• 1974
  • TV-Y7
  • 30m
Valley of the Dinosaurs

Summary American science teacher John Butler along with his wife Kim and their two children Katie and Greg, as well as their dog Digger, are on a rafting trip on the Amazon river. As they are going down the river, their boat gets caught in a dangerous current and capsizes. They are pulled into a whirlpool. When they surface they find themselves in a prehistoric valley where they meet caveman Gorak, his wife Gara and their two children Lok and Tana. The two families soon become friends and Gorak and his family help the Butlers in their many attempts to find a way to return home while trying to survive in the valley. View more details

  • 1974
  • TV-Y7
  • 30m

Valley of the Dinosaurs

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Shannon Farnon Mike Road Kathy Gori Margaret Richey

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6.5

Details

Genres : Adventure Animation

Release date : Sep 6, 1974

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Hanna-Barbera Productions

Summary American science teacher John Butler along with his wife Kim and their two children Katie and Greg, as well as their dog Digger, are on a rafting trip on the Amazon river. As they are going down the river, their boat gets caught in a dangerous current and capsizes. They are pulled into a whirlpool. When they surface they find themselves in a prehistoric valley where they meet caveman Gorak, his wife Gara and their two children Lok and Tana. The two families soon become friends and Gorak and his family help the Butlers in their many attempts to find a way to return home while trying to survive in the valley. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Animation

Release date : Sep 6, 1974

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Hanna-Barbera Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 06, 1974
Forbidden Fruit
Greg is warned against harvesting arok, a delicious fruit. But he can't resist and the smell of the fruit draws a massive Brontosaurus to the cave. The hungry beast traps the Butlers and their friends between arok and a hard place.
Episode 2 • Sep 13, 1974
What Goes Up
When the valley is attacked by voracious army ants, even the dinosaurs run for cover. The Butlers must save themselves and their new cave-dwelling friends by constructing a hot-air balloon to escape.
Episode 3 • Sep 20, 1974
A Turned Turtle
With the shell of an Archelon, the Butlers build a primitive submarine to help them explore a part of the valley ruled by a massive, hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Episode 4 • Sep 27, 1974
The Volcano
When a volcano threatens to erupt, the villagers believe it to be just the regular rumbling. John and Gorak must climb the beast, outwit a Terror Bird and find a way to divert the inevitable lava flow down to the village.
Episode 5 • Oct 04, 1974
Smoke Screen
The Butlers inadvertently anger a tribe of primitive "missing links," and must prepare the village against an imminent attack. They're outnumbered, but they have ingenuity -- and fire -- on their side.
Episode 6 • Oct 11, 1974
Pteranodon
Kim Butler has fallen ill and only a group effort to collect ingredients for a medicine can help. Along the way, the clan runs afoul of a giant tortoise, a long-necked Elasmosaurus, a hungry Deinosuchus, and a determined mother Pteranodon.
Episode 7 • Oct 18, 1974
The Saber-Tooth Kids
Their pet Stegosaurus, Glump, is lost and Greg and Tana are worried. When they find him "treed" on an outcropping of rock by hungry wolves, they decide to dress in an old Smilodon fur to scare the wolves away.
Episode 8 • Oct 25, 1974
After Shock
When a quake unsettles a guardian statue's head, Gorak feels the clan must replace it. Bemused by his superstition, the Butlers build a wagon, encounter a Dimetrodon, and transport a boulder before realizing Gorak's feeling was right.
Episode 9 • Nov 01, 1974
Top Cave, Please
Lok is accused of releasing the villager's lucky hunting mascot, an adult Stegosaurus. Lok will be exiled if his friends and family can't unmask the real culprit, and release Lok from a high cliff, where he is held captive.
Episode 10 • Nov 08, 1974
S.O.S.
Tana sees a strange bird, and when she draws it in the sand, the Butlers recognize it as a plane that could finally rescue them. They build a radio transmitter and create an S.O.S. out of shells, one of which is stolen from a Plateosaurus.
Episode 11 • Nov 15, 1974
Fire
A massive brush fire -- started by a people with nefarious, thieving intentions -- prompts the Butlers and their friends to build fire breaks and the valley's very first fire engine.
Episode 12 • Nov 22, 1974
Rain of Meteors
Several hungry Allosauruses invade the valley - and they aren't the only ones when the Butlers help an injured young man, the son of the Sky People chieftain, who assumes the worst. Only "hocus pocus, Diplodocus" and a catapult can help.
Episode 13 • Nov 29, 1974
To Fly a Kite
Primitive rodents pilfer the Butler's First Aid kit, which they track to a land ruled by ill-tempered weather and a worse-tempered Iguanodon. When both show up, it will take Greg's kite-flying prowess to help them cross a river and escape.
Episode 14 • Dec 06, 1974
Test Flight
John Butler has built the valley's first glider plane, which he uses in a dogfight with a Pteranodon and to help search for Tana and Greg, who are downriver and threatened by thick fog, a Brontotherium, and a sharp-tusked Mastodon.
Episode 15 • Dec 13, 1974
The Big Toothache
An eerie silence presages a stampede of animals of all sizes and epochs. In the swamp prowls a predator that is not of the valley - and Gorak, Lok, Katie and John Butler go to investigate. Meanwhile, Greg and Tana discover a toothy kitten.
Episode 16 • Dec 20, 1974
Torch
When camel-riding night raiders from the other side of the mountain threaten the village, the Butlers devise a plan using a huge diamond-encrusted drill, natural gas and a pesky baby Styracosaurus to make the mountain pass unpassable.
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