Dinosaurs

This show follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have televisions, refrigerators, et cetera. The only humans around are cavemen, who are viewed as pets and wild animals.

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Cast:Stuart Pankin , Allan Trautman , Jessica Walter , Leif Tilden , Jason Willinger , Bruce Lanoil , John Kennedy , Kevin Clash , Bill Barretta , Sally Struthers , David Greenaway , Michelan Sisti , Pons Maar , Tom Fisher , Jack Tate , Steve Whitmire , Mak Wilson , Tony Sabin Prince

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Golden Child

Wed, Sep 18, 1991

A massive sugar high has Baby bouncing off the walls, which is how he gets a mysterious bump that morphs into a majestic golden horn. It turns out that the horn is the sign of the prophesied leader of the dinosaurs, so Baby becomes the king... which is perfectly fine with Earl.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Family Challenge

Wed, Sep 25, 1991

Fran thinks that the family spends far too much time in front of the TV. So when a freak accident destroys it, she sees it as a blessing-- but Earl is looking for another way out. So he enters the family in a game show in which the prize is a deluxe television set.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ I Never Ate for My Father

Wed, Oct 2, 1991

Earl insists Robbie isn't acting carnivorous enough, so the teen stages a protest by becoming-- gasp!-- a vegetarian.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Charlene's Tale

Wed, Oct 9, 1991

Charlene notices that the other females are getting their tails before her. So while Fran tries to teach her that a beautiful body doesn't make a beautiful mind, Charlene thinks of quick fixes and the males in the house tease.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Endangered Species

Wed, Oct 16, 1991

It's Fran and Earl's twentieth anniversary. To make it very special, Earl buys a delicacy for dinner: a species called grapdelites, who, thanks to his fellow snackers, are virtually extinct. While Earl desperately tries to keep everybody's prying paws off of his, Robbie fights to save their species.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Employee of the Month

Wed, Oct 23, 1991

To drive up employee morale (or possibly to keep from getting sued), Mr. Richfield decides to create an idiot example of perfection and call him the "Employee of the Month." And who should make the grade but Earl?

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ When Food Goes Bad

Wed, Oct 30, 1991

Fran and Earl go out to dinner, leaving Robbie and Charlene alone to watch Baby. However, that's the perfect opportunity for a group of oppressed food items to revolt by kidnapping the youths!

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Career Opportunities

Wed, Nov 6, 1991

Robbie goes to see the Job Wizard who dictates what careers everybody has for the rest of their lives. He hopes to be picked to be a rock legend but his dream falls flat when it's announced he's going to be a tree pusher like his father.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Unmarried... with Children

Wed, Nov 13, 1991

After meeting new neighbor Monica, Fran learns that dinosaurs have to renew their marriage licenses after a certain amount of time... and then realizes that her marriage to Earl is technically invalid. Which is fine, until she realizes Earl doesn't know her at all.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ How to Pick Up Girls

Wed, Nov 20, 1991

Robbie realizes he has no idea how to talk to girls. Desperate, he asks for help from Spike, a troublemaker who does very well with the ladies. Unfortunately, Spike's advice causes more harm for Robbie than good.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Switched at Birth

Wed, Nov 27, 1991

After Fran realizes she switched nests in Lamaze Class with Glenda Molehill, she starts to think that Baby isn't their baby. Her fears don't seem well-founded, though... until she meets the Molehill baby, Aubrey, who looks like Baby with Earl's green skin! After an unbearable baby swap, the two families ask for help from the wise Solomon the Great.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Refrigerator Day

Wed, Dec 11, 1991

Dinosaurs get ready to celebrate, the tradition of Refrigerator Day.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ What 'Sexual Harris' Meant

Wed, Dec 18, 1991

Monica gets a job pushing down trees for Wesayso but is fired after refusing the advances of new coworker Al "Sexual" Harris, popular for his double entendres. Determined not to let the males in the workforce hold her down, she takes the matter to court but doesn't get much help in her case.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Fran Live

