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 ...

In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ... how she first became interested in the charaters from the Railway Series while she was making a 1979 documentary about a heritage ...

Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around a cast of anthropomorphic ... Britt Allcroft, who created the children's TV series starring Thomas The Tank Engine, has died. She was 81 years old.

The visionary TV producer was instrumental in the adaptation of Reverend Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series from page to screen in the 1970s, and it was under her guidance that Thomas the Tank Engine ...

In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine for screen, a project that became the 1984 series ...

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 ...

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 ... and Toby – as they worked each day on the railway under The Fat Controller.

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 ...