
Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or simply Thomas the Tank Engine; later called Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series. In the United Kingdom, it had its first broadcast on the ITV network in Great Britain in 1984. In the United States, it had its first broadcast on Shining Time Station in 1989. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.
These books follow the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. The books were based on stories Wilbert told to entertain his son, Christopher, during his recovery from measles. Many of the stories from the first four series are based on events from Awdry's personal experience.
Thomas & Friends is a television series mainly based around railway engines that live on the Island of Sodor. The show is mainly about the title character, Thomas, a cheeky little blue tank engine with six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler and a short stumpy dome. Thomas & Friends takes place on the standard gauge North Western Railway, the narrow gauge Skarloey Railway and the 15-inch gauge Arlesdale Railway. The head of the North Western Railway is Sir Topham Hatt, affectionately nicknamed "The Fat Controller" by the engines and staff, the Skarloey Railway is operated by Mr. Percival, "The Thin Controller" and the Arlesdale Railway is operated by Fergus Duncan, "The Small Controller."
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Image | Character | Eng | Arg-Mex | Jap | Bra | USA | Ger | Fra | Ita | Pol | Neth | Hun | Hun(2) | Fin | Nor | Cro | Den | Gree | Gree(2) | Gree(3) | Gree(4) | Ukr | Cze | Ice | Slo | Alb | Rom | Ser | Wel | Sco | Russ | Spa | Por | Pol(VO) | Russ(JimJam) | Kor | Vie | Isr | Turk | UAE | Leb | Syr | Indo | Isr(2015) |
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Thomas | Ben Small | Javier Olguín | Keiko Toda | Daniel Figueira | MartinSherman | Christian Stark | Fabrice Trojani | Marco Vivio | Janusz Zadura | László Lippai | Csőre Gábor | Juha Varis | EspenSandvik | Aleksey Borzunov | César Capilla | Sin Yong-woo | Gia Trí | Doriel Zohar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
JohnHasler | HéctorIretadeAlba | KumikoHiga | Joseph May | Martin Lange | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Percy | KeithWickham | Javier Olguín | Chisato Nakajima | MartinSherman | Robin Brosch | Tony Marot | Chiara Oliviero | Grzegorz Drojewski | Szokol Péter | Taisto Oksanen | Ingve ConnollyGran | Fótis Petrídis | Aleksey Borzunov | Carmen Gambín | Um Sang-hyun | Yehonatan Magon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NigelPilkington | HéctorIretadeAlba | Chie Kōjiro | MattiaNissolino | María Rubio | ChristopherRagland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James | Keith Wickham | Mario Castañeda | Katsuji Mori | Kerry Shale | Tobias Schmidt | Fabrice Trojani | Simone Crisari | Waldemar Barwinski | Gyurik Istvan | Petri Hanttu | HelgeWintherLarsen | Aleksey Borzunov | Jorge Teixeira | Um Sang-hyun | Gadi Levy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Rackstraw | Arturo MercadoJr. | Masashi Ebara | Rob Rackstraw | Gianluca Crisafi | Paul Ottar Haga | Antonio Ramírez | YehonatanMagon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gordon | Keith Wickham | Dafnis Fernández | Kenji Utsumi | Kerry Shale | Tetje Mierendorf | Bernard Demory | Fabrizio Pucci | SławomirPacek | Karácsonyi Zoltán | Pasi Ruohonen | Øyvind B. Lyse | Fótis Petrídis | Aleksey Borzunov | Salvador Serrano | Vladimir Antonik | Jeon Tae-yeol | Nir Ron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KentaMiyake | MiłogostReczek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Henry | Keith Wickham | Ricardo Silva | Ryo Horikawa | Kerry Shale | Michael Bideller | Fabrice Trojani | Ambrogio Colombo | Cezary Kwieciński | Seder Gábor | Jarmo Koski | Espen Sandvik | Aleksey Borzunov | Juan NavarroTorelló | Jeon Tae-yeol | Trưởng Tân | Dor Srugo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arturo MercadoJr. | Jun'ichiKanemaru | JukkaVoutilainen | Jos Gómez | Yoli Seker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward | Keith Wickham | Herman López | Yasuhiro Takato | William Hope | Christos Topoulos | Fabrice Trojani | Francesco Prando | Wojciech Chorąży | GalbeniszTomasz | János Bata | Jarmo Koski | Øyvind B. Lyse | Aleksey Borzunov | Jordi Estupiñá | Um Sang-hyun | Anh Tuấn | Dan Schatzberg | Siwi DwiIswanti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daniel Abundis | Nozomu Sasaki | Fekete Zoltán | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toby | Ben Small | Herman López | Yasuhiko Kawazu | William Hope | Volker Hanisch | Fabrice Trojani | Oliviero Dinelli | Mieczysław Morański | Rosta Sándor | Petri Hanttu | Espen Sandvik | Aleksey Borzunov | Miguel Ángel Poison | Vladimir Antonik | Um Sanghyun | Gadi Levy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Rackstraw | Daniel Abundis | Tomohiro Tsuboi | PasqualeAnselmo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emily | TeresaGallagher | Diana Pérez | Yuka Shioyama | Jules de Jongh | Kristina vonWeltzien | Blanche Ravalec | Chiara Gioncardi | Joanna Pach | Haffner Anikó | Susa Saukko | Jorunn Torsheim | Ol'ga Kuznetsova | María Sánchez | Kim Eun-ah | Thanh Huống | Miya Kadosh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jules de Jongh | Erina Yamazaki | Marit Synnøve Berg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor | Matt Wilkinson | Guillermo Coria | Kôichi Sakaguchi | David Bedella | Kailas Mahadevan | George Siena | Massimiliano Manfredi | Paweł Szczesny | Kajtár Róbert | Pusztaszeri Kornél | Pasi Ruohonen | AndersSundstedt | Aleksey Borzunov | Carlos Moreno | Um Sanghyun | Gadi Levy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Bedella | Trond Teigen |
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