Thomas' Timeline on American Television | DuckStudios 

I remember loving Sprout to pieces as I was growing up. Trust Thomas and Heroes were the two episodes I managed to catch viewings of on that channel. Absolutely nostalgic.

I can't believe how successful Shining Time station is. Many Thomas fans aren't giving this show a chance. JUSTICE FOR SHINING TIME STATION!

Sprout was actually where I was first introduced to Season 4 between 2008-2011. Prior to Sprout, I had never seen those iconic Narrow Gauge episodes we all adore. Most of my home media at that point was, oddly enough, only focused on seasons 1-3, 5-8. Watching Sprout was like entering a new world at that point.

Oh wow. I never knew how great Shining Time Station is. Just from the clips alone, I can tell that the humor, characters and writing make this an awesome show. Added to the watch list!

Sprout was the absolute BEST back in the day. We will never have anything like it ever again

Before child me found out about PBS Kids, Sprout was my go-to whenever I wanted to watch stuff on tv. I remember watching several classic, hit and nitrogen Thomas episodes live, and I even remember watching a clip from Gordon And The Engineer on their website! I remember watching Berenstain Bears on there a hell of a lot more, though, and I don’t really blame myself since it’s honestly as equally a good kids show as Thomas, and *oh my god why did they need to go so hard on the score -*

This was definitely my show back then! I definitely loved all the Thomas on Sprout but I say all the opening and learning segments on PBS was definitely my way to go! Those are definitely the days and they definitely need to bring that back!

Sprout is truly a haven for British children’s shows airing in America (Especially the ones made by HiT Entertainment or Chapman Studios). Besides Thomas, there’s also Pingu, Fireman Sam, Bob The Builder, Fifi & The Flowertots, Roary The Racing Car, and yeah, even Clangers. The only show that I wish made it on there is Postman Pat.

12:31 I Used to Watch Thomas on PBS Sprout when I Was a Kid. I Watched The Classic Model Series on There.

SOMEONE REMEMBERED SPROUT! I used to watch that channel all the time when I was younger!

You never fail to disappoint mate, such a good video!

Man, this hits hard. I remember Al the way back, around season 12, I got to see Thomas on PBS Sprout and then just PBS around season 15.

"Shining Time Station" was how I first knew about Thomas the Tank Engine as a toddler. It always came on after "Barney & Friends" on my local PBS Station that time (until "Teletubbies" replaced it when the show left the channel a few years later).

I remember those learning segments on PBS. Good times.

The memories of watching Thomas on Cable TV are always the pieces of nostalgia memories we can ever have, and while I understand that now we're entering the video streaming era so that everyone can watch their favorite shows of their own opinion or choice, those memories will never be forgotten. And we do have The Thomas TV Patrol and other recordings that we never saw in childhood that are resurfaced here for our viewing pleasures.

8:29 I Used to Watch Thomas on PBS When I Was Like 3 Years old Back in 2007.

Sprout was the most nostalgic channel for me considering I would watch episodes on there and on youtube back then. I miss the channel a lot and wished Thomas stayed on. Oh well, at least we have the memories.

I remember the first time I realized Thomas was on Sprout and was so excited and was even more excited when an episode came on I had never seen before (Mind That Bike) . Such a great memory for me

17:18 Fun fact, Thomas actually aired on cartoon network in Mexico, i remember watching bwba on that channel one Sunday morning (the classic series also aired there)

Still never understood why PBS Kids would never play Classic Episodes, but Sprout did

Thomas’ journey on TV in the USA can be summarized in one word. That word is, *CHAOS*

I remember when Thomas and the Magic Railroad was released in 2000. That's when I really fell in love with the show. I stopped watching, and even liking, it for a while but then in 2018 I saw that Build-A-Bear had released a Thomas bear with a train conductor outfit and it rekindled my love for the show.

During somewhere around 2012, i used to ALWAYS watch ttte, until now,i still literally do watch ttte

I'm most nostalgia to Sprout it was my childhood,I remember first watching and that channel was how I got into Thomas

Sprout I always used for classic Thomas when I was younger.

Correction: Awdry's Letter was on Nitrogen airings, but was removed from repeats and future airings as of Autumn 2013.

A fine piece of work Dennis. I really enjoyed all the cut scenes to the Random shows Thomas appeared on. And this video had shows that I never even knew about or new Thomas aired on. I only grew up with most of sprout and late PBS. This was mainly due to the fact that I mainly watched the episodes on DVD and later RU-vid in 2012. Although I still collected US DVDs until the end. Anyway great job Dennis! I enjoyed every second.😉

Oh god I remember the Sprout airings when I was little!