Wed, Jan 8, 1992

Fran watches a TV show, Just Listening, where the host takes calls from troubled dinosaurs but doesn't offer to help them. When she suggests to the host he advise his callers about their problems, he refuses and Fran becomes the new host of the show, Just Advising, much to Earl's dismay.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Power Erupts

Wed, Jan 15, 1992

Robbie designs a science project that if executed in real life, could naturally power dinosaurs' houses and lower their heating bills. This proves to be bad business for Wesayso and B.P. Richfield is out to ruin Robbie's image and credibility to the public.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Clip Show

Wed, Jan 22, 1992

A paleontologist speculates on the amazing survival instincts of dinosaurs.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ A New Leaf

Wed, Feb 5, 1992

An important lesson is learned by all when Robbie brings home a mysterious happy plant which makes everyone feel all groovy-like. As things spiral out of control, Fran finally has to put her foot down.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Last Temptation of Ethyl

Wed, Feb 12, 1992

When Ethyl unexpectedly dies, she goes to the afterlife and finds out how beautiful it is. Before she can be reunited with her husband, it's revealed she's only unconscious and will wake up. Anxious to soon return to the afterlife, Ethyl goes on TV and tells the viewers how wonderful it is. But the afterlife has its own message for Ethyl.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Nuts to War: Part 1

Wed, Feb 19, 1992

A news bulletin announces a nationwide shortage of pistachio nuts, which is blamed on the four legged dinosaurs. War breaks out between the two-leggers and four-leggers and Robbie and Spike are drafted into the battle. Earl supports the fight at first but questions how truthful the government is being with them after a news reporter mistakenly reveals all is not going as well as planned.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Nuts to War: Part 2

Wed, Feb 26, 1992

Earl and Roy impersonate USO girls and go with Charlene to the front to find out what's happened to Robbie. Earl returns home without his son and he and Fran are moved to panic and grief when the news reports one of the soldiers was killed in battle.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ And the Winner Is...

Fri, Mar 27, 1992

The Chief Elder dies after naming the Baby, and B.P Richfield runs for new Chief Elder. His picks Earl for his opponent to beat; Earl is fine with running against Richfield and losing, until his conscience convinces him it's in everybody's best interest not to let Richfield become ruler over the public. But is he cut out to win the election?

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Slave to Fashion

Fri, Apr 3, 1992

Charlene thinks having an expensive coat will make it easier for her to fit in with the popular girls. But once she acquires the talking coat, it does help her to become popular, at the price of alienating herself from her friends and turning against her family.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Leader of the Pack

Fri, Apr 24, 1992

Robbie is fed up with being beaten up by a wild pack. So he enlists the help of his friend, Spike, to help him. Spike introduces Robbie to the other members of his gang, the Scavengers; but Robbie finds himself in more trouble when after a night of drinking with the Scavengers, it seems he's eaten their leader.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Wesayso Knows Best

Fri, May 8, 1992

Wesayso attempts to present a positive image of its company to the public with the perfect family, 'The Wesayso Family'. However, the company decides that it would be better if Roy becomes the head of the Sinclair household, and Earl moves out.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Nature Calls

Fri, Sep 18, 1992

Earl decides it's time to potty train Baby so he can avoid changing anymore diapers. But the idea doesn't go over well with Baby and he runs away into the wilderness.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Baby Talk

Fri, Oct 2, 1992

Earl and Fran can't figure out how to handle the Baby.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Network Genius

Fri, Oct 16, 1992

Earl's new job involves picking hit shows for television; but the show he puts on the air make their viewers unbelievably stupid and he must find a way to make everybody smart again to save society.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Discovery

Fri, Oct 23, 1992

The search for a missing golf ball leads Earl into a new world that he proclaims as his own territory; but Robbie suspects that the land really belongs to the cavemen who inhabit it.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Little Boy Boo

Fri, Oct 30, 1992

After the Baby pulls a stunt that scares Robbie half to death, he decides to tell the Baby a true, terrifying story; he has been bitten by a bloodthirsty creature known as a wereman and will become one when the moon is full.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Germ Warfare

