| Alt Name: | Dinobabies |
| Genre: | Cartoon |
| Creator: | Fred Wolf |
| Theme Music Composer: | Dennis C. Brown |
| Opentheme: | "Dino Babies Having Fun" |
| Endtheme: | "Dino Babies Having Fun" (Instrumental) |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 (52 segments) |
| Executive Producer: | Fred Wolf |
| Editor: | Peter Grives |
| Runtime: | 22:30 minutes |
| Company: | Fred Wolf Films Dublin[1] Shanghai Morning Sun Animation Company Limited |
| Channel: | BBC One |
Dino Babies is a 1994–1996 children's animated television series about six baby dinosaurs who share stories and adventures.[2]
Originally produced between 1991 and 1994, Dino Babies was first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1994 to 1996. It comprised 26 20-minute double episodes. Dino Babies was broadcast on many international stations, but the show had little success in the United States. In 1996, however, the series was syndicated across the country by The Program Exchange; it also aired for a short time on what was then the Fox Family Channel in 1999. The show had somewhat better success in Canada, where it aired on YTV from 1994 to 1999. In Ireland on RTÉ2 (as part of their children's block The Den), In Australia on Both Max and Nickelodeon, In New Zealand on TVNZ 2, In the United Arab Emirates on Dubai 33 and the pan-regional STAR Plus while the series was aired in Israel on Israeli Educational Television, in India on Zee TV (The Series was Dubbed into Hindi) and in Taiwan on STAR Chinese Channel.
In every episode, the Dino Babies put their own imaginative spin on a classic tale, from "Dak and the Beanstalk" to "The Abominable Snowbaby". As fun as these flights of fancy were, they always had something important to say about the dinosaurs themselves and the world around them. By acting out classic tales, the dinosaurs learned valuable moral lessons.
In Season 1, each episode followed the same pattern: the first segment featured a story, while the second segment did not, with the exceptions being episodes four and five, where both segments featured a story, and episodes six, seven and nine, where the segments without a story came first, and the segments with a story came second.
All transmission data is from the BBC Genome project.
This season was repeated on Fridays from 7 April through to 12 May 1995, except for Good Friday 14 April. It then began Monday and Friday repeats from Monday, 15 to Friday, 26 May 1995. It then switched to a reversal of the previous format from Friday 2 to Monday, 5 June 1995, before finishing its repeat run on two consecutive Fridays, 9 and 16 June 1995. All repeat transmissions were on BBC1 at 3:45 pm.
In Season 2, each episode followed the same pattern; both segments featured a story, with the exceptions of episodes sixteen and seventeen, where the first segments featured a story, and the second segments did not. During the original run of the season, the twenty-second episode was aired two weeks after the twenty-first instead of one week, due to coverage of the Grand National on 28 March 1996.
All transmission data is from the BBC Genome project.