Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry ... with her TV adaptation narrated by Ringo Starr. The series, which was later renamed ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his ... her TV adaptation narrated by Ringo Starr. The series, which was later renamed ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make ... Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children ...

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 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.

Allcroft was responsible for bringing Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s books The Railway Series to British TV in 1984 as a children’s show narrated by Ringo Starr. The series ran for 24 seasons ...

In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway ... with narration by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and music by Mike O’Donnell and Junior Campbell.

Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert ... drummer Ringo Starr and stand-up comedian ...

Allcroft began her career in British television and was introduced to Thomas the Tank Engine when she met the author, Reverend Wilbert Awdry ... from former Beatle Ringo Starr.

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry ...