
Primeval
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When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.
A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton
Highest-rated episodes all ranked
- 01
Episode 6Missing people could be the work of a new creature that arrived via a rift in time from the future. - 02
Episode 4When a flock of comical-looking dodos appear through the anomaly, no one realizes that they have brought with them a dangerous parasite. - 03
Episode 6The team capture a Mammoth running rampant on the M25. The conspiracy is finally revealed as they attempt to kill Cutter and his team and destroy the ARC.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01
Episode 1February 10, 2007Prehistoric creatures burst through a rip in time and our team find themselves running for their lives from the hungry jaws of a flesh-eatin - S01E02
Episode 2February 17, 2007Mammoth spiders attack the London Underground, but in the darkness of the tunnels lies something more sinister still. - S01E03
Episode 3February 24, 2007An ancient sea monster attacks two lifeguards in a municipal swimming pool while a mother makes a terrifying discovery when her utility room - S01E04
Episode 4March 3, 2007When a flock of comical-looking dodos appear through the anomaly, no one realizes that they have brought with them a dangerous parasite. - S01E05
Episode 5March 10, 2007Connor's carelessness reveals Rex's presence, and an aerial anomaly releases a new danger thirsty for blood. - S01E06
Season's bestEpisode 6March 17, 2007Missing people could be the work of a new creature that arrived via a rift in time from the future.
Season02Best season
- S02E01
Episode 1January 12, 2008Cutter grapples with Claudia's disappearance, whilst struggling to adjust to working with her replacement, Oliver Leek; The team try to re-c - S02E02
Episode 2January 19, 2008An anomaly, to a period before an oxygen-based atmosphere, fills the 15th floor of an office tower with smoke, with gigantic worms inside. - S02E03
Episode 3January 26, 2008An outdoor adventure park is terrorized by a hungry saber-tooth tiger. - S02E04
Episode 4February 2, 2008The new anomaly detector detects a new anomaly opening in the middle of the River Thames, where Abby is taken by one of the creatures. - S02E05
Episode 5February 9, 2008An anomaly in a drainage pipe leads a young girl chasing her dog into a bleak, sandy past landscape filled with burrowing monsters. - S02E06
Season's bestEpisode 6February 16, 2008The team capture a Mammoth running rampant on the M25. The conspiracy is finally revealed as they attempt to kill Cutter and his team and de - S02E07
Episode 7February 23, 2008The conspiracy unravels and people working closely on the project die -- or do they?
Season03
- S03E01
Episode 1March 28, 2009A crocodilian, a creature from the Eocene period which was mistaken for a god and worshipped in ancient Egypt is released through an anomaly - S03E02
Episode 2April 4, 2009The team discover a creature that can camouflage itself at an abandoned house. As they investigate, they cross paths with an interfering cop - S03E03
Episode 3April 11, 2009The team must dispose of a number of diictodons, cute-seeming but malevolent burrowing creatures who appear via an anomaly in a hospital, wh - S03E04
Episode 4April 18, 2009Whilst Lester appoints Jenny as temporary leader and Connor perfects his machine to close anomalies, a Giganotosaurus, a huge carnivorous di - S03E05
Episode 5April 25, 2009An anomaly appears in the flat of unsympathetic millionaire Sir Richard Bentley,ultimately turning him into a flesh-eating monster,slowly ev - S03E06
Episode 6May 2, 2009Sarah establishes the purpose of the artefact - it can predict the whereabouts of anomalies. Johnson, anxious to claim it for herself, depos - S03E07
Episode 7May 9, 2009An odd-looking, wounded dinosaur leaps through an anomaly in a scrapyard, pursued by a medieval knight, who thinks it is a dragon and causes - S03E08
Episode 8May 16, 2009A giant ant from the same future location as the artefact comes through an anomaly and kills two guards. Jack, Abby's daft brother,from whom - S03E09
Episode 9May 23, 2009A herd of rhinoceros-like creatures, embolotherium, come through a rift at a camp-site. Danny rescues Eve, the young woman Johnson and Wilde - S03E10
Season's bestEpisode 10June 6, 2009Sarah and Becker battle giant insects who have come through the rift at Johnson's H.Q. whilst Abby, Connor and Danny pursue Helen Cutter thr
Season04
- S04E01
Episode 1January 1, 2011Connor and Abby struggle with life in the Cretaceous Period, meanwhile the A.R.C. has been rebuilt and updated with two new members. - S04E02
Episode 2January 2, 2011When Connor looks up old friend Duncan, he doesn't expect to find him obsessed with creature sightings. Warning him of the elusive dock crea - S04E03
Episode 3January 8, 2011A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. As they attempt to escape, Matt inad - S04E04
Episode 4January 15, 2011Whilst Abby is arguing with Burton,who wants to kill the menagerie,the team gets called to a school where a Therocephalian has come through - S04E05
Episode 5January 22, 2011Abby and Connor travel to coastal Witchfield Cove,home to the legendary giant worm,after the death of a camper. They find the worm is no myt - S04E06
Season's bestEpisode 6January 29, 2011Doglike Hyenadons come through an anomaly in the basement of a stately home and when the team go to investigate they meet ex-ARC worker Jenn - S04E07
Episode 7February 5, 2011The ARC team gets called to a prison where they find themselves unable to control the anomalies and suspect that Ethan is manipulating them.
Season05
- S05E01
Episode 1May 24, 2011The team is called out when a giant,subterranean insect surfaces to drag victims to its nest - including Connor though Matt manages to save - S05E02
Episode 2May 31, 2011A Liopleudon enters submarine HMS Gartside through an underwater anomaly, though the sub's captain bans the team from bringing their weapons - S05E03
Episode 3June 7, 2011When a raptor comes through an anomaly at an art exhibition Matt pursues it back to Victorian England,where it is credited with being the my - S05E04
Episode 4June 14, 2011Still naively believing that he is working to make free energy Connor completes his first task for Burton - creating an artificial anomaly,w - S05E05
Season's bestEpisode 5June 21, 2011As the team explains to James that Burton was in league with Helen Cutter in wishing to return the world to its primeval state a huge T Rex - S05E06
Episode 6June 28, 2011Abby and Matt follow Connor through the anomaly,finding themselves in a vast wasteland,in which they fight off predators before returning to
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