Series synopsis
The Lost World is an Australian action & adventure drama television series that premiered on Syndication on April 3, 1999. It ended on May 13, 2002. It was created by Catherine Millar, Colin Budds. It stars Peter McCauley, Rachel Blakely, William Snow and Michael Sinelnikoff.
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
Premise
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Peter McCauley as Professor George Challenger
- Rachel Blakely as Marguerite Krux
- William Snow as Lord John Roxton
- Michael Sinelnikoff as Professor Arthur Summerlee
- Jennifer O'Dell as Veronica Layton
- Natasha Beaumont as Qinaq
- Zoe Coyle as Kaya
- Henry Nixon as Bartholomew Thorne
Supporting cast
- Kristian Schmid as Thane
- Linal Haft as Lord Winston Churchill
- Jared Robinsen as Captain Marchbanks
- Rhys Muldoon as Blum
- Dominic Purcell as Condillac
- William deVry as Ned Malone
- Laslo Racz as Chief
- Victor Parascos as Solomon
- Chevonne Duncan as Cynara
- Scott McLean as Adam
- Rachel Leigh Anderson as Slave Girl
- Simmone Mackinnon as Elura
Guest cast
- Natasha Beaumont as Qinaq
- Zoe Coyle as Kaya
- Henry Nixon as Bartholomew Thorne
- Kristian Schmid as Thane
- Linal Haft as Lord Winston Churchill
- Jared Robinsen as Captain Marchbanks
- Rhys Muldoon as Blum
- Dominic Purcell as Condillac
- William deVry as Ned Malone
- Laslo Racz as Chief
- Victor Parascos as Solomon
- Chevonne Duncan as Cynara
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 69 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 3 | February 4, 1999 | February 18, 1999 |
| Season 1 | 22 | April 3, 1999 | May 20, 2000 |
| Season 2 | 22 | October 7, 2000 | May 26, 2001 |
| Season 3 | 22 | October 20, 2001 | May 13, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Original Pilot | February 4, 1999 |
| 2 | The Adventure Begins | February 11, 1999 |
| 3 | Vampire | February 18, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Journey Begins Scientist and explorer George Challenger learns from a dying colleague of a prehistoric world and organizes an expedition to find it. |
April 3, 1999 |
| 2 |
Stranded Desperate to escape and more than a little greedy, Marguerite offers Veronica to a tribal chief in return for jewels and safe passage off the plateau for her group. |
April 3, 1999 |
| 3 |
More Than Human When Roxton is running from a tyrannosaur, the earth suddenly swallows him up; the party follows a river to an underground ocean. |
October 2, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
All or Nothing The friends emerge from battle to find that one of their number is lost, and goons have enslaved a village. |
October 7, 2000 |
| 2 |
Amazons While Roxton, Malone and Challenger are looking for a way off the plateau, Amazon women save them from an attack by a flock of pterodactyls. |
October 14, 2000 |
| 3 |
Tourist Season A plane full of 21st-century tourists crashes in the jungle, bringing with it dreams of rescue. |
October 21, 2000 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Out of the Blue There's no escape for the Challenger Expedition when Captain Askwith's mysterious airship explodes in a fiery crash. But moments later, when Challenger, Roxton, and Marguerite appear on a British air station in 1915 -- on the same day the airship was launched on its final mission -- they realize they truly have taken the place of the captain's original crew. After two years of struggling to escape the Plateau, Challenger and his friends must now fight to return to it by once again taking flight on the doomed dirigible. At the same time, Veronica appears on the Plateau, and in a shocking confrontation with Captain Askwith, realizes she has her own mission to complete: pursue Askwith and somehow return him to his ship. |
October 20, 2001 |
| 2 |
The Travelers While searching for the missing Malone, Marguerite is saved from a cannibal attack by a dashing trio of bandits. Their leader, the elegant Francois Locke, invites her to join his band of thieves. Marguerite declines his offer, only to be presented with proof that Locke can give her what she desires most - a way off the Plateau. Meanwhile, as Challenger, Roxton, and Veronica search for Marguerite, they discover evidence that the bandits are something other than human. Even worse, they receive a ransom note from them, demanding Marguerite's jewels in exchange for her release. But when they deliver the ransom, they're shocked to see that Marguerite isn't a prisoner at all - she appears to have joined Locke's group! |
October 27, 2001 |
| 3 |
An Eye for an Eye While exploring a mysterious dinosaur bone yard, Roxton is attacked by a charging Ttriceratops and kills it, not out of necessity but in anger. However, the bone yard is actually a sacred animal burial ground, protected by a beautiful, half-human, half-dinosaur guardian named Oseena. To punish Roxton for his crime, Oseena curses him to become the prey in a hunt that will end only with his death. Shaken by his encounter with Oseena, Roxton returns to the treehouse, but the hunter tracks him relentlessly and then captures Marguerite, using her as bait to lure Roxton into a deadly trap. Roxton returns to Oseena's burial ground to confront the hunter and save Marguerite. |
November 3, 2001 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Syndication |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 3, 1999 |
| Last aired | May 13, 2002 |
| Runtime | 44 minutes |
| Status | canceled |
| Schedule | Monday |