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The first attempt to adapt Awdry's stories for television came in 1953, when the editor of the Railway Series books, Eric Marriott, was approached by the BBC, who wished to use live-action model trains to re-create two stories from Awdry's first book, The Three Railway Engines.

The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), which acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002.Ī new 2D-animated series, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, premiered on Septemon Cartoon Network. In the United States, it was first broadcast along with the spin-off series Shining Time Station on PBS in 1989. They work for the Fat Controller, who always wants his engines to be "really useful engines". The series follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other anthropomorphised locomotives on the North Western Railway, including Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby. Awdry and his son Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft.

Based on The Railway Series books by Rev. Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and later Thomas the Tank Engine and Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021.
