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it with our son to make sure it wasn't unsuitable for him. I was intending to just sit with my little disabled daughter on my lap and have a snooze while it was on. Because I was sure she wouldn't want to watch all that scary stuff, I had the Webshots screen saver that she loves to watch on our laptop set up where she could focus on that instead. But, from the start, I was drawn into the series in spite of myself. My son was delighted and my husband amused - knowing that I'm normally just not into that sort of thing at all.

When the series finished its arguably greatest fan began talking constantly about how sad he was that it wasn't going to be on any more and that he could hardly wait for it to come out on DVD. His laments and expressions of longing were an accompaniment to every meal. I seem to remember saying something stupid about possibly getting it for him for Christmas. However, our enterprising and computer-savvy young man didn't waste any time in finding it on ebay himself and kept pleading with me - very convincingly - to bid on it for him. I was informed that I would be his best friend forever if I bought it for him. I had kind of hoped to hold a position close to that anyway.

Well that boy can be pretty irresistible when I really don't have a good reason to refuse him his heart's desire. So he had it long before Christmas and of course he's watched it many times. He could possibly already go on one of those quiz shows for people who specialise in knowledge about a particular subject and get any question they threw at him about "Primeval" right!

Our son lives with dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures every day! I don't mean his parents either! Yes, we are at the older end of the parenthood age spectrum - but I don't really think that's had any influence on his fanaticism about these ancient relics!

Being incredibly literate since he was much younger, he not only has many books about dinosaurs (and borrows more from his school library) but he reads copious amounts of material about them online. I will never forget the time before he even started kindergarten, when he was staring with fascination at the computer screen and suddenly made one of the most hilarious statements I've ever heard from such a young child. "Oh!" he said, "This one lived in the cretaceous period!" My husband and I looked at each other and burst out laughing. Not only had neither of us even heard of the cretaceous period until then - but we wondered how that meant anything to him

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