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 ...

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 first adaptation, which she financed by mortgaging her house, was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Allcroft picked Ringo ...

The "Thomas the ... basis for "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 ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

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, who co-created the beloved "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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television ... Awdry’s books The Railway Series to British TV in 1984 as a children’s show narrated by Ringo ...

The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books. The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine ...