Thomas &amp; Friends
Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or simply Thomas the Tank Engine; also known as Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! in the twenty-second series) is a British children's television series. In the United Kingdom, it had its first broadcast on the ITV network in Great Britain in 1984. In the United States, it had its first broadcast on "Shining Time Station" in 1989. It is based on "The Railway Series" of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.
Danny Thomas
Thomas first reached mass audiences on network radio in the 1940s playing shifty brother-in-law Amos in "The Bickersons", which began as sketches on the music-comedy show "Drene Time", starring Don Ameche and Frances Langford. Thomas also portrayed himself as a scatterbrained Lothario on this show. His other network radio work included a stint as Jerry Dingle the postman on Fanny Brice's "The Baby Snooks Show". In the early 1950s he made several appearances on the popular NBC variety program, "The Big Show", hosted by stage legend Tallulah Bankhead.