Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends; retitled Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! during its last 2 seasons) was a British children's television show originally created by Britt Allcroft and based on The Railway Series. The show was originally produced with model vehicles, people and sets, but it was computer animated from 2009 to 2021.

Broadcast

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In the United Kingdom, Thomas & Friends was originally broadcast on ITV until 2006. Since then it has been broadcast on Channel 5's Milkshake! strand. In the United States, the series had first appeared only as sequences on Shining Time Station during the program's run from 1989 to 1995 on PBS. The sequences of the series later aired in 1996 on Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales. The series aired as Storytime with Thomas on Fox Family (now Freeform) from 1999 to 2000. When Thomas & Friends returned on several direct-to-video releases during season 6 from 2002 to 2003 and as a stand-alone half-hour program on PBS Kids, it was first distributed from 2004 to 2007 by Connecticut Public Television, and then by WNET from 2008 to 2017. It also aired on Sprout from 2005 to 2015. The rights to broadcast the series through PBS expired in December 2017,[non-primary source needed] thus ending a period of almost 30 years of programming related to Thomas & Friends on American public television. In 2018 and 2019, Nickelodeon held exclusive rights to the series in the United States. In 2020, the streaming rights were sold to Netflix, with traditional television rights (if any) left unresolved. It also airs on Kabillion. Series 6-11 has also been revived and now currently streaming on Rainpaw since January 8, 2022. The program airs in Australia on ABC Kids and on Four in New Zealand. In France, Southeast Asia, Spain and Italy, it plays on Disney Junior. In Canada, it formerly aired on TVOKids, Family Jr. and the Knowledge Network as a part of its Knowledge Kids block, and currently airs on Treehouse TV. In the Middle East, the show airs on MBC 3 and Spacetoon, and in the United Arab Emirates on e-Junior.

Cast

Character		Actor
	Thomas	Ben Small
		John Hasler
	Edward	Keith Wickham
	Henry
File:Gordon (Thomas & Friends).png	Gordon
File:James (Thomas&Friends).webp	James	Keith Wickham
		Rob Rackstraw
	Percy	Keith Wickham
		Nigel Pilkington
File:Toby (Thomas & Friends).png	Toby	Ben Small
		Rob Rackstraw
File:Emily (Thomas & Friends).png	Emily	Teresa Gallagher
	Nia	Yvonne Grundy
File:Rebecca (Thomas & Friends).png	Rebecca	Rachael Miller

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":

Gullane Entertainment - lasting from the series' premiere to the end of season 7.
HiT Entertainment & Mattel - lasting from season 8 to season 21.
Big World! Big Adventures! - lasting from season 22 until the series' finale.

