Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

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 was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children’s books (he based the train on a wooden toy made for his son). Allcroft’s first adaptation ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ... his friends as they worked each day on the railway under the command of the Fat Controller.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the much-loved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series, has died aged 81. The TV producer was the mind behind the beloved children’s show after she secured the rights to adapt ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as they worked each day on the railway under ... of Thomas the Tank Engine. A statement from ...

The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books. The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series ... with whom Allcroft founded Britt Allcroft Railway Productions, later named The Britt Allcroft Company.

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 ...