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COLLECTION · Series · 1991

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.

Source: TMDB
* 7.8 (1,083)ComedyFamilyFantasyScience FictionUnited States
Creators
Bob Young · Michael Jacobs
Countries
United States
Studios
ABC · Syndication · Walt Disney Television · Jim Henson Productions · Michael Jacobs Productions
Runtime
23 min/ep
Age rating
TV-G
Release
26/04/1991
Score
7.8 / 10 (1,083)
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Specials
Specials
12 episodes
The Making of Dinosaurs
Episode 1. The Making of Dinosaurs
23 min

No synopsis

The Sketches That Started it All
Episode 2. The Sketches That Started it All
23 min

No synopsis

Behind the Scenes
Episode 3. Behind the Scenes
2007-05-01 · 23 min

A behind the scenes look with the actors.

Kevin Clash on Jim Henson
Episode 4. Kevin Clash on Jim Henson
2007-05-01 · 23 min

A short interview with Kevin Clash discussing Dinosaurs and it's creator Jim Henson

Creatures with a Cause
Episode 5. Creatures with a Cause
2007-05-01 · 23 min

Go behind the scenes with the creators and learn the secrets of the controversial last episode!

I'm the Baby, Gotta Love Me!!
Episode 6. I'm the Baby, Gotta Love Me!!
2007-05-01 · 23 min

Featurette focusing on Baby Dinosaur.

Episode 7. DVD Easter Eggs and Trivia
23 min

No synopsis

Tv Ads
Episode 8. Tv Ads
23 min

No synopsis

Inside the Suits: Earl Sinclair
Episode 9. Inside the Suits: Earl Sinclair
23 min

No synopsis

Inside the Suits: Baby
Episode 10. Inside the Suits: Baby
23 min

No synopsis

Photobook
Episode 11. Photobook
23 min

No synopsis

Ask Earl
Episode 12. Ask Earl
23 min

No synopsis

Season 1
Season 1
5 episodes · 1991
The Mighty Megalosaurus
Episode 1. The Mighty Megalosaurus
1991-04-26 · 23 min

Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.

The Mating Dance
Episode 2. The Mating Dance
1991-05-03 · 23 min

Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.

Hurling Day
Episode 3. Hurling Day
1991-05-10 · 23 min

Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."

High Noon
Episode 4. High Noon
1991-05-17 · 23 min

A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.

The Howling
Episode 5. The Howling
1991-05-24 · 23 min

Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.

Season 2
Season 2
24 episodes · 1991
The Golden Child
Episode 1. The Golden Child
1991-09-18 · 23 min

When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.

Family Challenge
Episode 2. Family Challenge
1991-09-25 · 23 min

When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.

I Never Ate for My Father
Episode 3. I Never Ate for My Father
1991-10-02 · 23 min

When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.

Charlene's Tale
Episode 4. Charlene's Tale
1991-10-09 · 23 min

Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.

Endangered Species
Episode 5. Endangered Species
1991-10-16 · 23 min

Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.

Employee of the Month
Episode 6. Employee of the Month
1991-10-23 · 23 min

Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.

When Food Goes Bad
Episode 7. When Food Goes Bad
1991-10-30 · 23 min

Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.

Career Opportunities
Episode 8. Career Opportunities
1991-11-06 · 23 min

Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."

Unmarried ... With Children
Episode 9. Unmarried ... With Children
1991-11-13 · 23 min

A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.

How to Pick Up Girls
Episode 10. How to Pick Up Girls
1991-11-20 · 23 min

Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.

Switched At Birth
Episode 11. Switched At Birth
1991-11-27 · 23 min

The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.

Refrigerator Day
Episode 12. Refrigerator Day
1991-12-11 · 23 min

Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.

What Sexual Harris Meant
Episode 13. What Sexual Harris Meant
1991-12-18 · 23 min

Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's harrassed by a predatory male.

Fran Live
Episode 14. Fran Live
1992-01-08 · 23 min

Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs, leaving Earl to learn how to cope with a wife who works.

