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Overview

Shining Time Station is an American children's television series

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

co-created by Britt Allcroft

Britt Allcroft

Britt Allcroft is the multi- award-winning creator of a trio of children's entertainment produced in the 1980s and 1990s: "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends", , "Shining Time Station" and "Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie".She was born Hilary Mary Allcroft, in Worthing, England and, at...

and Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company and Quality Family Entertainment in New York

New York

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for New York City PBS Station WNET

WNET

WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...

, and was filmed first in New York and then in Toronto

Toronto

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. The series aired on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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from January 1989 to June 1993, but aired re-runs until 1997. It aired on Fox Family

Television networks preceding ABC Family

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from 1998 to 1999. It also aired on Nick Jr. and on Canadian TV networks such as APTN and SCN.
After the success of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas and Friends is a British children's television series, first broadcast on the ITV network in September 1984. Until 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. This series was shot on 35mm film...

in the United Kingdom, Allcroft and her production company teamed up with PBS Station WNET in New York to produce and distribute the sitcom-esque Shining Time Station.

Unanswered Questions

I'm trying to find out which Shining Time Station VHS tape has the season two episode titled "Double Trouble" which included Thomas segments "Diseasel...

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Quotations

Mr. Conductor: Well I tried.

Tanya: Remember what you told us. Keep on trying. What's that, Mr. Conductor?

Mr. Conductor: It's a present for Thomas to cheer him up. He's been in a lot of trouble lately.

Matt: What kind of trouble.

Mr. Conductor: I'll tell you the story. [He spins the present and the Thomas story comes.]

Tanya: Now we've found the cake.

Mr. Conductor: Not quite. Where's the cake?

Matt: What cake? Where's the cake?

Mr. Conductor: I thought you'd never ask. Take a look down the anything tunnel.

Schemer: Greetings everyone.

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