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Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends – Storytellers, Ringo Starr and George Carlin. The Anything Tunnel – Inside the tunnel on the station's mural is a song with a cartoon, a stop motion clip, or a live action one. Sometimes instead of the Anything Tunnel, Mr. Conductor would show a magic bubble or one of the kids would look through a film viewer.
He played Mr. Conductor on the PBS show Shining Time Station until 1996, replacing Ringo Starr on both programs. [57] According to Britt Allcroft , who developed both shows, on the first day of the assignment, Carlin was nervous about recording his narration without an audience, so the producers put a stuffed teddy bear in the booth.
Narrated episodes on Shining Time Station as Mr. Conductor; re-recorded parts of narration at the request of PBS. [6] George Carlin: 1991–96: Seasons 3 and 4.
After Starr left the show, American comedian George Carlin played Mr. Conductor's cousin and narrated all episodes from the first series to the fourth series. [3] The first season of Shining Time Station lists the Thomas stories' original UK titles in the end credits, but were re-titled for later seasons and for home video.
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. Thomas & Friends returned in the form of several direct-to-video releases during season 6 (2002 to 2003) and as a stand-alone half-hour program on PBS Kids .
The home of many children’s classic TV shows has launched PBS Retro, a free ad-supported channel that’s available via the Roku channel on Smart TVs, Roku devices, and web browsers. The channel ...
Alec Baldwin as Mr. Conductor, the railway conductor of Shining Time Station. Baldwin succeeds Ringo Starr and George Carlin, both of whom had played the character on Shining Time Station. Peter Fonda as Burnett Stone, Lily's grandfather and Lady's caretaker and driver. Jared Wall as young Burnett; Mara Wilson as Lily Stone, Burnett's ...
George Carlin in 2008. This article is a List of awards and nominations received by George Carlin. Carlin received 17 Grammy Award nominations winning five Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album winning for FM & AM (1972), Jammin' in New York (1992), Brain Droppings (2001), Napalm & Silly Putty (2002), and It's Bad for Ya (2008).