Power Erupts
Episode 15. Power Erupts
1992-01-15 · 23 min

A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.

The Clip Show
Episode 16. The Clip Show
1992-01-22 · 23 min

An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.

A New Leaf
Episode 17. A New Leaf
1992-02-05 · 23 min

A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.

The Last Temptation of Ethyl
Episode 18. The Last Temptation of Ethyl
1992-02-12 · 23 min

Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.

Nuts To War (1)
Episode 19. Nuts To War (1)
1992-02-19 · 23 min

The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.

Nuts To War (2)
Episode 20. Nuts To War (2)
1992-02-26 · 23 min

Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.

And The Winner Is...
Episode 21. And The Winner Is...
1992-03-25 · 23 min

Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's likely to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B.P. Richfield.

Slave to Fashion
Episode 22. Slave to Fashion
1992-04-01 · 23 min

Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.

Leader of the Pack
Episode 23. Leader of the Pack
1992-04-22 · 23 min

When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.

WESAYSO Knows Best
Episode 24. WESAYSO Knows Best
1992-05-08 · 23 min

Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.

Season 3
Season 3
22 episodes · 1992
Nature Calls
Episode 1. Nature Calls
1992-09-18 · 23 min

Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.

Baby Talk
Episode 2. Baby Talk
1992-10-02 · 23 min

Earl does the dirty work of organizing a civic protest against the TV powers-that-be when the baby repeats (constantly) a dirty word that he hears on the tube.

Network Genius
Episode 3. Network Genius
1992-10-16 · 23 min

Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.

The Discovery
Episode 4. The Discovery
1992-10-23 · 23 min

Earl hits a bad golf shot that sails off the edge of the known world and into a new one -- new, that is, to the dinosaurs.

Little Boy Boo
Episode 5. Little Boy Boo
1992-10-30 · 23 min

Robbie weaves a frightening tale for the Baby about Robbie turning into a caveman monster, which proves a little too hairy for the little guy.

Germ Warfare
Episode 6. Germ Warfare
1992-11-06 · 23 min

The Baby becomes sick from a dirty pacifier and a visit to the modern doctor has the family suspecting he is selling them high priced snake oil.

Hungry for Love
Episode 7. Hungry for Love
1992-11-13 · 23 min

Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.

License to Parent
Episode 8. License to Parent
1992-11-20 · 23 min

When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.

Charlene's Flat World
Episode 9. Charlene's Flat World
1992-12-04 · 23 min

Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.

Wilderness Weekend
Episode 10. Wilderness Weekend
1992-12-18 · 23 min

The males, including Earl, Robbie, and the Baby, go into the wilderness to rediscover their ""reptiles within,"" while back home the girls warm their cold blood with the boys' beer.

The Son Also Rises
Episode 11. The Son Also Rises
1993-01-08 · 23 min

After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.

Getting to Know You
Episode 12. Getting to Know You
1993-01-15 · 23 min

Charlene signs up for a foreign student exchange program to get away from her family who doesn't understand her; and the Sinclairs get a bitter taste of a different culture when a French bird moves in with them in Charlene's place.

Green Card
Episode 13. Green Card
1993-01-29 · 23 min

The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.

Out of the Frying Pan
Episode 14. Out of the Frying Pan
1993-02-05 · 23 min

Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for a new frying pan. Earl is fired from the commercials and he and Monica start to worry that fame is going to the Baby's and Fran's heads.

Steroids to Heaven
Episode 15. Steroids to Heaven
1993-02-12 · 23 min

Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.

Honey, I Miss the Kids
Episode 16. Honey, I Miss the Kids
1993-02-19 · 23 min

Feeling a need to have a job outside the home, Fran goes to work at a halfway house for amphibians, leaving Earl to take over the household day shift and look after the kids.

