Thomas and Friends in Pacifica

Thomas and Friends is a British television series based on the Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry and Christopher Awdry. It began airing in English in 1988, French in 1990, and Ektæó sometime in 1995.

History
The Railway Series books were sold in Pacifica from at least the 1950s, though the availability of such books and whether they were released in full or not is disputed.

The English version of the show debuted on three different Laserdiscs in 1988. At the time, it was only available as a direct-to-video show until 3 February 1989 as a part of Shining Time Station. Its usual airtime was at 7:30pm AKT on NTC from that year until 1990, when it moved back 30 minutes. It aired around that time regularly until the series ended airing episodes regularly, though many reruns ended up airing on its children's block. The completion of Series 5 in 1999 marked its addition to the channel, it moved to the channel from 2000 onwards.

The rest of the Classic Series after Shining Time Station was shown in a 30-minute format that featured an extended intro, at least two songs, a segment about real-life railways around Pacifica (similar to the Down at the Station segments of the CGI series), and a couple of other stories. Series 7 aired with Michael Angelis' narration since it was shown there before the United States. The half-hour format, while modified from what it was previously, remained from the eighth to the twentieth series.

A French co-production of Shining Time Station aired on Centrale from 1990 to 1996. However, a number of its episodes are lost as they were never released on home video. From there, a Pacifican French dub of Thomas and Friends (Thomas le Petit Train et ses Amis) aired on its own ever since. It later moved to Boomerang using the Metropolitan French dub.

The Aurentian dub later aired in 1995, almost a decade after it aired in its home country in 1987.

English

 * NTC (3 February 1989-2001; 2013-present)
 * NTC Kidzone (1995-2001; 2013-present)
 * Pacifvision (2001-2013)
 * Playhouse Disney (2007-2011)

French

 * Centrale (1990-2007)
 * Playhouse Disney (2007-2011)