Trick Or Cheat
- Studio
- DiC Entertainment, Lightyear Entertainment
- Distributor
- Coca-Cola Telecommunications
Characters
Quackpot, Allo, Genghis Rex, Plesio, Bonehead, Bronto-Thunder, Steggio, Brachio, Tricero, Ichthyo, Terrible Dactyl, Ankylo, Dimetro, Styraco, Ptryx, Sera, Paul, Ryan, David
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Stephan Martiniere
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Maliani
- Executive Producers
- Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Andy Heyward
Writing
- Writer
- Michael E. Uslan, Diane Duane
Voices
- Voice
- Len Carlson (Quackpot, Allo), Rob Cowan (Tricero), Marvin Goldhar (Bonehead, Bronto-Thunder), Dan Hennessey (Genghis Rex, Plesio), Ray Kahnert (Steggio), Gordon Masten (Styraco), Don McManus (Brachio), Edie Mirman (Pteryx), Barbara Lynn Redpath (Sera), Simon Reynolds (Ryan), John Stocker (Terrible Dactyl, Ankylo), Leslie Toth (David), Chris Wiggins (Dimetro), Thick Wilson (Ichthyo), Richard Yearwood (Paul)
Music
- Music
- Shuki Levy, Haim Saban
Editing
- Editor
- Lars Floden
Crew
- Created By
- Michael E. Uslan
- Art Director
- Pascal Morelli
- Animation Directors
- Masanori Miura, Norimo Kashima
- Creative Supervision
- Robby London
- With
- Lori Crawford
- Production Supervisor
- Winnie Chaffee
- Assisted by
- Bonnie Vitti, Lydia Marano, Paul Quinn, Kimberly Cronin
- Supervising Associate Producer
- John O'Sullivan Francis Jr
- Associate Producer
- Mary Katherine Walker
- Production Coordinator
- Julia Kim
- Production Assistants
- Hatsue Abe, Terry Bugsch, Christopher Hammond, Weff Jernick, Craig Kelliher, Maria Mercado, Margaret Payne, William A. Ruiz, Julie Spielman, Minoru Terao, Kazuko Yamamoto
- Music by
- Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
- Producer for K.K. DIC
- Tetsuo Katayama
- Production Managers for K.K. DIC
- Shigeru Akagawa, Hiroshi Toita
- Story Editors
- Diane Duane, Brynne Stephens
- Storyboard Artists
- Kent Butterworth, Adrian Gonzalez, Steve Gordon, Gordon Harrison, Jim Smith
- Original Drawings by
- Craig Berman
- Designers
- Pat Agnasin, Scott Anderson, Carlos Baldorado, Istvan Fellner, Lee Goe, Ernie Guanlao, Ron Harris, Shawn McManus, Chuck Patton, Stephanie Pyren
- Color Designers
- Derdad Aghamalian, Allyn Conley, James Gallego, Larry Grossman, Marta Skwara, Donald Towns, Fred Warter
- Recording Supervisor
- Marsha Goodman
- Casting
- Patty Kirsch, Madeleine Bascom
- Recording Assistants
- Rick Dempsey, Maureen Feinberg, Daniela Spiwak
- Voice Recording Director
- Chuck Rubin
- Talent Coordinator
- Jennifer Goldie
- Executives in Charge of Post Production
- Mark M. Galvin, Thierry P. Laurin
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Richard Bruce Elliott
- Dialogue Editor
- Richard S. Gannon
- Supervising Music Editor
- Marty Wereski
- Music Editor
- Richard Poppenberg
- Format Editor
- Lars Floden
- Sound Effects by
- Zound FX, Johann Lenjlie, Rusell Brower
- Re-Recording Mixer
- Jim Hodson, Michael Hamm, Michael Mancini
- Assistant Editors
- Gregory K. Bowren, Heather C. Elliott, Theresa Gilroy, Terry Noss, Randy Payton, Michelle Rochester, Karen S. Rosenbloom, Robert D. Rule, Susan L. Vovsi, Donald Zappala
- Sound Transfer
- Michael Cowan, Greg LaPlante
- Overseas Editors
- Andy Atfield, Kelly Hall, Teresa Hannigan, John Harris, John Kelly, Richard Kelly, Steve Munro, Sheila Murray, Tim Roberts, Bill Ross, Jane Tattersall
- Pre-Production Animators
- Greg Bailey, Hervé Bedard, Danica Bennett, Roxanne Ducharme, Mike Kaweski
- Video Tape Supervisor
- Phil R. Defibaugh
- Video Tape Editors
- V. Kim Latimer, Elvida Abella, Kenneth A. Fischer
- Post-Production Coordinators
- Diane E. Crowley, Firooz Adelamini, Mel C. Cash
Production notes
We used to be four ordinary teenagers, until one day, we met some new friends...from out of town.
