EXCLUSIVE: First interview ever with beloved engine about his voice, new look. Sept. 13, 2009— -- Kids have read about the British character since the 1940s and watched "Thomas & Friends" on ...

Created in 1983, the five-minute episode introduced the signature elements of "Thomas & Friends," including Ringo Starr's soothing narration and hand-crafted model trains. But for decades, it collecte ...

Thomas the Tank Engine, that “cheeky ... has been Ringo Starr, George Carlin and, now, Baldwin. “Britt Allcroft had this vision of taking these books and bringing them onto screen,” says ...

Thomas the Tank Engine notices a ... narrator of the series. George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, Pierce Brosnan and others followed. A vast majority of the many characters were originally male ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to ... by the likes of George Carlin, Alec Baldwin ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating ... three decades and featured other famous narrators such as George Carlin and Alec Baldwin. It has spawned TV spin-offs, movies ...

The series, which featured narration by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and stand-up comedian George Carlin, was renamed to “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” and crossed the Atlantic in 1989 to ...

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive ... among them Michael Angelis, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin and Pierce Brosnan.