Season 1
52 episodes
12 min. per episode
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Four brave kids battle clever dinosaur pirates, navigating wild adventures and friendship while uncovering treasures of imagination and courage.
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When Flinn and crew (the goodest goodies) hear a wailing and a sobbing coming from the sea they find a pirate in distress. His name is Captain Gurgleguts, and the pirate dinosaurs have stolen all his treasure. He's very afraid that he'll be in big trouble with his mummy. They set sail of Bag O' Bones Island, the home of those rotten rascals, and follow a trail of (stolen) gold doubloons up the beach and into the jungle. But before they know it Gurgleguts as been 'hornswaggled' himself and the pirate dinosaurs have him tied to a spit, preparing to roast him and eat him for lunch - with ketchup. Brave Captain Flinn immediately confronts them and demands they release Gurgleguts and return his stolen treasure. A swashbuckle ensues, but when Flinn's side is winning, Captain T Rex calls on his cousin, Gigantosaurus, the biggest dinosaur in the Seven-and-a-half seas. The kids make a strategic retreat and hide in a cave, which is too small for the huge dinosaur to fit into, but his sharp claws swipe dangerously at them, and his foul breath nearly knocks them out. Deciding that they need a plan of escape, Violet offers to trick him by pretending to be a plate of sausages. Then she comes up with a better plan. Knowing that Gigantosaurus is a 'greedy gobbling gourmet' she hastily scribbles a recipe for fried kiddy wings with basil and lemon juice, and while the giant dino is busy reading it, they run away. He tries to grab them but falls over onto his back, and like an insect, he can't get up. The crew decides that there's no glory in escaping a villain if the villain isn't even chasing them, so they return and find him, flailing around on the ground. Being 'goodest goodies' they decide to help him, and Tom rigs up a complicated series of pulleys to do the job.
The pirate dinosaurs are spotted off the starboard bow, and Flinn's crew prepares for attack, but this time the pirate dinosaurs have come to ask for help. They are infested with sea ferrets, which are just like real ferrets only 'ticklier' and 'bitier'. Tom sprinkles them with garlic powder, and it works a treat. In return the rotten rascals are so grateful that they promise to clean Flinn's ship from top to bottom. Indeed they do, while Flinn and crew relax on deck. Soon Violet is missing the 'bad old days' when they had plenty of fighting fun. But not for long! Stubble raises a cry of alarm... those rotten reptiles have stolen his custard recipe! Hurrah! But it has a treasure map on the back! The treasure is the Statue on Gold the top of the volcanic island that is home to the village of Sea Shanty, home of all jigs, hornpipes and sea shanties. If the treasure is stolen, the volcano will erupt and the innocent village folk will be destroyed! Oh no! The kids set full sail for the island and follow the smell of garlic powder to the top of the island, where the dastardly pirate dinosaurs have already found the fabled statue. They are in the process of removing it from the mouth of the volcano where it's plugging the lava and stopping the mountain from exploding. Flinn begs them to stop, but of course the great greedy villains have no concern for the fate of the innocent villagers, in fact, they hate sea shanties (and jigs and hornpipes). They prize the big statue from the mouth of the volcano, using Stig's head, and run of with it. The volcano immediately begins to rumble, about to erupt. Flinn and crew chase the villains down the mountain and confront them on a rocky ledge.
Stubble arrives on deck with a fresh batch of chilli con custard for morning tea. After trying it, they are all hiccupping and burping with its burning effects. Luckily a huge sea monster arrives and distracts them, getting rid of their hiccups. But investigation proves it's not a sea monster, it's a huge pair of underpants. They soon spy a huge vest and other huge items of clothing... all leading to bag O Bones Island, which has a huge mountain in the middle of the island, which they have never noticed before. Climbing onto the island, Flinn and crew notice rumbling and other strange noises. At the base of the mountain they discover it's not a mountain, it's actually Gigantosaurus, who has eaten so much that he's split all his clothes and has the baddest bellyache ever. If they help him he promises not to eat them too. When Tom listens to his tummy with a stethoscope he hears the pirate dinosaurs inside. Gigantosaurus remembers that he ate them for dessert. They were very spikey and that's probably why he has tummy ache. Flinn declares they must rescue them. They are their sworn enemies, but they are their 'favouritest' sworn enemies. Flinn orders Gigantosaurus to set the pirate dinosaurs free, but instead the huge dino swallows Flinn too. Inside the giant's tummy, he encounters the 'baddest baddies', who swashbuckle him at first, but then cry and beg Flinn to rescue them. It's terribly boring in there. While Flinn thinks of a cunning escape plan on the inside, Violet, Tom and Pearl search for a solution on the outside. Stubble arrives again with more chilli con custard... it's lunchtime. This gives Tom a brilliant idea, but they'll all need to work together. Inside Flinn makes a stack of all the furniture Gigantosaurus has eaten and prepares to climb it right out of his mouth. But cowardly T Rex and his crew all run up the furniture stack in a panic to escape and it collapses.
Tom raises the alarm. A hurricane-typhoon-ado is on its way! Flinn steers the Acorn to the nearest shelter. Unfortunately the nearest sheltered bay is the notorious Thunder Alley... full of treacherous rocks, stinky gasses and falling coconuts! Just when things look like they can't get much worse Violet calls: 'Pirate dinosaurs off the starboard bow!' It seems the rascal reptiles have the same idea. The two ships collide, the collision knocks them into Thunder Alley and the Captains are bumped onto the opposite ships. T Rex decides this is the perfect opportunity to take over the Acorn. Flinn's crew warns T Rex about the treacherous rocks ahead of them in the fog, but he's not worried (too busy being greedy see the danger). Ignoring Tom's advice to work together, he steers the ship solo into the rocks. The first rule of the sea is that 'a crew must do exactly what its Captain says.' Bang! Bump! Thump! The Acorn bashes its way blindly into rocks and is almost dashed to pieces. Meanwhile, the pirate dinosaur crew runs about in fear, but their new Captain, Flinn, calms them down and they all work together to steer their way through the rocks. On the Acorn, a coconut falls from the sky and hits T Rex. Tom warns him they are about to enter the Coconut Canyon of Coco Loco, where coconuts fall from above for no reason. The cowardly Captain retreats below in fear, leaving his crew to steer. The crew mutinies, and directs the falling coconuts below deck where they hit T Rex. On Flinn's new vessel he makes a game of head butting the falling coconuts off the ship, and once again the dino crew works together to get through the canyon.
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CAPTAIN FLINN AND THE PIRATE DINOSAURS is an animated television series of 52 x 11 minute episodes based on the picture books 'Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs', written by Giles Andreae and illustrated by Russell Ayto. It is a fantastical action-adventure comedy for a 6 to 9 year old target audience. Each episode is full of swashbuckling fun where four kids, Flinn, Pearl, Tom and Violet set sail on a pirate ship to keep the despicable, prehistoric, pirate dinosaur baddies from doing wrong. These four seafarers boldly go where no young ones have gone before in silly pirate adventures full of vivid action and laugh out loud physical fun.