9.1/1019 votes#1 - The Chicken or the Dino / Bones in the Backyard
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/25/2009
Ms. Carver's class gets a new addition in the form of mystery eggs, and Dan just knows one of them is a dinosaur egg! When Trek and Tristan find a bone in the schoolyard, Dan uses a papier-mâché skull in Mrs. Hahn's art class to figure out if it came from the Stygimoloch.
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8.6/1010 votes#2 - Masked Confusion / Trouble Clef
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2010
Dan makes a mask in Mrs. Hahn's art class to get closer to the Edmontosaurus herd but he needs Angie's help too. Dan uses a French horn to communicate with a couple Corythosauruses.
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7.4/1011 votes#3 - There's a Compsognathus Under My Bed / Art for Pterosaurs' Sake
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2010
At bedtime, Dan is more interested in proving that there's a Compsognathus under his bed than in going to sleep. In art class, Dan and his friends are making a kite inspired by the Quetzalcoatlus. The big question is . . . will the kite fly?
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8.1/107 votes#4 - Tooth or Consequences / Dinosicles
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2010
A routine visit to the dentist's office becomes a dinosaur experiment when Dan learns how the shape of dinosaur teeth can help prove if the dinosaur was a carnivore or a herbivore. Dan tests the attack patterns of the Dromaeosaurus, Spinosaurus and a T. rex by using a snow Triceratops as a decoy.
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8.2/105 votes#5 - The Case of the Mystery Dino / Gas-o-saurus
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2010
Dan figures out which dinosaur left a prehistoric "droppings" with the help of his friends Jim the reptile expert and Denny the Dromaeosaurus. Kami, Ricardo, and Dan learn that dino gas might have helped cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, and can't wait to share that info with the class.
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9.1/1010 votes#6 - He Shoots, He Roars / A Winter Tail
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2010
Dan figures out how to prove if dinosaurs were warm-blooded from Jim the reptile lizard and his puppet Denny the Dromaeosaurus. Dan wants to see the Euoplocephalus use its powerful tail while Trek wants to see it snow. Can both Henderson boys get their wish?
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8.4/105 votes#7 - A Pterosaur in the House / A Model Dino
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/2010
When a Pterodactylus gets stuck in the house it's up to Dan, Mom, Angie, and Trek to get it out. Dan uses the art of disguise to get his Remote Dino Cam into a Triceratops nest, but the real test comes when a T. rex threatens the safety of the babies.
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8.4/105 votes#8 - Copy Dino / Lunch Bag Bandit
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/2010
Dan teaches a baby Triceratops defensive moves to help it get around a meat-eating Spinosaurus. When Cory's snack goes missing, Dan knows who took it... a Dromaeosaurus. Now he's just got to track it down and get Cory's snack back.
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8.4/105 votes#9 - Dino Dent / Active Imagination
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/15/2010
The school bus has a huge dent in it. Dan has three suspects: the Euoplocephalus, the Stegosaurus, or the Stygimoloch. When a T. rex backs down from a Triceratops, Dan learns that there's more to the T. rex than he knows.
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8.7/106 votes#10 - Dino Trap / Big Bad Spinosaurus
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/12/2010
Dan tries to save his Mom's garden from a sneaky Compsognathus by dino-trapping it, but ends up trapping a baby T. rex instead. Dan makes reading buddy time more interesting by turning the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood into a dinosaur epic featuring the Spinosaurus.
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8.0/105 votes#11 - Name-a-saurus / Where's Dino?
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/19/2010
Dan learns how dinosaurs get their names when he discovers what he thinks is a new dinosaur but is actually the Diplodocus. While at the park with Uncle Jack, Dan finds a feather that he thinks belongs to a Dromaeosaurus. But, before he can prove it, his dog Doug goes missing. Uh-oh.
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8.6/105 votes#12 - Moody Dino / Stop-Motion Dino
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/25/2010
Jim the reptile expert, returns to Mrs. Carver's class with a chameleon prompting Dan to question if the Stegosaurus could change the color of its plates. The kids make a stop-motion animation movie for art class that features the T rex, but Angie and Dan can't seem to agree about certain T. rex "facts."
