"It's been a really special moment." Thomas & Friends is a British TV show based on The Railway Series books by Rev. Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, first published 80 years ago in 1945.

An arm descending from the blue sky holds a clapboard over a quaint railway station ... narrator Ringo Starr and author Wilbert Awdry Mattel In the five-minute pilot episode, Thomas makes a ...

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To this day Thomas & Friends continues to be one of the most beloved children’s characters, but its magic and brilliance can be traced back to one incredible man - the late Reverend Wilbert Awdry. As ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was originally a character in The Railway Series books by Reverend Wilbert Awdry and later his son, Christopher. The pilot was shot on 35mm film and has been digitally updated.

In celebration of eight decades of Thomas and his friends, which began with Wilbert Awdry’s The Railway Series and evolved into a global entertainment phenomenon centered on the beloved blue ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, an English Anglican minister and train enthusiast. Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 in ...

The show is an adaptation of the famous The Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry. In 1989, alongside American producer Rick Siggelkow, she went on to create Shining Time ...