Why do warring alien races always seem to crash land on Earth? First the Transformers, then the GoBots, then in 1987, the Dinosaucers joined the crowd.
As usual, the battle began on an alien homeworld, in this case Reptillion. Highly intelligent dinosaurs ruled this extraterrestrial globe, split into two factions. On the side of good were the Dinosaucers. Led by the courageous Allo, the group included dim-witted Bonehead, inventor Dimetro, Teryx, Tricero, Steggio, Bronto Thunder and Ichthyo. The forces of evil?the Tyrannos?were led by a red T-rex named Genghis Rex. Bumbling hench-lizard Ankylo was always at his boss' side, and the rest of the baddies included crazy jokester Quackpot, Terrible Dactyl, Styraco and Brachio.
After centuries of dino-wars, Reptillion was near destruction, so the Dinosaucers and Tyrannos moved their battle to a new orb: Earth. Like any good alien species, the Dinosaucers immediately made friends with a few young earthlings. Paul, Sara, David and Ryan were each given powerful rings by their new outer space buddies, and the teens joined the fight against evil as the "Secret Scouts." And for comic relief, the show also included a race of friendly, fuzzy round fellows called Furballs, to whom the Tyrannos were allergic.
Unlike their transforming robot predecessors, the Dinosaucers didn't have a one-track mind for battle. They were also tourists, and Earth had plenty of new experiences to offer. Over the show's 65-episode run, the Dinosaucers and Tyrannos were introduced to the finer points of television, hamburgers, baseball, perfume, karate and more.
Dinosaucers was clearly a sillier show than either Transformers or Challenge of the GoBots, but it was still an action cartoon. The dinos wore high-tech armor, fired advanced weapons and flew around in several fabulous vehicles. Naturally, this all spelled "action figure line," but Dinosaucers wasn't around long enough to capitalize. After a single syndicated season, the thunder lizards packed up their battle gear and took their war elsewhere.
Why do warring alien races always seem to crash land on Earth? First the Transformers, then the GoBots, then in 1987, the Dinosaucers joined the crowd.
As usual, the battle began on an alien homeworld, in this case Reptillion. Highly intelligent dinosaurs ruled this extraterrestrial globe, split into two factions. On the side of good were the Dinosaucers. Led by the courageous Allo, the group included dim-witted Bonehead, inventor Dimetro, Teryx, Tricero, Steggio, Bronto Thunder and Ichthyo. The forces of evil?the Tyrannos?were led by a red T-rex named Genghis Rex. Bumbling hench-lizard Ankylo was always at his boss' side, and the rest of the baddies included crazy jokester Quackpot, Terrible Dactyl, Styraco and Brachio.
After centuries of dino-wars, Reptillion was near destruction, so the Dinosaucers and Tyrannos moved their battle to a new orb: Earth. Like any good alien species, the Dinosaucers immediately made friends with a few young earthlings. Paul, Sara, David and Ryan were each given powerful rings by their new outer space buddies, and the teens joined the fight against evil as the "Secret Scouts." And for comic relief, the show also included a race of friendly, fuzzy round fellows called Furballs, to whom the Tyrannos were allergic.
Unlike their transforming robot predecessors, the Dinosaucers didn't have a one-track mind for battle. They were also tourists, and Earth had plenty of new experiences to offer. Over the show's 65-episode run, the Dinosaucers and Tyrannos were introduced to the finer points of television, hamburgers, baseball, perfume, karate and more.
Dinosaucers was clearly a sillier show than either Transformers or Challenge of the GoBots, but it was still an action cartoon. The dinos wore high-tech armor, fired advanced weapons and flew around in several fabulous vehicles. Naturally, this all spelled "action figure line," but Dinosaucers wasn't around long enough to capitalize. After a single syndicated season, the thunder lizards packed up their battle gear and took their war elsewhere.