Dinosaur!
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Dinosaur!'s opening credits
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| Directed by | Robert Guenette |
| Written by | Steven Paul Mark |
| Narrated by | Christopher Reeve |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Dinosaur! is an American television documentary about dinosaurs. It was first broadcast in the United States on November 5, 1985, on CBS. Directed by Robert Guenette and written by Steven Paul Mark, Dinosaur! was hosted by the American actor Christopher Reeve, who some years before had played the leading role of Superman.
In 1991, another documentary, also entitled Dinosaur! though not related, was hosted on A&E by the CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.
Jointly with Reeve's narration, the documentary shows special effects scenes which reconstruct dinosaurs and their era, along with interviews with the most famous paleontologists at the time of the documentary shooting, including Jack Horner, Robert Bakker, Phil Currie and Dale Russell. After a short introductory sequence and the subsequent opening credits the show starts with the mating of Edmontosaurus (identified as Hadrosaurus and called "duck-billed dinosaurs" in the documentary). The female soon lays a clutch of eggs that are eaten by a Struthiomimus, except for one. When the Struthiomimus eats the last egg it stole, it is then hunted and killed by a pair of Deinonychus. The remaining Edmontosaurus egg hatches and grows into a juvenile. While it is out grazing with its parents, it wanders off and is almost killed by a Tyrannosaurus, but the father hears its cries and comes to the rescue. While the mother looks after the juvenile, the father faces the Tyrannosaurus and knocks it over with his strong, 2,000-pound tail. Once down, the Tyrannosaurus could not get up easily, so the herbivore is given a chance to escape.
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