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Dinosaurs

Year:

1991

Duration:

30 min | Germany:25 min (65 episodes)

Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family

IMDB rate:

7.5

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1991-04-26

Cast

Actor

Character

Sally Kellerman

Julius Carry

Ben Ryan Ganger

Dinosaurs

Michael McKean

Stuart Pankin

Earl Sinclair

Jessica Walter

Fran Sinclair

Jason Willinger

Robbie Sinclair

Leif Tilden

Robbie Sinclair

Allan Trautman

Fran Sinclair

Bruce Lanoil

Charlene Sinclair

David Greenaway

Roy Hess

John Kennedy

Baby Sinclair

Sally Struthers

Charlene Sinclair

Kevin Clash

Baby Sinclair

Bill Barretta

Earl Sinclair

Michelan Sisti

Charlene Sinclair

Pons Maar

Roy Hess

Tom Fisher

Additional Dinosaur Performer / ... (62 episodes, 1991-1994)

Jack Tate

Additional Dinosaur Performer / ... (61 episodes, 1991-1994)

Steve Whitmire

Robbie Sinclair

Mak Wilson

Earl Sinclair

Tony Sabin Prince

Fran Sinclair

Julianne Buescher

Additional Dinosaur Performer / ... (52 episodes, 1991-1994)

Star Townsend

Additional Dinosaur Performer / ... (51 episodes, 1991-1994)

Sam McMurray

Roy Hess

Rickey Boyd

Additional Dinosaur Performer / ... (34 episodes, 1992-1994)

Florence Stanley

Grandma Ethyl Phillips

Sherman Hemsley

B.P. Richfield

Did you know?

Trivia

Another reason for the dinosaur family name to be Sinclair is that when the Sinclair oil company was still in existence, its gas stations had as their logo the image of a green four-legged dinosaur (the brontosaurus or apatosaurus.)

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Jim Henson originally got the idea of a live action show featuring animatronic Dinosaurs after being impressed by the technology his Creature Shop was developing for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. When the show went into production the same technology was then used to create the Dinosaurs, as Jim Henson envisioned. Many of the Ninja Turtle suit actors even worked as various Dinosaur suit actors for the series.

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The full-size dinosaur costumes came in two parts, a full body suit and a separate animatronic head. The head contained radio-controlled motors that moved the jaw, lips, eyes, and eyebrows. For closeup speaking and lip-sync, the heads were separated and operated by a team of puppeteers.

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Quotes

Fran: How much can a tutor cost, Earl?

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Baby: [hitting Earl with a bottle] Not the mama, not the mama, not the mama.

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Earl: Good morning, my family who loves me.

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Faq

Is it true everyone dies in the last episode?

Sadly yes. In Season 4, episode 7, entitled Changing Nature, after a series of very poor decisions by the We Say So corporation, the earth is sent into an ice age that, according to the TV announcer, will last for 10's of thousands of years. As it is commonly known that an ice age killed off the dinosaurs in real life, this reference clearly indicates that everyone died soon after. However, while this episode provides the final chapter of the characters lives, it was not the last new episode to be aired. An additional seven previously unaired episodes were shown in syndication that take place at various undetermined time periods before the ice age begins. As such when viewing series from start to finish, Changing Nature is best watched last.

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