Primeval

Name: Primeval
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Released: 2007-02-10
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Ciarán McMenamin, Ben Mansfield, Andrew-Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Alexander Siddig

ENDED5 Seasons36 Episodes★ 7.5

Primeval is a sci-fi and fantasy series on ITV1 that ran from 2007 to 2011, ending after 5 seasons and 36 episodes.

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NetworkITV1

First AiredFeb 10, 2007

Last AiredJun 26, 2011

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Runtime52 min

Created ByAdrian Hodges, Tim Haines

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited Kingdom

ProductionImpossible Pictures, ITV Productions, M6 Films

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

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Cast

Ciarán McMenamin

Matt Anderson

Ben Mansfield

Hilary Becker

Andrew-Lee Potts

Connor Temple

Hannah Spearritt

Abby Maitland

Alexander Siddig

Philip Burton

Ruth Kearney

Jess Parker

Janice Byrne

April Leonard

Ruth Bradley

Emily Merchant

Ben Miller

James Lester

Seasons & Episodes5 seasons · 36 episodes

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Matt's secret mission to find the ARC member that will destroy the future continues, as does Philip's New Dawn project for the Anomalies. After Abby learns of Matt's mission, the latter recruits her into it, while Connor instead joins Philip in the New Dawn project. Connor and Abby's opposing allegiances in turn strains their relationship more and more. Matt and Abby's fears that New Dawn is what will destroy the future are soon confirmed, and after Connor realises his error, he and the rest of the ARC team join Matt and Abby against Philip as the latter activates New Dawn. Although Philip successfully activates New Dawn, the team manage to stop New Dawn and save the future. However, Matt then sees a double of him at the ARC which gives him a warning.

E1Matt's Secret

Feb 10, 201152m★ 8.4

The team attempt to track a giant, underground insectoid predator from the future, and there is something about the creature that Matt isn't telling the team. Meanwhile, Philip shows Connor the true purpose behind New Dawn, and Abby becomes more suspicious of Matt and grows closer to discovering his secret, while Lester struggles at the ARC to make a good impression to Ms. Reece of the Cabinet Office for a knighthood.

E2The Submarine

May 30, 201152m★ 8.4

When a Navy submarine in the North Sea discovers a giant underwater Anomaly, Matt, Connor and Abby join the Navy crew aboard, but things go awry when the submarine is pulled through the Anomaly into a prehistoric sea inhabited by giant pliosaurs. The team subsequently attempt to get the submarine back through the Anomaly to their time, while Lester struggles to stop an Admiral from nuking the Anomaly and potentially altering history.

E3In the Good Old Days

Jun 5, 201152m★ 8.4

When the team send a Raptor at an art museum back through the wrong Anomaly, Matt goes through into Victorian London in pursuit of the Raptor, and there he reunites with Emily and attempts to help her escape her grim fate of incarceration at Bedlam Asylum by her shallow husband. Meanwhile, Abby infiltrates Connor's lab to capture Connor's files on New Dawn for Matt.

E4The Prototype

Jun 12, 201152m★ 8.2

The team learn the truth about New Dawn when Connor creates an artificial Anomaly in the ARC, and trouble soon erupts when the Anomaly unleashes swarming, carnivorous beetles from the future into the ARC, which trigger the lockdown but threaten to burrow out and swarm onto the modern world. The situation is only exacerbated when the beetles trigger Jess' deadly allergy to insect bites, and when Philip threatens to incinerate the entire ARC to stop the beetles.

E5The End of the Future (1)

Jun 19, 201152m★ 8.3

With Convergence having finally arrived, while Becker and the entire ARC struggle to contain an increasing outbreak of numerous Anomalies and creatures, New Dawn begins to power up for its final phase, as the team struggle to stop Philip from activating New Dawn before it's too late.

E6The End of the Future (2)

Jun 26, 201152m★ 9.0

Matt and Abby go through New Dawn's Anomaly on a rescue mission for Connor into the barren, Predator-ruled wastelands of the future, while back in the present, the future apocalypse looms closer as New Dawn spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Jess and Lester face problems of their own when the ARC is invaded by Mutated Future Predators.

About Primeval

Primeval is a sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure, drama series on ITV1. The show first aired on Feb 10, 2007 and currently has 5 seasons and 36 episodes. Primeval has ended. It has a rating of 7.5/10 based on 355 votes. The cast includes Ciarán McMenamin, Ben Mansfield, Andrew-Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Alexander Siddig. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines.