Summaries

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.

The Dinosaurs are an animatronics stone-age working-class family created by Jim Henson for Disney. Incredibly overweight, even for a dinosaur, Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin) is married to Fran (Jessica Walter) and tries and fails to support fourteen-year-old valley girl Charlene (Sally Struthers), sixteen-year-old Robbie (Jason Willinger) (whose crest eventually turns into a mohawk and gets dyed purple), widowed, cranky Grandma Ethyl Phillips (Florence Stanley), and terrible-twos Baby Sinclair (John Kennedy and Kevin Clash), the true master of the house. Sharp social commentary was featured surprisingly often. Earl is a tree-pusher for the Wesayso Development Corp., which regularly implements schemes to screw their workers even more and destroy the world for marginal profit increment. Chilled, but live prey, are kept in the refrigerator and are helpful when you can't find the milk, and caveman humans make occasional appearances as wild animals and pets.—Dave Blake

Details

Keywords
  • 1990s
  • one word title
  • animal in title
  • cavewoman
  • prehistory
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Sci-Fi
  • Family
Release date Apr 25, 1991
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-PG
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Production companies Jim Henson Productions The Jim Henson Company Michael Jacobs Productions

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 30m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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