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2016
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Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is a children's animated television show produced by SLR Productions. It is based on a popular series of children's books by author and illustrator Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto. The show follows the adventures of Captain Flinn, a young boy who goes on exciting adventures with his friends aboard a magical ship, the Acorn. Along the way, they encounter pirates, sea monsters, and most notably, dinosaurs.

The show is a mix of action, adventure, and comedy that is perfect for young audiences. Each episode starts with Captain Flinn and his friends in their classroom, where they learn about different things that inspire their adventures. They receive a magical locker that can take them to different worlds, and each episode sees them transported to a new place, where they meet new friends and face new challenges.

The main characters of the show are Captain Flinn, his best friend Pearl, and their friend Tom the Cabin Boy. Captain Flinn is brave and adventurous, always ready to explore new worlds and face any danger that comes their way. Pearl is smart and resourceful, often coming up with clever solutions to problems. Tom is the youngest of the crew, and while he can be a bit clumsy, he is always eager to help out and join in the fun.

One of the unique aspects of the show is the inclusion of dinosaurs as characters. The pirates they encounter are all dinosaurs, from the dreaded Captain T-Rex to the sneaky Velociraptor Pickles. Each dinosaur pirate has their own personality and quirks, making them fun and memorable characters. The show combines the excitement of pirates with the wonder of dinosaurs, creating a unique and engaging world for its young audience.

The animation in Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is bright and colorful, with a style that is both fun and imaginative. The show has a playful energy that never takes itself too seriously and always offers something new and exciting to keep young viewers engaged. Each episode is full of action and adventure, with plenty of opportunities for the characters to show off their skills and save the day.

The show also has a strong educational aspect, with each episode incorporating lessons about history, science, and more. The characters often find themselves in situations where they need to solve problems using knowledge they have gained in the classroom. For example, in one episode, they go on a dinosaur dig and learn about the different types of dinosaurs and how they lived. This helps them when they encounter a dinosaur pirate later in the episode.

Overall, Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is a fun, exciting, and educational show that is perfect for young children. It offers a unique and imaginative world full of adventure and wonder, with characters that are relatable and engaging. The mix of pirates and dinosaurs is a winning combination, and the show is sure to captivate its young audience with its humor, action, and heart.

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (52 episodes). The series first aired on September 5, 2016.

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Seasons

52. Spellbound

September 30, 2016

When Terry gets a 'Teach Yourself Hypnotism' course in the mail, T Rex gets the idea to hypnotise Captain Flinn and his crew so they will steal lots of treasure for him. But the hypnotized young pirates go out of control, stealing the pirate dinosaurs' treasure then sailing off to steal more. So now T Rex and his greedy gang have to find a way to UN-hypnotise them and only Tom knows how.

51. Acorn-Napped

September 29, 2016

It's story-telling night on the Acorn and the kids sit around the brazier toasting custard balls. Captain Stubble recounts the story about how he and the kids first met, how they became pirates and how they battled the pirate dinosaurs for the first time. Hurrah!

50. Blow Me Down

September 29, 2016

When Captain Flinn and the crew discover the greedy pirate dinosaurs are holding Old Man Wind to ransom after they stole his favourite kite, they vow to get it back and free Old Man Wind from a devious pact with the rotten reptiles. But his precious kite gets destroyed in the process. Will they succeed in calming the old man down before he blows up a real storm?

49. The Super Ship

September 28, 2016

There is no wind and the Acorn is becalmed. Tom fits a custard-fueled paddle wheel to the ship so it goes fast like a rocket - faster than anything else on the Seven-and-a-Half Seas. It is now the Super Ship. But of course, the pirate dinosaurs steal the Super Ship and start plundering at will. Now it's up to Flinn and Co to find a clever way to sabotage it - and Stubble's custard is the key!

48. King Stubble

September 28, 2016

T Rex disguises himself (badly) as Neptune, King of the Sea, to terrify seafarers and hornswoggle their gold. Captain Flinn and the crew expose the ruse by dressing Stubble as a more convincing King Neptune to scare T Rex. It looks like it will be a happy ending... until Stubble enjoys his newfound power and refuses to give it up. Will an encounter with the real King Neptune change his tune?

