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The Best Episodes of Dinosaur Train

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Join Buddy, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his adoptive Pteranodon family on a whimsical voyage through prehistoric jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans, as they unearth basic concepts in life science, natural history and paleontology.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 1 - Shiny's Double Rescue
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Shiny's Double Rescue

    S6:E1

    Shiny gets sick but she must rescue Tank and Mikey when they are stranded on the tracks.

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  2. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 2 - Don's Crash
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Don's Crash

    S6:E2

    When flying home from the train station, Don's left wing gets tired and causes him to crash into the nest.

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  3. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 3 - Look Before You Sleep
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Look Before You Sleep

    S6:E3

    While the nest is being repaired, Tiny has to find somewhere else to sleep.

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  4. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 4 - Tiny and the Ghost Dinosaur
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Tiny and the Ghost Dinosaur

    S6:E4

    While Tiny is at Camp Dino, Thurston tells a ghost story about a ghostly dinosaur.

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  5. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 5 - Newcomer Buddy
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Newcomer Buddy

    S6:E5

    When Buddy comes to Camp Dino, he gets kidnapped by two evil Troodons.

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  6. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 6 - Don's Redemption
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Don's Redemption

    S6:E6

    When the Dinosaur Train is on a collapsing bridge, Don must face his fears of crashing to save the train.

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  7. Dinosaur Train Season 6 Episode 7 - The Importance of Being Don
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Importance of Being Don

    S6:E7

    Don has lost his digging ability and decides to retire from digging holes forever.

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  8. Dinosaur Train Season 5 Episode 6 - A Clubhouse of Their Own
    9.2/10(8 votes)

    #8 - A Clubhouse of Their Own

    S5:E6

    Our kids want their own clubhouse, separate from the family nest. They try out several locations, but none of them are the right fit. Eventually, the kids build their own clubhouse using natural materials.

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  9. Dinosaur Train Season 3 Episode 21 - Best Ever Babysitter
    9.1/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Best Ever Babysitter

    S3:E21

    Buddy, Tiny, Shiny and Don have fun when their babysitter watches them for a night

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  10. Dinosaur Train Season 1 Episode 40 - Diamond Don
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Diamond Don

    S1:E40

    Shiny and Don stay at home. We get to see that just because they don’t always ride with Buddy and Tiny on the Dinosaur Train doesn’t mean that they are not having fun. An adventure into a local caves leads to a marvelous and brilliant discovery.

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  11. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 9 - Where Have All The Lizards Gone?
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Where Have All The Lizards Gone?

    S4:E9

    The Conductor takes the Pteranodon Family for a special trip to Lizard Island, where they discover that it’s been overrun by plants and bugs, and there are few precious lizards left. The Conductor concludes that the Changyuraptor Family (that he dropped off there awhile ago, and has since multiplied) has been eating all the lizards and throwing the entire ecosystem out of balance. Can the Pteranodon Family and Mr. Conductor convince the Changyuraptor Family to leave their home in order to get the island ecosystem back in balance?

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  12. Dinosaur Train Season 5 Episode 8 - A Brand New Species, Part 2
    8.8/10(8 votes)

    #12 - A Brand New Species, Part 2

    S5:E8

    Buddy gets the idea to travel to the Early Jurassic and meet their new discovery, a theropod they named "Buddysaurus." Unfortunately, there is no train to the home of the Buddysaurus, nor a train station! The Conductor decides to take them all to the Early Jurassic, and hike.

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  13. Dinosaur Train Season 1 Episode 14 - A Frill a Minute
    8.7/10(14 votes)

    #13 - A Frill a Minute

    S1:E14

    The kids help Tank Triceratops overcome his awkwardness with having a huge head by showing him how cool and amazing his features are, especially his frill.

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  14. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 2 - Trains, Submarines and Zeppelins: Part 2
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Trains, Submarines and Zeppelins: Part 2

    S4:E2

    As the Winter Solstice Celebration approaches, Mr. Pteranodon, Larry Lambeosaurus, and their new friend Mr. Seastar still can’t seem to find a way home. As Mr. P and Larry continue to argue, Mr. Seastar tries to remind them of the true meaning of the Winter Solstice Holiday – spending time with family and friends.

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  15. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 3 - Rollin' on The Riverboat Part 1
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Rollin' on The Riverboat Part 1

    S4:E3

    The whole Pteranodon Family takes a rollicking adventure on the Dinosaur Train Riverboat! Buddy and Don vow to spend every minute together, but while Buddy wants to spend all his time investigating the creatures on the river, Don wants to spend all his time playing games and investigating the buffet. Can they come to some kind of agreement?

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  16. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 4 - Rollin' on The Riverboat Part 2
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Rollin' on The Riverboat Part 2

    S4:E4

    While still rolling down the river on the Dinosaur Train Riverboat, Grandpa Pteranodon tells Buddy about the Legend of Admiral Globidens – a HUGE Mososaur that supposedly lives on the river, but no one has ever seen. Buddy enlists Dad and Tiny’s help to look for Admiral Globidens, but they can’t seem to find him. Does Admiral Globidens really exist, or is he just a figment of someone’s imagination?

