Primeval - Complete Series 1-5 - 11-DVD Box Set ( Primaeval ) ( Primeval - Complete Series One - Five )

Primeval - Complete Series 1-5 - 11-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Primaeval
Alternate Title: Primeval - Complete Series One - Five
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1698 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Cilla Ware
Jamie Payne

Written By:
Tim Haines
Adrian Hodges

Actors:
Andrew Lee Potts ..... Connor Temple / ... (36 episodes, 2007-2011)
Hannah Spearritt ..... Abby Maitland / ... (36 episodes, 2007-2011)
Ben Miller ..... James Lester / ... (36 episodes, 2007-2011)
Juliet Aubrey ..... Helen Cutter (25 episodes, 2007-2011)
Ben Mansfield ..... Captain Becker (23 episodes, 2009-2011)
Lucy Brown ..... Jenny Lewis / ... (19 episodes, 2007-2011)
Douglas Henshall ..... Nick Cutter (16 episodes, 2007-2009)
Ciarán McMenamin ..... Matt Anderson (13 episodes, 2011)
Ruth Kearney ..... Jess Parker (13 episodes, 2011)
James Murray ..... Stephen Hart (13 episodes, 2007-2008)
Alexander Siddig ..... Philip Burton (13 episodes, 2011)
Laila Rouass ..... Sarah Page (10 episodes, 2009)
Jason Flemyng ..... Danny Quinn (9 episodes, 2009-2011)
Ruth Bradley ..... Emily Merchant (9 episodes, 2011)
Tim Faraday ..... The Cleaner / ... (8 episodes, 2008-2009)
Karl Theobald ..... Oliver Leek (7 episodes, 2008)
Naomi Bentley ..... Caroline (7 episodes, 2008)
Mark Wakeling ..... Capt. Tom Ryan / ... (6 episodes, 2007)
Belinda Stewart-Wilson ..... Christine Johnson (6 episodes, 2009)
Anton Lesser ..... Gideon (5 episodes, 2011)
Jonathan Byrne ..... Ethan Dobrowski (5 episodes, 2011)
Janice Byrne ..... April Leonard (4 episodes, 2011)
Robert Lowe ..... Jack Maitland (4 episodes, 2009)
James Bradshaw ..... Duncan (4 episodes, 2007-2011)
Alex McSweeney ..... Captain Wilder (4 episodes, 2009)
James Mellor ..... Scientist (4 episodes, 2007)
Jake Curran ..... Tom (3 episodes, 2007)
Ramon Tikaram ..... Mick Harper / ... (3 episodes, 2008-2009)
John Voce ..... Tim Parker (2 episodes, 2007)
Jack Gordon ..... Tony (2 episodes, 2009)
Kate Magowan ..... Eve (2 episodes, 2009)
Michael Wildman ..... Captain Ross (2 episodes, 2009)
Ruth Gemmell ..... Katherine Kavanagh (2 episodes, 2009)
Chris Wilson ..... Paramedic / ... (2 episodes, 2008-2009)

Synopsis:

******WARNING: The 4th Series in this DVD set are coded Region 4 only!!!****** Thrilling action, terrifying creatures and spellbinding special effects; this collection brings together all five series of the hit series Primeval. Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the past, and the future, to roam the modern world. Not knowing where the next anomaly will appear and what on earth will come out of it, the government grudgingly turns to evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter and his team of experts in ARC - Anomaly Research Centre. As the ARC team fight to save Earth from rampaging dinosaurs and deadly future predators, their work creates its own enemies, those eager to sabotage the project or harness the power of the anomalies. Special Features include The Making of Primeval Series One, Through the Anomoly by Andrew-Lee Potts, New Dawn The Making of the New Primeval, Audio Commentaries and more. As Seen on UKTV

