Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy
2003 · BBC Four · 60 min · 1 season
S01E03 · To Hell... and Back?
Tue, 23 Sept, 9:00 pm
In the final programme in the trilogy about travelling through the CGI enhanced prehistoric marine world, Nigel Marven visits the Jurassic period where the scary Liopleurodon holds sway, and then on to the Cretaceous to see "Hell's Aquarium", full of nasty creatures.
About
Renowned zoologist Nigel Marven plunges into the prehistoric deep to face some of the largest and most fearsome sea predators that ever existed – creatures so awesome, they make the great white shark look like a goldfish. Scour the depths of seven different prehistoric seas with Nigel as your guide – and marvel at the computer animation techniques that bring each aquatic world to life. Get up close and personal with creatures like the vicious sea scorpions of 450 million years ago, the armor-plated fish of the Devonian Period and a whale-chomping shark called Megalodon. Finally, wade out into the deadliest sea of all time – "Hell's Aquarium" of the late Cretaceous, an ominous body of prehistoric water that gets its name from its elevated water temperatures and the devilish creatures that call it home.
Episodes
- E01
Dangerous Seas
Tue, 9 Sept· 60 minFirst programme within this trilogy, about prehistoric life. Zoologist Nigel Marven time travels to the Ordovician, Devonian and Triassic. He finds many deadly creatures of the prehistoric oceans including sea scorpions, giant shelled squid and placoderms.
- E02
Into the Jaws of Death
Tue, 16 Sept· 60 minIn the second programme of this trilogy, time-travelling zoologist Nigel Marven continues his CGI enhanced journey through the prehistoric marine world. A visit to the Pliocene era provides an encounter with a giant shark called a Megalodon, whilst in the Eocene he is in search of an ancestral whale.
- E03
To Hell... and Back?
Tue, 23 Sept· 60 minIn the final programme in the trilogy about travelling through the CGI enhanced prehistoric marine world, Nigel Marven visits the Jurassic period where the scary Liopleurodon holds sway, and then on to the Cretaceous to see "Hell's Aquarium", full of nasty creatures.
Cast
Nigel Marven
Nigel Marven