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[@MrPresidentGeek]

Even 30 years later, this docuseries is still one of the best you can find on dinosaurs. I remember when this first came out when I was about 7 or so. It was one of my favorite things to watch. We had recorded it off our local PBS station and I watched the VHS recording time and time again. Even in high school, some ten years after the fact, I rewatched the series for a paper we had to write about the future of earth without humans and I used some of the science here to build my menagerie of animals for the paper. I received an A+ on it and my teacher used the paper as a future example of how to approach such a project. I will never forget this series. It is, without a doubt, one of the best ever put together.

[@limericklad2000]

Just discovering it now. Great stuff.

[@MrArmystrong85]

I hunted this down because I've had the song from this show stuck in my head since I was 5. I haven't heard it for 20 years and this means so much to hear it again.

[@eshelmen]

MrArmystrong85 this song made it for me as a kid

[@patrickfrawley8705]

I saw it when I 5 too

[@moparmtb360]

Same here. I think this music was also used in the "dinosaur" vhs box set narrated by Walter Cronkite. I may just have blurred the 2 in my mind. Its been about 30 years.

[@smillbag97]

That is so funny. Same for me! Glad to know I am not the only one 😂

[@LordNinja109]

Oh shit, it wasn't just me!

[@austinbrown2432]

Dear PBS, Release this landmark series on DVD/Blu-Ray! Those who enjoyed this back in the 90's (like me) will buy it- (I've already made room on my shelf). Until then,...well.

[@eyeaboveall]

Dude. I cannot express enough of my sincere gratitude for you finding a long lost piece of my childhood that I thought 20 years ago would never be found again. It's also when I was six and Jurassic Park was coming out for the first time. Again from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

[@Luistx22]

No problem - I felt like this needed to be shared.... I ripped the vhs's from my own vhs's - I know there is a lot of peeps out there looking for these.

[@eyeaboveall]

its a shame people in the entertainment industry haven't tried to preserve these. I suppose its because the theories of the dinosaurs and other science documentaries are considered constantly on the move and are always updated erased, then rewritten. Even if the information is outdated, and considered "That's how we thought back in the day" it's still useful to educate peoples about outdated theories.

[@jacemillan9700]

I had one video in the series when I was a kid. I've been looking a long time for the series and I thought I probably would never find it after forgetting the name of the series. Thank you so much.

[@MrPresidentGeek]

eyeaboveall This program, considering how old it is, still holds up very well with the information provided. The history is extensive and its "revealing" that dinosaurs weren't plodding, cold-blooded beasts really made a lot of dinosaur enthusiasts re-think their view of the creatures. It's magnificent and something I would show to a class today.

[@TheMovieUniverse]

eyeaboveall I agree this is the greatest documentary of Dinosaur's ever.

[@eshelmen]

This was hands down my favorite dinosaur documentary as a kid. Loved the theme song too

[@rogerpartner1622]

lol it's well early 90s Kinda HE MAN and the SKELETOR of Dinosaurs 👌Lol but I can see if you were young the cartoons are great .,When I was a kid it was all books late 70s Some were colour with proud colour dinos standing in the kill They were great but to see movement Truth we didn't have a TV wen most did and in uk anything special you paid extra for

[@davidyoung9335]

Me too

[@andrewbittner729]

I used to have this on VHS as a kid and I'd watch it often along side Godzilla and other monster and dinosaur movies. The music from the intro alone brings back such lovely memories. Not to mention this documentary series has the best animated dinosaurs I've ever seen.

[@LiuGondor]

I wish my parents would still be alive to tell them that I found this series and watch it with them again some 25 years later. Thanks for uploading it.

[@cirujatucuman3363]

I cannot believe this!!! The nostalgia that i have right now!!! I watched this documentary 1000 times when I was a child, I even had record it on VHS. Thanks men for uploading this.