Language	Title	Channels
Albanian	Tomas Lokomotiva dhe shokët	Çufo (formerly) Top Channel (formerly)^[1]
Arabic	توماس والأصدقاء	HodHod (formerly) direct-to-video
Cantonese	救援小火車哈維	direct-to-video
Croatian	Tomica i prijatelji	direct-to-video
Czech	Tomáš a přátelé	JimJam (formerly)
Danish	Thomas og hans venner	direct-to-video
English (United States)	Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends	PBS Kids (formerly) Fox Family (formerly) Nick Jr. (formerly) YTV (formerly) Treehouse TV (formerly)
Faroese	Tok Tummas	Kringvarp Føroya (formerly)
Finnish	Tuomas-veturi	Nelonen (formerly)
French	Thomas le petit train Thomas, la locomotive (originally)	TF1 (formerly) France 5 (formerly)
German	Thomas, die kleine Lokomotive Thomas, die kleine Lokomotive und seine Freunde	RTL II (formerly) Super RTL (formerly) ORF 1 (formerly)
Greek	Τόμας το τρενάκι	Alter Channel (formerly)
Hebrew (First dub)	תומס הקטר	Hop! (seasons 1–2, formerly)
Hebrew (Second dub)	תומס הקטר	JimJam (seasons 1–11, formerly)
Hungarian	Thomas, a gőzmozdony	JimJam (formerly)
Icelandic	Tommi Togvagn og vinir hans	RÚV (formerly)
Italian	Il trenino Thomas	JimJam (formerly)
Japanese	きかんしゃトーマス	Fuji TV (formerly) Cartoon Network
Korean (dub)	기관차 토마스와 친구들 (KBS 1) 꼬마 기차 토마스 (KBS, alternatively) 칙칙폭폭 토마스 기관차 (JEI TV) 꼬마기관차 토마스와 친구들 (EBS, Daekyo Kids TV, Tooniverse)	KBS 1 (seasons 1–4, formerly) JEI TV (seasons 1–4, formerly) EBS (seasons 5-7, formerly) JEI TV (seasons 5-7, formerly) Tooniverse (seasons 5-7, formerly) Daekyo Kids TV (seasons 5-7, formerly)
Korean (voice-over)	토마스와 친구들	direct-to-video
Mandarin (China)	托马斯和朋友	direct-to-video
Mandarin (Taiwan)	湯瑪士小火車	direct-to-video
Norwegian (First dub)	Lokomotivet Thomas og vennene hans	NRK (formerly)
Norwegian (Second dub)	Lokomotivet Thomas og vennene hans	direct-to-video
Polish (dub)	Tomek i przyjaciele	Polsat JimJam (formerly)
Polish (voice-over)	Parowóz Tomek i jego przyjaciele	TVP3 Regionalna (formerly)^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Portuguese (Brazil)	Thomas e Seus Amigos	Rede Manchete (formerly) Rede Globo (formerly) Discovery Kids (formerly)
Portuguese (Portugal)	Thomas e os Seus Amigos	JimJam (formerly)
Romanian	Locomotiva Thomas și prietenii săi	JimJam (formerly)
Romansh	Tumasch la locomotiva a vapur e ses amis	RTR (formerly)
Russian (dub)	Томас и его друзья	JimJam (formerly)
Russian (voice-over)	Паровозик Томас и его друзья	6 Kanal (Saint Petersburg, formerly)
Scottish Gaelic	Tomas, an t-Einnsean Tanca	Scottish Television (formerly)
Serbian	Tomas i drugari	RTS2 (formerly)
Slovak	Thomas a jeho priatelia	RTVS (formerly)
Slovene	Lokomotivček Tomaž in prijatelji	direct-to-video
Spanish (Latin America)	Thomas y sus amigos	Discovery Kids (formerly) Canal 9 (formerly)
Swedish (First dub)	Det Det Lilla Ångloket	TV4 (formerly)
Swedish (Second dub)	Thomas Tåget och hans Vännerna/Thomas och Vännerna	Kanal 5 (formerly) Boomerang (formerly)
Turkish	Thomas ve Arkadaşları	Minika Çocuk
Ukrainian (voice-over)	Паровоз Томас та його друзі	ICTV (formerly)
Uyghur	توماس ۋە ئۇنىڭ دوستلىرى	UyghurFlix
Welsh	Tomos Y Tanc a`i Ffrindiau Tomos Y Tanc a'i Gyfeillion	direct-to-video

