Dinosaurs: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience. The Dinosaurs are an animatronics stone-age working-class family created by Jim Henson for Disney. Incredibly overweight, even for a dinosaur, Earl Sinclair is married to Fran and tries/fails to support 14-year-old valley girl Charlene, 16-year-old Robbie (whose crest eventually turns into a Mohawk and gets dyed purple), widowed, cranky Grandma Ethel, and terrible-twos Baby, the true master of the house. Sharp social commentary is 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 Hu...

Series details

• Title: Dinosaurs
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Premiere date: 1991-04-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 1994-09-09
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.4/10
• TVMaze ID: 5987
• IMDb ID: tt0101081
• TVDB ID: 76461

Cast and credited roles

• Stuart Pankin — Earl Snead Sinclair
• Jessica Walter — Fran Sinclair
• Kevin Clash — Baby Sinclair
• Jason Willinger — Robbie Sinclair
• Sally Struthers — Charlene Sinclair
• Florence Stanley — Grandma Ethyl Phillips
• Sam McMurray — Roy Hess
• Sherman Hemsley — B.P. Richfield
• Christopher Meloni — Spike
• Suzie Plakson — Monica Devertabrae

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1991-04-26; final listed air date 1991-05-24; episode order: 5.
• Season 2: premiered 1991-09-18; final listed air date 1992-05-08; episode order: 24.
• Season 3: premiered 1992-09-18; final listed air date 1993-07-02; episode order: 22.
• Season 4: premiered 1994-06-01; final listed air date 1994-09-09; episode order: 14.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dinosaurs on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.