Dinosaucers is a Canadian-American Animated TV series. The series ran a total of 65 episodes in one year from the 14th of September to the 11 of December in the year of 1987. The series was originally intended to prelude the sale of a toyline that was in it's prototype stage of development yet the toyline never came to be as despite the show being prolific it was cancelled and with the cancellation of the show came the cancellation of the toyline.
Plot[]
Four teenagers stumble upon the landing of an alien craft that is crewed by a group of anthropomorphic dinosaurs called the Dinosaucers who warn of an incoming invasion by another group; the Tyrannos. The teenagers agree to be the Dinosaurcers' Secret Scouts on the look out for the invasion. When the Tyrannos arrive the two factions conduct a war of skirmishes for the planet; one seeking to establish a foothold for invasion and the other to prevent such in the hopes of peaceful relations between the two worlds.
Episodes[]
Episodes by Airdate[]
- Dinosaur Valley -
- Take Us out to the Ball Game
- Happy Egg Day to You!
- Hooray for Hollywood!
- Divide and Conquer
- A Real Super Hero
- Burgers Up!
- Be Prepared
- That Shrinking Feeling
- Rockin' Reptiles
- Sleeping Booty
- The First Snow
- Trick or Cheat
- Defective Defector
- For the Love of Teryx
- A Man's Best Friend is His Dogasaurus
- Carnivore in Rio
- Frozen Fur Balls
- Hook, Line, and Stinker
- The Prehistoric Purge
- The Truth About Dragons
- Chariots of the Dinosaucers
- Eggs Mark the Spot
- Mommy Dino-Dearest
- The Whale's Song
- Inquiring Minds
- War of the Worlds... II
- Beach Blanket Bonehead
- The Bone Ranger and Bronto
- Cindersaurus
- Trouble in Paradise
- Monday Night Clawball
- Age of Aquariums
- Scents of Wonder
- Fine-Feathered Friends
- Allo and Cos-Stego Meet the Abominable Snowman
- The Quack-Up of Quackpot
- It's an Archaeopteryx - It's a Plane - It's Thunder-Lizard
- Teacher's Pest
- Dino-Chips
- The Heart and Sole of Bigfoot
- Karatesaurus Wrecks
- Lochs and Bay Gulls
- The Trojan Horseasaurus
- We're Off to See the Lizard
- Seeing Purple
- There's No Such Thing as Stego-Claws
- Applesaucers
- Reduced for Clarence
- Attack of the Fur Balls
- Dinosaur Dundy
- Those Reptilon Nights - In the style of a Noir Detective story Tricero returns to Reptilon to assist his old police department 'The Reptilon Police' in solving the theft of the Maltese Pterodactyl, which had been stolen before in a case he solved.
- The Dinolympics
- Sara Had a Little Lambeosaurus
- Beauty and the Bonehead
- The Museum of Natural Humans
- Saber-Tooth or Consequences
- Camp Tyranno
- The Babysitter
- Toy-Ranno Store Wars
- The T-Bone's Stakes
- Scales of Justice
- I Got Those 'Ol Reptilon Blues Again, Mommasaur
- I Was a Teenage Human
- The Friend
Production[]
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Characters[]
Dinosaucers[]
- Teryx - Teryx is the only female in the group and an evolved Archaeopteryx.
- Tricero - Tricero is an anthropomorphic triceratops. He use to be a police officer in the Reptilon Police Department before becoming a Dinosaucer [E52].
Secret Scouts[]
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Tyrannos[]
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Notes on the Setting[]
The two rival groups come from the planet Reptilon which is in counter-Earth orbit. The main technological rivalry between these two factions comes in the power to 'devolve'- which causes an individual to take on a more dinosaur or saurian form. The Dinosaurcers have the power to use such an ability on themselves while retaining intellect and speech while their rivals, the Tyrannos can not and have turned the same technology into a weapon of war capable of devolving what ever it hits reducing the target to an animal state. This pattern stays consistent in the series; while the Dinosaurcers use technology for utility and defense the Tyrannos use it for offensive purposes.The Tyrannos even possess a 'Fossilizer' capable of turning the target to stone but such technology came from a third faction of felines (resembling Sabertooth Cats) that use to inhabit the home world of Reptilon. In the past the Dinosaurcers and Tyrannos had fought together against this common foe and drove them into space. The episode 'Chariot of the Dinosaucers' has a statement that one Reptilonian visited Earth during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu more then 5000 years ago (being in counter Earth orbit Reptilon years are the same length as those of Earth). Khufu's reign ended in 2566 BC with the Pyramids being completed in 2560 BCE after about 10 or 15 years of construction giving the current year of the show to be between 2425 to 2440 AD at least.
Broadcast History[]
Coca-Cola Telecommunications (via Syndication) - 1987