Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs CAPTAIN FLINN AND THE PIRATE DINOSAURS is an animated television series of 52 x 11 minute episodes based on the picture books 'Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs', written by Giles Andreae and illustrated by Russell Ayto. It is a fantastical action-adventure comedy for a 6 to 9 year old target audience. Each episode is full of swashbuckling fun where four kids, Flinn, Pearl, Tom and Violet set sail on a pirate ship to keep the despicable, prehistoric, pirate dinosaur baddies from doing wrong. These four seafarers boldly go where no young ones have gone before in silly pirate adventures full of vivid action and laugh out loud physical fun