Thomas & Friends series 6
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This article lists and details episodes from the sixth series of the show, which was first broadcast in 2002.
This series was narrated by Michael Angelis for the UK audiences, who also re-dubbed two episodes for US audiences, while Alec Baldwin narrated all of the episodes for the US audiences, in what was also his last series. Six episodes were later re-dubbed for PBS Kids by Michael Brandon.
In the United States, this was the second season of the series that was not aired on PBS Kids, instead being released straight-to-video.[1] Most episodes in this series have one title; the American titles are shown underneath the United Kingdom titles.
This was the first series produced by Gullane Entertainment following its rename in 2000.
Production
Phil Fehrle had taken over as producer from David Mitton and Britt Allcroft, while Angus Wright had been replaced by Allcroft and Peter Urie as executive producers.
This was the first series to oversee an introduction of a writing staff, since the stories from The Railway Series had already been adapted. Staff-written stories had been introduced in Series 5, and this practice remained unchanged. The series was filmed between January and August 2002,[2] and premiered on September 16, 2002.
Abi Grant served as script editor for the series.
Steve Asquith, who would later become the all-out director of Thomas & Friends, directed two series 6 episodes in place of David Mitton. However, David still directed the other 24 episodes and went on until series 7. After that, Steve Asquith took over for good.
Episodes
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Home video releases
United Kingdom
Series 6 was released on VHS and DVD in the UK by Video Collection International in three volumes. They were released in their original widescreen ratio on DVD, however, The Chocolate Crunch was released in fullscreen on both formats.
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| The Fogman and Other Stories | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| The Chocolate Crunch and Other Stories | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| Brave Little Engines | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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The only two episodes not released in these volumes are "It's Only Snow" and "Jack Frost", the former of which was included in the Series 7 release Engines to the Rescue.
2 Entertain released a complete series DVD volume in 2007.
Episodes from the series have also made it to various compilation releases with other series.
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References
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