Valley of the Dinosaurs

I avidly watched this series as a 10 year old in 1975, when it was shown by the BBC on children's TV, and thoroughly enjoyed it!!

OK, I may be 42 now but I would love to own this series on DVD just for old times sake!!

Sad I know, but I don't remember seeing an episode I didn't enjoy!

Yes the idea of a family being propelled into a lost world is silly, but the story lines were always original without being overly moralistic....as far as I remember...it's been a long time!

Does anyone know if Hanna Barbera have any plans to release it?

Am I being nostalgic? Or am I just having a mid-life crisis? !!!

As a kid faced with the scheduling conflict between this show and Land of the Lost, chose Valley first, unless it was a rerun.

It was definitely the better show.

It had a greater diversity of situations and cast...one can only stick the flyswatter in the carnosaur's mouth so many times before even a kid begins to roll his eyes and fall asleep.

More character development and better acting, too. Which is ironic since it was animated.

You know, that ten line minimum for making a contribution probably just invites a lot of boring filler at times like this, when being succinct would benefit the readers more.

This was pretty good from what I remember, same old plot as Land of the Lost-but they seemed to take care to stay away from the shrill campiness of that particular show. I remember as a kid liking it, they seemed to work in some morales and psuedo-geological lessons amongst the action.

Plus the pet mini-stegosaurus was kinda cute too...

**1/2 outta ****, it worked...

One of my favorite shows as A kid, But its serious enough to be enjoyed by adults as well with A modern family getting trapped in A prehistoric world and helping a prehistoric family get along usually applying some modern technology and know how to solve various problems, couple that with the children adding to their problems you have A very entertaining show for both the young and young at heart, I only wish it had A longer run (I believe it was 16 episodes or so) than 1 season and I would like to see it released on DVD soon, lord knows there are some shows released to DVD that are A lot worse and not near as enlightening as this show!

I personally liked "Valley of the Dinosaurs", and for the record, the Butler family did *not* arrive in a plane as a previous poster wrote, but in a rubber raft while on a trip down the Amazon (I believe). A whirlpool sucked them into a land that time forgot--not that different from the live-action "Land of the Lost", which I also liked.

"VOTD" was to me, underrated because it was very educational as well as adventurous. I learned a thing or two about submarines, paddleboats, air pressure, as well as expanding sticks of wood that could split a cliff! I think somebody from H-B actually did some reasearch!

The Butler family, along with Garak's family, was always barely staying ahead of the dinosaurs that wanted to, say we say, feast on them (at least the carnivores, that is). I enjoyed the ways how they could get out of their predicaments. I recalled that me and my mother enjoyed the cartoon very much when I was around ten. Yes, Garak's family, for a "backward caveman's", spoke English, but so what? It was a fun show to watch! And before Daria Morgendoffer, there was Katie Butler. Now, *there* was a girl who could hang with Daria in the sarcastic department! She could give a funny crack even during the most dangerous of situations, and I laughed! Good show, that was...