Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs (1991)

7.84 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family

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

📺 Seasons & Episodes

Specials12 episodes
Season 15 episodes
Season 224 episodes
The Golden Child

1. The Golden Child

23 min

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

Family Challenge

2. Family Challenge

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

3. I Never Ate for My Father

23 min

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

Charlene's Tale

4. Charlene's Tale

23 min

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

Endangered Species

5. Endangered Species

23 min

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

Employee of the Month

6. Employee of the Month

23 min

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

When Food Goes Bad

7. When Food Goes Bad

23 min

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

Career Opportunities

8. Career Opportunities

23 min

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

Unmarried ... With Children

9. Unmarried ... With Children

23 min

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

How to Pick Up Girls

10. How to Pick Up Girls

23 min

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

Switched At Birth

11. Switched At Birth

23 min

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

Refrigerator Day

12. Refrigerator Day

23 min

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

What Sexual Harris Meant

13. What Sexual Harris Meant

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

14. Fran Live

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

15. Power Erupts

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

16. The Clip Show

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

17. A New Leaf

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

18. The Last Temptation of Ethyl

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)

19. Nuts To War (1)

23 min

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

Nuts To War (2)

20. Nuts To War (2)

23 min

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

And The Winner Is...

21. And The Winner Is...

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

22. Slave to Fashion

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

23. Leader of the Pack

23 min

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

WESAYSO Knows Best

24. WESAYSO Knows Best

23 min

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

Season 322 episodes
Nature Calls

1. Nature Calls

23 min

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

Baby Talk

2. Baby Talk

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

3. Network Genius

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

4. The Discovery

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

5. Little Boy Boo

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

6. Germ Warfare

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

7. Hungry for Love

23 min

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

License to Parent

8. License to Parent

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

9. Charlene's Flat World

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

10. Wilderness Weekend

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

11. The Son Also Rises

23 min

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

Getting to Know You

12. Getting to Know You

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

13. Green Card

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

14. Out of the Frying Pan

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

15. Steroids to Heaven

23 min

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

Honey, I Miss the Kids

16. Honey, I Miss the Kids

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

17. Swamp Music

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'

18. Dirty Dancin'

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

19. If I Were a Tree

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

20. We Are Not Alone

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

21. Charlene and Her Amazing Humans

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

22. The Clip Show II

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 414 episodes
Monster Under the Bed

1. Monster Under the Bed

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

2. Earl, Don't Be a Hero

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

3. The Greatest Story Ever Sold

23 min

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

Driving Miss Ethyl

4. Driving Miss Ethyl

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

5. Earl's Big Jackpot

23 min

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

Terrible Twos

6. Terrible Twos

23 min

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

Changing Nature

7. Changing Nature

23 min

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

Georgie Must Die

8. Georgie Must Die

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

9. Into the Woods

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

10. Variations on a Theme Park

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

Life in the Faust Lane

11. Life in the Faust Lane

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

12. Working Girl

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

13. Earl and Pearl

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

14. Scent of a Reptile

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

Stuart Pankin

Stuart Pankin

Earl Sinclair (voice)

Jessica Walter

Jessica Walter

Fran Sinclair (voice)

Jason Willinger

Jason Willinger

Robbie Sinclair (voice)

Sally Struthers

Sally Struthers

Charlene Sinclair (voice)

Kevin Clash

Kevin Clash

Baby Sinclair (voice)

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