The storyteller got her start in television when she was ... 1989 to have segments air on the PBS series “Shining Time Station.” “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” began airing in the ...

Brannon Carty, who worked with Allcroft on his 2023 'An Unlikely Fandom' documentary, announced her death in a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) Britt Allcroft, creator of beloved children ...

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, died on Dec.

creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81. The death was confirmed by Brannon ...

Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer ... of the series, which was an instant success with fans. The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series, has died ... Allcroft was married to television producer Angus Wright, with whom Allcroft founded Britt Allcroft Railway ...

She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural ... Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of beloved children series Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. On Thursday, Jan. 2, filmmaker, Brannon Carty announced the legendary producer's death in a ...

Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series, has died ... in 1943 and got her start as a TV producer at the age of 21. PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths ...

It was introduced to American television in 1989 through the PBS series Shining Time Station. The show, originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, ran for decades, coming to an end in ...

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 ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s ... and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...