Language	Title	Channels
Arabic	توماس والأصدقاء	Jeem TV (seasons 13–15, formerly) Baraem (seasons 13–15, formerly) Spacetoon (seasons 16-21, formerly) MBC 3 (formerly) JimJam (formerly) Oznoz (season 9, formerly)
Azerbaijani	Tomas və dostları	ANS TV (formerly)
Bosnian	Tomica i prijatelji	Federalna TV (formerly) Hayatovci (formerly)
Bulgarian (voice-over)	Томас и приятели	bTV Comedy (formerly)^[6] VOYO (VOD)
Galician	Tomás e os seus amigos	TVG (formerly) TVG 2 (formerly)
Cantonese	救援小火車哈維	ATV Home ATV World (formerly)
Catalan	En Thomas i els seus amics	Super3 (formerly)
Croatian	Tomica i prijatelji	Nova TV (formerly) HRT 2 (formerly)
Czech	Lokomotiva Tomáš Mašinka Tomáš Tomáš a přátelé Tomáš a kamarádi	Minimax (formerly) Barrandov (formerly) JimJam
Danish	Thomas og vennerne	DR Ramasjang (formerly) C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Dutch	Thomas de stoomlocomotief	Cartoon Network (formerly) Nickelodeon (formerly) JimJam (formerly) RTL Telekids^[7]
English (United States)	Thomas & Friends	PBS Kids (formerly) Nickelodeon (formerly) Nick Jr. (formerly) Treehouse TV (formerly)
Estonian (ETV, voice-over)	Toomas ja sõbrad	ETV2 (formerly) ETV+ (formerly)
Estonian (KidZone, voice-over)	Toomas ja sõbrad	KidZone TV KidZone Mini
Filipino	Thomas & Friends	GMA Network (formerly)^[8]
Finnish	Tuomas veturi	MTV3 (formerly) C More Juniori (formerly) C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
French	Thomas et ses amis	Playhouse Disney (formerly) Gulli (formerly) France 5 (formerly) Télé-Québec (formerly)
Galician	Tomás e os seus amigos	TvG2 (formerly)^[9]
German	Thomas und seine Freunde	Toggo Plus (formerly) Super RTL (Toggolino block, formerly) KiKA (formerly) SRF zwei (formerly) ZDF (formerly) Nickelodeon (formerly) Nicktoons (formerly) Oznoz (season 9, formerly)
Greek	Τόμας το τρενάκι	Star Channel (formerly) Alter Channel (formerly)
Hebrew (First dub)	תומס הקטר (seasons 8–14) תומס הקטר וחברים (seasons 15–20)	Educational 23 (seasons 8–14, formerly) Hop! (seasons 15–20, formerly)
Hebrew (Second dub)	תומס הקטר	JimJam (seasons 1–11, formerly)
Hindi	थॉमस टैंक इंजन और दोस्तों	Pogo (formerly) Nick Jr.
Hungarian	Thomas, a gőzmozdony Thomas és barátai	Kiwi TV (formerly) Minimax (formerly) M1 (formerly) M2 (formerly) JimJam TV2 Kids
Icelandic	Tommi togvagn	Stöð 2 (VOD)
Indonesian (First dub)	Thomas & Friends	Indosiar (formerly) Global TV Playhouse Disney (formerly) RTV
Indonesian (Second dub)	Thomas dan Teman-temannya	Horee!
Indonesian (Third dub)	Thomas & Friends	CBeebies
Italian	Il trenino Thomas	Playhouse Disney (formerly) Italia 1 (formerly) Cartoonito (formerly) JimJam (formerly)
Japanese	きかんしゃトーマス	Cartoon Network Fuji TV (formerly) TV Tokyo (formerly) NHK
Korean	꼬마기관차 토마스와 친구들 (EBS, Tooniverse) 토마스와 친구들 (KBS 2, JEI TV, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel) 꼬마기관차 토마스와 친구들 (Kids 1) Oznoz (season 9, formerly)	EBS (seasons 8-10, 12-15; formerly) EBS English (seasons 8-10, formerly) Tooniverse (seasons 8-10, formerly) Animax (seasons 8-10, formerly KBS 2 (seasons 13-21, formerly) JEI TV(seasons 13-21, formerly) JEI TV English (seasons 13-21, formerly) Boomerang (seasons 13-15, formerly) Cartoon Network (seasons 13-15, formerly) Disney Channel (seasons 13-19, formerly) Disney Junior (seasons 13-20, formerly) Kids 1 (seasons 11-12, formerly)
Latvian (voice-over)	Tomas un draugi	KidZone TV KidZone Mini
Lithuanian (KidZone TV, voice-over)	Tomas ir draugai	KidZone TV KidZone Mini
Lithuanian (JimJam, voice-over)	Garvežiukas Tomas ir draugai	JimJam
Malay	Thomas & Friends	Astro Ceria^[10]
Mandarin (China)	托马斯和朋友	CCTV-14 (formerly)
Mandarin (Taiwan) (First dub)	湯瑪士小火車	MOMO TV (formerly) EBC Yoyo (formerly) Playhouse Disney (formerly)
Mandarin (Taiwan) (Second dub)	湯瑪士小火車	CBeebies
Norwegian	Thomas og vennene hans	SF Kids (formerly) NRK Super (formerly) C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Polish	Tomek i przyjaciele	MiniMini+ (formerly) JimJam (formerly) TVP1 (formerly) TVP ABC (formerly) Puls 2 (formerly) Metro (formerly) JimJam (formerly) CBeebies
Portuguese (Brazil)	Thomas e Seus Amigos	Discovery Kids (formerly) TV Cultura (formerly)
Portuguese (Portugal) (Via Satélite)	Thomas e os Seus Amigos Tomás e os Amigos (alternatively)^[11]	Canal Panda (formerly) RTP2 (formerly)
Portuguese (Portugal) (Somnorte)	Thomas e os Seus Amigos	JimJam
Romanian	Thomas și prietenii săi	JimJam Minimax (formerly)
Russian (JimJam)	Томас и его друзья	JimJam TeleNyanya (formerly) Oznoz (season 9, formerly)
Russian (Karusel)	Томас и его друзья	Karusel
Russian (KidZone, voice-over)	Томас и его друзья	KidZone TV Kidzone Mini
Russian (DVD)	Томас и его друзья	direct-to-video (season 20 only)
Scottish Gaelic	Tòmas is a Threud	BBC Alba (formerly)
Serbian	Tomas i drugari Томас и другари	Minimax (formerly) Pink Super Kids
Slovene	Lokomotivček Tomaž in prijatelji	Minimax (formerly)
Spanish (Latin America)	Thomas y sus amigos (formerly) Thomas & Friends (seasons 13–21)	Discovery Kids (formerly) Canal 4 (Costa Rica, formerly) Canal 5 (Mexico, formerly) Canal 9 (Argentina, formerly) Azteca 7 (formerly) TVN (formerly) Telecanal (formerly) Global TV (formerly) TreceVisión (formerly) Blim TV
Spanish (Spain)	Thomas y sus amigos	Playhouse Disney (formerly) Clan TV
Swedish	Thomas och vännerna	TV4 (formerly) Kanal 5 (formerly) C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Thai	โทมัสและเพื่อน	Boomerang (formerly) Playhouse Disney (formerly)
Turkish	Thomas ve Arkadaşları	Minika Çocuk
Ukrainian	Томас і друзі	PlusPlus (formerly)
Vietnamese (dub)	Thomas và những người bạn	HTV3
Vietnamese (Playhouse Disney, voice-over)	Thomas và những người bạn	Playhouse Disney (formerly)
Vietnamese (CBeebies, voice-over)	Thomas và những người bạn	CBeebies
Vietnamese (SCTV, voice-over)	Cuộc phiêu lưu của Thomas và những người bạn	SCTV3 - SeeTV^[12] BIBI TV
Welsh	Tomos a'i Ffrindiau	S4C Cyw

