Prehistoric Planet
Prehistoric Planet is a re-version of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts series, done by Discovery Channel and NBC for the Discovery Kids network. Though the producers kept nearly all of the original animation, David Bock and Peter Sherman wrote new text for a younger target audience, narrated by Ben Stiller and Christian Slater, and interspersed the scenes with occasional quizzes to act as bumpers around the commercial breaks. New music was incorporated as well. Most marketing and advertising for the series focused on the dinosaur episodes. In addition, the final episode, the Prehistoric Planet Top 10 focused solely on the creatures from Walking With Dinosaurs. Some small content edits were done to allow original programs to fit in the 23 minutes of non-commercial time that a normal half-hour program has on network TV. At present, only Season 1 has been released on home video and DVD.
Cast
Ben Stiller
Narrator (voice)
Christian Slater
Narrator (voice)
Seasons
Dripping with kid friendly sarcasm, this series presents various animals from several periods that thrived during the age of dinosaurs and explains how they thrived, reproduced and co-existed.
E1Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Oct 5, 2002
Meet the animals of the Triassic with a lesson on how to distinguish reptiles from dinosaurs from proto-mammals. Problem is, several critters are somewhere in between.
E2Jurassic Giants
Oct 12, 2002
A diplodocus wanders into a forest where she lays as many as a hundred eggs. Even in the relative safety of the forest the young diplodocus are at risk from various carnivores such as ornitholestes and allosaurus even before they hatch. But in a few year some grow large enough on the lush forest vegetation to join the herd migrating on the prairie.
E3Jurassic Beach
Oct 19, 2002
With the land full of dinosaurs and the sea full of fish some reptiles returned to the sea when they grew to dinosaur proportions to become top predators. Still, life has it's challenges.
E4Sky King
Oct 26, 2002
An aging ornithocheirus braves the elements to on a migrational flight or 9,000 miles in hopes of mating. Meanwhile a herd of iguanodon brave hungry predators migrating to their mating grounds.
E5Dinosaurs of the Ice Forest
Nov 2, 2002
Antarctica sported lush forests that supported a variety of dinosaurs and other animals during the Cretaceous. But that doesn't mean winter was any fun.
E6Death of the Dinosaurs
Nov 9, 2002
All good things must come to an end and that includes big hungry monster like T. Rex. But until then the dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous live out their live of eating, fighting and reproducing.
Storyline
Prehistoric Planet is a re-version of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts series, done by Discovery Channel and NBC for the Discovery Kids network. Though the producers kept nearly all of the original animation, David Bock and Peter Sherman wrote new text for a younger target audience, narrated by Ben Stiller and Christian Slater, and interspersed the scenes with occasional quizzes to act as bumpers around the commercial breaks. New music was incorporated as well. Most marketing and advertising for the series focused on the dinosaur episodes. In addition, the final episode, the Prehistoric Planet Top 10 focused solely on the creatures from Walking With Dinosaurs. Some small content edits were done to allow original programs to fit in the 23 minutes of non-commercial time that a normal half-hour program has on network TV. At present, only Season 1 has been released on home video and DVD.
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