My real first introduction to a Beatle was when I was a kid and watched Ringo on "Shining Time Station" here in America, or "Thomas The Tank Engine" in England. I might be repeating a thread, but anyone else first introduced to Ringo this way?

No. But what's with the thread title?

He played a railroad conductor on the show.

Quoted from Mellotroniac

My real first introduction to a Beatle was when I was a kid and watched Ringo on "Shining Time Station" here in America, or "Thomas The Tank Engine" in England. I might be repeating a thread, but anyone else first introduced to Ringo this way?

I watched Shining Time Station when I was young too. The weird thing is that I was already into the Beatles and have seen pictures of Ringo on my dad's album covers.....but I never noticed that he was Mr. Conductor. then one day my dad was in the living room reading the newspaper while I was watching it and he heard his Ringo talking. he looked up from his paper and said "you know that's Ringo from the Beatles, right?"

my response? "No dad, that's Mr. Conductor." haha, gimme a break, I was like 7 years old at the time.

Hee, cute story, ShesCominDownFastYesSheIs.

You remind me of when I was young, and my parents wanted to see this movie because there was a certain actor in it. "But doesn't it spoil it," I asked, "if you realize this is a whole other guy and he's just pretending?"

He had a great voice for that part!

You gotta love Ringo......


(i think his expression says it all)

It says
"Thomas was a feisty little engine"

man I LOVED that show when I was little!  I didn't really realize that it was Ringo until about 7 years back when I "re-discovered" the Beatles and was looking at some of my dad's albums.  And at that it was originally played by George Carlin (I'm pretty sure...)  I found a couple of clips on YouTube.
Original Mr Conductor: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpYcMBYWck (sorry about the grainy vid...)
Ringo!: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBYKATLYlM&feature=related

Oh wow, I remember watching "Shining Time Station" when I was a bit younger.  The thing is, I was already a Beatles fan by the time I first saw it, but I wasn't really aware that he acted in the show.  I didn't pay a lot of attention to the episodes until I noticed that the conductor's voice sounded an awful lot like Ringo's!  I think I spent days agonizing and wondering if it was really him or not.   ;D