Lets kick off with good old Doctor Who which, as you can well guess, has featured prehistoric action a number of times over its 52-year run. Now for a few shows that have featured guest appearances from dinosaurs in specific episodes. The dinosaurs (which included a T-rex named Grumpy and a Brontosaurus called Dopey) were achieved with a mix of puppets and stop-motion, which was costly and time-consuming and meant that a lot of footage was re-used on a regular basis. A lot of respected science fiction writers and scripters contributed to show, including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, Norman Spinrad and Tribble creator David Gerrold.
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The series was the brainchild of kids TV-producing hit factory duo Sid and Marty Krofft, best known for the surreal HR Pufnstuf. Its a classic stranded family scenario, only this time the family the Marshalls find themselves in a parallel fantasy world of dinosaurs and intelligent lizard creatures. But in the US Land Of The Lost is a bona fide cult phenomenon, endlessly repeated in syndication. Actually, since that film was a monumental flop, it meant pretty much nothing afterwards too. Land Of The Lost meant nothing in the UK until the 2009 Will Ferrell film. Often the FX were very impressive too from massive monsters like the mammoth and the Gigantosaurus to smaller guys including a whole bunch of insects and even a prehistoric dodo! Prev of 22 Next Prev of 22 Next
While some other shows mentioned here would ration appearances of their monsters, Primeval knew who its stars were. To its credit, the show did well to stretch its inherently limited monster-of-the-week format in a decent show.
Then Professor Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and his motley team of scientists, security grunts and pop stars would track them down and try to herd them back into the anomaly before it closed. Oddly, they would often emerge in a near deserted Docklands on a dreary Sunday morning. Thats why whenever an sparkly anomaly appeared in their prehistoric landscape their first instinct was to run right into the blimmin thing. Why travel into the past to see dinosaurs when a temporal anomaly can bring dinosaurs to you? Primeval taught us something about dinosaurs we never knew before: they love shiny things.
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