Dinotopia is an American television series based on the series of illustrated books of the same name by James Gurney, in which three Americans have crash-landed a plane and found themselves on a remote uncharted island inhabited by people and dinosaurs.

US pilot Frank Scott, with his sons Karl and David, crash-lands a light plane in a tropical storm and they find themselves on an English-speaking island called Dinotopia, remote and undiscovered, where people live alongside dinosaurs, mostly peacefully.

The Scotts settle at Waterfall City, capital of Dinotopia, which then is affected by the arrival of a group called the Outsiders, who live outside the laws of Dinotopia. The Outsiders pose less of a danger than the featured Saurian antagonists, such as Pteranodon, Tyrannosaurus, and Postosuchus.

REAR COVER

Karl Scott (Erik von Detten, The Princess Diaries), his brother, David (Shiloh Strong, The Mommies), and their father, Frank (Michael Brandon, Robert Ludlum's The Apocalypse Watch) are castaways in a strange new world. In Dinotopia, dinosaurs and humans coexist in perfect harmony. Welcoming the visitors to this marvelous lost world are the stunning Marion (Georgina Rylance), in training to be the beloved leader of her people, Marion's father, Mayor Waldo (Jonathan Hyde, Prince and the Pauper, The Mummy), the overseer of Dinotopia's magnificent capital, Waterfall City, and Marion's mother, Rosemary (Sophie Ward, The Hunger), the revered family matriarch.

But beneath Dinotopia's surface, dangers brew. They can be found in the towering castle of Le Sage (Lisa Zane, L.A. Law), leader of a renegade tribe known as the Outsiders; the life-and-death perils caused by the experiments of a strange sorcerer toying with the notion of immortality; in the mysterious failing of the sunstones, Dinotopia's endangered lifeforce; and in the mysteries of a primitive village ruled by a charismatic leader. Through it all endures the boundless imagination, courage, and awesome wonder of a family lost in time - the last hope for world on the verge of extinction.

HALLMARK ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS "DINOTOPIA: THE SERIES"

MICHAEL BRANDON JONATHAN HYDE GEORGINA RYLANCE SHILOH STRONG

ERIK VON DETTEN SOPHIE WARD LISA ZANE

CASTING BY LYNN KRESSEL, C.S.A. JOYCE GALLIE AND SALLY OSOBA

PRODUCTION DESIGNER KEITH WILSON EDITOR ORAL NORRIE OT TEY RICHARD NORD

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MARTIN KENZIE MUSIC BY TREVOR JONES CO-PRODUCERS JAMES GURNEY SCOTT USHER & RAYMOND KHOURY

PRODUCED BY HOWARD ELLIS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ROBERT HALMI, SR. ROBERT HALMI, JR.

WRITTEN BY NICK HARDING RAYMOND KHOURY BASED ON A SERIES OF BOOKS BY JAMES GURNEY

DIRECTED BY MARIO AZZOPARDI MIKE FASH DAVID WINNING