47. Torn Map

September 27, 2016

The pirate kids sail into a dark void and discover they have sailed into a torn off corner of the map. There, in the darkness, they find the Pirate Dinosaurs. It was those rotten reptiles who stole the torn corner of the map, and now they are all in trouble. After locating it, they sticky tape it back onto the map, but find themselves on land!

46. Whale Of A Tale

September 27, 2016

Flinn and his crew are playing a squeeze-box and dancing the whale dance aboard the Acorn - the dance guides whales as they migrate for winter. The pirate dinosaurs hate music, especially squeeze-box music. They storm the Acorn but the goodest goodies are too tired from the sweltering heat to swashbuckle. The dinos steal the Acorn then steal all the squeeze-boxes across the Seven-and-a-half Seas.

45. Do A Good Deed Day

September 26, 2016

Captain Flinn and his crew are invited by the King to participate in the first annual 'Pirate Do A Good Deed Day'. The pirate dinosaurs are also invited. By the last challenge Captain Flinn's crew and the pirate dinosaurs are the only remaining teams. They are charged with saving Gurgleguts from shark-infested waters, but a tug of war ensues, ripping Gurgleguts' dinghy apart.

44. Winners are Grinners

September 26, 2016

Flinn and the pirate dinosaurs race for the Shanty Town Cup, but Flinn and his crew are distracted when the dinosaurs keep cheating. Tom invents a 'cheater-beater', a device which reads the expression on the faces of cheaters, but is it fail-safe? Or will Flinn be caught out by it? In the end there is a most surprising result... neither the goodest goodies or the baddest baddies win!

43. Life with Dippy

September 25, 2016

In order to return a good deed, Dippy comes to live with the crew of the Acorn. It's a pirate law, but it only to causes chaos as Dippy is too big and too stupid to fit in. Meanwhile, T Rex mistakenly thinks that Dippy is infiltrating the Acorn to steal a ketchup flavoured custard recipe he wants, and he gets infested with sea ferrets as he tries to follow them. One good turn deserves another!

42. Where's Russell?

September 25, 2016

Captain Stubble's cheeky toucan, Russell, goes missing and Stubble is heart-broken, so Captain Flinn determines to sail to the end of the Seven and a half seas to find him. They steer the Acorn after a trail of banana skins, glowing bat guano... and into the darkest jungles of Bag O' Bananas island to search for him.

41. Stubble Trouble

September 24, 2016

The crew goes in search of Stubble's missing wooden spoon and accidentally finds themselves on a ghost ship, trapped inside a labyrinth filled with perplexing puzzles and baffling booby-traps, including an upside-down room and a Bermuda Triangle. Things go from bad to worse when the rotten rascally pirate dinosaurs turn up and need saving from all the booby traps.

40. Dimposters

September 24, 2016

When Flinn and his crew are arrested by the King's men for stealing treasure, they realize that another group of pirates is sailing the Seven-and-a-half Seas pretending to be them. A group of pirates with big dinosaur tails, tiny dinosaur arms, and big sharp dinosaur teeth!

39. Pirates On Ice

September 23, 2016

Tom invents the 'Refridgi-mador' designed to cool drinks, but it does too good a job and freezes their drinks, glass and all, into blocks of ice. Tom tightens one of the screws on his machine and it slips on the deck, falling into the sea - freezing it solid. The pirate dinosaurs capitalise on this and plunder all of the ships stranded in the icy sea.

38. Rata-tat-at

September 23, 2016

The crew of the Acorn wakes to discover someone has stolen many of their precious belongings, including Flinn's Captain's hat. Assuming it's the pirate dinosaurs, they spring a surprise attack on their ship, only to discover they were wrong! The real culprits were right under their noses the whole time... a cute family of rats who have fallen on hard times.

37. Sings Of Silliness

September 22, 2016

When his majesty the King puts up confusing 'road signs' all over the sea, it creates chaos. The pirate dinosaurs exploit the situation and put up their own signs to lead ships into a trap where they are to pillaged by the rotten reptiles who are lying in wait. It's only when the King himself falls victim to their tricks, and is saved by Captain Flinn.

36. Flinn's Pest Control

September 22, 2016

When the Acorn is beset with a plague of mice, Stubble invites his "pest control expert" twin brother Grubble to deal with the problem. But Grubble, who has diabolical personal hygiene, decides to stay on the Acorn and quickly proves to be a bigger pest than the mice ever were!

