Dink, the Little Dinosaur Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Shell Game/Shyler's Friend

Sat, Sep 16, 1989

Scat's appetite gets him and his friends in trouble when Tyrannor gets Crusty's shell in his jaws. Shyler is unsure of how to approach and befriend Pearl and his friends' assistance isn't helping.

Episode 2

Dink, Come Home/White Beauty

Sat, Sep 23, 1989

Episode 3

Crusty's Baby/The Gentle Hunter

Sat, Sep 30, 1989

Crusty becomes the unwitting parent of a newly hatched Stegosaurus and names him Squirt, but the latter doesn't eat well, forcing Crusty to unite him with his actual mother. Scat meets a plant-eating Deinonychus named Scratcher, who gets driven away by the Styracosaurus herd, so Dink has to save Scat from becoming the hunted.

Episode 4

Phantom of the Cave/Dry River

Sat, Oct 7, 1989

Dink and his friends explore the Cave of Spirits to find out more about the Brachiosaurus. They find one named Red who is having trouble with a pack of scavenging Velociraptor. A fall has dammed up the river and the Ultrasaurus, Earthshaker, is not willing to unblock it until after Dink and his friends extract a thorn from his foot.

Episode 5

Tricera-Scat/Search

Sat, Oct 14, 1989

Scat dozing inside an eggshell is mistaken by a mother Triceratops for one of her hatched babies. Flapper does impractical pranks on some various dinosaurs of the era, but puts a stop when Shyler is in need of rescuing him.

Episode 6

Amber's Crusade/Old Timers

Sat, Oct 21, 1989

Episode 7

Uncle Longbeak/Surprise!

Sat, Oct 28, 1989

Episode 8

The Hollow Tree/Badge of Courage

Sat, Nov 4, 1989

Dink investigates a mysterious inhabitant of a hollow tree. It turns out to be a Diplocaulus named Dippo whose looks are ridiculed, but Flapper rescues him and Shyler from a storm. During a hike to Fire Mountain, Dink meets Shortspike and goes with a Fire Bug to rescue his father.

Episode 9

Wish Mountain/Crusty's New Home

Sat, Nov 11, 1989

Shyler's attempt to make a wish with his loose tooth is interrupted by an Oviraptor and a Euoplocephalus. Tired of fixing the cave, Crusty moves elsewhere. Not finding a new home to his liking, he returns to find Dink and his friends have fixed his old home.

Episode 10

Small Stuff/Lights Out

Sat, Nov 18, 1989

Two Erythrotherium destroy Dink and his friends' digging plans to protect their home. Dink compensates them after saving their lives. Amber gets a crystal rock, but when the rock breaks, Flapper has his own tricks against Tyrannor.

Episode 11

Mystery of the Broken Claw/Encounter at Flatrock

Sat, Nov 25, 1989

Amber is blamed for destroying a watering hole when trying to get a spot there, so she investigates with her friends. They find the real culprit to be a Spinosaurus and manage to thwart its pack's ambush at another watering hole and restore the usual watering hole. Crusty gets lost while trying to find the Rock. Having failed to join him, Dink goes off to save him from a turtle-eating Segnosaurus.

Episode 12

The Sky is falling at Green Meadow/Sea Rescue

Sat, Dec 2, 1989

Episode 13

Raiders of the Lost Nest/Land of No Return

Sat, Dec 9, 1989