David Mitton

David Mitton (David Nelson Godfrey Mitton) (nacido en Edimburgo, Escocia, 13 de Julio de 1938 - que murió en Londres, Inglaterra, 28 de mayo de 2008) is the creator of the TUGS series. He first began his career as a special effects technician for Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation espectáculos búsqueda asThunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90. Then he became friends with Robert D. Cardona, and they established their own company called Clearwater Características. En 1984, Mitton began his work as director, escritor and producer on de Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends alongside Britt Allcroft. Más tarde, en 1988, Mitton and Cardona decided to create a show about two tug fleets called the Star Tugs and the Z-Pilas, giving the series su nombre, TUGS. David wrote six episodes of the series and directed nine of them. When TUGS lo cancelled and Clearwater Características closed down, he continued to direct Thomas until his retirement en 2003. En 2007, pp and producer David Lane launched a company of their own called Piña Squared Entertainment Ltd., and were working on a CGI show called Adventures on Orsum Island. Sadly, David Mitton died of a heart attack on 28 May 2008, at the age of 69. Many Thomas and TUGS fans were greatly entristecidos by this news. Adventures on Orsum Island lo cancelled, and only a handful of clips exist.