Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, died at 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft’s death was announced by filmmaker Brannon Carty.

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.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81.. The Context. Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas & Friends is celebrating 80 years of the beloved character and his stories. PEOPLE has a first look at the never-before-seen 1983 pilot episode of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Thomas ...

The history of Thomas and friends. Thomas the Tank Engine was created in 1945 by Reverend Wilbert Awdry to entertain his son Christopher who was recovering from illness. The popular books reached ...

Allcroft was best known as a producer for several shows, including Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends after obtaining the rights to the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank ...

Britt Allcroft, 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.

Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and ...