Angus Mackenzie Nicholson Wright (11 April 1934 – 15 June 2012) was a British television producer; he was co-founder and managing director of The Britt Allcroft Company PLC until his retirement in 1999.
His father was an Anglican vicar and his mother worked as a nurse and a school matron during her life as well as being an active member of the church and a Samaritan.
[2] He was responsible for one of ITV's longest-running children's favourites How as well as Little Big Time and Oliver in the Overworld starring Freddy Garrity and the Dreamers.
It was also during this time that he created two television specials in partnership with Winchester Cathedral where worked with Choir Director Martin Neary and the Bishop John Taylor, with whom he became good friends.
Mitton's live model animations which he made with Terence Permane, Steve Asquith and a talented crew, became beloved among children for decades to come.
The production team was completed with the now iconic music by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell and first narrator Ringo Starr.
With the support of Lewis Rudd, then of Central Television, the first series of Thomas the Tank Engine episodes launched nationally on ITV in the UK on 9 October 1984.
In 1987 work began to bring Thomas the Tank Engine to the U.S where it became established on the US Public Television Network (PBS), home of children's TV classic Sesame Street.
In just over ten years the Britt Allcroft Company grew from a two-person start-up to a worldwide operation with offices in New York City, Tokyo and Toronto.