The Complete First Season

Shining Time Station: The Complete First Season contains all the episodes of the first season of Shining Time Station in which the telelvision show was first created in 1989 by Rick Siggelkow and Britt Allcroft.

Shining Time Station was created to introduce Thomas The Tank Engine to America. Just like the Thomas series, Shining Time Station was a huge success, not just because it involved Thomas, but because it was a fantastic show about trains. It recieved such critical acclaim. Ken Tucker, a critic from Entertainment Weekly described the telelvision series as an old-fashioned television show that creates a gentle, lulling atmosphere to convinence children that life is fun and that trains are the way to travel.

Ringo Starr, Thomas The Tank Engine's very first storyteller performed on Shining Time Station for only the first season. At the end of the Christmas episode, 'Tis A Gift, he left the series (including the Thomas series) to focus on his musical career and George Calrin took his place.

NOTE: Each Shining Time Station episode includes one or two Thomas stories involved which have problems similar to what the Shining Time Station characters are dealing with.

