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To our dear readers:

Currently we have no one to write this column. We've left the last one here as a memorial to a wonderful feature! If you have some interest in taking it over and receiving international fame and absolutely no money, please do write to us! We and thousands of readers would be thrilled to have you do it.

For the rest of you, there's always TV Guide.

Bona Fortuna!

In Memorium
Dino-TV Weektm
Founded by Larry Dunn
Continued Briefly by Dawn Ranelli

March 1 - March 16, 2001

Please welcome Dawn Ranelli, our new Dino TV Week Reporter!
(no... that' not Dawn up above. It's Godzilla)
You can read her biography at the end of this page (Dawn's not Godzilla's, okay?)

Have you been wearing your fingers to the bone going through six magazines, two local papers, the TV Guide, the Sunday television supplement, calling all of your neighbors, spending four hours a day on line searching for dinosaur TV and basically getting nothing but sore eyes and splinters? Well, bunky, search no more! Our Gal in Boston has done it all for you! As long as the 24 hour deli in her neighborhood is open and selling newspapers and her ISP doesn't fail her, Dawn will tell you where it is at for saurians in the pixel pushing media. Let us know if we missed anything.
 
Here are some highlight(s) of this week's US national TV programming relating to dinosaurs (and birds - since they appear to be legit dino descendants) and other prehistoric animals and the scientific discussion of evolution, from high art to low trash and back again, all times Eastern. Puh-leeze check your local listings to confirm.
 

THIS WEEK

REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMS

RESOURCES

UK

= DIG thinks these are above-average programs. Dawn, however, doesn't necessarily agree.	= Dawn likes these programs.
= Dawn & DIG through an astonishing process of concensus and serendipity recommend it.	= No one is quite sure what, exactly, to say about these.
DOC = Documentary	DRAMA = Drama

Kind of short on actual dinosaurs, but plenty to keep you busy!  Happy viewing!  D.R.

Saturday, March 10-
      -10 P.M., 4 A.M.
American Movie Classics

Godzilla (1956)  Bad dubbing and equally bad semi-dinosaur.  All this AND Raymond Burr!  A true classic nonetheless!


Sunday, March 11-
      -9 A.M., 9:30 A.M.
Discovery

Bonehead Detectives of the Paleo World.  A show for
kids.  The key word is the first word...
      -8 P.M., 10 P.M., 12 P.M.-
Discovery
Land of the Mammoth- Follow up to last year’s popular
documentary Raising the Mammoth.  2 Mammoth sized hours!!
      -10:30 P.M.
American Movie Classics

One Million Years B.C. (1966)  A few dinos here, but
the focus is on the amazingly buffed Raquel Welch.
One Million Years B.C. (1967)


Monday, March 12-
       -1:00 A.M., 12 P.M.
American Movie Classics.

The Birds.  (1963)  For everyone but Alan Feduccia, here is Hitchcock’s classic- Jurassic Park without the T. rex?
The Birds (1963)
The Birds (1963)


8:00 P.M.
Discovery-

Pleistocene triple play! Raising the Mammoth.  A pretty interesting  documentary on digging up a mammoth in Siberia.  BRRR!!  Followed by Iceman: Mummy from the Stone Age, and Dangers of the Ice Age.  Repeats again at midnight.


Tuesday, March 13-

       8:00 P.M., 12 A.M.
Discovery-

Sabretooth  Repeat of a recent documentary on another spectacular Ice Age animal.


Wednesday, March 14

      -7:00 P.M.
Discovery-

Living With Dinosaurs The evolution of reptiles after the demise of the dinosaurs.  This will have to hold you for a while...


Thursday, March 15- Nothing that I could find... :-(

Friday, March 16-
       11 P.M.
History Channel-

Incredible but True
Apt description of the Marsh and Cope Bone Wars of the 19th Century.  My pick of the week.

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TV and dinosaurs -- perfect together. Larry Dunn, founder of Dino TV Week

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Dawn Ranelli
March 2001
I was born in San Antonio in 1967.  My parents then brought me back to their
hometown of Boston, where I have lived ever since.  I have 2 sisters who
cannot understand 25 years of passion for all things extinct.  As the oldest
child of a Red Sox fanatic, I am currently driving the bandwagon, but don't
worry, I'll fall off by June at least once.  I am currently working as a
medical technologist and dreaming of the day when I can chuck it all and
become a paleontologist.  Come on Powerball!!  I have been fortunate enough
to go on a couple of excavations, once to Egg Mountain and once to Barnum
Brown's Albertosaurus Quarry.  The enclosed picture of me is from the summer
of 1998 and I am sitting in the pit with my awl pointing to an Albertosaur
tooth.  I've lost a few pounds,  I had to give the tooth to the Tyrrell
Museum and come to think of it I can't find my Red Sox cap either.  But I
have my memories...

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Our founder, Larry Dunn formerly lived in a small Manhattan apartment with his wife Anne,
his son Alex, his cat Persi and many resin and vinyl dinosaur models.
He has moved someplace or another that apparently has more room.
We were tempted to keep pretending that he lived in a small apartment,
because that would have made him much more sympathetic.

