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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, best known for her television adaptation of Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series characters, which introduced a new audience to characters such as Thomas the Tank Engine, has passed ...

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 Awdry’s ...

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