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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. [56] 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. [ 56 ]
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.
Carlin, a native of New York City, broke into show business in 1959 by teaming up with Jack Burns and performing at coffee houses in Texas. Judd Apatow to Direct George Carlin Documentary at HBO ...
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.
George Carlin. An AI-generated hour-long comedy special called George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead was just released, over 15 years after comedian George Carlin's death in 2008, and his daughter is ...
Carlin also told the Thomas stories for Shining Time Station in 1995. In 1996, the Thomas stories were segments for Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales , again featuring George Carlin. Alec Baldwin portrayed Mr. Conductor in the franchise's first theatrical film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), and narrated the series for the US from 1998 to 2003.