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-10 February 2007
Evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter has still not come to terms with the disappearance of his wife Helen eight years ago. She is on his mind when he goes to the Forest of Dean with his friends Stephen Hart (an expert tracker) and Connor Temple (an archaeology student and avid conspiracy theorist) to investigate some reports of a large animal at large there. After finding some damage done by something large with claws they retire to a local hotel bar where Cutting is approached in a matter sure to get his immediate attention by Claudia Brown, a young employee of the Home Office, and the four set off back into the forest to try to find whatever made those claw marks and did that damage. Coincidentally, peroxide blonde Abby Maitland, a zoo keeper devoted to reptiles (especially lizards, iguanas, and chameleons), hears that day from her boss that, despite her dedication to her work, she'll soon be out of a job because of budget cuts. Meanwhile she takes on a visit to a local household on the edge of the Forest of Dean where a young boy has an unusual reptile pet that he found in the forest. This turns out to be a hitherto unknown species of flying lizard, so she sets off with the boy who intends to show her where he found it. Thus the protagonists of this series meet up in the forest and encounter their first Anomaly, and one or two of the dinosaurs that have arrived in the present day by walking through it. Brown has to call in the authorities and we meet James Lester, the arrogant Downing Street troubleshooter who "will be leading the response" of the British government to these discoveries. Indue course, Nick Cutter and a Special Forces minder step through the Forest of Dean anomaly, and discover that more than one person, including Helen Cutter, had indeed been in the prehistoric landscape on the other side and that at least one of them had not survived. Meanwhile, a carnivorous dinosaur rampages through a local school after hours, when the only people about are one small boy in detention, and the teacher minding him who (of course) is dismissive when he says "Miss, there's a dinosaur in the playground!" --- until, that is, it starts trying to smash its way into the classroom where they are cowering.

Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-17 February 2007
Connor and Abby join forces to investigate another anomaly suspected of being in the New Forest (Hampshire/Dorset). Meanwhile gigantic bugs (beetles? spiders? ancient...) attack people on the London Underground and Professor Cutter concludes that another anomaly has opened up, to a much earlier prehistoric era --- the carboniferous. After a special forces sortie, he is persuaded to allow Abby to join the team as they go to see for themselves after Lester has agreed (under protest) to stop trains through the affected tunnel section.

Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-24 February 2007
A prehistoric aquatic creature like a huge crocodile appears in a London swimming pool, eats a life guard, then vanishes. Later a special forces diver vanishes, but then the diver's bones turn up in a flooded basement in a town some way to the south west. Nick Cutter predicts that incidents will occur at places on a straight line through these two locations on the map of southern England. Eventually Cutter is allowed to go through an underwater anomaly, tethered by a safety rope a mile long. Finally, amid a prehistoric landscape, he meets his long missing wife.

Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4
Original Air Date-3 March 2007
Lester begins interrogating Helen Cutter in a high-tech Home Office maximum security wing, but gets nowhere; she demands that Nick be brought to her. Meanwhile Connor achieves his dream and moves in with Abby, to the amazement of his friends Tom and Duncan, who decide to put a tracker on him and thereby follow the team to a sport stadium where another anomaly has opened in the restaurant kitchens. Tom and Duncan manage to take a dodo home with them before they realize it has a very nasty bite.

Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5
Original Air Date-10 March 2007
Tension between Cutter and Lester continues, with Claudia Brown, as ever, caught in the middle. Stephen Hart reveals his connoisseur's ability to analyse by taste exotic animal dung. A golfer is savaged on the green at a deserted country hotel. Connor is still lodging with Abby, still at arm's length even after outstaying his one-week welcome by three more weeks, but still hopeful of romance. When summoned to the new scene of action, he accidentally takes Abby's tame flying green dinosaur Rex with him. This is not good, because the team soon discover that the prehistoric threat is now from the air. It is also greatly attracted by the scent of blood.

Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6
Original Air Date-17 March 2007
Missing people could be the work of a new creature that arrived via a rift in time from the future.
Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date-12 January 2008
Cutter grapples with Claudia Brown's disappearance whilst struggling to adjust to working with her replacement - Oliver Leek. Meanwhile, the team try to re-capture a pack of Raptors on the loose in the local shopping center.

Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2
Original Air Date-19 January 2008
An anomaly to a period before an oxygen-based atmosphere opens in an office tower.

Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date-26 January 2008
An outdoor adventure park is terrorized by a hungry saber-tooth tiger.

Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4
Original Air Date-2 February 2008
The new anomaly detector detects a new anomaly opening in the middle of the river Thames. When the team investigate they discover not one but two waterborne predators hunting in the murky depths of the river!

Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5
Original Air Date-9 February 2008
An anomaly in a drainage pipe leads a young girl chasing her dog into a bleak, sandy past landscape filled with burrowing monsters.

Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6
Original Air Date-16 February 2008
The 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.

