Primeval

Season 1

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Eight years after his wife Helen disappeared, evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter - along with his friend Stephen Hart, his geeky student Connor Temple, zookeeper Abby Maitland, Special Forces leader Captain Tom Ryan, and government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown - discovers that mysterious rifts in time and space called Anomalies are allowing creature from across Earth's history to run rampant in the present; and the group subsequently become a Home Office research team tasked with predicting the Anomalies and containing the ceatures which come through them, and learning more about the Anomalies and why they are happening.

However, Cutter secretly has an agenda of his own about the Anomaly operation: as the team investigate the Anomalies, Cutter begins to find more clues that imply his long-missing wife Helen is alive and living in the past on the other sides of the Anomalies. The rest of the team eventually learn of this, and that Helen is indeed alive and in the past, but she has been greatly changed by her time there and her study into the Anomalies, and the team are uncertain which side she is on. Eventually, Helen seemingly allies with the team to find and contain an Anomaly in the past to the future and to combat a deadly predator from the future which is on a killing spree in the present; but while Nick and Helen are searching in the past for the future Anomaly, Nick discovers that Helen only wanted to find the Anomaly and see the future, and after Captain Ryan is killed, Nick returns to the present. However, there, Cutter finds that Claudia Brown has been erased from the timeline while he and Helen were in the past.

6 Episodes

  • Leapin' Lizards
    E1
    Leapin' LizardsEight years after his wife Helen mysteriously disappeared, Nick Cutter and a team of several others investigate reports of a large animal in the Forest of Dean, and discover that mysterious Anomalies in time and space are appearing and allowing prehistoric creatures to cross into the present day.
  • Underground Infestation
    E2
    Underground InfestationWhen a pest controller is attacked in the London Underground and landed in hospital poisoned with venom, Cutter, Claudia and the team investigate and discover the Underground is infested with giant, Carboniferous spiders. Cutter and the team soon learn that the true culprit is not the spiders, but a giant centipede, and they are sent in a race against time to get the centipede's venom after it poisons Stephen. Meanwhile, Connor gets thrown off the team after telling two of his friends about the Anomalies, and attempts to earn the team's faith back in the fight against the giant centipede. At the same time, Cutter's suspicions that Helen is alive on the other sides of the Anomalies increases.
  • Helen Makes Contact
    E3
    Helen Makes ContactCutter and his team are called in to locate a giant marine reptile that ate a lifeguard at a swimming pool. When the remains of a special forces diver are sent back through the anomaly, Cutter suspects his wife Helen is on the other side.
  • Dodo Madness
    E4
    Dodo MadnessHelen Cutter directs the team to an Anomaly at a football stadium and escapes through, leaving behind a flock of Dodos. The team soon discover that the Dodos are host to a deadly parasite, and struggle to stop a pandemic when Tom is infected and - convinced that the government are incubating a mind-controlling biological weapon inside him - goes on the run from the team.
  • Ptera-ble News
    E5
    Ptera-ble NewsWhen a golfer at a hotel's golf course goes missing, Cutter and his team are called in. They find a giant pteranodon that's flown through an anomaly in the sky but Nick isn't convinced the creature is the culprit.
  • Future Foe
    E6
    Future FoeHelen reappears to offer her help in tracking down a super-predator that she claims came from the future through the Permian anomaly. The creature is extremely fast, intelligent and has the potential for altering the current time line, so Lester agrees to an expedition to the Permian to guard the anomaly to the future.

Cast of Season 1

  • James MurrayStephen Hart
  • Lucy BrownClaudia Brown
  • Mark WakelingTom Ryan
  • Douglas HenshallNick Cutter
  • Juliet AubreyHelen Cutter
  • Andrew-Lee PottsConnor Temple
  • Hannah SpearrittAbby Maitland
  • Ben MillerJames Lester
  • Tim HainesProducer
  • Cameron McAllisterProducer

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Watch Season 1 Videos

  • Primeval: SEASON One
    Primeval: SEASON OneTrailer
  • Primeval: Season 1 (Trailer 1)
    Primeval: Season 1 (Trailer 1)Trailer
  • Primeval: Abby
    Primeval: AbbyScene

 

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