Loved this since Childhood.

I will admit, I also had some really fond memories of seeing episodes of Thomas & Friends on television when I was a kid as well. The only shows I never got the chance to watch were Shining Time Station and Storytime With Thomas (I wasn't around yet when those shows were airing in the 90s at the time). However, I distinctly remember watching at least a few episodes from Series 6 and 7 when they aired on PBS back in the early 2000s (I was only 3 or 4 at the time), and seeing some of the newer episodes from the HIT Entertainment era on the same channel. I also remember watching episodes from the classic era of the show on Sprout when I was like, 9 or 10, and that was when I started really getting into Thomas after I discovered RU-vid and saw uploads of the classic series. I also remember being introduced to the Nitrogen Studios era of the show from watching Hero Of The Rails and a few episodes of Series 13. Up until that point, I would only watch episodes of the show on either VHS or DVD. And after Series 16 had ended, I never really followed up on the new seasons that followed (like Series 17-24). And of course, I also have genuine distaste for All Engines Go like pretty much every other Thomas fan out there. However, I will give praise to AEG on just a few things: two of the characters, which are Kana and Sandy (I'm not counting Carly since she's a gantry crane in the actual T&F series, and AEG just turned her into a crane engine like Harvey), and Gordon's voice actor, Neil Crone. But anyway, everything that this video talked about is almost 100% relatable to me, and I'm very happy to have embarked on a nostalgic journey with everyone's favorite number one blue tank engine back then, and I will continue to revel in the nostalgia.

Cartoon Network is really fixing the issues that plagued Nick Jr. With all of Cartoonito's scheduling shifts, All Engines Go is one of the only shows to remain in its original hour timeslot, while other shows keep getting downgraded to smaller slots. If only the show itself was better.

I remember those good ol’ days on Sprout, good times

PBS sprout was my first exposure to Thomas So I always give my thanks to it

I’m an Arizonan, and I used to watch Thomas on EI8HT HD (Now called Arizona PBS) every day and watch the VHS tapes. Mostly the VHS tapes, George Carlin would always warm my heart with his soothing voice and words. Now I watch his standup comedies and it’s funny. I even heard Ringo do the job and listen to The Beatles.

Amazing vid this brought back to many memories especially pbs kids sprout that was the best 9 year old me refused to go to sleep without having a he goodnight show on in the background

The Shining Time Station theme always gives me nostalgic chills

Sprout and PBS were very nostalgic to me.

I forgot to comment earlier that this documentary you made is actually quite good. It's a fine piece of work following you showcasing the history of Thomas' TV time in America.

PBS both Shining Time Station and the actual program were golden eras for Thomas’s time airing in the states.

I remember watching season 7 to 8 of thomas in Discovery Kids, man even though everyone hates those HiT era seasons, they still bring me good memories :).

Honestly when watching this, I almost completely forgot about PBS Sprout

Ah, Shining Time... also in that show there was another set of puppet characters that were a band and lived in the jukebox. The main guy of that group sure loved it whenever a nickel would enter the machine.

NGL, the PBS airings of the Hit era coupled with the VHS and DVD classic series releases were my childhood in a nutshell. I have vivid memories of several season 8 and 9 episodes airing for the first time.

I remember sprout growing up. Those more of the good times when that was one television. I would get excited when that would come on

9:56 I think everyone that grew up with the Hit Era show can relate to this

Did you know in the 90’s during the release of Series 4-5, Thomas the tank engine and friends aired on Cartoon Network in the UK, and even released episodes from Series 1-3. Now having series 5 air on Cartoon Network is very bold since it fits perfectly on other shows being released such as Ed, Edd, N Eddy, The Powerpuff girls, Dexter’s laboratory, Johnny bravo, and Cow and Chicken. I’m surprised they didn’t do that in the US during the 90’s, but in the UK, that’s impressive.

I remember watching Thomas & Friends on a Philippine television, ABS-CBN's Studio 23 for 5 Sundays since I was a kid.

I’m from 2004, so I saw it on PBS throughout my time. Never knew a lot of this stuff, nice video!

Another awesome video Dennis! Very well made and informal. Here's my history of Thomas on TV: I was born in 2007, and I watched PBS, so I briefly saw the late HiT Model Era, and the early Nitrogen Era. After that though, I really only watched Thomas on DVD and RU-vid, so that ended kind of quickly. However, I do remember watching both the bumpers and the actual new movie The Adventure Begins movie on either Nick Jr or PBS in 2015

Fuck, I'd never think how hard PBS Kids bumper would hit.

