Britt’s contributions to children’s television and Thomas & Friends cannot be understated,” Mattel said in a statement to Newswire. “Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series books to ...

"Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books to television for the first time, Britt introduced the beloved characters of Thomas the Tank Engine and friends to a new global audience and ...

Thomas F. Clasby ... including $8,950 to a music studio for songs of Clasby singing for his wife and friends, $2,236 for 153 pounds of bourbon steak tips, $4,800 for a Toyota Prius, and $1,658 ...

When you crack open a ’70s sci-fi/fantasy paperback like On Wings of Song, you expect to slip into a world wholly unlike your ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine ... Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the 1980s. The show first launched as “Thomas & Friends” in 1984 before being renamed ...

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 adapted the children’s book series to TV ... impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and a longtime favorite of children and ...

The musical seeds were planted a generation ago for Christopher Johnstone at Cedar Rapids’ Coolidge Elementary. The future ...

Thomas the Tank Engine became a household name thanks to the long-running children's TV series Thomas & Friends ... to Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books, which featured the beloved Thomas ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television ... for bringing Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s books The Railway Series to British TV in 1984 as a children ...

without you Wilbert’s books wouldn’t have been amazingly adapted for television [and] people would never experience the magical world of Thomas and friends on TV.” Another added ...

Kristen Stewart has been a movie star since what, Panic Room? Stewart is 34 years old, and she’s been in the public eye for most of her life. We know that she likes music. She played Joan Jett in the ...