The Best Episodes of Dinosaurs

Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Kirk R. Thatcher

A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.

Director: Mark Brull

Writer: Rob Ulin

The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Steve Pepoon

Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Adam Barr, Peter Ocko

Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's harrassed by a predatory male.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: David A. Caplan, Brian LaPan

Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."

Director: Jeff McCracken

Writer: Tim Doyle

When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Dava Savel

Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.

Director: Jay Dubin

Writer: David A. Caplan, Brian LaPan

A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Andy Goodman

Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: N/A

The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.

Director: Brian Henson

Writer: Adam Barr, Peter Ocko

Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Andy Goodman

When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Tim Doyle

The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Tim Doyle

Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Dava Savel

Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Tim Doyle

It's a nightmare for earl and Fran as parents when there parent license is being taken away from the Parent Patrol Officer Battleheim. fran and Earl feel very ashamed that they have disobeyed the rules and code of parenting; Also after the two's license was taken away, Robbie and Charlene with Baby are causing problems with Battleheim when he puts the gun onall of them, but Fran and Earl immediately rush to stop Battleheim from hurting and scaring the kids. Making sure he doesn't get caught about the situation, he gives back Earl and Fran there parent license and leaves.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Andy Goodman

Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Rob Ulin

Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.

Director: Patrick Johnson

Writer: N/A

Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's likely to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B.P. Richfield.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: N/A

Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.

Director: Brian Henson

Writer: Andy Goodman, Kirk R. Thatcher

Earl does the dirty work of organizing a civic protest against the TV powers-that-be when the baby repeats (constantly) a dirty word that he hears on the tube.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Victor Fresco

Feeling a need to have a job outside the home, Fran goes to work at a halfway house for amphibians, leaving Earl to take over the household day shift and look after the kids.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Richard Marcus

Earl makes a deal with the devil (which is a wierd inconsistency in the show) after watching a late night show, "Lifestyles of Those We Envy".

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Mark Drop

Robbie and Charlene go against Earl's orders and sneak out to see his estranged sister, Pearl, a country star, perform. Roy falls in love with Pearl and plans to settle down with her, despite Earl's protests.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: Tim Doyle