35. Smuglers' Bay

September 21, 2016

Captain Flinn finds a random switch in a pirate cave that says 'do not pull'. Of course he does pull it, and that leads them all on a swashbuckling adventure to stop the pirate dinosaurs, who are making sausages in the cave, and who kidnap Violet with the intent of turning her into a sausage. Flinn and his crew will stop at nothing to save their friend, Violet, from her 'sausagey' fate.

34. Pirates In A Bottle

September 21, 2016

The pirate dinosaurs run into a Sorcerer who shrinks them and their ship. Terry, now teensy, escapes and asks Captain Flinn for help. The Goodest Goodies go to the aid of the Baddest Baddies and get shrunk themselves. The two crews work together. Flinn and Violet get their hands on the Sorcerer's spell book and wand, and turn everyone back into regular sized pirates and pirate dinosaurs.

33. Recipe For Disaster

September 20, 2016

The crew finds out about a rare flower that promises to improve Stubble's disgusting custard and, desperate, they rush to find it, but pirate dinosaurs want it too. The rare flower only grows in a dangerous ravine, and the only way to get it is to work together and make a tall tower of pirates and pirate dinosaurs.

32. Wanted!

September 20, 2016

When Captain Flinn and his crew visit Sea Shanty village they discover that Flinn is a wanted man. There is a five-squillion doubloon reward for his capture. Hunted by avaricious villagers and balloon flying bounty hunters, Flinn hatches a plan - the Goodest Goodies will hand him in, claim the reward and swashbuckle him to freedom.

31. Jack Jekkyl's Eyepatch

September 19, 2016

Captain Flinn discovers the cursed eye-patch of Jack Jekkyl. This evil eye-patch turns its wearer into the opposite of what they usually are. Flinn uses it to turn T Rex from nasty to nice. However, the goodest goodies soon miss the baddest baddies. There are no longer any 'wrongs to be righted'! So they try to snatch the eye-patch back - with surprising results.

30. The Plank

September 19, 2016

The pirate dinosaurs have a new (walk the plank) plank and they kidnap cowardly Captain Stubble to try it out. When Flinn finds out, he and his crew set out to rescue Stubble, despite all the awful custard he cooks. But first Flinn has a bit of fun with the dinosaurs... and the plank, before convincing the silly reptiles to take a new plank from the bottom of their own ship.

29. Rain Rain Go Away

September 18, 2016

It won't stop raining and both the kids and the pirate dinosaurs shelter in a cave. Unfortunately it's the same cave and it's not big enough for both crews. Some swashbuckling leads them back out into the rain again, but it's simply too wet for fighting. Flinn proposes an alternative - a board game of 'Pirates and Pirate Dinosaurs' to settle their differences.

28. Cheer Up Russell

September 18, 2016

The Goodest Goodies take Russell to 'Piratey World' to cheer him up. The pirate dinosaurs are running the show. Thinking that their sworn enemies have gone legit, the Goodest Goodies enjoy the rides and win prizes, unaware that they are being fleeced of their doubloons. Then Russell is bird-napped by the Baddest Baddies who want the prizes back.

27. The Acorn Submarine

September 17, 2016

Flinn's crew sails to the polar ice cap to get ice for ice cream. The kids find an iceberg and lasso it. There's a yellow lump frozen into the iceberg, which by Tom's calculations, is treasure. At that moment the pirate dinosaurs appear and demand the iceberg and the treasure. A crazy chase ensues with the Acorn converting into a submarine to escape under the ice cap.

26. The Great Acorn Robbery

September 17, 2016

When Flinn and Co discover the pirate dinosaurs trying to drill a hole in their ship's hull to rob them of their spoons and spatulas, Pearl comes up with a clever idea: pose as another gang of robbers and "team up" with the rotten reptiles to sabotage their dastardly scheme from the inside out. Will those dumb dinos and future fossils be tricked or will Captain T Rex see through their ruse?

25. Blown Away

September 16, 2016

When an innocent tailor is kidnapped (Captain Gurgleguts) by the pirate dinosaurs to make Captain T Rex new clothes, they need to rescue him. But when their sails are destroyed by lightening, Captain Flinn has to overcome his fear of what others think, and rig his out-sized long johns to the main mast, to give them enough wind power to reach the reptiles, save the captured tailor and the day.

