Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

***Thomas and Friends*** is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 until 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, who work for Sir Topham Hatt, who wants his engines to be "really useful engines".

# Dubs

## Thomas Lokomotiva Dhe Shoket

### Year(s)

2006-2010

In 2006, the classic series was broadcast in Albania on Bang Bang, later moving to Cufo. It also briefly aired on Top Channel in 2008. The series stopped airing in 2010, and it wasn't until February 2021 that Cufo would reair the series. Several episodes were recorded from the reairing and uploaded to Youtube by user Patryk Karpinski. in total, only 130 episodes are found and 52 episodes of the dub remain lost. Toby and the Flood is the only episode not to re-air during 2021-2022, and the Albanian dub of the episode hasn't been aired since 2010.

## Toktummas

### Year(s)

unknown

In the early 2000's a Faroese dub aired on Sjonvarp Føroya. The dub presumably was of the classic series judging from the images shown on archived TV listings however the only proof of it's existence are the aforementioned TV listings and eyewitness accounts.

## Malay

In Malaysia, the series retains its English title. Only the eleventh to eighteenth series were dubbed in Malay. The Malay dubs used to air on Astro Ceria and it

## Thomas and Friends

### Status

**Partially Found**

is now broadcasted on TV3 and also available on Astro on VOD, Both Sharul Titis and Zahisham Ujang are two of the narrators that dubbed the unknown series. However, this dubbed was no longer to be found.

## توماس و دوستان

### Status

**Partially Found**

 توماس و دوستان is a Persian dub Of the show that used to air On IRIB TV2, This Dub is rare but it’s also lost and a clip Of the rare dub is currently the only thing Of the dub found.

## Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

### Year(s)

1998

In 1998, Original Polish narrations of series 1-5 were aired in Poland on TVP3 in early 1998. The episodes "Break Van" and "Steam Roller" were the only two episodes recorded at the time, it wasn't until Douglas10NWR recorded several episodes and uploaded them on the Docs page of TOP. in total, 37 episodes of the dub are found and 93 episodes remain lost.

## Tómas is a threud

### Year(s)

2008-2015

A Scottish Gaelic dub of Thomas & Friends named Tómas is a threud aired on STV & BBC Alba until 2015. The series was also broadcast in the 1990’s on STV Television. Seasons 8-9 was also available on BBC iPlayer until 2018. Only the season 8-9 Roll Call and a episode from Season 1 has been found.

## Thomas & Friends

### Year(s)

2016

A Tagalog dub with the same name aired on GMA Network in 2016 at 6 am. Only the sixteenth and seventeenth series were dubbed. Only two clips, both from the episode "Bust My Buffers!", are currently found; you can watch both clips here

## โทมัสและผองเพื่อน

### Found by

UBC Spark (2003-2007)True Spark (2007-2015) · True Spark Play (2016)· Boomerang (2019-2022)

Thomas and Friends released the Thai dub from the DVD and VCD in the 1-18 series around in 2006-2015. It was broadcast on UBC Spark for the classic model series (2003-2007) and True Spark for the CGI series (2007-2015). 9 episodes are found in the 2 series, 2 episodes were found in the 16 series which are Percy and the Calliope, Salty’s Surprise, and 2 episodes in the 12 series are Saved You! and The Party Surprise. It’s also has several DVD movies which are dubbed in Thai such as Calling all Engines, Thomas and the Great Discovery, Hero of the Railway, Day of the Diesels, Misty Island Rescue, King of the Railway, Blue Mountain Mystery and the Tale of the Brave.

22-24 series was aired on Thai Boomerang from 2019 - in the early 2022s. 3 episodes are found in season 22 which is Count on Nia, Banjo and the Bushfire and The Water Wheel. However. Season 23 and 24 are found from the special episodes, Dig & Discoveries: Mystery of Mines and Marvelous Machinery: A New Arrival. 70 episodes remain lost.

TrueVision VOD was dubbed in Thai from the 20-24 including 1 movie which’s “The Great Race” until it got removed due to expired contact or copyrighted. Luckily Season 20 and fewer episodes from Season 21 was found and same for the movie but for Seasons 22-24 are lost.

The only maintain broadcasting channel that aired Thomas and Friends is True Spark Play, I’m pretty sure they aired around the 17-24 series.

### Fun fact:

A Thai woman uploaded Thomas and Friends full episodes from season 14 and seasons 22 (Boomerang) in Thai Dub on Youtube unfortunately, she removed all of the Thomas and Friends series because of Mattel copyright in 2020. She’s no longer uploading Thomas and Friends anymore.

A Thai user uploaded the Thomas and Friends: Hero of the Railway in Thai Dub on YouTube but got removed in 2018-2019.

## Thomas và Những Người Bạn

### Found by

HTV3 (2012-2015)YouTube (2020-2020)· SCTV3 (2021)

Thomas and Friends was broadcast on 12/11/2012, HTV3 (formally) only 12 and 13 series, however they stopped airing in 2016 due to the HTV3 company being transferred to TTN Media after bankruptcy and all the episodes cannot be found on TV. They were lost for unknown reasons. It was dubbed by one of the voice actors/actresses members from the TVM Corp studio company (formally). HTV3 was the first channel that aired Thomas and Friends series in Vietnam. 2 episodes are found: Steady Eddie in season 12 and The Lion of Sodor in season 13. 42 episodes remain lost.

Thomas and Friends Season 17 Vietnamese Dub was released by the ACE Media SaiGon studio company (TVM Corp formally). This series was unknown to be broadcast and was one of the rarest series in Vietnam that was ever founded on the internet. It’s probably used to be found on YouTube and was removed from copyright. 2 episodes are found which is Steamie Stafford and Gordon Runs Dry. 25 episodes are remain lost.

The only maintain broadcasting channel that aired Thomas and Friends is SCTV3-SeeTV in the 23 and 24 series.

### Fun fact:

A Vietnamese man was the first person to record and uploaded Thomas and Friends in Vietnamese HTV3 Dub with 6 full episodes from season 12 and 13 on YouTube around 2015, unfortunately Mattel has blocked it from copyright.