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Dinosaurs
1991 - 1995 7.8 (1028 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comedy Family
Networks
ABC
Syndication
Created By
Michael Jacobs
Bob Young

Dinosaurs

The Funniest Family in 60 Million Years!

Overview

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

Key Crew

Producer: Brian Henson, Jeff McCracken

Top Cast

Stuart Pankin
Stuart Pankin

Earl Sinclair (voice)

Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter

Fran Sinclair (voice)

Jason Willinger

Robbie Sinclair (voice)

Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers

Charlene Sinclair (voice)

Kevin Clash
Kevin Clash

Baby Sinclair (voice)

Seasons

Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1991)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Golden Child
1991-09-18

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Family Challenge
1991-09-25

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: I Never Ate for My Father
1991-10-02

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Charlene's Tale
1991-10-09

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Endangered Species
1991-10-16

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Employee of the Month
1991-10-23

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: When Food Goes Bad
1991-10-30

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Career Opportunities
1991-11-06

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

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

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: How to Pick Up Girls
1991-11-20

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Switched At Birth
1991-11-27

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Refrigerator Day
1991-12-11

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: What Sexual Harris Meant
1991-12-18

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Fran Live
1992-01-08

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Power Erupts
1992-01-15

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: The Clip Show
1992-01-22

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: A New Leaf
1992-02-05

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Last Temptation of Ethyl
1992-02-12

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Nuts To War (1)
1992-02-19

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: Nuts To War (2)
1992-02-26

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

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

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Slave to Fashion
1992-04-01

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: Leader of the Pack
1992-04-22

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 24: WESAYSO Knows Best
1992-05-08

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

Runtime: 23 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1992)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Nature Calls
1992-09-18

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Baby Talk
1992-10-02

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Network Genius
1992-10-16

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: The Discovery
1992-10-23

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Little Boy Boo
1992-10-30

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Germ Warfare
1992-11-06

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Hungry for Love
1992-11-13

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: License to Parent
1992-11-20

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Charlene's Flat World
1992-12-04

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Wilderness Weekend
1992-12-18

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: The Son Also Rises
1993-01-08

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Getting to Know You
1993-01-15

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Green Card
1993-01-29

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Out of the Frying Pan
1993-02-05

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Steroids to Heaven
1993-02-12

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Honey, I Miss the Kids
1993-02-19

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Swamp Music
1993-02-26

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: Dirty Dancin'
1993-03-12

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: If I Were a Tree
1993-04-16

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: We Are Not Alone
1993-05-02

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
1993-05-09

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: The Clip Show II
1993-07-02

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1994)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Monster Under the Bed
1994-06-01

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

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

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
1994-06-22

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Driving Miss Ethyl
1994-06-29

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Earl's Big Jackpot
1994-07-06

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Terrible Twos
1994-07-13

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Changing Nature
1994-07-20

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Georgie Must Die
1995-09-06

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Into the Woods
1995-09-20

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Variations on a Theme Park
1995-11-06

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 family. What the Sinclairs find is an overpriced, cow themed park that is newly under construction, and they have to stay for 14 days.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Life in the Faust Lane
1995-11-07

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".

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Working Girl
1995-11-08

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Earl and Pearl
1995-11-09

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Scent of a Reptile
1995-11-10

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.

Runtime: 23 min

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