I actually had PBS sprout when I was way younger and I remember seeing specials like Misty Island rescue some hit error and some season 12 episodes a but the only classic series episode I remember seeing was all at sea

PBS kids and Sprout was the ones I grew up with. I had VHS recordings of Thomas on PBS kids. My Aunt said it used to come on the weekends (seasons 8-10).

This should have more views.

Great video! I also used to watch Thomas on PBS Kids Sprout when I was little. I don't hate Thomas All Engines Go by the way, but I DO understand why many Thomas fans hate it.

I used to watch Thomas through Sprout when I was younger when they showed Classic and HiT Era episodes, I still have very vivid memories of the Sunnyside Up and Goodnight Shows

Pretty cool video and nice to see at least a mention of Mister Moose's Fun Time I actually met Paul Pistore who voiced and puppeteered Mister Moose on Discord

I vividly remember watching the nitrogen era on pbs in 2011-2012 with the reverends letter intact at 5:00 am on Sunday morning

HiT era on PBS kids was my shit back in the day. I just loved they way they structured it. I don't care if the HiT era was bad to some people. This is the best days of my childhood

I think Mattel, WildBrain, PBS, HBO and NBCUniversal need to get together and bring back Sprout like it was between 2005 to early 2011. Universal Kids isn't worth sticking around. They just play hours of the same shows.

I remember Shining Time Station very well! Wow I'm old.. lol

4:55 that reminds me of this dream I had a while ago where Thomas and I were in a bedroom with the curtains drawn and he said something like "it doesn't matter what colour Ruth is, she's my friend"

I wonder what Mattel will do next with the franchise after AEG concludes production

Yeah I remember watching Thomas and friends on PBS Kids when I was a little kid like 3, 4 or five years old.

I have caught Thomas on PBS on a few occasions as a kid. I vaguely remember watching seasons 10-11. HoweverI think when the show hit season 12, they moved it to a weekend only block. I remember watching 13-16 only on weekends, along with Bob the Builder. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, that might have just been my station.

Shining Time Station was my go to show from my early days as a toddler until Kindergarten. Every time that I watched the show I always try to remember what Thomas stories were in each one. Ringo's narrations were the easy ones as they were in order of video releases. George Carlin's narrations were out of order as there are times were he's narrating one that Ringo already did a US dub, one were he had yet to do a US dub and a Series 3 dub. I also did enjoy collecting the videos growing up however there are times were there would be dubs that you could only watch on Shining Time Station or dubs that were only released on video.

For so long I wished someone would make a video like this!

As I grew up in Britain I saw it every morning and wouldn’t miss it Milkshake would be my favourite broadcaster

I’m glad I grew up watching it on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout

Bruh, I M E S S E D with sprout, I remember watching Thomas and The Magic Railroad on Sprout when it was shown at night :)

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I remember seeing this on Sprout and watching the DVDs and VHSs like Make someone happy, the best of Gordon, cranky bugs, Percy’s Chocolate Crunch, Thomas comes to breakfast, Thomas and the magic railroad and Thomas and the special letter These where my childhood

I remember seeing Original episodes air on Cartoon Network way back

I wish Thomas was back on PBS again.

11:03 I remember the same just after super why for the brenner era

Sprout is definitely my favorite channel, it was treating Thomas & Friends a lot more attention than PBS Kids cuz back then I barely see him on that channel especially in the morning! It’s a shame the channel changed after Universal brought the rights! Though I was pleased when it was on Nick Jr at the time and even that channel gave Thomas more attention, those two channels are definitely my favorites! I have so much memories of these variety channels that aired Thomas during my childhood!

Very interesting to hear about how a show I loved as a kid, aired in another country. I grew up watching Thomas on Nick Jr in Ireland, I remember they showed classic episodes, as well as newer episodes, however they slowly moved away from showing classic Thomas, but I learnt how to use the internet at a very early age, so that helped me get my Thomas fix.

This is very informative! I know this is mainly about the US TV timeline but I think it's worth it to point out when Season 8 and 9 aired on Nick Jr. in the UK, Michael Angelis re-dubbed the Season 6 episodes and Hartshorne composed new music for Seasons 6 and 7.

gonna love this

Oh yeah, I'm sure you didn't notice this but apparently, when S17 of Thomas broadcasted in late 2013, they stopped airing Thomas episodes from s8-12 on pbs kids, which is such a big bummer.