He is reputed to be an attorney.
Mr Dunn is  the proud possessor of his very own website.
It deals primarily with dinosaur model kits, though other things have been known to sneak in.
It can be found, unforeseen difficulties not included, at:
http://members.tripod.com/~megalania
 We don't know what megalania means either, but probably Larry will get around to telling us.
It is not, however, megalomania. That's a relief.
Without Larry, Dino TV Week would not be the phenomena that it is!
Some of you may object to it's existence in the first place,
but the rest of us are eternally and sincerely grateful for his pioneering efforts.

The third was asked which animal was the smartest of all,
and the Brahmin replied: "The one we have not found yet."
---From Plutarch's biography of Alexander the Great

Copyright Notice


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Do you live in the UK?
 
You can get a pretty good schedule of UK ONLY programs here:

http://www.transformers.themoon.co.uk/Dinosaurs/tv_times.htm

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REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMS
 

Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld
Discovery Channel, Every Sunday at 9:00AM and 9:30AM (Check local listings)

Swell show about all forms of paleontology including dinosaurs (and other beasties). We recommend it.

For some totally bizarre reason, Discovery Channel has absolutely no information about this show on their website. We had a truly comic exchange of e-mails with them and the employees of their "customer service" division had never heard of the show and  didn't even know that they broadcast it at all. We'd love to have an episode guide and other cute things to include here. Anybody have one? Do you? e-mail it to us by clicking here. Discovery Channel doesn't. So shame on them for that, but thanks to them for making the show in the first place. The world is a strange place, huh?

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Disney's Dinosaurs - COMEDY/DRAMA - LIVE ACTION PUPPETS - Daily - Disney Channel - 21 minutes - Daily 4:00PM, Sunday 8PM. Please check local listings. Meet the Sinclairs - they're "real" dinosaurs. Welcome to 60,000,003 BC. with a little help from Jim Henson.  (Hmmm. "real dinosaurs." Hmmmm.) Dinosaurs TV Show Website

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Godzilla, The Series 
-ANIMATED ADVENTURE/DRAMA -   FOX Network - Saturday Mornings - 9 AM. Please check local listings. Godzilla TV Website (omigosh!) April 2000: Alas! This website seems to have vanished. Anyone know where it went? Here's a new possibility.

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Amazon Godzilla


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The Flintstones ANIMATED Monday- Friday, 12PM, 10PM, 1AM, Saturday 7:30PM, Sunday 8PM. Cartoon Network Daily at 10AM.

Please check local listings. Come on. Where else can you see a purple dinosaur named Dino on a regular basis? If you have about six hours that you don't know what to do with, you can also try searching the Cartoon Network Website for more info. Truly, it should be given an award for being one of the most arcane and badly organized kids sites in the whole universe! We were ready to scream after only 10 minutes of trying to find anything about The Flintstones. Not only that, they have a sludge slow server. Maybe it goes back in time and searches  the Cretaceous. So, if you have nothing better to do with your life, check it out. The Cartoon Network.


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Amazon Flintstones

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 Pee Wee's PlayhouseCOMEDY, LIVE ACTION, PUPPETS, ANIMATION  Fox Family Channel - Monday - Friday
    7:00 - 7:30am & 5:30 - 6:00pm  Saturday  7:00 - 7:30am & 2:30 - 3:00pm   Sunday  2:30 - 3:00am
(30 minutes) Please check local listings. Almost every episode has a short, humorous animated clay Dinosaurs segment. One of the regulars in the playhouse is Pterry, a ridiculous green pteradactyl puppet. We love it. The Official Pee Wee's Playhouse Website.  But this one is better: PeeWee's Webhouse.  


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Syndicated- Check your local listings...
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s the Lost World- Tune in for the 30 seconds of dino footage.
Amazon Lost World
    Barney (PBS)- How can I resist?  :-)
Amazon Barney


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RESOURCES
 

	A&E has a "classroom resources" center on their website. You can find additional information about their programs. Or you can search their TV Listings. Click here.
	AMC - American Movie Classics has listings and articles about the films and documentaries they show each week. Click here.
	The Cartoon Network.
	The Discovery Channel lists information about Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld each week. Click here.
	DISNEY CHANNEL lists program information each month. You can search for a show title to get  more information.
	FOX-TV has a Fox-World website with some information about their programming. Click here.
	FOX- FAMILY CHANNEL  has a website with some information about their programming. Click here.
	HISTORY Channel sometimes has additional information about their programs. Click here.
	The Internet Movie Database allows you to look up information on amost every movie ever made! Click here.
	TLC - The Learning Channel sometimes has additional information about their programs. Click here.
	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION has program details. Click here.
	Nickelodeon has an online site with general program info.. Click here.
	NOVA has a special section on the WGBH website. Often they have excellent articles and video clips on the shows. Click here.	NOVA
	Outdoor LIfe Network (OLN) is a DSS (Digital Satellite) Station. Information is here.
	PBS often publishes resources on its programming. Click here for the PBS Home Page. See also NOVA above.
	SCI-FI Channel has detailed program listings. Click Here.
	TNT (Turner Network Television) allows you to search their program schedule. Click here.
	The Travel Channel has listings and articles about their programming. Click here.
	TBS Superstation sometimes has interesting articles about its programming. Click here.

 
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Special Thanks to Mary Kirkaldy and other Dinosaur Mailing List Members who, um, filled in when Larry dared to take a vacation. Also: Sara Burch

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