Language	Title	Channels
Arabic	توماس والأصدقاء	Spacetoon
Cantonese	湯瑪士小火車	Now Player^[13]
Croatian	Tomica i prijatelji: Veliki svijet! Veliki pustolovine!	RTL Kockica (formerly)
Czech	Lokomotiva Tomáš	Minimax (formerly)
Danish	Thomas og vennerne	C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Dutch	Thomas & Friends: Grote wereld! Grote avonturen!	RTL Telekids (formerly)
English (United States)	Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!	Nick Jr. (formerly) Treehouse TV (formerly) Netflix
Estonian (voice-over)	Toomas ja sõbrad	KidZone TV KidZone Mini
Finnish	Tuomas veturi	C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
German	Thomas und seine Freunde: Große Welt! Große Abenteuer!	Super RTL (Toggolino block, formerly) Netflix
Greek	Τόμας το τρενάκι: Μεγάλος κόσμος! Μεγάλες περιπέτειες!	Nickelodeon^[14]
Hebrew	תומס הקטר וחברים: הרפתקאות מסביב לעולם!	Hop! (seasons 22–23, formerly) BIGI (season 24)
Hungarian	Thomas és barátai: Nagy világ! Nagy kalandok!	Minimax (formerly)
Indonesian	Thomas & Friends: Petualangan Keliling Dunia	RTV
Italian	Il trenino Thomas: Grandi avventure	Cartoonito Frisbee Netflix
Japanese	きかんしゃトーマス	Cartoon Network NHK
Korean	토마스와 친구들	Tooniverse JEI English TV (formerly) JEI TV
Latvian (voice-over)	Tomass un draugi	KidZone TV KidZone Mini Tet+
Lithuanian (voice-over)	Tomas ir draugai	KidZone TV KidZone Mini
Mandarin (China)	托马斯和朋友：世界探险记	Tencent Video CCTV-14
Norwegian	Thomas og vennene hans	C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Polish	Tomek i Przyjaciele: Wielki świat! Wielkie przygody!	MiniMini+ Puls 2
Portuguese (Brazil)	Thomas e Seus Amigos: Grande Mundo! Grandes Aventuras!	TV Cultura Netflix
Portuguese (Portugal)	Thomas e os Seus Amigos: Grande Mundo! Grandes Aventuras!	Canal Panda
Romanian	Thomas și prietenii săi – O lume mare, aventuri mari	Minimax (formerly)
Russian	Томас и друзья: Большой мир! Большие приключения!	Karusel
Serbian	Tomas i prijatelji: Veliki svet! Velike pustolovine!	Minimax (formerly)
Slovene	Lokomotivček Tomaž in prijatelji	Minimax (formerly)
Spanish (Latin America)	Thomas & Friends: ¡Un gran mundo de aventuras!	Canal 5 (Mexico) Netflix Blim TV
Spanish (Spain)	Thomas y sus amigos: Un mundo lleno de aventuras	Clan TV
Swedish	Thomas och vännerna	C More Play (VOD) HBO Max
Thai	โทมัสและเพื่อน	Boomerang (formerly) True Visions
Turkish	Thomas ve Arkadaşları	Minika Çocuk
Ukrainian	Томас і друзі	PlusPlus (formerly) Puls 2 (via SAP)
Vietnamese	Khám phá thế giới cùng Thomas và những người bạn	SCTV3 - SeeTV^[15] BIBI TV
Võro (voice-over)	Toomase ja sõprade	KidZone TV^[16] KidZone Mini

