Dinosaucers

Dinosaucers
Title screen
Genre	Action Animation
Created by	Michael E. Uslan
Written by	Diane Duane Brynne Stephens Lydia C. Marano
Directed by	Stephan Martinière
Starring	Len Carlson Rob Cowan Marvin Goldhar Dan Hennessey Ray Kahnert Gordon Masten Don McManus Barbara Lynn Redpath Simon Reynolds John Stocker Leslie Toth Louise Vallance Chris Wiggins Thick Wilson Richard Yearwood
Composers	Haim Saban Shuki Levy
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	65
Production
Executive producers	Andy Heyward Benjamin Melniker Michael E. Uslan
Producer	Michael Maliani
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	DIC Animation City Lightyear Entertainment Coca-Cola Telecommunications
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 14 (1987-09-14) – December 11, 1987 (1987-12-11)
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Dinosaucers is a 1987 animated television series co-produced in the United States and Canada; developed and produced by DIC Animation City in association with Lightyear Entertainment and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. The show was created by producer Michael E. Uslan, who considered it a "harebrained idea".^[1] A total of 65 episodes were made for the show's first-run syndication, but it only lasted one season.^[2]

There were originally plans by Galoob to release a Dinosaucers toyline, and prototype figures were produced. The toyline were to include the characters Stego, Bronto-Thunder, Allo, Bonehead, Plesio, Quackpot, Ankylo, and Genghis Rex.^[3] However, the line was scrapped when the show was canceled after airing its initial 65 episode run due to low viewership and poor reception. As a result, some markets began pulling the series from their cartoon line-ups instead of re-running the show's episodes for the remainder of the full 1987-1988 television season.

In 1989, after Dinosaucers premiered in Brazil, a company named Glasslite contacted Galoob and purchased the molds. As such, Glasslite produced 5 of the 8 unproduced Galoob molds of the 8" figures although they can be extremely hard to find.^[4]

In 2018, Uslan joined with publisher Lion Forge Comics to revive Dinosaucers as a comic book. The 5-part mini-series however was left on a cliff hanger when the comic book was discontinued after a trade paperback was published in January 2019.