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The Worst Episodes of Primeval

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The Worst Episodes of Primeval

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures...

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  1. Background image for The Worm
    7.1/10(306 votes)

    #1 - The Worm

    S4:E5

    The team go to investigate a flunctuating Anomaly signal at a seaside village, and Matt and Abby struggle to contain a fast and deadly Labyrinthodont's rampage while Connor tries to uncover the secret behind the fluncuating Anomaly signal. Meanwhile, Emily has been captured by Ethan, and Matt attempts to track and save her before it's too late.

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  2. Background image for Lockdown
    7.2/10(309 votes)

    #2 - Lockdown

    S4:E3

    When an Anomaly opens at a theatre, a group of mysterious Anomaly travellers come through, followed by fast and deadly Tree Creepers. Meanwhile, Connor helps Philip design a new security system for the ARC, but it goes horribly awry and sends the ARC into lockdown, and time is running out for Connor to free Rex and Philip before the system suffocates them.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  3. Background image for Breakfast Club
    7.2/10(307 votes)

    #3 - Breakfast Club

    S4:E4

    Matt, Connor and Becker investigate an Anomaly at a secondary school and struggle to save the remaining students from deadly, venomous Therocephalians. Meanwhile, Philip decides to have the ARC's captive creatures including Rex euthanized, prompting Abby to try and smuggle them to safety before it's too late.

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  4. Background image for Dragon Tales
    7.4/10(357 votes)

    #4 - Dragon Tales

    S3:E7

    Danny and the team face a Medieval-esque incursion when a Dracorex comes through an Anomaly pursued by a Medieval knight, who - believing he has followed the creature into Hell - causes calamity around modern London as the team try to reason the truth to him. Meanwhile, Connor tries to buy Rex back from Jack's greedy friend.

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  5. Background image for Crocodile Fears
    7.5/10(380 votes)

    #5 - Crocodile Fears

    S3:E1

    The team investigate when an Anomaly opens in an Ancient Egyptian artefact at the British Museum, and when a Pristichampsus comes through, Cutter, Abby and Jenny are sent into a race after the giant crocodilian through Central London. Meanwhile, Connor and sparky Egyptologist Sarah Page discover that the Anomaly, the artefact and the creature hold an incredible ancient secret.

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  6. Background image for Future Epidemic
    7.5/10(350 votes)

    #6 - Future Epidemic

    S3:E5

    Jenny and the team, with unwanted help from Danny, attempt to stop London from becoming engulfed by a pandemic when they face an incursion of a deadly, fast-spreading fungus from the future that turns its hosts into primal monsters. Meanwhile, Sid the Diictodon has escaped Connor's custody into the ARC and is causing calamity, and Jenny learns the truth about Claudia Brown.

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  8. Background image for Oh, Brother!
    7.5/10(347 votes)

    #7 - Oh, Brother!

    S3:E8

    Jack searches for answers about Abby's secret life, and gets chased through an Anomaly by a deadly Megopteran; forcing the team to go through on a rescue mission into the desolate, predator-filled ruins of the future.

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  9. Background image for Herd Logic
    7.5/10(328 votes)

    #8 - Herd Logic

    S3:E9

    While the rest of the team deal with a herd of Embolotherium that threaten a rural racing campsite, Danny goes on an infiltration mission to rescue the mysterious Eve from Johnson's forces. But when the team soon discover who Eve really is, her rescue from Johnson has disastrous consequences.

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  10. Background image for Be Inconspicuous
    7.5/10(325 votes)

    #9 - Be Inconspicuous

    S4:E2

    While Connor and Abby try to earn their old positions on the team back, Connor reunites with his old friend Duncan, who leads Connor to a series of homeless killings at a dock area that the team discover are the work of an elusive and deadly Kaprosuchus.

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    Director:Mark Everest
  11. Background image for The Brave Bride
    7.5/10(298 votes)

    #10 - The Brave Bride

    S4:E6

    The team investigate an Anomaly incursion at a rural manor house, and reunite with Jenny and discover that the manor is the location for her wedding in the morning; forcing the team to contain a pack of Hyaenodon while ensuring Jenny's soon-to-be-husband doesn't find out. Meanwhile, Jess and Becker are caught in Ethan's deadly trap.

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  12. Background image for A Gigantic Problem
    7.6/10(369 votes)

    #11 - A Gigantic Problem

    S3:E4

    As the team emotionally struggle to recover from the aftermath of Helen's attack, Jenny leads the team to a new Anomaly at an airport; where a Giganotosaurus or "G-Rex" threatens the crew of a Boeing-747, a news crew are attempting to document the incursion for the media, and Danny Quinn gives the reluctant team his unwanted help.

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    Director:Mark Everest
  13. Background image for Haunted House
    7.7/10(379 votes)

    #12 - Haunted House

    S3:E2

    Cutter's new Anomaly predictions lead Jenny, Connor and Abby to a reputedly haunted abandoned house, where they soon learn that the Anomaly incursion dates back fourteen years and the house is inhabited by a deadly Camouflage Beast. The team also have to deal with the antagonistic suspicions of Detective Constable Danny Quinn on their interest in the house.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  14. Background image for Medical Mayhem
    7.7/10(376 votes)

    #13 - Medical Mayhem

    S3:E3

    Cutter and the team head to a hospital to deal with an Anomaly and a Diictodon colony wreaking havoc on the hospital's power supply, and also have to help deliver a baby and stop a greedy journalist from getting proof of the creatures. Meanwhile, Helen Cutter and her clone army launch their attack on the ARC, and Helen reveals a secret about the future to Nick.

