Prehistoric Park

Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park title card
Genre	Science fiction / Docu-fiction
Starring	Nigel Marven
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	48 minutes
Production company(s)	Impossible Pictures
Release
Original network	ITV (2006) Animal Planet (2006–present) National Geographic Channel (2012–present)
Original release	22 July – 26 August 2006
Chronology
Related shows	Primeval Chased by Dinosaurs Sea Monsters Walking with Dinosaurs Walking with Beasts Walking with Monsters

Prehistoric Park is a six-episode docu-fiction television mini-series that premiered on ITV on 22 July 2006 and on Animal Planet on 29 October 2006. The program was produced by Impossible Pictures, who also created Walking with Dinosaurs. Each episode is an hour long including commercial breaks. Repeats of the show are broadcast in the UK on Watch.

The program is narrated by David Jason and presented by Nigel Marven. The fictional component is the theme that Nigel goes back to various geological time periods through a space-time portal, and brings back live specimens of extinct animals back to the present day, where they are exhibited in a wildlife park named Prehistoric Park, which is a big area between high steep mountains and ocean, with varied environments.

The story, which is told in the style of a documentary, focuses on naturalist Nigel Marven leading missions to find and collect extinct animals from the distant past by use of a time machine. The animals are then placed in the confines of Prehistoric Park, a private wildlife park that is situated in a dry, mountainous region of an unspecified part of the world. Marven's core motivation in the series is to defy extinction and to give select extinct species a second chance at life.

There are various other staff members, but none of their names have been given. One of the more prominent is Suzanne's blonde assistant, who appears in all episodes except episode 1.

When the animals are brought back to the park, they are placed into a nearby enclosure. The enclosures are named after the extinct animals that they are housing.

Animals seen in the wild:

Asterisk indicates animals brought to the park.

Episode 1: T-Rex Returns

Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking

Episode 3: Dinobirds

Episode 4: Saving the Sabre-Tooth

Episode 5: The Bug House

Episode 6: Supercroc

ITV's Prehistoric Park was created by the makers of a series of BBC documentaries that also include:

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