References

[1] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20081005052253/http://www.top-channel.tv:80/new/index.php

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_A1G5minK8

[3] ttps://staratelewizja.fandom.com/pl/wiki/22_Pa%C5%BAdziernika_2000

[4] ttps://staratelewizja.fandom.com/pl/wiki/20_Pa%C5%BAdziernika_2000

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQoZRX4KGE0

[6] ttps://bgtime.tv/tv/program/28fs4a4m3wj3gkj1

[7] ttps://www.telekids.nl/programmas/78/thomas_de_stoomlocomotief

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIX7vZQytx0

[9] ttps://blog.tvalacarta.info/programa/tvg/tomas-e-os-seus-amigos/

[10] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160519024409/http://www.astro.com.my/ceria/rancangan/info?id=1028&title=thomas-and-friends

[11] ttps://youtu.be/x8Kgln_Duwg

[12] ttps://youtu.be/cBEF8xYvsPc

[13] ttps://nowplayer.now.com/ondemand/detail?id=S202007240111624&type=series

[14] ttp://www.nickelodeon.gr/seires/tomas-to-trenaki

[15] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBEF8xYvsPc

[16] ttp://www.lounaleht.ee/index.php?page=1&id=30422&fbclid=IwAR2IJJLtUqCXbup75g8PTFAmBcrR3l_K9tABJNfWAGIjsPkHLRIVvQXBdFI

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Thomas & Friends

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