History Series / PrehistoricPark

''Prehistoric Park'' (2006) is a 6 episode {{Science Fiction}} {{Mockumentary}} MiniSeries from Creator/{{ITV}}, created by the same company (Impossible Pictures Ltd.) that produced the famous ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' franchise, to which this show can either be seen as a SpiritualSuccessor or a SpinOff. In turn, the hit ScienceFiction series ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' can be viewed as a very loose successor to ''Prehistoric Park''.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed The typical example for a dinosaur documentary]], the blast front of the asteroid impact. In this case, it's pretty obvious no one's outrunning something moving a hundred times faster than sound waves, the challenge is for Nigel to lure two young ''Tyrannosaurus'' into a time portal before the rapidly approaching ash cloud reaches them in a few moments.

* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: In the first episode Nigel goes back 65 million years to collect two Tyrannosaurs, hours before the asteroid hits. It's true that he collects animals that are about to die anyway to avoid altering history too much, but would it have hurt to have gone at least a month before the asteroid hit? Later episodes avert this: he travels back to the Cretaceous two more times, but both times many millions of years before the asteroid.

** AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Many of the rescued prehistoric animals tend to play this trope straight, even though all of them were only recently plucked out of the wild. Martha, the ''Ornithomimus'' flock, the titanosaurs, the ''Arthropleura'', and even the carnivorous terror bird all act surprisingly docile once they are brought to the park and can be safely handled by the people working there. Martha is a particularly notable example, as she had prior and ''bad'' experiences with humans (who killed her sister), and as any elephant handler will tell you, even elephants raised in captivity are, at best, highly unpredictable, never mind a wild one. Out of the herbivorous residents, only Theo and the ''Elasmotherium'' avoid this trope, [[TemperCeratops mainly due to]] [[RhinoRampage certain stereotypes]].

* MisplacedWildlife: "Super Croc" takes place in Texas but ''Albertosaurus'' or ''Troodon'' (or rather ''Stenonychosaurus'') are only known from much further north in Alberta and Montana. ''Teratophoneus'' or ''Bistahieversor'' and ''Talos'' would be better fits respectively, but none of them were described yet in 2006. Averted with ''Parasaurlophus'', who isn't known from Texas specifically, but has been found in the neighboring state of New Mexico.