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Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974)

Valley of the Dinosaurs poster
Directed by
Charles August Nichols
Genre
comedy television series, adventure television series, science fiction television series, children's television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 16 episodes
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A modern family gets pulled by a vortex into the Stone Age. They must survive alongside dinosaurs while learning early human skills.

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What happens

Valley of the Dinosaurs is an American animated television series produced by the Australian studios of Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on CBS from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and in syndication from 1977 to 1983. The series, about a contemporary family sucked by a vortex back to the Stone Age was intended to be educational as well as entertaining, demonstrating the early human uses of fire, clothing, weapons and cooking. It debuted on the same day as Land of the Lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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