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8.4/105 votes#13 - 'Twas a Dinosaur / To Flee or Not to Flee
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/27/2010
A Christmas Special: Dan takes the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and gives it a dinosaur spin. Dan learns whether or not the Stygimoloch would flee from a Tyrannosaurus rex or stand and fight.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Fishing for Dinosaurs / Dino Doug
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/26/2010
While Uncle Jack teaches Dan to fish, Dan teaches Uncle Jack all about dinosaurs and pterosaurs. When Dan goes to the grocery store with Mom, it's up to Doug to save a baby Edmontosaurus from a Dromaeosaurus.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Dino Trackers / T-Rex Bedtime
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/13/2010
Dan is trying to track a Stegosaurus when Trek wants to join his game. Dan learns sometimes two brains are better than one. During a campout in his backyard with Cory and Ricardo, Dan learns whether the T rex was nocturnal.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - To Catch a Dino / Cops & Dinos
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/4/2010
Dan tells a story of two cavemen, who look a lot like Cory and Ricardo, and their quest to catch a baby T. rex and keep it as a pet. Dan's police officer mom comes to school, and Dan uses some of his mom's cool police gear to find out how fast the Dromaeosaurus could run.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Dino Party / Training Wings
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/20/2010
It's Dan's birthday and Mom and Trek have a dinosaur surprise for him: a dino scavenger hunt with all his friends! Dan teaches Trek how to ride a bike while teaching a baby Pterodactylus how to fly.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Prehistoric Zoo / Ready? Set? Dino!
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 10/16/2010
When Grandma takes Dan to the zoo, Dan finds a baby T. rex and tries to get it back to its mom. During gym class, Dan races a T. rex and a Spinosaurus to see who's the faster carnivore.
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#19 - The Dino Did It / Air Dino
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/11/2010
Dan tells a story of how Detective Ricardo solved "The Case of the Missing Flowers" with a little help from a dame named Kami and her butler, Cory. In gym class, Dan learns a bit about teamwork and planning from the Dromaeosauruses when he and his friends play Mr. Drumheller in a friendly came of basketball.
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#20 - Dino Watering Hole / Dino Dance
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/6/2010
Dan builds a watering hole to see if different kinds of dinos took water breaks together, and when three baby dinos get stuck in his backyard, it's up to Dan to save them. Dan learns how to make his gym class dance unit fun by incorporating different dinosaur movements into his dance routine.
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#21 - Captain Cory / Dino Race
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/13/2010
Dan tells the story of how the brave pirate Captain Cory, his first matey, Jordan, and his pirate cook, Ricardo, find treasure on Dino Island. Grandma takes Dan and Trek go-karting and Dan figures out which herbivore is the fastest: the Stygimoloch, the Triceratops, or the Edmontosaurus.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - Hard Hat, Long Neck / A Roaring Good Time
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1/16/2011
Dan, Kami, Jordan, and Uncle Jack build a sand castle and learn that some dinos were a lot like construction vehicles. Dan explores dinosaur sounds when he tries to get a Triceratops' snort on tape.
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#23 - Mini Dino / The Three Little Paleontologists
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1/23/2011
When Dan goes mini-golfing with Cory and his dad, some pesky dinosaurs steal Dan's lucky ball and Dan has to get it back. Based on the "Three Little Pigs," Dan tells the story of The Three Little Paleontologists Kami, Jordan, and Angie, and what material would make the best dino-watching fort.
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#24 - Dino Strike! / Nothing But the Tooth
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1/30/2011
Uncle Jack takes Dan and Trek bowling and Dan protects some Stygimoloch eggs from two hungry Dromaeosauruses. Dan finds a large dinosaur tooth and tries to figure out if it belongs to a T. rex or a Spinosaurus, with the help of his vet.
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NaN/100 votes#25 - Down on the Farm / The Time Traveler's Dino
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/8/2011
When Mom takes Dan to the farm, he finds some downy feathers and sets out to prove that they belong to the Compsognathus. Dan tells the story of how Time Traveler Cory and his trusty robot D.A.D. (Cory's Dad) go back to three ages of the dinosaurs (the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous) to find the T. rex and get a photo of it.
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The Best Episodes of Dino Dan Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Chicken or the Dino / Bones in the Backyard" is the best rated episode of "Dino Dan" season 1. It scored 9.1/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/25/2009. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Masked Confusion / Trouble Clef".