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Somewhere between Modern Family and a modern Stone Age family, there were the Sinclairs — a vibrant clan of dinosaurs and the nuclear unit of ABC’s prehistoric hit, Dinosaurs.

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The live-action puppet show, which premiered 25 years ago on April 26, 1991, as part of ABC’s TGIF comedy block, began as a pitch from Brian Henson, the son of the late visionary puppeteer, Jim Henson. When Henson took over the reins of his father’s company, he also took over a pitch Jim had prior to his passing: one about the domestication of dinosaurs.

As Dinosaurs executive producer and co-creator Michael Jacobs tells it, “Brian was pitching Jim’s idea that dinosaurs had started families, and because of the immense popularity of dinosaurs with children and because of TGIF being a safe place for families, what if we combined the two?

ABC and Disney responded to it immediately.”

The network brought in Jacobs — an alum of Charles in Charge and My Two Dads — to offer his take on the idea. “I looked at Brian and I said there was one more element we should

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