10 TV Fates Worse Than Death
9. Primeval - Marooned In The Pliocene Epoch
Back in the day, Primeval was an excellent source of family-friendly Saturday night entertainment. You could sit back, relax, and watch a bunch of soldiers and scientists protect twenty-first century Britain from an invasion of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Brilliant.
Oh, and you could also witness a character you'd grown to love over the course of a season getting stranded millions of years in the past with no way of returning home. Exciting dino action and existential trauma: ideal family viewing!
A.R.C. team leader Danny Quinn travels back in time to the dawn of humanity in order to prevent rogue scientist Helen Cutter from poisoning the first humans thus ensuring the human race never evolves. Danny succeeds in his mission, killing Helen by getting a velociraptor to punt her off a cliff (yay!), but gets trapped in the past when the wormhole that's supposed to take him back home abruptly closes before he reaches it (oh no).
We only briefly see Danny's reaction, but it's one of utter desperation and fear, knowing that he is trapped out of time forever. You'd almost rather the raptor had knocked him over the cliff, too.