Dinosaur Train

2009
4.3
460 reviews
TV-G
Rating
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Season 3 episodes (10)

1 Dinosaurs in the Snow/Cretaceous Conifers
12/14/09
Season-only
Dinosaurs in the Snow: Buddy and his Pteranodon family ride the Dinosaur Train to the North Pole - where it's cooler, and the skies are dark all winter long! The kids get to play in the snow and slide on a frozen pond for the first time. Cretaceous Conifers: The whole Pteranodon family have fun celebrating Mom's favorite holiday, Winter Solstice. They learn about large conifer (evergreen) trees and help decorate them at a holiday party.
2 The Burrowers/Shiny's Sea Shells
1/18/10
Season-only
The Burrowers: The Pteranodon family rides the Dinosaur Train to meet a family of amazing, burrowing dinosaurs that live in holes and put on a "Cirque de Soleil" kind of acrobatic show every evening! Shiny's Sea Shells: Shiny, with help from Buddy, Tiny and Don, looks for the shiniest sea shells she can find, but ends up making a new friend named Henry, a hermit crab who lives in his own shell on the beach at the Big Pond.
3 King Cryolophosaurus/Buddy the Tracker
2/15/10
Season-only
King Cryolophosaurus: Buddy, Tiny, Don and Mom meet a reclusive, singing dinosaur named King who has a big swooping crest on his head and a voice that sounds an awful lot like Elvis Presley. Buddy the Tracker: Buddy and Don are "footprint detectives" as they track and find creatures they know at the Big Pond. The plot thickens when they discover fossilized tracks that are millions of years old!
4 The Old Bird/Diamond Don
2/16/10
Season-only
The Old Bird: Buddy, Tiny and Mom make a play date with Petey Peteinosaurus to ride the Dinosaur Train to meet Arlene Archeopteryx, a bird from the family of the oldest birds ever! The kids are excited to learn that Arlene is a bird and a dinosaur. Home with Shiny & Don: Shiny and Don stay at home. We get to see that just because they don't always ride with Buddy and Tiny on the Dinosaur Train doesn't mean that they are not having fun. An adventure into a local caves leads to a marvelous and brilliant discovery.
5 Dinosaur Camouflage/Family Scavenger Hunt
4/12/10
Season-only
Dinosaur Camouflage: Buddy and Tiny learn about camouflage when they meet a shy dinosaur, Leslie Lesothosaurus, who is very good at hiding. The kids end up persuading Leslie to stop hiding and come out to play with them. Family Scavenger Hunt: The Pteranodon family travels to the Big Pond for a Scavenger Hunt. Using clues and rhymes, the kids solve word puzzles and finally glimpse a bug-eating plant they thought was mere make-believe.
6 Have You Heard about the Herd?/Jess Hesperonis
4/13/10
Season-only
Have You Heard About the Herd?: Buddy, Tiny, and Mom ride the Dinosaur Train to the Cretaceous Picnic Grounds. They meet Ernie Einiosaurus, who shows them what it’s like to live in a herd of horned Ceratopsians. Jess Hespernornis: The Pteranodons venture to the Big Pond to find out if dinosaurs can live in the water. Their quandaries are quenched when they meet Jess Hesperornis, who turns out to be not only a water-dwelling dinosaur, but a bird as well!
7 Triassic Turtle/Tank's Baby Brother
5/3/10
Season-only
Triassic Turtle: Don mistakes a shell for a rock and meets Adam Adocus, a turtle with a head he can retract into his shell for self-defense. The Pteranodon family travels to the Triassic and meets Pauline Proganochelys, another kind of turtle who shares her own methods of defending herself. Tank’s Baby Brother: Tank Triceratops has a new baby brother that everyone dotes on, making Tank feel left out. Buddy, Tiny, and Tank play with some older kid Triceratops, and Tank learns the perks of being a big brother.
8 Erma Eoraptor/Under the Volcano
5/4/10
Season-only
Erma Eoraptor: Buddy, Tiny, and Mrs. Pteranodon go on an expedition all the way back to the Triassic Time Period to meet Erma Eoraptor, one the first species of dinosaur that ever lived. They ride to the end of the line to find Erma, and then bring her back for a ride on the Dinosaur Train! Under the Volcano: Buddy, Tiny and Dad take the Dinosaur Train to see Old Smoky, the local volcano. It’s such a spectacular sight that they go back for the rest of the family, only to discover they’ve already gone to see the volcano! The merry mix-up concludes as the whole family meets up just in time to catch Old Smoky erupting.
9 Pteranodon Family World Tour/Gilbert the Junior Conductor
5/24/10
Season-only
Pteranodon Family World Tour: The entire Pteranodon family embarks on a roaring, exploring, World Tour adventure! They meet the Conductor’s nephew, Gilbert, who acts as their tour guide to meet Martin Amargasaurus, a spine-spangled quadruped with an intimidating sail. Gilbert the Junior Conductor: The Pteranodon family continues on its World Tour on the Dinosaur Train. During their first full day on the train, the kids play with Gilbert, the Conductor’s nephew. Don gets jealous of Gilbert’s friendship with Buddy.
10 Confuciusornis Says/Tiny's Tiny Doll
5/25/10
Season-only
Confuciusornis Says: The next stop on the Dinosaur Train World Tour takes the Pteranodon family to Confuciusornis Gardens, where they meet a very wise old dinosaur. They try some new foods and even learn to meditate. Tiny’s Tiny Doll: During a stop on the Pteranodon family’s World Tour, Tiny accidentally leaves her beloved Tiny Doll behind in Velociraptor Valley. Knowing Tiny can’t sleep without it, Valerie and Velma Velociraptor enlist the help of a wide-winged Pterosaur named Ziggy to fly Tiny’s doll back to the train.

About this show

Join Buddy and his adoptive Pteranodon family as they learn about life science, natural history and paleontology! Dinosaur Train encourages basic scientific thinking skills in children ages 3 to 6.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
460 reviews
Ruben Rivera Rivera
July 3, 2022
Like many pbs kids shows, dinosaur train is really just for brainless children and spineless parents to believe this is educating their children, talking species that has been done many times, the plot is so medicore it seems the producers were taking copious amounts of drugs just to come to come up with a plot, the voice acting is earbleadingly terrible that makes screeching chalk on a chalkboard sounds like nothing and is nothing else and deserves to go straight to the pbs kids gutter 3/10
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elvira stone
December 10, 2015
This is a Great show to have your little one watch when teaching tem about different dinosaurs that lived on earth in the beginning of our world. It gives them names sizes of the dinosaurs & even shows pictures of what they look like. It also plays music while teaching them to keep them interested. I love when the show comes on my little girl loves this show just as much as I hoped she would thanks PBS for making this show.
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Brittany Warner
June 29, 2015
My 18 month old son asks for it by name. It isn't too bad for the adults either, we find ourselves stopping to watch when it's on.
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