Dinosaurs

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...

Network: ABC
Country: United States
Release date: 1991-04-26
IMDb Rating: 7.0
Akas: Die Dinos, Die Dinos,
Cast
Stuart Pankin
Earl Snead Sinclair
Jessica Walter
Fran Sinclair
Kevin Clash
Baby Sinclair
Florence Stanley
Grandma Ethyl Phillips
Jason Willinger
Robbie Sinclair
Sally Struthers
Charlene Sinclair
Christopher Meloni
Spike
Sam McMurray
Sherman Hemsley
Suzie Plakson