24. Curse Of The Cursed Curses

September 16, 2016

The Pirate Dinosaurs steal three statuettes, the Giggling Giggler, the Dancing Dancer and the Crying Crier from the Temple of the Cursed Curses, unleashing the dreaded triple curse. This curse causes everyone to laugh, cry and dance randomly, uncontrollably and without warning.

23. Moby Clam

September 15, 2016

Captain Flinn and the crew embark on a quest to find the great white beast of the sea - Moby Clam! The giant beast has stolen Gurgleguts' most treasured treasure, his giant pearl. Unfortunately when they do the great beast swallows them - and the pirate dinosaurs - and their ship.

22. Off With The Birds

September 15, 2016

The pirate dinosaurs plant Terry aboard the Acorn disguised as an albatross in distress. Their rotten plan is to trick Flinn and his crew into surrendering their ship, The Acorn, by holding the albatross's egg to ransom. The trick seems to work. A switch is planned at midnight, the egg for the sturdy pirate vessel, but will they really fool Flinn and his band of goodest goodies?

21. Baby On Board

September 14, 2016

A fun treasure hunt reveals an unexpected prize. As well as a chest full of chocolate doubloons the 'goodest goodies' discover a large egg inside the treasure chest. And it's not chocolate. In fact, it hatches into a baby pirate dinosaur!

20. Swim Safely

September 14, 2016

The kids do the right thing and give the pirate dinosaurs swimming lessons. But the 'baddest baddies' return the favour by doing the wrong thing. They are too scared to go in the water and run away into a cave. There they find some treasure, steal it, trap the kids in the cave and sail away on the Acorn. But good wins over greed and Flinn and his crew emerge victorious.

19. Deep Down

September 13, 2016

When one of Tom's experiments on Stubble's custard goes terribly wrong, Flinn is forced to forbid any more 'crazy experiments'. But then a whale-shaped submarine piloted by the Pirate Dinosaurs sinks after a spell of pillaging the Seven-and-a-half seas, and Tom is the only one that can mount a daring rescue to the sea floor. What Captain Flinn realises is that everyone makes mistakes!

18. Gurgleguts The Pirate

September 13, 2016

After saving him three times in one week, the crew of the Acorn sets about trying to help the cowardly Captain Gurgleguts find his inner 'brave and ferocious' pirate. After trying and failing many times, only kind little Pearl still has patience with Gurgleguts.

17. Something I Ate

September 12, 2016

When the kids eat Stubble's latest batch of disgusting custard, seasoned with some stinky seaweed, they experience silly side-effects, making swashbuckling difficult. They set sail for Bag O' Bones Island to find the antidote, the juice from a rare lime only found on the island. Unluckily their foes the pirate dinosaurs are also after the limes to season their latest batch of ketchup.

16. Leading Lady

September 12, 2016

Violet is kidnapped by the pirate dinosaurs and forced to be a 'damsel in distress' in Terry's play. The other pirate dinosaurs can't act, in fact they're as wooden as palm tees. But Violet is no shrinking violet, she takes over and casts herself as a Pirate Captain, a role she's been practising for all her pirate days, and she is so good that the play wins a prize at the festival.

15. The Stowaway

September 11, 2016

The King's annoying young son, Prince Eustace, wants to be a brave pirate and stows away on the Acorn, where he makes a huge nuisance of himself. When the pirate dinosaurs rob the Acorn, Flinn makes sure the useless Prince Eustace is part of the pirate booty, and the Prince is so unbearable that the rotten reptiles literally beg Flinn to take his ship and the Prince back again.

14. Enchanted Skull

September 11, 2016

Safe and sound on Bag O' Bones Island after a busy day of pillaging, the pirate dinosaurs set aside their cutlasses and play a game of Pirate badminton. When they hear strange ghostly noises in the fading light they get frightened and call on Captain Flinn, who's ship is anchored nearby, to save them.

13. Unplugged

September 10, 2016

The Pirate Dinosaurs pull the plug out of the ocean, and drain it completely, so they can steal treasure from shipwrecks without getting their feet wet. Unfortunately for them, being pirates with very short arms, they can't swim.

12. Pearl's Peril

September 10, 2016

The 'would be' gourmet Pirate Dinosaurs have asked Gigantosaurus to dinner - and they desperately want to impress him. They put on a fancy feast (with ketchup) and ask 'goodest goodie' Pearl for lessons in 'social ettiquetty' stuff.

