The Dinosaurs! is an American television miniseries produced by WHYY-TV for PBS in 1992, featuring some of the then-modern theories about dinosaurs and how they lived. It aired four episodes from November 22 to November 25, 1992.
The program The program features the age of dinosaurs, from the appearing of the early forms like Herrerasaurus, to the Tyrannosaurus and Ceratopsians of the late Cretaceous. The possibilities whether dinosaurs were active, warm-blooded animals, had parental care, and the theory at the time, later proved true, that they are the ancestors of birds, are featured. What caused the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs is also discussed.
Episodes Source:
Part 1 - The Monsters Emerge Part 2 - Flesh on the Bones Part 3 - The Nature of the Beast Part 4 - The Death of the Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
Animations Some animated depictions were made to give an impression of how the dinosaurs might or could have looked and how they might or would have behaved. Those animations have been featured in other media since. Some of them have been available to see in public computers at Swedish Museum of Natural History. Many of the animations have also been uploaded on YouTube.
Home video The series was released on VHS and laserdisc in 1993. The VHS edition was re-issued on November 10, 1998 with different package artwork. It was re-issued again on November 2, 1999. There have been no plans or discussions for a DVD or Blu-ray release.
References
Sources https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Nature-Beast-Barbara-Feldon/dp/6303196152 http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/189451/The-Dinosaurs-The-Nature-of-the-Beast/overview http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/31515/L-PBS-1029-6/Dinosaurs!-The-%281992%29