Dinosaur Train
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train
- Genre
- Educational , Comedy , Slapstick , Adventure , Fantasy , Children , Animated
- Created by
- Craig Bartlett
- Directed by
- Craig Bartlett, Terry Izumi
- Presented by
- Dr. Scott D. Sampson
- Voices of
- Phillip Corlett, Claire Corlett , Erika-Shaye Gair, Alexander Matthew Marr, Ian James Corlett , Colin Murdock, Ellen Kennedy, Sean Thomas, Laura Marr
- Opening theme
- Dinosaur Train
- Ending theme
- Dinosaur Train
- Composers
- Jim Lang , Mike Himelstein, Michael Silversher
- Countries of origin
- United States Canada Singapore
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 100 (+1 direct-to-TV movie) ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Craig Bartlett, Brian Henson , Lisa Henson , Halle Stanford
- Producer
- Sue Bea Montgomery
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Production companies
- Media Development Authority , Sparky Animation , The Jim Henson Company
- Network
- PBS Kids
- Release
- September 7, 2009 ( 2009-09-07 ) –, April 12, 2021 ( 2021-04-12 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Singapore
- Original language
- English language
- Creator
- Craig Bartlett
- Director
- Craig Bartlett
- Composer
- Jim Lang
- Production company
- The Jim Henson Company
- Duration
- 28
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain
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- original broadcaster
- PBS
- number of episodes
- 100
- number of seasons
- 5
- distributed by
- Netflix
- title
- Dinosaur Train
- start time
- 2009-09-07
- end time
- 2020-06-15
- presenter
- Scott D. Sampson
- social media followers
- 165000
- fabrication method
- computer animation
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Encyclopedic overview
Dinosaur Train is an animated children's television series aimed at children ages 3 to 6 and created by Craig Bartlett, who also created Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!. The series is centered on a young anthropomorphic orange Tyrannosaurus rex named Buddy who, together with a family of Pteranodons, takes the Dinosaur Train to explore the Mesozoic, and has adventures with a variety of dinosaurs. It is produced by The Jim Henson Company, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (formerly the Media Development Authority), Sparky Animation, FableVision, Snee-Oosh, Inc., and Tail Waggin' Productions in association with Reel FX and Sea to Sky Entertainment. A film based on the series for Universal Pictures and Universal 1440 Entertainment titled, Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island premiered on April 12, 2021.
A revival is currently in the works at the Jim Henson Company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dinosaur Train” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.