PBS Sprout was my favorite sure it had thomas and friends but as a kid it meant everything to growing up in the 2000s or 2010s kid

WNET Thirteen New York(my pbs) aired Thomas and Friends originally on Sundays. Then by 2011/2012 they moved to weekdays when they extended the pbs kids shows timeslot to 1pm instead of noon. Different stations had different timeslots but people refer to WNET Thirteen as they are PBS's headquarters as well as make some pbs kids shows themselves along with WGBH.

I'm glad your back hopefully your back in your normal upload schedule

Ranking of Us narroter : 1.George 2.Mark 3.Alec 4.Pierce 5.Ringo 6.Micheal A . 7.Micheal B.

I grew up with pbs kid.2009-ish to 2015 when I lost interest in the fandom for a while,but I’m back now!Very interesting though.

On my pbs station, Thomas would air at 5:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

Well researched video, but what I take most from this is seeing it from the perspective of another generation. I grew up with Shining Time Station on PBS. I didn't have cable so I only saw Storytime with Thomas once. So between my mom going back to work full-time and no longer being able to record STS when I was in school and Thomas' return to PBS in 2004, I fell out of the loop. When Thomas came back, I was appalled by what I saw. To me the show had been completely infantilized, yet this is fond childhood memories for you, like STS was for me. I thought the plots were dull, Michael Brandon was too monotone for me and the learning segments seemed to talk down to the children. My first memory of Sprout was putting up a poster for it at my local railroad museum for when we were hosting Thomas for two weekends. I didn't start paying attention until the Brennerssaince, which I also enjoyed. That being said while PBS still had inconveinent airtimes, I watched it on RU-vid at my conveinence. It's interesting that from here, our perspectives are almost the same. Though at this point I think we're both viewing it from the perspective of an older fan. It's interesting to see how people have different views of a show that ran for so long.

13:56 I wish they make a kipper the dog reboot he’s my 2nd favorite hit entertainment show I use to watch on Netflix when I was 6

I remember the good old days with pbs kids, I miss being young.

PBS and sprout were my childhood

I usually watched in on VCDs in early 2010s,also saw the season 12 on Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon .Also Thomas jumped channels a lot in the Southeast Asia region .Had a great time watching the early seasons but fell off during the early CGI era .I remember those dumb but funny learning segments.I was surprised when Toby banked Gordon up the hill.Great and treasured memories👍🏻

I watched Thomas on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout, when I was a kid!!!!

What's interesting to note is that most of Thomas' run on Nickelodeon was shafted to Nick Jr.. The airings and new episodes became really sparse on the main channel, especially when BWBA rolled along. On another note I also read that Shining Time was cancelled because of the popularity of other PBS shows like Arthur eclipsing that of the former program.

I cant believe the history of Shining Time station I only knew it to be in Thomas and The Magic Railroad.

I Loved watching Shining Time Station and Thomas and Friends on FOX Family Channel and Nickelodeon/Nick Jr.!❤️📺🎶🚂👍🏻

10:44 FUN FACT: Starting from season 10-onwards on discovery kids. They started to cut scenes from episodes. Sometimes cutting the today on the island of sodor segment. Songs and learning segments. And from airing 34 navigation up until the last airings of season 13 they show the discovery networks logo. Thankfully season 8-9 aired on other spanish channels. And they were shown complete. Well obviously cutting the season 6-7 episodes they did the same thing with portuguese. In the international channels they would often cut halfway the credits. However season 10-11 remained in their DK masters but with the english titles when they aired them on international spanish channels 13:10. When season 11 aired on sprout. They instead put the season 8 intro and engine roll call. Discovery kids also did that when season 11 aired between 2008 up until 2011

Your mention of sprout ran me over with a nostalgia train

Shining time station was the best show That pbs ever aired I remember the episode when schemer made a sandwich spread with chili powder and cocoa powder A the one with The Christmas episode that lasted one hour that had The hobo song that mention a hobo spending Christmas time alone

All childhood nostalgia!

I still have fond memories of having Thomas airing after Bob The Builder and Sesame Street on WETA Washington at 11PM daily. I like when PBS stations have Bob and Thomas paired up, even WETA.

PBS Sprout was where I watched Thomas CONSISTENTLY. We always had it as channel 295 on DirecTV, but that channel has gone the way of the dumpster nowadays imo. Actually, until Power Rangers Samurai came out, Sprout was the only channel I’d watch (unless I was watching Mythbusters or Dirty Jobs on the DVR).