Cadillacs and Dinosaurs 2-Disc Box Set DVD

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is the early-1990s CBS Saturday morning animated series adapted from Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales comics, set in a far-future Earth where humanity has emerged from underground after a long ecological collapse and now shares the surface with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The show aired on CBS in the 1993-94 season, leaning into the comic's adventure-pulp register while keeping the storytelling brisk and accessible.

The format is the appeal: each episode pairs the mechanic-hero Jack Tenrec and his partner Hannah Dundee with a fresh threat in the post-cataclysm world, holding the comic's central tension between rebuilding civilization and respecting the new biosphere in view across the run. Episode titles like "Rogue," "Dino Drive," "Wild Child," "It Only Comes Out At Night," and "Wildfire" telegraph the operatic register, and the show is unafraid to let its episodes sit with bigger ideas about people and animals sharing a fragile world.

For early-1990s Saturday morning programming, this was an unusually thoughtful swing at adapting a beloved indie comic into kid-friendly form. Suited for fans of the original Xenozoic Tales, viewers with affection for early-1990s Saturday morning animation, and anyone with a soft spot for retrofuturist worlds where the cars run on dinosaur slime and people still have to negotiate with a T-rex.

Standouts worth revisiting include "Rogue" (the opener that lays out the world), "Dino Drive" (a classic adventure), "Wild Child" (a quieter character beat), "Remembrance" (a bigger swing), and "Wildfire" (the closer). This 2-DVD collection brings all 13 episodes home, the complete Saturday-morning run in one set.