| 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 – January 21, 2008 |
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The Land Before Time (also known as The Land Before Time: The Series) 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.