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Netflix had previously streamed select Thomas & Friends content on their platform (mainly DVD episode packages and direct-to-video specials) before it was pulled in 2017 in favour of being broadcast on Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon.
In February 2020, Mattel made a deal with Netflix, ending the Nickelodeon deal back in December 2019, to stream Thomas & Friends in the US starting with twenty-third series on 15 March 2020, and followed by the Series 24 specials in May. The remaining twenty-fourth series episodes were released in 1 September 2020. Although it streamed the 2021 reboot in addition to the two series, Mattel has also announced that Cartoon Network has acquired the US broadcast rights for it.
On 14 January 2022, Series 23 and 24 were removed from Netflix US, although the specials from each series remained. Later on 19 January 2022, the two series were re-added.[1]
Thomas & Friends is also available on Netflix in many other countries.
Series Streamed
UK/IRL
Thomas & Friends
- Series 22
- Series 23
- Series 24
- Digs and Discoveries: All Tracks Lead to Rome
- Digs and Discoveries: Mines of Mystery
- Steam Team to the Rescue
- Thomas and the Royal Engine
- Marvellous Machinery: A New Arrival
- Marvellous Machinery: World of Tomorrow
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1 : Episodes 1-26 (1 January 2023 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (1 January 2023 - present)
- Series 1: Episodes 27-52 (1 September 2023 - present))
- The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (1 April 2024 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 1-26 (1 April 2024 - present)
AUS/NZ
Thomas & Friends
- Series 20 (12 July 2019 - present; excluding The Christmas Coffeepot and Over the Hill)
US
Thomas & Friends
- Series 23 (15 March 2020 - 14 January 2022; 19 January 2022 - present)
- Digs and Discoveries: All Tracks Lead to Rome (15 March 2020 - present)
- Digs and Discoveries: Mines of Mystery (15 March 2020 - present)
- Steam Team to the Rescue (15 March 2020 - present)
- Thomas and the Royal Engine (1 May 2020 - present)
- Marvellous Machinery: A New Arrival (1 May 2020 - present)
- Marvellous Machinery: World of Tomorrow (1 May 2020 - present)
- Series 24 (1 September 2020 - 14 January 2022; 19 January 2022 - present)
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (29 October 2021 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (18 March 2022 - present)
- Series 1: Episodes 27-39 (5 May 2022 - present)
- Series 1: Episodes 40-52 (7 October 2022 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 1-13 (3 February 2023 - present)
- The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (1 April 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 14-26 (2 June 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 27-39 (1 November 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 40-52 (26 January 2024 - present)
- Series 3: Episodes 1-13 (7 March 2024)
- Series 3: Episodes 14-26 (19 September 2024)
- The Christmas Letter Express (21 November 2024)[2]
CAN
Thomas & Friends
- Series 23
- Series 24
- Digs and Discoveries: All Tracks Lead to Rome
- Digs and Discoveries: Mines of Mystery
- Steam Team to the Rescue
- Thomas and the Royal Engine
- Marvellous Machinery: A New Arrival
- Marvellous Machinery: World of Tomorrow
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (April 2, 2022 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (April 2, 2022 - present)
- Series 1: Episodes 27-52 (November 4, 2022 - present)
- The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (March 1, 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 1-26 (May 2, 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 27-52 (January 3, 2024 - present)
FIN
Thomas & Friends
GER
Thomas & Friends
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (1 January 2023 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (1 January 2023 - present)
SPN
Thomas & Friends
ITA
Thomas & Friends
Latin America
Thomas & Friends
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (17 December 2021 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (17 December 2021 - present)
- Series 1: Episodes 27-52 (8 July 2022 - present)
- The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (25 November 2022 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 1-26 (17 February 2023 - present)
- Series 2: Episodes 27-52 (1 September 2023 - present)
POL
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (1 January 2023 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (1 January 2023 - present)
TUR
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Series 1: Episodes 1-26 (1 January 2023 - present)
- Race for the Sodor Cup (1 January 2023 - present)
- The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (1 April 2023 - present)
Trivia
- Netflix was originally going to stream twenty-second series in the US along with Prime Video and Hulu, but ultimately, Nickelodeon opted to air the series. After Nickelodeon's broadcasting rights had expired at the very end of the 2010's, twenty-third series became the first series streamed on Netflix.
- When twenty-third series was initially released on US services, it was incorrectly stated to be twentieth series before being amended shortly after. The special episodes are shown separately.
- In Canada, Steam Team to the Rescue was not initially released alongside the rest of twenty-third series. It was eventually released on 4th September 2020.
- The twenty two series before the last two series of the original Thomas & Friends series have not yet been included to Netflix's platform in the US. The other Thomas specials that have previously been added to Netflix also did not return. Even the specials that were made after King of the Railway, which were added to Netflix in 2014, were not added for renewal either.
- In Australia, Netflix previously streamed the eleventh and twelfth series.
- In Latin America, Netflix previously streamed the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth series until 2019.