Fri, Nov 6, 1992

The Baby gets sick and Fran demands Earl take them to the doctor. Modern medicine only makes the Baby sicker; leaving Fran and Earl to ponder an alternative healer and Ethel knows the perfect dinosaur for the job, a guy in the woods.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Hungry for Love

Fri, Nov 13, 1992

Robbie falls in love with a new girl, Wendy, who to Earl's horror, happens to be Richfield's daughter. Richfield takes well to Robbie dating his daughter, but Robbie's friend Spike and his sister Charlene warn him that Wendy's involved in a dangerous secret involving her previous boyfriends.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ License to Parent

Fri, Nov 20, 1992

When Earl loses his temper at the baby, he also loses his parenting license. When he flunks the test to get it back, the parenting police move in the house and monitor how Fran parents the kids by herself.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Charlene's Flat World

Fri, Dec 4, 1992

When told to come up with an original idea for school, Charlene hits upon the notion that the world is round. However her discovery lands her in jail, and on trial for heresy; which begs the question how free dinosaurs are to think and say what they believe.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Wilderness Weekend

Fri, Dec 18, 1992

Earl and his friends drag Robbie and the Baby off for a wilderness journey (camping trip) while Fran and her girlfriends stay at home to visit; but the dinosaur gender roles become reversed when the females drink beer and discover what it's like to be a guy, and the men get in touch with their softer side as they cower from a giant monster in the woods.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Son Also Rises

Fri, Jan 8, 1993

Robbie gets fed up with Earl always telling him what to do, so he challenges Earl for male domination and wins; but he quickly becomes aware of how much responsibility is involved in being the male of the house.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Getting to Know You

Fri, Jan 15, 1993

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, who has an unfortunate encounter with the Baby.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Green Card

Fri, Jan 29, 1993

The Chief Elder passes a law that forbids four legged dinosaurs from living in Pangea and demands in 24 hours they either marry a two legged dinosaur or retreat back to the other side of the swamp. Monica is fired and threatened with deportation until Roy proposes to her so she can stay.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Out of the Frying Pan

Fri, Feb 5, 1993

Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for the Myman P-2000, a new and improved frying pan that is strong enough to endure hitting Earl's head. 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.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Steroids to Heaven

Fri, Feb 12, 1993

Robbie tries to bulk up to impress a girl, but her attention seems to be drawn to a bigger guy named Dolf. When exercise doesn't cut it for Robbie, he resorts to Thornoids and finds out his new, bulky body comes at a high price.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Honey, I Miss the Kids

Fri, Feb 19, 1993

Fran finds being a housewife and mother unfulfilling and does volunteer work at a halfway house for amphibians; Earl gets stuck taking on the household chores and the kids and finds out what it's like being the mother.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Swamp Music

Fri, Feb 26, 1993

Robbie is introduced to the wailing, funky blues sounds of 'swamp music' and tries to bridge the species gap by getting a dinosaur record company to put out a mammal swamp music album.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Dirty Dancin'

Fri, Mar 12, 1993

Robbie starts doing the mating dance in his sleep and at school. Fran finds out and decides since Earl won't talk to his son about it, that the school needs to offer a course to the teenagers so they'll understand all about the mating dance, and Robbie is mortified when Fran is volunteered to teach it.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ If I Were a Tree

Sun, Apr 18, 1993

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

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ We Are Not Alone

Sun, May 2, 1993

Robbie tries to get Earl interested in preserving Pangea just as his boss is ordering him to bury drums of toxic waste in his back yard. On one such night, Earl and Roy get a visit from an extraterrestrial from the planet Kyron who warns them to change their ways or face annihilation.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Charlene and Her Amazing Humans

Sun, May 9, 1993

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.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Clip Show II

Fri, Jul 2, 1993

Sir David Tushingham offers a home-study course on the dinosaurs.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Monster Under the Bed