[@Rockineagle84]

me too man. me too

[@thinkstoomuch4445]

Wow! On behalf of all 90's kids, thank you so much for giving us back a piece of our childhoods. Everything is as I remember it! The narrator's voice, the cartoon animations, and specially the intro music! It's all here. Thank you!

[@Glassgothgirl]

Oh wow. Huge nostalgia. I knew when I heard the narrator's voice. My inner child is happy. Thank you.

[@StoneWolf2077]

Yeah,I remember watching this when I was very young. Love it!

[@kleerude]

I had this on VHS as a kid and watched it all the time. I feel so peaceful getting to watch it again.

[@Heimal]

We got this on TV in Australia with our own narrator. Weird to hear it with thjs American accent, but I absolutely loved it. Thank you so much ❤

[@christaylor8271]

And just like that, I'm 8 years old again. My grandfather recorded this series for me because it aired after my bed time. I must have watched it with him 50 times. When that music kicked in at 0:50 I got chills. Thanks very much for posting this. And thanks, Granddad.

[@turboking9238]

I FOUND IT!!! I knew I would if I was stubborn enough, it's almost impossible to find this thing without digging deep!

[@SuperTelecom]

Mate, thankyou so much for uploading this series. I used to watch this as a little kid over and over again on tapes my parents made for me. The nostalgia is wonderful.

[@AnimaMandala]

In the back of my mind, I have never forgotten this brilliant piece of edutainment. I am eternally grateful that I get to see it again!

[@Wardads1]

Unlike so many docos today this one is short on bling and chock full of the good stuff ! Having agent 99 narating is pretty groovy too ! Thanks for this !

[@LRMc60]

Actress Barbara Feldon, who played "Agent 99" on the "Get Smart " tv show in the late 1960's.

[@gb7418]

The perfect way to describe docos now vs. docos then

[@videoboysayscube]

Wow. I haven't seen this in like almost 20 years. I used to watch it all the time as a kid. I was trying to find it, having no idea what it was called, but the moment I heard the first sound of music and the opening shot I knew this was it! Talk about nostalgia overload.!

[@MrArmystrong85]

I know right. Someday when I have kids, I'll make them watch this before they see any of the new stuff on TV.

[@moopmoopman7563]

Dude you nailed it. Like the nostalgia i feel once i heard it again. It’s crazy

[@Ambaryerno]

Oh man, I had this series. I haven't thought of it in YEARS.

[@tredzwater]

Wow! It was great to see Bob Bakker as a young man. He hasn't lost any of his passion for dinos.

[@hadorstapa]

I loved this series when I had it on VHS in the 90s, and I love how today we can see it charting the progress of our understanding of dinosaurs and evolution. Here we have reported the birth of the understanding that birds aren’t merely related to dinosaurs, but descended from them. It took 20+ years to get from the discovery to it being featured on this documentary, and now we know this theory as not just niche, but the mainstream understanding of classification. Now we use the terms avian dinosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs. Now we know that a branch of these amazing animals did not die out in the great extinction event, but survived to become the 10,000+ extant species of birds today.

[@TheHominidShow]

I had this series on VHS when I was a kid. I watched 'Flesh on the Bones' until it was completely unwatchable. This makes me so happy.

[@mikeeustaquio3316]

The Dinosaurs was such a classic Dinosaur Documentary 😍

[@williampaz2092]

THANK YOU! I saw this on PBS decades ago and thought I would never see it again.

[@Pedrbsilva]

I used to watch this so many times as a kid! And as a 34 years old still fascinated by paleontology and dinosaurs I'm so happy to have found it! Thank you so much for the upload!

[@juanabad4199]

I vaguely remember watching this on PBS when I was like 5. I think that was also probably the last time it aired on PBS. I hope one day PBS makes an updated version especially with the new discoveries that have come up since then.

[@davidalartosky2899]

Wow I had this taped on VHS when I was a kid so glad I found it

[@pdxcorgidad]

This is so great. Thank you! Much like others, I thought this was long gone.

