"Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books to television for the first time, Britt introduced the beloved characters of Thomas the Tank Engine and friends to a new global audience and ...

Britt’s contributions to children’s television and Thomas & Friends cannot be understated,” Mattel said in a statement to Newswire. “Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series books to ...

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 ...

Thomas the Tank Engine became a household name thanks to the long-running children's TV series Thomas & Friends ... the rights to Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books, which featured the beloved ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series ... the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the 1980s. The show first launched ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as they worked each day on the railway under the command of the Fat Controller. Allcroft’s death ...

Allcroft, originally from Worthing, England, transformed children’s television with the creation of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, based on the Railway Series by Reverend W. Awdry. Premiering in ...

The series most recent holiday special “Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures ... with whom Allcroft founded Britt Allcroft Railway Productions, later named The Britt Allcroft Company.