While dinosaurs are still reasonably important to us, there was a time in our youth when they were the most fascinating things in the world. Director Steven Spielberg is looking to recapture a little of that excitement with his new TV series, Terra Nova, about a family from the future who time-travels back to the distant past, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. While that sounds awesome to us -- we've been digging the British dino-series Primeval, which will return to TV in 2011 -- we're worried that it won't catch on with today's video-game-obsessed youth. So here's some advice we've plucked from the time stream of some Mesozoic Era TV shows that might ensure Terra Nova doesn't face extinction.

Tags: Dinosaurs, Land of the Lost, Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, Prehistoric Park, Primeval, Terra Nova