The Land Before Time (TV series)


The Land Before Time is an American animated television series, based on The Land Before Time film series created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss. It was developed for television by Ford Riley for Cartoon Network and was produced by Universal Animation Studios and Amblin Television, and animated by Toon City in the Philippines. It premiered on YTV in Canada for a test on January 5, 2007 and premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on March 5, 2007.
It was made as traditionally animated with computer-animated backgrounds, which the past sequels from ' onwards have used, with occasional cel-shaded computer animated characters in wide shots. The main antagonists in the series are Red Claw, an evil villainous Tyrannosaurus, and Screech and Thud, two henchmen Deinonychus. The TV series takes place after the events of ', due to Chomper and Ruby being absent in that film.

Voice cast

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Broadcast

The show premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on March 5, 2007. It also on Boomerang in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2007. It premiered in Japan on Kids Station in May 2007. The show has neither aired on Cartoon Network in the United States nor on YTV in Canada since March 2008. On January 14, 2017, the show began airing in reruns on Sprout. It aired on Spacetoon on January 1, 2011 after Spacetoon English closed and the Spacetoon Group was rebranded. It aired on TV Russia on May 2, 2009 after TV Russia Service Television closed. Reruns of the series began airing on Universal Kids upon the channel's launch on September 9, 2017.

Merchandise

and Playmates Toys announced a domestic licensing agreement, whereby Playmates will serve as the master toy license for the upcoming animated television series, The Land Before Time. The 22-minute animated series will air on Cartoon Network beginning spring 2007. The toy line will launch in fall 2007 with the introduction of a full line of figures, vehicles, playsets and plush.

Home media

Twenty-four episodes of the series were released on DVD by Universal Studios between 2007-2008 in North America and 2010 in Australia in the form of six four-episode volumes. A six-disc box set was later released in the UK in 2012 containing the 24 episodes from the previous volumes. The two episodes that are not included in those releases are "The Hidden Canyon" and "The Big Longneck Test". "The Hidden Canyon" was later released as a special feature on the stand-alone DVD release of , while "The Big Longneck Test" has never been released on home media. All of the episodes were made available for free streaming on the official The Land Before Time YouTube channel in the United States.

Music

The songs are written by Michele Brourman and Ford Riley.
The theme song is performed by the South African choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The theme is written by Roc Gagliese, Steve D'Angelo, and Terry Tompkins of the eggplant. The music score is by Cory Lerios.