Wed, Jun 1, 1994

Earl lets the Baby stay up to watch a monster movie and then he can't sleep and won't let Fran or Earl sleep because of a monster under the bed. Fran and Earl retreat to a motel to sleep and let the kids babysit, and Charlene and Robbie find out he wasn't imagining things.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Earl, Don't Be a Hero

Wed, Jun 8, 1994

Earl falls into toxic waste and develops the powers of flight, heat ray vision, and accurate weight guessing. He decides to become a real life superhero and hopes it will make him a hero to the Baby, who idolizes TV's Captain Action Figure.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Greatest Story Ever Sold

Wed, Jun 22, 1994

When the Baby asks Earl where dinosaurs came from and why, the questions are repeated throughout all Pangea and raise a panic; until the chief elders declare all questions can be answered by their newfound religion: Potato-ism.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Driving Miss Ethyl

Wed, Jun 29, 1994

Earl's plans for the weekend are shot when he has to drive Ethyl to her high school reunion. Fran takes advantage of getting Earl out of the house to set up a family portrait for his birthday present, much to the dismay of Robbie, Charlene and the Baby.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Earl's Big Jackpot

Wed, Jul 6, 1994

When a tree falls on Earl at work and he breaks his foot, B.P. fires him and Robbie sues WeSaySo for medical costs. But the jury decides to award Earl a sum of $800 million and Earl lets his new-found wealth go to his head and turns his back on his friends when WeSaySo astronomically raises the prices of everything in Pangea to get back the money.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ The Terrible Twos

Wed, Jul 13, 1994

Baby reaches his second birthday and it's anything but a celebration as he enters the dreaded Terrible Twos and wreaks havoc on the entire Sinclair household.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Changing Nature

Wed, Jul 20, 1994

The series finale: Every May 14th the Bunch Beetles are supposed to return to Pangea and to eat the rapidly growing cider poppies; but only one Beetle remains as the WeSaySo wax fruit factory has killed them all. B.P. enlists Earl's assistance as the company attempts to fix the poppy problem by bombing the entire continent with defoliant which kills all plant life. Richfield next decides making it rain will bring the plants back, and to make it rain they need clouds, and they decide to make clouds by dropping bombs in volcanoes; but snow falls instead and the newscaster predicts the clouds will block out the sun for tens of thousands of years. Earl apologizes to his family for taking nature for granted over technology and bringing about the end of the world as they ponder what will become of them.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Scent of a Reptile

Wed, Sep 7, 1994

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.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Earl and Pearl

Wed, Sep 14, 1994

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.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Life in the Faust Lane

Wed, Sep 21, 1994

After seeing the TV show "Lifestyles of Those We Envy", Earl makes a deal with the devil for a Fernhill mug thinking it will make him happy. As a result he alienates himself from his friends, who he thinks are beneath him now, and his family, who thinks he's gone crazy.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Variations on a Theme Park

Wed, Sep 28, 1994

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.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Working Girl

Wed, Oct 5, 1994

Charlene attempts to break into the male-dominated workforce and get a job to pay for her summer wilderness trip; but finds all businesses work under the Old Boys Network that is determined to keep females tied down. When her letter to the Chief Elder about equal job opportunities for females is chosen for an accepted requirement for all businesses with government contracts, B.P. Richfield hires Charlene as the new supervisor and Earl has to deal with having his daughter for a boss.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Into the Woods

Wed, Oct 12, 1994

Earl's game day is interrupted when he has to take Baby into the woods for a traditional ritual to show the Baby that the world doesn't revolve around him and that he needs his family. But when Earl, Roy and Robbie unknowingly step into a tar pit, they need the Baby to save them.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Georgie Must Die!

Mon, Aug 2, 1999

When Earl dresses up as Georgie, an orange hippo that is the latest hit in children's television but the parents' latest nightmare, to put on a show for the Baby, he is arrested for copyright infringement. In jail, Earl finds out that Georgie has a sinister plan in mind for his merchandising empire and breaks out to join the Parents' Resistance and enlists Roy's help to take the evil hippo down.