Swamp Music
Episode 17. Swamp Music
1993-02-26 · 23 min

Robbie crosses over to the swamps and gets sold on the mammals' "swamp music", but they're liable to be sold out in a dinosaur record deal, which Robbie orchestrated.

Dirty Dancin'
Episode 18. Dirty Dancin'
1993-03-12 · 23 min

When overwhelming urges to do the mating dance arise in Robbie, Earl prefers not to discuss it, but Fran waltzes into Robbie's classroom to educate the kids about it.

If I Were a Tree
Episode 19. If I Were a Tree
1993-04-16 · 23 min

Ethel reads the Baby a story called "If You Were a Tree" about a dinosaur tree pusher who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish.

We Are Not Alone
Episode 20. We Are Not Alone
1993-05-02 · 23 min

Robbie poses as a space alien and orders Earl to get involved in cleaning up Earth, never imagining that he would quit his job to launch an environmental crusade.

Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
Episode 21. Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
1993-05-09 · 23 min

Charlene feels her family is neglecting her, so she gets their attention by winning the school talent show but her rising fame is riding on the backs of three young cavelings she found in the forest whose mother is looking for them.

The Clip Show II
Episode 22. The Clip Show II
1993-07-02 · 23 min

Another one of the infomercial for a home course in how to become a paleontologist is supplemented by clips from previous episodes. Featuring the past clips from Season 2 to Season 3.

Season 4
Season 4
14 episodes · 1994
Monster Under the Bed
Episode 1. Monster Under the Bed
1994-06-01 · 23 min

The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.

Earl, Don't Be a Hero
Episode 2. Earl, Don't Be a Hero
1994-06-08 · 23 min

Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Episode 3. The Greatest Story Ever Sold
1994-06-22 · 23 min

Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."

Driving Miss Ethyl
Episode 4. Driving Miss Ethyl
1994-06-29 · 23 min

Earl drives Ethyl to her reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a portrait.

Earl's Big Jackpot
Episode 5. Earl's Big Jackpot
1994-07-06 · 23 min

A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.

Terrible Twos
Episode 6. Terrible Twos
1994-07-13 · 23 min

Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."

Changing Nature
Episode 7. Changing Nature
1994-07-20 · 23 min

Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.

Georgie Must Die
Episode 8. Georgie Must Die
1995-09-06 · 23 min

The baby goes gaga over a hippo named Georgie, the latest children's idol. But when Earl dresses up as Georgie, he's arrested for copyright infringement.

Into the Woods
Episode 9. Into the Woods
1995-09-20 · 23 min

Earl, Robbie and Roy stumble into a tar pit when they take the Baby into the forest for the traditional dinosaur Wilderness Rite of Passage.

Variations on a Theme Park
Episode 10. Variations on a Theme Park
1995-11-06 · 23 min

When too many overworked employees drop dead from exhaustion, businesses give dinosaurs two weeks off for a vacation; B.P. Richfield advises Earl to bring his family to WeSaySo Land, which is supposed to be a fun amusement park for the…

Life in the Faust Lane
Episode 11. Life in the Faust Lane
1995-11-07 · 23 min

Earl makes a deal with the devil (which is a wierd inconsistency in the show) after watching a late night show, "Lifestyles of Those We Envy".

Working Girl
Episode 12. Working Girl
1995-11-08 · 23 min

Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.

Earl and Pearl
Episode 13. Earl and Pearl
1995-11-09 · 23 min

Robbie and Charlene go against Earl's orders and sneak out to see his estranged sister, Pearl, a country star, perform. Roy falls in love with Pearl and plans to settle down with her, despite Earl's protests.

Scent of a Reptile
Episode 14. Scent of a Reptile
1995-11-10 · 23 min

Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher.

Cast by season
Stuart Pankin
Stuart Pankin
Earl Sinclair (voice)
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter
Fran Sinclair (voice)
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Jason Willinger
Robbie Sinclair (voice)
Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers
Charlene Sinclair (voice)
Kevin Clash
Kevin Clash
Baby Sinclair (voice)
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