Thomas & Friends

1983–2026 · 28 seasons · 646 episodes · Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Thomas & Friends is a British children's television series, which had its first broadcast on the ITV network on 4 September 1984. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. These books deal with the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. The books were based on stories Wilbert told to entertain his son, Christopher during his recovery from measles. From Series one to four, many of the stories are based on events from Awdry's personal experience.

6.5IMDb · 8.5k votes

Best season: 8.1; Season 5. Weakest is season 22, at 3.3
Top episode: 9.3; S20 E28 · Tit for Tat
Lowest episode: 2.3; S23 E12 · Panicky Percy
Finale: 7.2; +0.9 against the show's 6.3 average

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IMDb rating of every Thomas & Friends episode, by season and episode number
	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10	Episode 11	Episode 12	Episode 13	Episode 14	Episode 15	Episode 16	Episode 17	Episode 18

Season 1	7.9	8.0	7.9	8.2	7.5	7.7	8.3	7.6	7.9	7.8	7.3	8.0	8.3	8.3	8.0	8.3	8.0	7.8	9.0	8.0	8.3	7.9	8.4	8.4	8.4	8.3
Season 2	7.9	7.7	7.7	7.9	8.7	7.5	7.7	8.3
Season 3	7.8	8.3	7.8	8.0	7.8	7.5	8.3	8.0
Season 4	8.3	8.2	7.9	7.6	8.0	7.4	7.3	8.4
Season 5	8.6	8.2	8.5	8.5	8.1	6.9	8.0	7.4
Season 6	8.3	7.3	8.3	7.8	7.9	8.2	8.4	8.5
Season 7	7.9	7.8	7.6	6.1	7.3	6.7	8.5	7.8
Season 8	6.1	6.1	7.3	5.2	6.7	7.5	6.5	5.6
Season 9	7.1	5.1	6.4	6.4	6.3	8.5	6.1	5.5
Season 10	6.0	6.2	6.2	5.4	5.8	5.0	6.0	5.4
Season 11	6.9	6.6	7.2	7.8	8.2	7.7	6.7	4.4
Season 12	4.4	3.6	3.9	4.5	3.3	5.1	3.6	4.6
Season 13	5.5	3.7	5.1	5.2	3.7	3.3	3.5	3.4
Season 14	3.1	3.7	3.1	3.1	2.9	3.2	3.5	2.8
Season 15	5.2	4.9	3.3	2.8	5.6	4.0	3.0	2.9
Season 16	3.0	3.1	3.5	3.2	2.7	5.6	3.7	3.8
Season 17	6.6	6.8	7.6	7.8	6.1	5.4	8.8	8.4
Season 18	8.6	8.5	5.7	6.8	5.1	8.3	7.8	8.2
Season 19	6.8	6.7	7.8	4.8	7.3	8.4	6.1	7.9
Season 20	7.2	7.1	8.8	6.3	7.7	8.7	8.8	8.8
Season 21	8.9	7.8	8.8	6.5	7.9	8.4	6.1	7.4
Season 22	3.2	2.9	2.8	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.8	3.0
Season 23	5.9	4.0	6.9	2.7	3.1	2.6	2.7	2.4
Season 24	7.0	4.3	5.9	2.7	4.0	3.3	2.6	3.6
Season 25	3.0	3.3	5.1	4.8	4.9	4.9	5.1	4.6
Season 26	5.4	5.0	4.9	4.6	5.1	6.2	5.0	6.6
Season 27		5.1																									5.6
Season 28	5.0	6.4																								7.2

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