It was first broadcast on CITV in October 1984. Thomas & Friends(originally known asThomas the Tank Engine & Friendsor simplyThomas the Tank Engine; later calledThomas & Friends: Big World! The series was based on The Railway Series, a series of books created by the Reverend Wilbert V. Awdry. When the biggest race of the year, the Sodor Championship, came to Sodor, Henry was happy to take part in it but he was worried that Percy might run out of water but when he did, Henry helped out to make th… The series has been broadcast in over 185 territories and has spawned twenty-four series, a theatrical film, and fourteen direct-to-DVD specials. Conductor, The original Kaye and Ward logo shown at the end of episodes from the first and second seasons, *Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, Fandom will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Thomas & Friends (originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a British children's television show originally created by Britt Allcroft and based on The Railway Series. *SYNTH MUSIC BLASTS* ~Gordonfan and Emeryandemilyfan2344. [5], Before the airing of the first episode of Thomas & Friends in 1984, previous attempts had been made to adapt Awdry's stories for television. 1 Bio 2 Persona 3 Basis 4 Voice Actors 5 Trivia 6 Gallery Gordon is the No. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. Hartshorne took his place as songwriter from Series 12 and onwards. This article lists and details episodes from the eleventh series of this show, which was first broadcast in 2007. In the United Kingdom, Thomas & Friends was originally broadcast on ITV until 2006. Like all thoroughbreds, he tends to be a little high-strung and a bit of a worrier. This wiki is for the Thomas and Friends MINIS range made by Fisher-Price. Big Adventures!) The CGI animation for the series was provided by Nitrogen Studios of Vancouver. The first known attempt to make a television adaptation of the Railway Series books was by the BBC in 1953. The movie was well received by young children on both sides of the Atlantic, but made only $19.7 million at the box office,[19] against a cost of $19 million to produce. David Stoten succeeded him as head writer starting with the twenty-fourth series. We have over 667 articles. Thomas & Friends is a television series mainly based around railway engines that live on the Island of Sodor. [1] The series is split into two-halves; the first half sees Thomas travelling around the world and visiting India, Australia, and China, while the second half takes place back on the Island of Sodor. The show no longer features a narrator at all, replaced with Thomas speaking to the audience. The eleventh series (2007) was filmed in high definition format. In Autumn 2014, the eighteenth series aired and the following feature-length special, Tale of the Brave was released. As of 2018, it has most likely been cancelled, since no new updates on the film have been announced. 1 Vehicles 1.1 Classics 1.2 Pets 1.3 Camping 1.4 Breakfast 1.5 Slime 1.6 Fantasy Plarail/Motor Road and Rail model (updated with new face, stripes around the boiler, white running board, different rear) (2003-present - Japan; 2003-2005 - US) [43] At first this was used to generate smoke and other effects, but later, HIT (the current owners of Thomas) announced its intent to introduce a fully CGI series in 2009. The latter two had been embroiled in a protracted legal dispute with HiT before their departure. Thomas & Friends takes place on the standard gauge North Western Railway, the narrow gauge Skarloey Railway and the 15-inch gauge Arlesdale Railway. In the United Kingdom, it had its first broadcast on theITVnetwork in Great Britain in 1984. Gordonis a pompous express engine who lives on the Island of Sodor. Fourteen years before Thomas and Friends was aired, Ted Ray, sitting in a stationmaster's office, read out five Railway Series books between 20 September to 2 October 1970. [39], On 12 October 2020, it was announced by Mattel that the series would be rebooted with Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! In the ninth series, another larger Thomas model was built to the same scale as the narrow gauge engines to provide greater possibilities for interaction. Thomas was built in 1915. 2017 also saw Journey Beyond Sodor. This article lists and details episodes from the first series, which was originally broadcast in 1984. Stop-motion was occasionally employed for instances in which a human or animal character would move. 4 blue engine who pulls the express. is a British-Americanchildren's television series. Mattel has announced a reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!, which will be animated in 2D for a premiere in October 2021. Hurricane is the secondary antagonist of Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor. From Series 9 the narrator would call out the episodes' names and from Series 11 the theme song was sung starting with the sound of a train whistle. Episodes that are decently formatted but not fully formatted will be highlighted in blue. The instruments for series 1–2 was the Roland Jupiter-6 and instrumentals for series 3–7 was the E-mu Proteus sound module. Welcome to the Thomas & Friends Community Central Wikia! 