HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment was a British-American entertainment company originally established in 1982 as Henson International Television. They owned and distributed children's television series such as Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder, Pingu, Angelina Ballerina and Barney. They distributed the original two series and the four specials of Postman Pat between the 1990s and 2002 for foreign countries outside the UK and Ireland as the series was owned by Woodland Animations and the BBC at the time.

Trivia

• When they restored Series 1, it featured an alternate intro and outro. All of the scenes in the intro were reshot to include the Official Royal Mail logo on PAT 1, and outro had a reshot of Pat with the current crest on his hat, and there were no big envelopes with the credits on them.