[@muscledad90]

Man not just animation and style being the best even now, but the music is so good too. This series was a core memory for me and I couldn't remember the name or how to find it. Thank you so much for uploading a piece of my childhood

[@seekter-kafa]

finally a documentary about dinos, and not some cgi cartoons

[@Rockineagle84]

before science was hijacked

[@secracium]

Thanks for posting this; I used to watch this all the time on VHS in the mid 90's, so it's great to see it again.

[@yayoeliasgiron4892]

That song has been stuck in my head since childhood. Thank you man!

[@josedejesussilvasantos798]

Que buenos recuerdos se me vinieron a la mente, que chingoneria de documental.

[@digitaleva]

I have to thank you so much for posting this. I still have the recorded VHS from when this aired (My grandfather made sure to tape them for me), but it is rapidly degrading, so you have managed to preserve a huge chunk of my childhood.

[@CaliPatriot88]

Wow never thought I'd ever see this again! Great childhood memory!

[@cobaltpanther]

I watched these EVERY DAY from the time I was three until I was seven. I'M 27 NOW. It's because of this documentary that I gained a lifelong love of dinosaurs, prehistoric life, and the natural world. You did a wonderful thing uploading them here! Don't let ANYONE tell you different!

[@Luistx22]

Jacob_T thanks Jacob - best documentary ever :)

[@alvarosanjur559]

Esta vaina me trae gratos recuerdos de mi infancia y mi amor hacia esta especie de animales, que un año mas tarde, seria puesta en el mapa nuevamente por Spielberg y Jurassic Park.

[@moopmoopman7563]

OH MY DEAR GOD THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS MY LIFE 20 YEARS AGO. WHOEVER DID THIS IM IN LOVE WITH YOU

[@roberttroyhampton-peterson5022]

Thank you for the uploads. These were a huge part of my childhood and I must have watched them at least a dozen times (except death of the dinosaurs, because it was sad).

[@Lord-Lexz0r]

I was looking for this for ages, thank you so so so so much.

[@swordpvnk]

I had this on vhs as a kid in the 90s and I watched it until it would not play anymore. I never thought i would see this again. The soundtrack hit place buried deep in my brain lol.

[@ceratopsiandavedraws8548]

Dinosaurs were the first to learn about martial arts

[@KTWM87]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, currently enjoying with my dino frenzied child!

[@zooemperor3954]

I have always wanted to see this. Thank you for uploading this along with the other episodes!

[@dwaynepipe3117]

This right here is one of the greats. Thank you so much for putting up the whole series.

[@Slovflyer]

I watched parts of an episode back in the mid '90s, in my teens. I remember I had recorded most of the animated sequences like the stego battling the ceratosaur, etc. At the time even though I had already watched Jurassic Park, the way the dinos were depicted in this show's animated scenes just blew my mind; active, fast moving herbivores as well as carnivores. Nothing like the tail dragging pictures from all the books I had access to at the time. And I find it surprising just how many other people still remember this show so fondly as I do, even if it's dated hehe.

[@bobtony9141]

Thank you so much for uploading these. The intro song has been with me forever. Always wanted to be a paleontologist when I was young. when I win the lottery I'm going to the badlands or to Mongolia

[@megaqqq101]

what gets me the most is the music, the narrator, the drawings, childhood :) I've heard a lot if the info here has been debunked and "updated" but that's a different topic ;) thank u for the uploads!!

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

I wish this PBS Documentary featuring all 4 episodes of the Dinosaurs was out on DVD. I liked the animated Iguanodon Skeleton for example in this episode.

[@Lordoffurriness]

Gracias por esto, es como volver a ser niño.

[@CritterLizard]

MY CHILDHOOD! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

[@kurosawaguy]

I've been trying to track down copies of this series for probably a decade (ever since I finally got rid of my VCR and all my old tapes.) Thanks a ton for sharing!

