The Land Before Time (TV series)

The Land Before Time
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Genre	Adventure Fantasy
Created by	Charles Grosvenor Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss
Based on	Characters by Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss
Developed by	Ford Riley
Directed by	Scott Heming Dick Sebast
Voices of	Cody Arens Anndi McAfee Aria Curzon Jeff Bennett Rob Paulsen Max Burkholder Meghan Strange Kenneth Mars Miriam Flynn John Ingle Tress MacNeille Pete Sepenuk Dorian Harewood Jessica Gee
Theme music composer	Roc Gagliese Steve D'Angelo Terry Tompkins
Opening theme	"The Land Before Time Theme Song", performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ending theme	"The Land Before Time Theme Song" (instrumental)
Composers	Cory Lerios (score) Michele Brourman (songs)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producer	Diane A. Crea
Running time	23 minutes
Production companies	Universal Animation Studios Amblin Entertainment
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	March 5, 2007 (2007-03-05) – January 21, 2008 (2008-01-21)
Related
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007) The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
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The Land Before Time is an American animated musical 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 Entertainment (Amblin Entertainment produced the first film with Sullivan Bluth Studios), and animated by Wang Film Productions in Taiwan and 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.

It was made as traditionally animated with CGI backgrounds, which the past sequels from The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration 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, a pair of henchmen Deinonychus. The TV series takes place after the events of The Wisdom of Friends and before the events of Journey of the Brave, due to Chomper and Ruby being absent in the former.