Valley of the Dinosaurs
A modern family stranded among dinosaurs and Neanderthals.
Valley of the Dinosaurs is an American animated television series produced by the Australian studios of Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired on CBS from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and later in syndication from 1977 to 1983. The series, about a contemporary family transported to the Stone Age, was intended to be both educational and entertaining.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Adventure
- Action
- Drama
- Science fiction
- Director
- Charles A. Nichols
- Voices
- Melanie Baker
- Shannon Farnon
- Joan Gardner
- Kathy Gori
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Alan Oppenheimer
- Mike Road
- Frank Welker
- Narrator
- Don Messick
- Composer
- Hoyt Curtin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Episodes
- 16
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- Charlton Comics published 11 issues of a comic book series based on the show from April 1975 until December 1976.
- Harvey Comics published a one-shot reprint of the comics in 1993.
- Glump appears as Top Cat's therapy patient in the Jellystone! episode "Ice Ice Baby".
Plot
Science professor John Butler, his wife Kim, teenage daughter Katie, young son Greg, and dog Digger are on a rafting trip along the Amazon River in an uncharted canyon. Their raft hits a rock and capsizes, sweeping them through a cavern into a whirlpool. They resurface in a realm where humans coexist with prehistoric creatures. The Butlers meet a Neanderthal clan led by Gorok, his wife Gara, their teenage son Lok, and young daughter Tana, who own a baby Stegosaurus named Glump. Gorok's family saved the Butlers upon arrival and help them seek a way home, while the Butlers introduce basic technology such as levers, wheels, sailboats, and windmills.
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