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Re:The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank En... by danbolt on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:01AM (#15362802)
I remember watching that as a little kid too. Did it ever get syndicated outside of Canada?

EDIT: I skimmed the Wikipedia article, and discovered it had a pretty wide distribution. I'm impressed!

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Re:The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank En... by paulddraper on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:59AM (#15363068)
> The show premiered in Canada on CBC Television, then went to PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), was on Qubo in the US, and at one time had appeared in eighty different countries.

Looks like PBS Kids (the most likely syndication for Americans) ran it to some degree from 1993 to 2002.

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Re:The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank En... by NegativeLatency on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:13PM (#15375471)
Yeah, I watched it on KCTS (Seattle PBS station)
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