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Shining Time Station
Shining Time Station is an American children's drama television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and American television producer Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company (now Gullane Entertainment, a subsidiary of HiT Entertainment) and Quality Family Entertainment in New York City for New York City's PBS station WNET, and was originally taped in New York City during its first season and in Toronto during the rest of its run. It incorporated sequences from the British television show "Thomas &
each story in the preceding "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, to allow more time for the main stories.
The first segment, "The Shinning", was inspired by the film "The Shining", and is basically a parody of that film. The film's director, Stanley Kubrick, had been a big influence on Mirkin, and was "one of the main reason[s] [he] wanted to be a director". Coincidentally, series creator Matt Groening admitted that he had not seen "The Shining