Denver, the Last Dinosaur

Sep 12, 1988

It is late Spring when Wally, Jeremy, Shades and Mario are at the La Brea Tar Pits working on a school research project and discover a mysterious tar egg that cracks open to reveal a friendly dinosaur.

Sep 13, 1988

Denver follows Jeremy to his job at the supermarket, where he hides in the storeroom and stuffs himself full of potato chips.

Sep 14, 1988

Wally borrows his sister Heather's video camera and the starry-eyed kids set out to make a video starring themselves.

Sep 15, 1988

While camping at a mountain lake with the boys, Denver is mistaken for a horrible lake monster.

Sep 16, 1988

Denver and the kids make friends with a circus owner's son and help him liven up a lackluster show with bicycle and skateboard stunts.

Sep 19, 1988

The boys decide to do a science project on dinosaurs for the school science fair.

Sep 20, 1988

Wally and Heather panic when they hear their parents are planning an out- of-town move.

Sep 21, 1988

Wally's first day on the job at the zoo takes a turn for the worse when the self-serving Dr. Funt captures Denver for his new high-tech exhibit.

Sep 22, 1988

The kind-hearted Denver rescues one of the boy's arch rivals, Scott, winning his heart and killing his plans to expose Denver to the media in order to gain publicity and votes for the upcoming student election.

Sep 23, 1988

While visiting Jeremy's Uncle Eli on his Nevada ranch, Denver and the boys attend a local rodeo.

Sep 26, 1988

Casey's movie-star cousin, Lana Lake, invites Casey, the boys and Denver to watch the filming of her latest sci-fi movie, "Leapin' Lizards on the Loose".

Sep 27, 1988

When Heather gets a job at a Dinosaur theme amusement park, Denver roams freely around the park and fits right in with all the dino-costumed employees.

Sep 28, 1988

Denver and Jeremy enter a wacky game show only to find they're competing against the team Morton Fizzback and Professor Funt.

Sep 29, 1988

Shades develops a recent interest in karate. He is also very into Nikko, the daughter of his instructor.

Sep 30, 1988

Denver becomes a major radio star during a competition between KAY-HIP and KAY-LOUD radio stations.

Oct 3, 1988

When Heather and Wally's parents inform the two that they are expecting guests from out-of-town, they must hide Denver that the local movie theater, which is believed to be haunted.

Oct 1, 1988

A boy genius, Freddy Facknitts, invents a time machine that sends Denver and Morton Fizzback into the past and into the middle of a crazy caveman competition called Mammothball.

Oct 5, 1988

When the boys enter Wally's dog, Rocky, in a relay race for dogs, they also disguise Denver as a dog so that Rocky will perform well.

Oct 6, 1988

Denver and Mario take a job as children's entertainers only to incur the wrath of Douggie, the Dancing Clown, who tries to sabotage Denver and Mario's entertaining efforts.

Oct 7, 1988

On a visit to Aunt Shadie's ghost town, the kids and Denver go on a wild mining car ride while trying to retrieve the deed to the town from some thieves who had stolen it.

Oct 10, 1988

Denver falls in love with a mechanical dinosaur and follows her into the Big Deal Movie Studios. His friends must get him home without being discovered.

Oct 11, 1988

When disreputable treasure hunters kidnap a valuable dolphin from a marine research facility and use him to locate sunken treasure, Denver dives in to save the dolphin.

Oct 12, 1988

Heather and the boys take Denver to a mountain ski resort.

Oct 13, 1988

The secluded beach where Mario surfs and the kids play is taken over by Rad Tad and his group of Surf Dudes.

Oct 14, 1988

To help Wally in his predicament with Johnny Price, a practical joker who continually torments him, Denver uses his magic tar eggshell and shows Wally a time in his own life when he was tormented by the Pteranodon, and Wally is able to become friends with Johnny Price.

Oct 17, 1988

Decked out in caveman attire, Denver and the kids form a rock group (B.C. Rock) to compete in the city wide talent contest. Freddy Facknitts also form a group called Roborock (rock'n'roll robots). But Morton Fizzback and Dr. Funt steal the robot band right before the contest and the kids must go after them.

Oct 18, 1988

Denver, the boys, and Freddy Facknitts attend a comic book convention, dressed as their favorite comic heroes

Oct 19, 1988

No one anticipates the trouble that arises when one of the charity items collected for the school auction turns out to be a silver scepter belonging to Bertha Bird and her two sons.

Oct 20, 1988

Wally's pretty, female pen pal from Sweden, Inga Svinga, is coming to visit

Oct 21, 1988

Disguised in a Chinese lion headdress and robe, Denver leads a mad chase for dognappers through Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Parade.

Oct 24, 1988

Denver is kidnapped and put in a secret private zoo of the wealthy collector of exotic animals, Madame Menagerie, who hopes to make millions by selling the dinosaur to the movies.

Oct 25, 1988

In an embellished story of Jack and The Bean Stalk, Denver buys some magic corn kernels from Morton Fizzback, plants them, then climbs the giant stalk to arrive at the castle of the giantess (Bertha Bird).

Oct 26, 1988

Denver's mistaken identity at a golf tournament sets Fizzback and Funt off on a high-tech cheating spree while the golf course groundskeeper tries to capture what he believes to be the Loch Ness Monster.

Oct 27, 1988

When Denver, Casey and Freddy Facknitts become accidentally airborne in a Freddy-designed hover craft, the city starts to buzz with rumors of UFO sightings!

Oct 28, 1988

Mario and Shades get jobs working for competing fast food restaurants, and it jeopardizes their friendship.

Nov 1, 1988

Denver is participating in an exercise program with the kids while trying to hide a mischievous baby gorilla.

Nov 2, 1988

At a medieval fair, Denver and the kids wind up in a wacky jousting tournament, pitted against Morton Fizzback's Black Night.

Nov 3, 1988

Morton Fizzback and Bertha Bird join forces to pursue Denver after the dino escapes from them in a hot air balloon.

Nov 4, 1988

Denver and the kids help Jeremy's Great Aunt Adelaide save a precious fossil dig from a land developer who's being backed by Dr. Funt.

Nov 7, 1988

Denver's new-found talent as a gourmet cook is challenged when Jeremy is left alone to cater a party for his new girlfriend.

Nov 8, 1988

The kids play hockey against Morton Fizzback's team of professional misfits-- and the winner gets Denver!

Nov 9, 1988

Casey makes friends with Louden, the shy, withdrawn, new kid in town who has a passion for dinosaurs.

Nov 10, 1988

While on a mapping expedition with Aunt Adelaide, Denver and the kids meet two bizarre alligator poachers and a love-sick alligator, who mistakes Denver for an alligator.

Nov 11, 1988

The boys accept an invitation from their friend Senor Santos to spend a relaxing week at a resort on the mythical island of Canatta.

Nov 14, 1988

Denver dreams he's battling evil aliens from Pluto in a 1950's style sci-fi flick.

Nov 15, 1988

Mario reads a story he's written to Denver and the other kids, and through their imaginations they are all transported into an Arabian adventure involving a magic cavern filled with treasure, a genie in a lamp and a flying carpet.

Nov 16, 1988

The kids and Denver get in trouble when they try to find a place to skateboard at California's colorful Venice Beach.

Nov 17, 1988

Denver is discovered by a TV reporter who plans on making the dinosaur front page news

Nov 21, 1988

When Shades' grandfather misdirects this year's Cinco de Mayo parade, the boys must save the festival.

Nov 22, 1988

Morton Fizzback and Professor Funt conspire to create a major snowstorm in Los Angeles.