Dinosaurs
A Henson animatronic sitcom about a working family in the Mesozoic, which finished by freezing the world over.
Dinosaurs opens with a main title sequence of 41 seconds.
It arrived on ABC in 1991, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
41sFan upload of the intro.
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