* Watch the original and newly digitised pilot episode, Down the Mine, on YouTube/@thomasandfriends from 6pm tonight. To register for the live Thomas & Friends Online Auction, visit https ...

Adult nostalgia for children’s television is nothing new. Generation X collected Peanuts and Flintstones lunch boxes and ...

Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ran for 24 series until January 2021 with a total of 584 episodes. Allcroft stepped down as executive producer in the early 2000s.

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of British children’s classic, Thomas & Friends, an original unseen version of the pilot episode will be available to watch for the first time ever – with narration ...

Allcroft’s first adaptation, which she financed by mortgaging her house, was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

The "Thomas the Tank Engine" and his fans all over the world are in mourning. Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series, has died.

Thomas the Tank Engine appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade back in 2014. REUTERS “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” began airing in the US in 1989. PA Images via Getty Images ...