Season 2, Episode 7: Episode #2.7
Original Air Date-23 February 2008
The conspiracy unravels and people working closely on the project die -- or do they?
Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Episode #3.1
Original Air Date-23 March 2009
A crocodilian, a creature from the Eocene period which was mistaken for a god and worshipped in ancient Egypt is released through an anomaly whist on display at an Egyptian exhibition at the British Museum. It kills the curator, Marion and flees across London, diving into the Thames. Cutter recruits Dr. Sarah page, Marion's assistant, to help his team retrieve it.

Season 3, Episode 2: Episode #3.2
Original Air Date-30 March 2009
The team discover a creature that can camouflage itself at an abandoned house. As they investigate, they cross paths with an interfering cop. Meanwhile, their headquarters is infiltrated by someone who should have been dead.
Primeval: Season 3: Episode 3 -- A clip from an episode of "Primeval," airing on BBC America.

Season 3, Episode 3: Episode #3.3
Original Air Date-6 April 2009
The team must dispose of a number of diictodons, cute-seeming but malevolent burrowing creatures who appear via an anomaly in a hospital, where they cause a power failure by biting through cables. Mick Harper, a nosey journalist, takes an interest in the team's work. The diictodons are disposed of but Helen Cutter makes a clone of her husband in order to enter the ARC and find out more about an artefact she has stolen.

Season 3, Episode 4: Episode #3.4
Original Air Date-18 April 2009
Whilst Lester appoints Jenny as temporary leader and Connor perfects his machine to close anomalies a giganotosaurus, a huge carnivorous dinosaur, appears in an aircraft hangar and eats a television crew summonsed by greedy reporter Harper and his editor. To the team's initial annoyance Danny Quinn arrives but proves his worth when they have to save a besieged air crew from the monster. Lester is suspicious that his boss Christine Johnson is conducting secret experiments in the Ark.

Season 3, Episode 5: Episode #3.5
Original Air Date-25 April 2009
An anomaly appears in the flat of unsympathetic millionaire Sir Richard Bentley,ultimately turning him into a flesh-eating monster,slowly evolving into a giant fungus. Sir James allows an enthusiastic Danny to replace Cutter at the ARC and,along with Connor,he destroys the former Sir Richard by exposure to extreme cold. Jenny sees an old photograph of herself from the days when she was Claudia and decides to move on.

Season 3, Episode 6: Episode #3.6
Original Air Date-2 May 2009
Sarah establishes the purpose of the artefact - it can predict the whereabouts of anomalies. Johnson, anxious to claim it for herself, deposes Sir James, causing the team to flee with it to a ramshackle safe house in deep woodland, where large and carnivorous prehistoric birds emerge through an anomaly to pursue them. Good teamwork sees off the predators and Johnson but Abby gets a shock due to her imbecile brother.

Season 3, Episode 7: Episode #3.7
Original Air Date-9 May 2009
An odd-looking, wounded dinosaur leaps through an anomaly in a scrapyard, pursued by a medieval knight, who thinks it is a dragon and causes havoc in the high street during a carnival, believing he is in Hell. Whilst Abby patches up the creature's wounds, Sarah steps back in time through the anomaly to discover that the knight is William de Mornay, seeking redemption for his sins by slaying a dragon and on her return persuades him to spare the dinosaur and return home. Connor meanwhile takes drastic action to retrieve Abby's pet Rex, lost in a card game by her stupid brother Jack.

Season 3, Episode 8: Episode #3.8
Original Air Date-16 May 2009
A 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 she has kept her job secret and is anxious to know what she really does, arrives at the site and is chased through the anomaly by the ant and its offspring. The team follow him into an urban wilderness where they are besieged in a bus by carnivorous monsters but manage to escape. Jack atones for his bad behaviour by telling Abby how much Connor loves her but Danny and James are disturbed to find that Johnson and her henchman Wilder also have access to anomalies and have brought a young woman back through one.

Season 3, Episode 9: Episode #3.9
Original Air Date-23 May 2009
A herd of rhinoceros-like creatures, embolotherium, come through a rift at a camp-site. Danny rescues Eve, the young woman Johnson and Wilder have brought from the future and takes her to the site where she saves the day with a device which creates an anomaly, through which the beasts return home. She is taken to the ARC where she is not who she first appears to be.