1 Biography 2 Personality 3 Gallery 4 Navigation Hurricane works alongside Frankie at the Steelworks on the Mainland, with Hurricane using his strength to provide extra muscle. Later models were constructed entirely from scratch. [24][25] Asquith, who was part of the original production team since 1984, took over as director, while Simon Spencer replaced Phil Fehrle as producer. [28] The traditional models and sets were still used, but with computer animated faces superimposed on the models to allow for changing facial expressions. In the United Kingdom, it had its first broadcast on the ITVnetwork on October 1984. The "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" Steam Locomotive is Alive! The series in Israel is known as תומס הקטר and תומס הקטר וחברים, and is dubbed in Hebrew. Thomas is a small fictional steam locomotive in and is the title character in the accompanying television in cartoon Thomas is a steam engine and his best friends are Percy, James and Molly.. Thomas's character can change from time to time, from cheeky like Percy to wise like Edward. The series is currently produced by Mattel Creations taking over HiT Entertainment, who filmed the series since its acquisition of Gullane Entertainment in 2002. He is engine No. 2005 saw the broadcasting of the ninth series as well as the release of the first direct-to-DVD special, Calling All Engines! He also has a bright white lamp near his buffers. [33], A twenty-second series of Thomas and Friends was announced consisting of 26 episodes with, among many other changes, such as Edward, Henry and Toby being removed from the Steam Team to make room for two new female steam engines named Nia (Africa) and Rebecca (UK),[34] and the narrator has been replaced with Thomas talking to the audience (however, Mark Moraghan, the previous narrator has said that he will still work on the series). Many of the original founding team involved in the original show since 1984 left the production, including Britt Allcroft, director and writer David Mitton, and original composers Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell. The eighth series (2004) was the first released directly to VHS and DVD as four episodes in the US and six in the UK were released before airing on television on Nick Jr. in the UK and PBS in the US. Series four was almost entirely based on The Railway Series. This is also the logo used starting from the seventh series. There are 11,568 pages and growing since the wiki was founded in March 2006. [18] In reality, these were not "new" characters, but creations of Awdry from the original Railway Series books. HiT Entertainment was itself then acquired by Apax Partners, a private equity company, in March 2005. "[7], Allcroft worked to convince Awdry that she could, with funding, convert the stories into a successful television show. Big Adventures! It was the last special to involve Nitrogen Studios and Miller. [citation needed] The film was broadcast on BBC1 on 1 January 2004 and again on 29 December 2008.[20][21]. In the 2010s, Thomas & Friends became the subject of several internet memes such as the "Thomas O'Face" and "The Fat Controller Laughed"[51] and was even the centrepiece of an article for The New Yorker,[52] which explored supposedly authoritarian subtexts present in the show. A special 4-D theme-park exclusive production was released titled, Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers on 9th April 2016, in Boston. Several models from the series have been on display at the Discover Thomas and Friends exhibition at. HiT announced multiple changes to the show beginning in 2009. In the United States, it had its first broadcast onShining Time Stationin 1989. The fifteenth series premiered in early 2011 and the next direct-to-DVD special, Day of the Diesels, was released in Autumn 2011. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (also referred to as Thomas & Friends or Thomas the Tank Engine) is a British children's television series. A Comprehensive list of all the Thomas & Friends episodes, specials, and documentaries ever made, also including lists of episodes for related series, when possible. The remaining six episodes of the eighteenth series featured on the Dinos and Discoveries DVD premiered in the UK in July 2015. He is a long and fast engine and has a thoroughbred look. The titular protagonist Thomas is the most popular and famous character in the series. Why does Flynn smell so bad? What if Thomas & Friends was co-produced by Aardman and The Jim Henson Company/Thomas & Friends: Field Trip What if Thomas & Friends was in 1920s What if Thomas & Friends was in 1930s Episodes that are decently formatted but not fully formatted will be highlighted in blue. W. Awdry, Thomas's Christmas Party.The second season took stories from Book 9 to Book 30. In 1992, Thomas and Friends trains were introduced. Humans and animals were fully computer animated to allow for walking movement. [13] The series was originally shot and produced with live action models at the Clearwater in house studio in Battersea, a suburb of London, for Series 1. One new aspect was the introduction of live-action host segments to Thomas' home video releases. The film had mixed views and despite being well received in America, the film was a huge box-office failure and Allcroft was forced off the series. During the live airing of the first episode, Henry derailed and a hand was seen coming down to put him back on the tracks. In August 2016, Arc Productions closed down after filing for bankruptcy. 