The Land Before Time

*The Land Before Time*
The Land Before Time
	Franchise logo
Created by	Don Bluth; Judy Freudberg; Tony Geiss
Original work	The Land Before Time (1988)
Owner	Universal Pictures
Years	1988–2016
Films and television
Film(s)	The Land Before Time (1988)
Animated series	The Land Before Time (2007–2008)
Direct-to-video	The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994); The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995); The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996); The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997); The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998); The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000); The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001); The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002); The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003); The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005); The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006); The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007); The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016);
Games
Video game(s)	See list of The Land Before Time video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	The Land Before Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988); The Land Before Time: Sing-Along Songs (1997); The Songs from The Land Before Time (1997); The Land Before Time: More Sing-Along Songs (1999); The Best Songs from The Land Before Time (2016);
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)	Merchandise
Official website
	[uphe.com/movies/the-land-before-time landbeforetime.com]

The Land Before Time is an American

animated feature film series and media franchise created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, distributed by Universal Pictures and about dinosaurs. The series began in 1988 with the eponymous The Land Before Time, directed and produced by Don Bluth as well as executive produced by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It was followed by 13 direct-to-video musical sequels, a TV series, video games, soundtracks, and related merchandising. The sequels and the series did not have the participation of Bluth, Lucas, or Spielberg. The 14 films were released as a Complete Collection DVD set on June 14, 2016.^[1]

Plot

The films follow the friendship of a group of young

ornithodirans (four dinosaurs and a pterosaur) named Littlefoot (a male Apatosaurus), Cera (a female Triceratops), Ducky (a female Saurolophus), Petrie (a male Pteranodon), and Spike (a male Stegosaurus). After finding the Great Valley, they raise a carnivorous baby (a male Tyrannosaurus whom they name Chomper), survive a drought, a cold snap, and witness a solar eclipse

. Throughout the films they embark on adventures, learning lessons about life, teamwork, and friendship along the way.

List of titles

Films

A list of the 14 films in the series:

#	Title	Release Date	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Editor(s)	Narrator(s)	Composer(s)	Production company(ies)/Distributor(s)
1	The Land Before Time	November 18, 1988	Don Bluth	Screenplay: Stu Krieger Story: Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss	Kathleen Kennedy Associate producer: Deborah Jelin Newmyer	John K. Carr Dan Molina	Pat Hingle	James Horner	Sullivan-Bluth Studios Lucasfilm Universal Pictures
2	The Great Valley Adventure	December 13, 1994	Roy Allen Smith	John Loy John Ludin Dev Ross	Roy Allen Smith Co-producer: Zahra Dowlatabadi Animation producer: Nelson Shin	Jay Bixsen	John Ingle	Michael Tavera	MCA Universal Home Video
3	The Time of the Great Giving	December 12, 1995		Dev Ross	Roy Allen Smith Zahra Dowlatabadi Animation producer: Nelson Shin	Jay Bixsen
4	Journey Through the Mists	December 10, 1996		Dev Ross	Roy Allen Smith Co-producer: Zahra Dowlatabadi Animation producer: Nelson Shin	Warren Taylor
5	The Mysterious Island	December 9, 1997	Charles Grosvenor	John Loy	Charles Grosvenor Associate producer: Rocky Solotoff	Jay Bixsen			Universal Cartoon Studios Universal Studios Home Video
6	The Secret of Saurus Rock	December 1, 1998		Libby Hinson John Loy	Charles Grosvenor Associate producer: Melinda Rediger Rocky Solotoff	Jay Bixsen	Kenneth Mars
7	The Stone of Cold Fire	December 5, 2000		Len Uhley	Charles Grosvenor Associate producer: Daniel J. Wiley	Danik Thomas	N/A
8	The Big Freeze	December 4, 2001		John Loy		Danik Thomas	John Ingle
9	Journey to Big Water	December 10, 2002		Dev Ross		Jay Bixsen
10	The Great Longneck Migration	December 2, 2003		John Loy	Charles Grosvenor Executive producer: James Wang Associate producer: Daniel J. Wiley
11	Invasion of the Tinysauruses	January 11, 2005^[2]			Charles Grosvenor Associate producer: Daniel J. Wiley
12	The Great Day of the Flyers	December 6, 2006			Charles Grosvenor Associate producer: Daniel J. Wiley			Michael Tavera Kyle Kenneth Batter	Universal Studios Home Entertainment
13	The Wisdom of Friends	November 27, 2007	Jamie Mitchell Supervising director: Charles Grosvenor		Daniel J. Wiley			Michael Tavera	Universal Studios Home Entertainment
14	Journey of the Brave	February 2, 2016	Davis Doi	Elana Lesser Cliff Ruby	Lisa Melbye Deirdre Brenner	Luke Guidici	Tony Amendola	Michael Tavera	Universal Animation Studios Universal 1440 Entertainment Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Albums

The Land Before Time (1988) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Land Before Time: Sing-Along Songs (1997): Songs from the first four movies (movies I, II, III, and IV). The album was later released in a VHS format which included facts about the dinosaurs featured in the franchise.

