Although the multiple award-winning television series Dinosaurs debuted on this day, the show took place millions of years prior, 60,000,003 B.C. to be exact. Based on an idea by Jim Henson, this Disney/Henson live-action collaboration was only the second show to feature the famed puppeteer’s unique combination of Audio-Animatronics® and puppets. John Kennedy, who is credited with performing Baby Sinclair, recalls, “The suit characters were usually two people. One inside the costume that would enable the hands and feet and head to move, and one performer outside performing the expressions and the jaw.” Kennedy worked on the youngest and smallest member of the Sinclair dinosaur family, and recalls that it took three or four people to operate the puppet character. “There was always at least three. Unfortunately it was Kevin Clash and I that were credited but it took a lot of people to get him going.”