[@Woodsman9273]

Absolutely loved this docuseries! Wish I still remembered all the dinosaur stuff I used to watch as a kid

[@khongkokwai]

During my trip to London, I took one hour train to the Crystal Palace to see the dinosaur just because I remember watching this documentary when I was a child.

[@ddespair]

Well, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a professional level documentary suggest that dinosaurs were the OG’s of martial arts! What a strange opening.

[@timothysouth5655]

great post well done my friend

[@codywachsmuth9523]

The original in martial arts? Lol. Cracked me up, but I still thoroughly enjoyed this. It's always great finding pieces of ur childhood

[@andrewboucher5501]

Imagine surfing in the cretaceous

[@The_Lord_Of_Confusion]

thank you for this upload wonderful documentary

[@Bjowolf2]

From way back when there were actually many serious, educational and really well made programmes on Discovery Channel ( here in Europe) that didn't underestimate the intelligence, curiousity and attention span of their viewers - instead of the typical contentless and stupid crap that is mostly on these days - just as with National Geographic and History Channel btw. I have recently stopped my subscriptions to these once great channels because of this massive drop in quality and ambition level within the past 10 - 15 years - did anyone else here do that or feel like doing it? 🙄

[@thomascleavenger1638]

Fuck PBS! You're right on the money with your assessment of how political PBS has become (Democrat bullshit).

[@ayshahphiri8083]

Hi I’m a T-Rex

[@bristolee27]

So glad someone posted the full Documentary ! :)

[@paleoph6168]

I love the story at 10:54-12:50 of Mrs. Mantell finding the fossil tooth (despite it actually being false, Dr. Mantell would later admit it was only him who found the tooth), the setting of Tilgate Forest and the music are beautiful.

[@Michael-ih2hl]

This documentary is about 30 years old. I've seen so many dinosaur documentaries since. This one just has a certain magic to it which still makes it one of the best.

[@Not-Ap]

Doesn't it? Most kids back in the 80s and 90s got into dinosaurs through Jurassic Park but for me it was this documentary and similar programs such as Eyewitness.

[@aguywholovesdinosaurs6954]

One of the best dinosaur documentaries in my opinion I love the animation and the dinosaurs in the animations

[@michaelwilliams3641]

Wait...... Dinosaurs knew karate?

[@calvingrondahl1011]

I bought the VHS tape series... thanks for posting this so I can finish my Paleo history cartoons for our Utah Dinosaur Park.

[@piecheese1214]

I love how the narrator pronounced the word "dinosaur." Dino-SARR!

[@hiattgrey9161]

I remember watching these tapes back in Elementary School.

[@sagesheahan6732]

OMG! MY CHILDHOOD! OMG! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[@fabioduquemartinez9130]

Excelent Documentary...

[@annemarielara1962]

This is absolutely fantastic, thanks!

[@cloarsd3684]

2020 AUG childhood memories! nice!

[@EchoBoomer1987]

Thank you so much for posting this, I was four years old and I remeber being just amazed at the animation. I've always wondered what that documentary was.

[@Dimmo87ie]

Same here, I think I only had the final episode or two recorded. But I remember it was the first time I'd heard of the meteor strike wiping them all out.. Mind blown back then lol.

[@CaptainCretaceous91]

Why is this not on DVD?!

[@patd4u2]

+Matt Piavis It's on laser disk

[@BitchspotBlog]

And I own the laserdisc, but it would be so much more convenient on DVD.

[@khongkokwai]

I still keep the VHS version that I have recorded from TV broadcast. The best dinosaur documentary ever!

[@richardevppro3980]

Love the show and its fact finding mission but did anyone find dino footprints before and did not realise what they found? and love how the guy at time 42:35 looks like a BEE GEE :D ,just a note Andrews sent out the camels way ahead of his start time and arranged set meeting points to get to where he needed to be fast.

[@mary-stellamarkides9287]

This series is from 1992 so many new discoveries have been made since then including some much larger dinosaurs. It is good for learning historical perspectives.

[@oobrocks]

I own this. Excellent animation!