2021 Series refers to the seventh blind bag series (also known as Series 23) released in both blind bags and with Motorized cargo cars (known as Series 3) throughout 2021. The show would be produced in Canada at Nitrogen Studios and the twelfth series used CGI for the faces of the engines, the people and the animals alongside the traditional live-action format. Thomas is a tank engine who lives on the Island of Sodor. The 24th series of the children's television show Thomas & Friends started airing on 1 May 2020 in the UK, and on September 1st 2020 in the US on Netflix. It is possible that this idea later became Jack and the Sodor Construction Company. The following is a list of episodes of the television series Thomas & Friends.As of 20 January … Thomas and Friends Fanfic Wiki is a special place for Thomas fans to write their fanfics, though you can post them on you pages on the Thomas and Friends Wiki. A new theme song and incidental music were composed by Ed Welch and Robert Hartshorne, respectively. [6][7][8] After the "Sad Story of Henry" fiasco, the BBC did attempt to rescue the project by offering to give Awdry and the Railway Series publishers greater creative control over the production of the episodes, but the publishers declined the offer, preferring to focus on publishing new books for the series. Series 20 was the last series of the show to air on PBS Kids; when Series 21 began airing in 2017, the American broadcast of the show was moved to Nick Jr., ending a period of almost 28 years of Thomas & Friends on American public television. Blue Mountain Mystery was released in September 2012. 2021 Series refers to the seventh blind bag series (also known as Series 23) released in both blind bags and with Motorized cargo cars (known as Series 3) throughout 2021. The remaining six episodes of the seventeenth series, featured on the Spills and Thrills DVD aired between July and November 2014 in the UK. From Series 5 to 12, some larger-scale models were used for the narrow gauge characters, to more easily fit the complex mechanisms into them while retaining a sufficient level of detail. He loves teasing the others and on occasion brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course. Tomy Trains (originally known as Tomytrain) is a range of battery-operated trains made by Tomy that were released in countries outside Asia. The following series (the show's 13th) saw a transition to full CGI animation. March 2016 also saw the release of six more nineteenth series episodes released on the annual mini-tentpole, episodic release, Start Your Engines!. It proved successful, which resulted in more direct-to-video specials being produced.[27]. The sixth and seventh series continued to introduce action-packed storylines and new characters, and saw the introduction of a writing staff. Individual voice-over actors were given to both the UK and US dubs of the series, following the switch to full CGI animation in 2009. Big Adventures!) 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Thomas & Friends merchandise has been produced to capitalize on the success of the television series Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends).Whilst merchandise was produced alongside due to the popularity of the first of The Railway Series books by the Rev. [6], The engines were portrayed by 00 gauge Hornby Dublo models and driven on authentic sets in the style of the original illustrations. Coaches and trucks were made using Tenmille kits. During the process, the sixth series was produced and aired in 2002, as was the seventh in 2003. Big Adventures!) Thomas appears and speaks in every episode of the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and nineteenth series. Welcome to the Thomas and Friends MINIS Wiki! There are no characters that have appeared in every episode of the series, not even Thomas himself. and that Nelvana would co-produce and animate the series. Season 202 will be the very last season of the franchise which will air and is set sometime in 2198. Since then it has been broadcast on Channel 5's Milkshake! Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! W. Awdry; Created by: Britt Allcroft; Told by: Michael Angelis; Directed by: Greg Tiernan; Series 17-18. ", "Netflix picks up Thomas & Friends in the US", "22 Funniest Things The Internet Has Ever Done With Thomas The Tank Engine", "The Repressive Authoritarian Soul of Thomas the Tank Engine". Big Adventures!) The tenth series aired in 2006 and was the only production to contain twenty-eight episodes unlike the usual twenty-six. The Thomas the Tank Engine Wiki is an online encyclopedia dedicated to anything Thomas, from The Railway Series, to Thomas & Friends, to just about anything else. Five books were read in all until 2nd October 1970. Two episodes introduced a group of construction machine characters known as "The Pack". Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a British children's television series which was first broadcast in 1984. The current television series got its start in 1979 when the Reverend Awdry was interviewed on the Bluebell Railway for a feature on steam engines. He also gained a splashe… Welcome to the My First Thomas and Friends Cast Video Wiki Edit My First Thomas was made in 1996 by Golden Bear. Britt Allcroft thought it essential to convey the episode as a story that would be read from a book at home. These episodes later aired in the UK in July 2016. Thomas & Friends celebrated their 70th Anniversary in 2015. Up until series 12, narration and dialogue were performed by a single storyteller. [6], Nearly twenty years later, the BBC featured Awdry's stories in the television story-telling show Jackanory. [6][7][8] The live broadcast did not fare well. Thank you for visiting! It was succeeded by the Thomas Wood system, produced by Mattel from 2018 to the present day. In September 2010, Apax was preparing to sell off HiT Entertainment and its franchises, including Thomas – regarded as the single most valuable asset – in order to help clear HiT's debts,[29] and in February 2012, sold the company, along with the Thomas properties, to "US toy giant", Mattel.