Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends; retitled Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! during its last three seasons) is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry and his son Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft. 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. They work for the Fat Controller.

The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), which acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002.

A new 2D-animated series, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, premiered on 13 September 2021 on Cartoon Network.

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International versions
Thanks to the show's very own nature (having aired for a total of 3 decades and a half), its foreign distribution has been quite erratic over the years. On top of that, the program's format has been restructured and retitled multiple times. Because of this, for simplicity and organization purposes, the dubs in this page have been divided into three "eras":
 * - lasting from the series' premiere to the end of season 7.
 * & - lasting from season 8 to season 21.
 * Big World! Big Adventures! - lasting from season 22 until the series' finale.


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