11. The Magic Cutlass

September 9, 2016

When the rotten rascally pirate dinosaurs' trick Captain Flinn into retrieving a legendary magic cutlass from under the sea, T Rex discovers it's not always a good thing to have your wishes come true. The pirate dinosaurs greedy wishes all turn out badly for them, and Captain Flinn and his crew come up trumps as well as having a good belly laugh. Be careful what you wish for!

10. Tomnado

September 9, 2016

Tom gets blown onto the pirate dinosaurs' ship in a tornado and bumps his head. This causes amnesia, which results in him thinking he's a pirate dinosaur, a Tom-osaurus no less. After joining forces with the enemy in a bitter battle to the end - where they catapult ketchup and custard at one another - Tom proves himself to be a dangerous adversary.

9. Made Up Monster

September 8, 2016

Captain Flinn and the crew of the Acorn boldly hunt down a sea monster that is terrorizing the high seas, only to discover it is a pedal-powered fake manned by the pirate dinosaurs! But when a real Sea Monster turns up, Flinn and Co. must travel to the forbidding edge of the map (where there be dragons) to reunite the monster with its own kind.

8. Custardcano

September 8, 2016

Violet falls into a deep hole while trying to dispose of Stubble's broccoli flavoured custard. The remaining 'Goodest Goodies' search the Acorn from top to bottom looking for her, but they fall into the same deep hole. Meanwhile, the rotten reptiles commandeer the Acorn.

7. Up Up and Away!

September 7, 2016

The pirate dinosaurs' ship gets airborne when they blow up too many balloons for greedy T Rex's birthday. As they take advantage of the situation and loot pirate treasure from above, using bungee ropes, Captain Flinn takes the Acorn to the air to combat them. But the great greedy pirate dinosaurs amass way too much treasure and get stuck on a mountain top.

6. True North

September 7, 2016

The Goodest Goodies set out to recover Gurlgegut's Mummy's ornamental teaspoon collection, stolen by the Pirate Dinosaurs. They discover the marauding meanies have taken something even more valuable - magnetic north. Tom's off kilter compass leads them right to the Pirate Dinosaurs who are using magnetic north to collect metallic booty from other ships.

5. Squiginator

September 6, 2016

Captain Flinn and his crew run into a giant squid that is disarmed by a love of Stubble's custard. Stubble bonds with the squid and names her Winifred. The pirates are kept up at night by Winifred's glow and her resonating snore. To make matters worse, Winifred accidently damages the Acorn. Captain Flinn orders Stubble to send his unsuitable pet packing.

4. Thunder Alley

September 6, 2016

In notorious 'Thunder Alley' a narrow straight full of dangers, the Acorn and the Pirate Dinosaur's ships collide, and their Captains are bumped onto the opposite ships. There they discover that under their new leadership, the personalities of their crews begin to change... the goodest goodies becoming sneaky and rude and the baddest baddies become brave and rise to the occasion.

3. The Baddest Bellyache

September 6, 2016

When the pirate dinosaurs and Captain Flinn are swallowed by the very hungry Gigantosaurus, the rest of Flinn's crew works together to save them. They feed the gigantic greedy dinosaur a pot full of Stubble's horrible chilli con custard as medicine to cure his 'baddest bellyache' ever and tickle him with a feather and blow pepper pollen up his nose at the same time.

2. The Statue of Gold

September 5, 2016

The pirate dinosaurs steal a map to the Statue of Gold, which is lodged in the plug of a volcano. Flinn and crew are unable to persuade the villains to stop before the volcano erupts. They push the statue off a ledge, where it lands on a springy palm tree. Flinn cries out 'Sea ferrets ahoy!' and the stupid dinos run off the ledge in fear.

1. Missing Treasure

September 5, 2016

Flinn and his crew help Captain Gurgleguts retrieve his missing treasure... stolen by pirate dinosaurs. They find the 'baddest baddies' and the treasure on Bag O' Bones Island, and a nail-biting swashbuckle ensues. When T Rex loses, he calls on his cousin, Gigantosaurus, the biggest dinosaur of all, who chases them into a cave. There they come up with a cunning plan to distract him.

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Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is available for streaming on the SLR Productions website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs on demand at Amazon.