[@Gracer2599]

0:11 - *D I N O S A U R S*

[@drakeistheeggman8356]

this is just fantastic omg

[@video.treasures]

great! pre-jurassic park documentaries are awesome, non of those crappy cgi depictions of what dinosaur might have looked like, are 2D animation!

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

This was a great documentary on Dinosaurs, much dated now but I still like it, somewhere in my house I've got this show on VHS tape. To this day the missing Theropod foot print is still up for argument.

[@justinsharber5530]

A treasure.

[@anthonybusch4407]

That shall be treasured and remembered forever.

[@matthewfeldman5890]

i swear to god the music from this reminds me of coming home from swim lessons in san leandro and my mom would make me kraft macaroni and cheese and put it on my favorite blue square plastic plate and put this on for me

[@monakw]

What a great memory!

[@matthewfeldman5890]

it really is. I really really is

[@monakw]

;)

[@limericklad2000]

This is great stuff.

[@burtonrivera5253]

Code name: old souls Nice one, 99

[@scifibard]

Thank you so much for uploading these! My brother and I watched these endlessly when we were kids and still have the ancient VHS my parents recorded them on, but I'm sure it's not in good condition anymore. Getting to see these again and know they're preserved in digital format makes me so happy. (Also, even more fun to look back on now that my brother's completed his PhD and is officially a paleontologist himself, working on things that may end up in a documentary one day. :) )

[@hashvendetta7226]

Is that 99? You have my attention.

[@jamesdenofantiquity]

These documentaries actually contained facts and communicated knowledge. Nowadays its just cg entertainment with a few basic, easily found facts sprinkled in to keep it together and justify whatever educational group they conned money out of. Donors, stop funding junk programs and demand more that are made with this quality and care.

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

i love how the narrator pronounces words like, "dinoSAR", and "hadroSAR", and "plesioSAR."

[@dinoman7708]

Mockturtlesoup1 😂😂😂

[@DukeofArtz]

1:56 intro theme song

[@MichaelParthum]

Awesome! Thanks for this!

[@RaptorSA]

For anyone interested, this amazing soundtrack is available on Google Play Music: play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/album/Bd5qgkg2ve6g54f4uhlp5jm32uu/Peter+Melnick/The+Dinosaurs!

[@frankkolton1780]

We had this on VHS when my boys were small, they watched them so much that I think they wore out the tapes, my youngest son's firsts words weren't mama, or dad, or even dino, it was Archaeopteryx. Even though this documentary series was low budget and obviously aimed at children, it was intelligently made, constantly relaying lots of information that hold kids attention. What is missing is the overly loud special effects sounds, the silly dramatic hyperbole, the constant repeating of the same facts, and the flashing lights cut scenes every half minute that are found on most documentaries and TV shows from Discovery Channel and Nat. Geo made in recent years. I find those type of shows an insult to the intelligence of children, and I bet that most kids today would prefer this over the short attention span style of todays junk.

[@joeguevara1145]

The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs still amazes me, and I'm still in favor of Cope. Peter Dodson was one my favourite paleontologists back then.

[@paleoph6168]

I think he is still alive (at least, according to Wikipedia), if you have a source stating that he really passed away please let me know.

[@joeguevara1145]

@@paleoph6168 I stand corrected.

[@EndsonLawrence]

I have this on VHS!

[@wildtatz]

I,m dutch living near Maastricht .. They found a few more mosasaurus fossils ,, bigger and more complete ,than the french stole ..

[@walterholmes4609]

I'm old enough to remember when the dinosaur-to-birds evolution really hit in the late seventies/early eighties. Dr. Jack Horner brought it to the forefront and I always associate this evolutionary theory with him, yet today one never hears about him. Anyone know why?

[@Not-Ap]

Last I heard he was busy trying to reverse engineer dinosaurs from chicken eggs nowadays.

[@BIGDADDYFRESHx]

This music and the simcopter theme are the sound track to my early childhood