Allcroft’s family, shared by Carty, remembered Allcroft ...

Britt Allcroft, the ‘visionary’ creator behind the hit children’s TV show based on Thomas the Tank Engine, has reportedly died aged 81. The tragic news was announced by friend and filmmaker ...

The "Thomas ... the Tank Engine & Friends," which debuted in 1984 after the couple took four years to secure enough funding to produce the first 26 episodes of the children's show.