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Andrew Brenner

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"The live action appealed to me as it felt like the best train set ever and I had and loved my model railway as a child."
― Andrew Brenner on the original live action model series, 2012 Sodor Island Fansite interview

Andrew Lewis Brenner (born on 7 February 1961) is an American-born British script writer, and producer who was the head writer of Thomas & Friends from November 2010 to August 2018, succeeding Sharon Miller. In 2019, David Stoten became the new head writer of the series for Steam Team to the Rescue and the twenty-fourth series.

Career

Brenner worked on the magazine stories, starting at the beginning of their publication in 1987. He was given series one and two on video and was asked to adapt the episodes into magazine stories. When Brenner ran out of episodes to adapt, he wrote original stories, several of which were adapted into third series and fifth series episodes without his knowledge or consent. Brenner also wrote magazine stories that were either originally written by Wilbert Awdry or Christopher Awdry from The Railway Series. He stopped working on the magazines soon afterwards. Brenner was never credited for his work in either the magazines or the television series. Among the stories that were adapted were Henry's Forest, which was inspired by a storm that caused damage and blew trees over around London.

He began writing for the seventeenth series in November 2010 for which he wrote ten episodes. Brenner also wrote ten episodes for the eighteenth series, six episodes for the nineteenth series, and ten episodes for the twentieth series, three of which were adaptations of Small Railway Engines. He also wrote two episodes for the twenty-second series. Brenner also worked as a script editor for Blue Mountain Mystery before taking over as head writer.

Brenner was also the head writer of "Tractor Tom" (second series only), "Angelina Ballerina," "Fireman Sam" (2008 reboot), and "The Cramp Twins". It was stated on his online CV that he is the head writer for Jack and the Pack, but this claim was later removed for unknown reasons. He is currently head writer on "Pablo."

He left Thomas & Friends in August 2018 to pursue other projects. The twenty-third series was his last contribution to the series.

Original Stories

Series 3

Series 5

Series 10

Series 17

Episodes Written

Series 17

Series 18

Series 19

Series 20

Series 22

Specials

Mr. Perkins

Songs

Songs Written

Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure

The Great Race

Journey Beyond Sodor

Big World! Big Adventures!

Songs Performed

The Great Race

Trivia

  • During his tenure as head writer, the twenty-first series and twenty-third series were the only series not to feature a single episode written by him.
  • According to an interview on Sodor Island Fansite, his favourite characters are James, Toby, Bill and Ben.[1]
  • When he heard that some of his stories had been adapted for the third series and fifth series when asked on an interview with Sodor Island Fansite, he was not pleased that producers Britt Allcroft and David Mitton had taken credit as the writers, much less quoting the dialogue line for line.[1]
  • In the documentary 70 Years of Friendship, Ian McCue compared himself and Brenner to the crew in the engine. Brenner being the fireman fuelling the firebox with story ideas, and himself being the driver taking that idea from the very start to the very end of the journey.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrew Brenner | Sodor Island Fansite
  2. ↑ 70 Years of Friendship - An Exclusive YouTube Documentary! | Thomas & Friends (7:18)

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