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    Director:Tony Mitchell
  15. Background image for For the Birds
    7.7/10(348 votes)

    #14 - For the Birds

    S3:E6

    When Johnson takes Lester's control over the ARC, the team are forced to flee into hiding from Johnson's forces at an abandoned rural military outpost, where they come under attack by a pack of bloodthirsty Terror Birds.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  16. Background image for Back from the Cretaceous
    7.8/10(368 votes)

    #15 - Back from the Cretaceous

    S4:E1

    A year after becoming marooned in the past, Connor and Abby return from the Cretaceous to a changed and upgraded ARC, but Connor accidentally brings a Spinosaurus back to the present with them.

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    Director:Mark Everest
  17. Background image for Surprising Visit
    7.8/10(316 votes)

    #16 - Surprising Visit

    S4:E7

    The team head to an old prison, where they discover an Anomaly that won't lock and is producing satellite Anomalies throughout the prison, which in turn makes it even harder for the team to track a Terror Bird loose in the prison. At the same time, Danny returns from the past with a warning for the team, Ethan's true identity is discovered, Emily is torn between Matt and the chance to return to her home, Matt reveals his secret, and Connor makes a terrible discovery.

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    Director:Mark Everest
  18. Background image for Underground Infestation
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Underground Infestation

    S1:E2

    When a pest controller is attacked in the London Underground and landed in hospital poisoned with venom, Cutter, Claudia and the team investigate and discover the Underground is infested with giant, Carboniferous spiders. Cutter and the team soon learn that the true culprit is not the spiders, but a giant centipede, and they are sent in a race against time to get the centipede's venom after it poisons Stephen. Meanwhile, Connor gets thrown off the team after telling two of his friends about the Anomalies, and attempts to earn the team's faith back in the fight against the giant centipede. At the same time, Cutter's suspicions that Helen is alive on the other sides of the Anomalies increases.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  19. Background image for Helen Makes Contact
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Helen Makes Contact

    S1:E3

    The team are called in to investigate when a lifeguard is eaten by a Mosasaur at a swimming pool. Cutter discovers that they are dealing with a mobile Anomaly when the Mosasaur and the lifeguard's vomited remains appear at a reservoir and a cellar floods and is invaded by a Hesperornis. The rest of the team also learn that Helen is alive and on the other side of the Anomaly, and so Cutter is forced to go through and confront the woman his wife has become.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  20. Background image for The Chase Continues
    8.0/10(358 votes)

    #19 - The Chase Continues

    S3:E10

    While Sarah and Becker deal with a Megopteran attack at Johnson's old HQ, Danny, Connor and Abby return to the future to stop Helen; the trio soon learn the truth behind Helen's master plan, and are sent on a race through the Anomalies to stop her before she ends humanity at its beginning.

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  21. Background image for The Prototype
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Prototype

    S5:E4

    The team learn the truth about New Dawn when Connor creates an artificial Anomaly in the ARC, and trouble soon erupts when the Anomaly unleashes swarming, carnivorous beetles from the future into the ARC, which trigger the lockdown but threaten to burrow out and swarm onto the modern world. The situation is only exacerbated when the beetles trigger Jess' deadly allergy to insect bites, and when Philip threatens to incinerate the entire ARC to stop the beetles.

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    Director:Robert Quinn
  22. Background image for Leapin' Lizards
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Leapin' Lizards

    S1:E1

    Eight years after his wife Helen mysteriously disappeared, Nick Cutter and a team of several others investigate reports of a large animal in the Forest of Dean, and discover that mysterious Anomalies in time and space are appearing and allowing prehistoric creatures to cross into the present day.

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    Director:Cilla Ware
  23. Background image for Future Foe
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Future Foe

    S1:E6

    When the original Anomaly in the Forest of Dean reopens and a string of disappearances plague the area, Helen Cutter returns with a warning for Nick Cutter and the team about the deadly, elusive new predator the team are struggling to track: it is not a creature from the past, but from the future. Nick and Helen both want to go on an Anomaly containment mission into the past to stop the future from altering it, which ends in terrible consequences.

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    Director:Jamie Payne
  24. Background image for The End of the Future (1)
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - The End of the Future (1)

    S5:E5

    With Convergence having finally arrived, while Becker and the entire ARC struggle to contain an increasing outbreak of numerous Anomalies and creatures, New Dawn begins to power up for its final phase, as the team struggle to stop Philip from activating New Dawn before it's too late.

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  25. Background image for Dodo Madness
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Dodo Madness

    S1:E4

    Helen Cutter directs the team to an Anomaly at a football stadium and escapes through, leaving behind a flock of Dodos. The team soon discover that the Dodos are host to a deadly parasite, and struggle to stop a pandemic when Tom is infected and - convinced that the government are incubating a mind-controlling biological weapon inside him - goes on the run from the team.

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  26. Background image for Jurassic Mall
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Jurassic Mall

    S2:E1

    As Cutter struggles with losing Claudia Brown and with the other consequences of the failed mission into the past and tries to get the team to see that history has been altered, the team are sent to a shopping mall to contain an infestation of deadly, ruthless Raptors. Arguments among the team intensify when Cutter wants all the Raptors tranquilised and sent back through the Anomaly alive.

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    Director:Jamie Payne

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Worm" is the worst rated episode of "Primeval". It scored 7.1/10 based on 306 votes. Directed by Robert Quinn and written by Adrian Hodges, John Fay, it aired on 1/20/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Lockdown".