Prehistoric Park

• Nigel Marven
• Rod Arthur
• Suzanne McNabb

Prehistoric Park - extinction was yesterday is a six -part television series in the style of a documentary of 3D animation forge Impossible Pictures, which was erstausgestrahlt from 22 July and 29 October 2006, ITV and Animal Planet. Each episode has a running time of 50 minutes.

The program is narrated by David Jason in the original English and Nigel Marven embodied. The theme of the series is that Nigel travels back through a time portal into different geological epochs, in order there to capture live specimens of extinct animals to bring them into the present and to place them in a game reserve, known as Prehistoric Park, to give them there a chance to live. The Prehistoric Park is a huge area between the mountains and the sea with many different habitats. The reason for choosing this area is that outbreaks be stopped at an early stage through the mountains or the sea. There is also the suitable habitat for nearly every animal.

Main Characters

• Nigel Marven (as himself ) - responsible for traveling to primitive times, to capture the animals and bring through the time portal. Usually played by himself, sometimes by Jamie Campbell
• Bob (Rod Arthur) - the park manager, for example, responsible for the construction of enclosures
• Suzanne McNabb (as herself ) - the vet the park
• Saba Douglas-Hamilton (as herself ) - a big cat specialist who with Nigel takes in the prehistoric South America in Episode 4 to catch a Smilodon.

Episodes

• Episode 1 - Nigel travels back in time 65 million years ago, to save a Tyrannosaurus from extinction in prehistoric Montana. He brings two tyrannosaurs babies through the portal. He also brings a young male Triceratops and a herd of ostrich -like Ornithomimus the present.
• Episode 2 - Nigel travels back to the end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago, to save one of the last mammoth. He manages a wounded mammoth back to health and to protect them from the Ice Age hunters, so that it can go through the portal. The mammoth comes later, along with a herd of elephants. It can also save on another trip into the past Elasmotherium.
• Episode 3 - Nigel travels back to the prehistoric China the early Cretaceous period 125 million years ago. He wants to bring a Microraptor in the park. He manages to save four copies. In addition, the nasty surprise park manager Bob, Nigel brings even a herd of titanosaurs with in the park.
• Episode 4 - Nigel travels one million years back in the prehistoric South America to catch a Smilodon. He manages two copies (one male and one female ) to bring into the present. He also brings the terror bird Phorusrhacos.
• Episode 5 - Nigel travels back to the Carboniferous 300 million years ago to bring in what is now Scotland a giant dragonfly of the species Meganeura the present. He also brings a giant scorpion and a Arthropleura to the park.
• Episode 6 - Nigel wants to find the giant crocodile Deinosuchus for the park. To this end, he travels 75 million years into the past of North America, in the primeval Texas. It can save an adult specimen. Furthermore, he rather unintentionally ( and to the chagrin of Bob's ) is a Troodon with the present.

Criticism

The series holds the most part on scientifically proven facts, as far as the body size of the animals, for example. However, unassigned, conjectures are presented as facts. For example, the Microraptor is the ability of the gliding assumed, which is still controversial among experts.