The Dinosaurs are an animatronics stone-age working-class family created by Jim Henson for Disney. Incredibly overweight, even for a dinosaur, Earl Sinclair/Ralph Kramden/Fred Flintstone is married to Fran/Alice/Wilma 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 Humans make occasional appearances as wild animals and pets.

Starring:

Allan Trautman, Bill Barretta, Bruce Lanoil, David Greenaway, Florence Stanley, Jack Tate, Jessica Walter, John Kennedy, Julianne Buescher, Kevin Clash, Leif Tilden, Mak Wilson, Michelan Sisti, Pons Maar, Sally Struthers, Sam McMurray, Sherman Hemsley, Steve Whitmire, Stuart Pankin, Tom Fisher

Genre:

Animation, Comedy, Family