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In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. She spent four years alongside her husband - TV producer Angus Wright - raising funds to create the first 26 episodes. The show was a ...

The creator of a beloved children’s TV series is dead at age 81. “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” co-creator Britt Allcroft died, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced Friday. A cause of death ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.

Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series ... in 1943 and got her start as a TV producer at the age of 21. PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths: 2024's ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer Angus Wright ...

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 ...

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 ...

Related: Prince Harry Helps Celebrate Thomas the Tank Engine's 75th Anniversary with Special TV Episode PA Images via Getty (L-R) Didi Conn, Britt Allcroft, Mara Wilson, and Michael E Rodgers Noting ...