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Primeval - Season 3

Series: Primeval

4.5

(116)

Episodes

Rating

TVPG

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter and his team struggle to keep the looming disaster secret while dealing with savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes.

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Episodes

1. Episode 1

50m

When an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics comes to the British Museum, an anomaly opens in a mysterious monument called the Sun Cage. A creature emerges from it - a kind of monstrous crocodile that can run on two legs. The team is joined by the ARC's new Head of Security, Captain Becker, and an archaeologist from the Museum, Sarah Page. The race is on to track the creature down before it hits the streets of London.

2. Episode 2

50m

Cutter's research leads to a prediction about where the next anomaly will appear. But when Jenny, Connor and Abby check out the location, all they find is an abandoned house. They wait to see if an anomaly will appear, but get more than they bargained for when they discover a camouflage beast from the future is living in the house. They also have to deal with a cop, Danny Quinn, who takes an instant dislike to them.

3. Episode 3

50m

Some cute but surprisingly dangerous burrowing creatures called Diictodons nearly cause a disaster at a hospital when an anomaly opens from the Permian era. Calamity is averted by the team, which manages to get the creatures back to their own time while simultaneously delivering a human baby. Meanwhile, Helen and her army of Cleaner Replicas attack the ARC.

4. Episode 4

50m

The largest anomaly the team has yet encountered opens at an airport and a Giganotosaurus comes through. Affectionately known as a G-Rex, it is like a T-Rex but bigger, meaner and more dangerous. The team has their work cut out as they try to rescue a crew trapped in a 747 and get this mighty predator back through the anomaly.

5. Episode 5

50m

The team faces one of its most unusual and dangerous of threats, a deadly flesh-eating fungus. The fungus literally takes over any human who comes into contact with it, turning the unfortunate victim into a hideous shell of their former self, intent only on spreading the fungus further. Can the team find a way to stop it before it is too late?

6. Episode 6

50m

The team is investigating a mysterious artefact when the ARC is invaded by a Government official backed by the military in search of it. Taking refuge in a mysterious old hut in some woods, the team finds itself besieged by birds from the Pliocene era when an anomaly opens nearby. Phorusrhacids may look like armored ostriches in shape, but they are infinitely more dangerous.