Dinosaurs
The Funniest Family in 60 Million Years!
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
1. The Mighty Megalosaurus
Air Date: 1991-04-26
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
2. The Mating Dance
Air Date: 1991-05-03
Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.
3. Hurling Day
Air Date: 1991-05-10
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
4. High Noon
Air Date: 1991-05-17
A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.
5. The Howling
Air Date: 1991-05-24
Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.
1. The Golden Child
Air Date: 1991-09-18
When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.
2. Family Challenge
Air Date: 1991-09-25
When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.
3. I Never Ate for My Father
Air Date: 1991-10-02
When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.
4. Charlene's Tale
Air Date: 1991-10-09
Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.
5. Endangered Species
Air Date: 1991-10-16
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
6. Employee of the Month
Air Date: 1991-10-23
Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.
7. When Food Goes Bad
Air Date: 1991-10-30
Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.
8. Career Opportunities
Air Date: 1991-11-06
Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."
9. Unmarried ... With Children
Air Date: 1991-11-13
A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.
10. How to Pick Up Girls
Air Date: 1991-11-20
Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.
11. Switched At Birth
Air Date: 1991-11-27
The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.
12. Refrigerator Day
Air Date: 1991-12-11
Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.
13. What Sexual Harris Meant
Air Date: 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.
14. Fran Live
Air Date: 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.
15. Power Erupts
Air Date: 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.
16. The Clip Show
Air Date: 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.
17. A New Leaf
Air Date: 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.
18. The Last Temptation of Ethyl
Air Date: 1992-02-12
Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.
19. Nuts To War (1)
Air Date: 1992-02-19
The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.
20. Nuts To War (2)
Air Date: 1992-02-26
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
21. And The Winner Is...
Air Date: 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.
22. Slave to Fashion
Air Date: 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.
23. Leader of the Pack
Air Date: 1992-04-22
When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.
24. WESAYSO Knows Best
Air Date: 1992-05-08
Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.
1. Nature Calls
Air Date: 1992-09-18
Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.
2. Baby Talk
Air Date: 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.
3. Network Genius
Air Date: 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.
4. The Discovery
Air Date: 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.
5. Little Boy Boo
Air Date: 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.
6. Germ Warfare
Air Date: 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.
7. Hungry for Love
Air Date: 1992-11-13
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
8. License to Parent
Air Date: 1992-11-20
When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.
9. Charlene's Flat World
Air Date: 1992-12-04
Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.
10. Wilderness Weekend
Air Date: 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.
11. The Son Also Rises
Air Date: 1993-01-08
After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.
12. Getting to Know You
Air Date: 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.
13. Green Card
Air Date: 1993-01-29
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
14. Out of the Frying Pan
Air Date: 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.
15. Steroids to Heaven
Air Date: 1993-02-12
Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.
16. Honey, I Miss the Kids
Air Date: 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.
17. Swamp Music
Air Date: 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.
18. Dirty Dancin'
Air Date: 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.
19. If I Were a Tree
Air Date: 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.
20. We Are Not Alone
Air Date: 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.
21. Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
Air Date: 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.
22. The Clip Show II
Air Date: 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.
1. Monster Under the Bed
Air Date: 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.
2. Earl, Don't Be a Hero
Air Date: 1994-06-08
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.
3. The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Air Date: 1994-06-22
Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."
4. Driving Miss Ethyl
Air Date: 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.
5. Earl's Big Jackpot
Air Date: 1994-07-06
A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.
6. Terrible Twos
Air Date: 1994-07-13
Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."
7. Changing Nature
Air Date: 1994-07-20
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
8. Georgie Must Die
Air Date: 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.
9. Into the Woods
Air Date: 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.
10. Variations on a Theme Park
Air Date: 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.
11. Life in the Faust Lane
Air Date: 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".
12. Working Girl
Air Date: 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.
13. Earl and Pearl
Air Date: 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.
14. Scent of a Reptile
Air Date: 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.
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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
1991-04-26
Episodes
65 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Walt Disney Television
Jim Henson Productions
Michael Jacobs Productions