Season 3, Episode 10: Episode #3.10
Original Air Date-6 June 2009
Sarah and Becker battle giant insects who have come through the rift at Johnson's H.Q. whilst Abby, Connor and Danny pursue Helen Cutter through the anomaly she has created. Her plan is to travel back to Africa in the year four million B.C. in order to stop the evolution of human life. With Connor injured Danny faces her alone but has an unexpected ally to help him save the world. Can he make it back to his own time before the anomaly closes?
Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Episode #4.1
Original Air Date-1 January 2011
Connor and Abby struggle with life in the Cretaceous Period, meanwhile the A.R.C. has been rebuilt and updated with two new members.

Season 4, Episode 2: Episode #4.2
Original Air Date-2 January 2011
When Connor looks up old friends Duncan, he doesn't expect to find him obsessed with creature sightings. Warning him of the elusive dock creature, the pair track it down to the docks, only to find evidence of a fresh kill. With Abby and Matt arriving to help, they find the creature after a tense chase through a container yard. Will Connor's quick-thinking and bravery earn him back his place on the team?

Season 4, Episode 3: Episode #4.3
Original Air Date-8 January 2011
A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. As they attempt to escape, Matt inadvertently brings one of the group - Emily - back against her will. She promises to help him find the creature, in return for going back through the anomaly. In a frantic chase through the city, they track the creature down, only to discover the anomaly has closed, leaving Emily stranded.

Season 4, Episode 4: Episode #4.4
Original Air Date-15 January 2011
Whilst Abby is arguing with Burton,who wants to kill the menagerie,the team gets called to a school where a Therocephalian has come through a gateway and killed a young teacher. Unaware of his fate two nerdy boys in weekend detention accidentally lock the school's security system so that the ARC lads are unable to reach the anomaly. By the time Connor has rectified the system a a whole tribe of the creatures appear and have to be killed with a smoke bomb. Sir James stops Burton from disposing of the animals,making him Abby's hero though she is annoyed at Connor's lack of support,whilst Emily gets taken prisoner by Ethan.

Season 4, Episode 5: Episode #4.5
Original Air Date-22 January 2011
Abby 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 myth but a Labyrinthodont,come through a portal in a cave,accidentally opened by a farmer and her son,tipping waste acids. After its disposal Connor accepts a role in Burton's secret project. Matt traces Emily via the black box he has given her and saves her from being buried in a vault,the former burial place of Ethan's sweetheart Charlotte. However Ethan escapes .

Season 4, Episode 6: Episode #4.6
Original Air Date-29 January 2011
Doglike Hyenadons come through an anomaly in the basement of a stately home and when the team go to investigate they meet ex-ARC worker Jenny Lewis,who is about to get married in the hall. It is a true epiphany for Jennifer's groom,unaware of her background,as he and other terrified guests watch Jenny and her old colleagues push the creatures back through the portal. Jess saves Becker from being killed by a booby trap rigged up by Ethan,whose police record from 1900 shows him to be a wanted assassin and anarchist in his own time. Matt learns that Emily was once the subject of a marriage of convenience before promising his expiring father,Gideon,that he will catch Ethan.

Season 4, Episode 7: Episode #4.7
Original Air Date-5 February 2011
The ARC team gets called to a prison where they find themselves unable to control the anomalies and suspect that Ethan is manipulating them. Suddenly Danny emerges from one of the worm-holes and it transpires that Ethan is his brother Patrick,who went through an anomaly as a boy and for whom Danny has been searching ever since. He had assumed the name Ethan and appeared in different time schemes to wreak havoc and,as he returns through an anomaly,Danny goes after him to keep an eye on him. Before this Danny has warned that Burton knew Helen Cutter and is not to be trusted. This ties in with a revelation Matt makes to Emily before she returns to her own time.
Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: Episode #5.1
Original Air Date-24 May 2011

Season 5, Episode 2: Episode #5.2
Original Air Date-31 May 2011

Season 5, Episode 3: Episode #5.3
Original Air Date-7 June 2011

Season 5, Episode 4: Episode #5.4
Original Air Date-14 June 2011

Season 5, Episode 5: Episode #5.5
Original Air Date-21 June 2011

Season 5, Episode 6: Episode #5.6
Original Air Date-28 June 2011

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

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 10 January, 2012.