[30]. Dear Friends, Here are four new adventures from Thomas's branch line. It was the first series broadcast on ITV since series 3. The Thomas the Tank Engine stories were conceived by a young British boy early in the 20th century, who would listen to the trains as they chuffed through the countryside. He is a streamlined North American steam engine who bullies smaller engines who get in his way by abusively pushing them around for his pleasure. Common Sense Media rated the show a 4 out of 5 stars stating: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Parents can be assured that this series has educational aspects as well as behavioural modelling. My son adored Thomas so much so that he could name every single train, knew what color they were and the number they had painted on them. 2014 saw Tale of the Brave and Series 18, the second special and series animated by Arc, respectively. The nineteenth series also first aired on 13th October 2015 in the US. This features the Thomas TrackMaster ranges from HiT Toy Company's original range, Fisher-Price's first succeeding range to the Motorized Revolution and Push Along ranges, as well as the Motorized Railway and the latest Motorized range. He is portrayed as proud to run his own branch line and fond of the coaches, Annie and Clarabel. In the United Kingdom, it had its first broadcast on the ITV network in October 1984. Thomas & Friends; Based on The Railway Series by the Rev. These are the narrators of the show in the United Kingdom and the United States. Due to stricter broadcasting schedules, Britt had to create a half hour programme to go with the five and a half minute episodes. In 2001, the idea for a spin-off focusing on the non-rail vehicles was being tossed around at Gullane. In January 2016, three more episodes from the nineteenth series aired in the UK, followed by another five episodes in March 2016. Series three was broadcast in 1992 on CITV. Rules • Manual of Style • Staff 'Arry (originally labelled as Iron 'Arry) is a diesel who works at the Smelters Yards. Thomas & Friends (originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a British children's television show originally created by Britt Allcroft and based on The Railway Series. These books follow the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. Thomas is described as being a cheeky, fussy engine. The film's CGI animation is by Nitrogen Studios Canada, Inc. It aired on Disney Channel in both Italy, Japan, and Korea. Details of Thomas' arrival on the North Western Railway in 1915 are mostly undocumented and it is unknown exactly how he turned up on Sodor. It also focused on more dramatic and action-oriented plot-lines, with more severe accidents, than in the earlier series. Minako Aino & Friends (a.k.a. It is scheduled to be released on Netflix and Cartoon Network in the US. Thomas Gordon James Percy Emily Charlie Nia Kwaku Rebecca Salty … The spin-off did not materialise for some time. There are 11,568 pages and growing since the wiki was founded in March 2006. The series was doing incredibly well after that and a full-length theatrical film soon loomed ahead. Good-BYE! It later relocated to Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, southwest of London for subsequent series. The first broadcasting of the eleventh series took place in 2007 and this marked the final series to contain twenty-six episodes, until the seventeenth series. It also aired on Sprout from 2005 to 2015. [31] King of the Railway and Series 17, both released during 2013, serve as the first special and series developed by the new animation and production teams respectively. The range was made in 2007 after when Tomy gave up the rights to the Motor Road and Rail Range in the US. However, starting from, The engines and rolling stock seen from the first series were made out of modified, The rolling stock seen from series 1 to series 5 were made out of modified, There are over 500 episodes of Thomas & Friends, with the 500th being. The fact that older sets were used and the episodes were shot on 35mm camera (as opposed to the digital camera used at the time of the episodes' release) suggest it was filmed some time before Series 8. Jocelyn Stevenson had stepped down as executive producer after Series 10, with Christopher Skala taking her place as executive producer for Series 11. Series 10 aired with twenty-eight episodes rather than the twenty-six of previous years. The Movie", "Thomas & Friends moves to Nick Jr. as show pushes to become 'more inclusive and entertaining, "Exclusive sneak peek: 'Thomas & Friends' pulls into station with season debut", "Mattel Television Greenlights 104 New 'Thomas & Friends' Television Episodes and 2 Specials", "Cartoon Network, Netflix snap up new 2D Thomas", "Hit reveals new look for Bob and Thomas", "Celebrate the holidays with Thomas & Friends! Thomas & Friends (previously known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is the name of the television series based on the Railway Series by the Reverend W. Awdry. She had become fascinated with the characters and after getting funding from her local bank, acquired the series so she could adapt it for television. Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends or simply Thomas the Tank Engine; later called Thomas & Friends: Big World! is a reboot of the Thomas & Friends franchise slated to air on Netflix in October 2021. 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