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Terra Nova
- Metascore64
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
A family is selected to leave the dying Earth and travel back to prehistoric times, where there is an opportunity to create a new and better civilization, but after their arrival they learn that the idyllic new settlement holds many dangers.
- Metascore64
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
A family is selected to leave the dying Earth and travel back to prehistoric times, where there is an opportunity to create a new and better civilization, but after their arrival they learn that the idyllic new settlement holds many dangers.
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