The Songs from The Land Before Time (1997): Songs from the first four movies (movies I-IV)

The Land Before Time: More Sing-Along Songs (1999) Songs from movies V and VI (the last two of the first 6 movies) and An American Tail film series (movies III and IV).
The Best Songs from The Land Before Time (2016) Songs from movies I, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, and XIV.

Television series

A

YTV in Canada on January 5, 2007. It consisted of one season of 26 episodes, and officially premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on March 5, 2007, after the DVD release of The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.^[3] The TV series takes place after the events of The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends

. It has since been collected and released on 6 DVDs, each containing 4 episodes, in the United States and the UK.

Games

The series has spawned 14

Chomper. Games for the PlayStation include The Land Before Time: Big Water Adventure, a spin-off of Journey to Big Water, The Land Before Time: Great Valley Racing Adventure and The Land Before Time: Return to the Great Valley. All characters in these games are voiced by Lani Minella

.

Cast and characters

List indicator(s)

This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in more than two films in the series.

An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed.

^D indicates an appearance as a character's disguised voice.
^S indicates an appearance as a character's singing voice.

Characters	Films														Television series
	The Land Before Time	2 The Great Valley Adventure	3 The Time of the Great Giving	4 Journey Through the Mists	5 The Mysterious Island	6 The Secret of Saurus Rock	7 The Stone of Cold Fire	8 The Big Freeze	9 Journey to Big Water	10 The Great Longneck Migration	11 Invasion of the Tinysauruses	12 The Great Day of the Flyers	13 The Wisdom of Friends	14 Journey of the Brave	The Land Before Time
	1988	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	2000	2001	2002	2003	2005	2006	2007	2016	2007–2008
Littlefoot	Gabriel Damon	Scott McAfee			Brandon LaCroix Thomas Dekker^S	Thomas Dekker				Alec Medlock	Aaron Spann	Nick Price	Cody Arens Logan Arens^D Anthony Skillman^S	Felix Avitia	Cody Arens Anthony Skillman^S
Cera	Candace Hutson				Anndi McAfee
Ducky	Judith Barsi	Heather Hogan			Aria Noelle Curzon
Petrie	Will Ryan	Jeff Bennett
Spike	N/A	Rob Paulsen				Jeff Bennett	Rob Paulsen
Chomper		Rob Paulsen			Cannon Young									Issac Brown	Max Burkholder
Ruby														Meghan Strange
Grandpa Longneck	Bill Erwin (deleted role)	Kenneth Mars											Does not speak	Barry Bostwick	Kenneth Mars
Grandma Longneck	Does not speak	Linda Gary			Miriam Flynn							Does not speak	Miriam Flynn
Daddy Topps	Burke Byrnes	John Ingle												George Ball	John Ingle
Ducky's Mother	Does not speak	Tress MacNeille			Tress MacNeille		Tress MacNeille				Tress MacNeille		Does not speak	Anndi McAfee	Tress MacNeille
Littlefoot's Mother	Helen Shaver									Flashback					Flashback \|
Petrie's Mother	Does not speak	Tress MacNeille			Tress MacNeille		Tress MacNeille				Tress MacNeille			Meghan Strange	Tress MacNeille
Sharptooth	—
Chomper's parents		N/A
Hyp			Whit Hertford												Mikey Kelley
Nod			Scott Menville												Scott Menville
Mutt			Jeff Bennett												Jeff Bennett
Ali				Juliana Hansen											Nika Futterman
Old One				Carol Bruce											Jessica Walter
Elsie					Christina Pickles
Doc						Kris Kristofferson									Jeff Bennett
Mr. Thicknose								Robert Guillaume							Dorian Harewood
Tippy								Jeremy Suarez							Cree Summer
Stegosaurus Mother								Susan Krebs							Susan Krebs
Stegosaurus Leader								Rob Paulsen							Rob Paulsen
Mo									Rob Paulsen	Does not speak		Rob Paulsen			Rob Paulsen
Shorty										Brandon Michael DePaul					Elizabeth Daily
Bron										Kiefer Sutherland				Scott Whyte	Cam Clarke
Tria											Camryn Manheim		Jessica Gee		Jessica Gee
Guido												Rob Paulsen			Rob Paulsen
Tricia												Nika Futterman			Meghan Strange
Kosh			Rob Paulsen		Jeff Bennett						Rob Paulsen				Pete Sepenuk Jeff Bennett

References

^ Grosvenor, Charles; Bluth, Don; Smith, Roy Allen; Mitchell, Jamie; Doi, Davis (June 14, 2016), The Land Before Time: The Complete Collection, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, retrieved October 4, 2016
^ "The Land Before Time: Invasion of the Tinysauruses". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ The Land Before Time, 2007-03-05, retrieved 2016-07-26

External links

The Land Before Time's channel on
YouTube

[1] Grosvenor, Charles; Bluth, Don; Smith, Roy Allen; Mitchell, Jamie; Doi, Davis (June 14, 2016), The Land Before Time: The Complete Collection, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, retrieved October 4, 2016

[2] "The Land Before Time: Invasion of the Tinysauruses". Rotten Tomatoes.

[3] The Land Before Time, 2007-03-05, retrieved 2016-07-26

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