Thomas & Friends (1984)
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Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Michael Angelis
Narrator (Voice)
Britt Allcroft
Creator / Producer / Writer
Ringo Starr
Narrator (Voice)
Reverend W. Awdry
Creator / Writer
Alec Baldwin
Narrator (voice)
George Carlin
Narrator (voice)
Christopher Awdry
Creator
Michael Brandon
Narrator (voice)
Martin Sherman
Thomas / Percy / Diesel (voice) / Thomas / Percy (voice)
Mark Moraghan
Narrator (voice)
Keith Wickham
Gordon (UK)
Kerry Shale
Gordon (US)
Richard Nye
Storyboard Artist
Don Spencer
Director
David Mitton
Director / Writer
Teresa Gallagher
Annie and Clarabel (UK & US)
Chris Kelly
Editor
Robert D. Cardona
Producer
Mike O'Donnell
Music
Matt Wilkinson
Cranky (UK)
Junior Campbell
Music
Jeff Bailey
Animation Supervisor
Darren Schmidtz
Animation
Crystal Sing
Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 9, 1984
StatusEnded
Seasons26
Episodes584
Running Time22m
Content RatingTV-Y
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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Thomas & Friends is a British children's television series that aired for 24 series and 584 episodes from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021. Based on The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft. The series follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor with his friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and others who are engines of The Fat Controller.
In the United States, it was first broadcast along with the spin-off series, Shining Time Station, on PBS' PTV Park block on 29 January 1989. The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), which acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002. HIT was folded into Mattel in 2016.
A new 2D-animated series, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, premiered on 13 September 2021 on Cartoon Network's preschool block Cartoonito.