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Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
The series aired as Storytime with Thomas on Fox Family (now Freeform) from 1999 to 2000. Thomas & Friends returned in the form of several direct-to-video releases during season 6 (2002 to 2003) and as a stand-alone half-hour program on PBS Kids. It was distributed from 2004 to 2007 by Connecticut Public Television, and then by WNET from 2008 ...
Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, published from 1945.He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation Thomas & Friends and its reboot Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.
All of the stories in Series 1 were originally written by the Rev. W. Awdry, including a one-off story commissioned by the staff: Thomas' Christmas Party.The seven engines introduced in this series became the core of the cast in later episodes, with crew member (and from Series 8–12, director) Steve Asquith terming them the "Magnificent Seven". [1]
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends magazine story by Andrew Brenner: 21 April 1992 () [nb 11] 64: 12 "Thomas, Percy & the Post Train" David Mitton: Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends magazine story by Andrew Brenner: 28 April 1992 () [nb 12] "Thomas, Percy & the Mail Train" 65: 13 "Trust Thomas" David Mitton
Thomas the Tank Engine meets Gordon's brother, the Flying Scotsman, who is taking part in the Great Railway Show on the Mainland and encourages Thomas to try and take part as well. Although every engine on Sodor wants to take part, Sir Topham Hatt has not made up his mind yet, and Thomas fears he won't be picked to go to the competition.
He gains his first lines of dialogue as well as a face in the twenty-first series, and is the only character to appear in both Thomas & Friends and its sister series Tugs. USN 20t Tower Crane Rob Rackstraw Bulgy: A double-decker bus with an ideological opposition to railways. His catchphrase is "Free the roads!" AEC Regent III: Colin McFarlane ...
The series was a combination of episodes derived from The Railway Series, stories in the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends magazines (written by an uncredited Andrew Brenner, who would later become the show's head writer from 2013 to 2018), and a couple of original stories by Allcroft and Mitton. One of the primary reasons for diverging from the ...