Encyclopedia > Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

  Article Content

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is an animated children's television show. The series was based on The Railway Series, a series of books created by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry[?]. The books, which told of the adventures of a group of living, talking trains, were based on stories which Awdry told his son Christopher to entertain him during Christopher's recovery from measles. Ringo Starr was the first narrator of the television series.

Characters from the series include Henry, Duck, Trevor, Bertie (a bus), Donald & Douglas, Percy, James, Gordon, Toby, Daisy, Mavis, Harold (a helicopter), Diesel, Bill & Ben, Edward and the Fat Controller, Sir Topham Hatt.

External links



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
BBC News 24

... channel. It first broadcast in November 1997 and at first only cable television subscribers could view it. In 1999, with the advent of digital television in the ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 38.1 ms