She wanted to create an unconventional show that would enchant children. And she knew she found her perfect narrator in Ringo Starr.

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Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series ... The Biggest Christmas Adventure” which premiered in Dec. 2024.

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.