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  17. Dinosaur Train Season 3 Episode 8 - King and Crystal, Live!
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    #17 - King and Crystal, Live!

    S3:E8

    Buddy, Tiny and Mom are riding the Dinosaur Train when they bump into their old friend, Crystal Cryolophosaurus. She’s on her way to visit King Cryolophosaurus down in the Jurassic Antarctic and invites our family along. Mom and the kids jump at the chance, and upon arrival surprise King as he’s singing a brand new song, Top Carnivore. King and Crystal’s heartfelt reunion is marred when Crystal tries to convince a reluctant King to take this fantastic new song out on the road to share with his adoring Mesozoic fans. But King doesn’t like leaving home and excuses himself to do some thinking. Buddy and Tiny follow and King sings a song called Good ol’ Gondwana to explain his feelings about his home. Tiny has a great idea—King and Crystal can perform a live concert in Gondwana and invite dinosaurs from around the Mesozoic to attend! The concert is a huge success, and King is surprised and delighted when Crystal decides to stay there with him instead of going back out on the road.

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  18. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 8 - Moms' Campout
    8.6/10(10 votes)

    #18 - Moms' Campout

    S4:E8

    Mrs. Pteranodon organizes a “Mom’s Campout” with other moms and kids in the neighborhood. While on the way to the campout, Mr. Conductor challenges the kids to make a real “nature connection” by creating games that push them to look at nature from a different point of view.

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  19. Dinosaur Train Season 4 Episode 10 - Conductor's Sleepover
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Conductor's Sleepover

    S4:E10

    With a hurricane looming, the Pteranodon Family convinces the Conductor to leave his train for the night and come with them to the safety of their hurricane shelter (a large, underground cave). But the Conductor has a hard time getting comfortable away from his train. Can the family and the Conductor pull together and help a family of beached Ichthyosaurs back into the ocean after the hurricane leaves them beached on the shore?

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  20. Dinosaur Train Season 5 Episode 9 - Don's Hole-iday
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Don's Hole-iday

    S5:E9

    When Don is told he can’t dig any more holes around the nest, he complains that he needs his own day just for digging holes—a hole-iday! The kids make up an imaginary holiday just for Don.

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  21. Dinosaur Train Season 5 Episode 10 - We're Not All Dinosaurs
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #21 - We're Not All Dinosaurs

    S5:E10

    The Pteranodon kids meet a new, small mammal friend, Adele Alphadon, and introduce her and their Big Pond friend, Cindy Cimolestes, to a new concept -- that not all Mesozoic creatures are dinosaurs. And that includes the Pteranodons! They live in a diverse world.

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  22. Dinosaur Train Season 3 Episode 10 - Desert Day and Night
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Desert Day and Night

    S3:E10

    While playing ‘Cold and Hot,’ a game they made up, the Pteranodon kids learn from Mr. Pteranodon that there might be more variety in the desert then they imagined. Their curiosity piqued, they plead for a trip to investigate the desert scene. Mr. Conductor tells them just how diverse plant and animal life can be in the desert. He happens to know a desert mammal Fruitafossor. Upon disembarking from the Dinosaur Train, the Pteranodon kids meet Frankie Fruitafossor, a chipmunk-sized mammal. They quickly learn that their assumption that desert life was hot all the time and relatively uninhabited was incorrect. Come dusk, they find the desert hopping and crawling with life, as creatures emerge all over – mostly underground – where they hide from the blazing sun. Frankie gives our family a tour, including a peek at underground burrows he dug. Back on the desert floor, Don and the siblings can’t believe how cold the desert has become. Nighttime in the desert is a different world than daytime! The family goes back to the Dinosaur Train to warm back up and have a snack.

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  23. Dinosaur Train Season 5 Episode 2 - How Many Horns?
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #23 - How Many Horns?

    S5:E2

    Tank Triceratops , who has 3 horns, wonders why Mayor Kosmoceratops has 15, and Protoceratops has only 1. The kids go on a quest to track down Ceratopsians with horns.

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  24. Dinosaur Train Season 1 Episode 25 - Hootin' Hadrosaurs!
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #24 - Hootin' Hadrosaurs!

    S1:E25

    Buddy, Tiny, Shiny and Don meet Perry Parasaurolophus, a dinosaur with a crest on his head who teaches them a new way to hoot some hip music.

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  25. Dinosaur Train Season 1 Episode 27 - The Theropod Club
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #25 - The Theropod Club

    S1:E27

    Buddy’s Theropod Club meets with other dinosaurs that walk on two legs, eat meat, and have three toed feet. But Tiny feels left out until the Club invites her to join too!

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Best Episodes Summary

"Shiny's Double Rescue" is the best rated episode of "Dinosaur Train". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/18/2025. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Don's Crash".