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TheLost World (officially Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World) is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT in April).[1] It ran for three seasons, the final two of which aired in syndication in the United States, before it was cancelled in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. The final episode ended with an unresolved cliffhanger. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets in 2004.

"At the dawn of the 20th century" a band of British adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor George Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of an isolated lost world. The group, some mismatched enthusiasts with less than selfless reasons for making the journey, consists of Challenger, Professor Arthur Summerlee, Marguerite Krux, Major Lord John Richard Roxton and Edward T. Malone.

Their hot air balloon crashes in the Amazon rainforest on an uncharted plateau where prehistoric creatures survive. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton, whose parents disappeared eleven years before. Her family was part of a research group known to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. Together, the group fights to survive against carnivorous dinosaurs, vicious Neanderthals, a race of lizard men, and other perils as they search for a way to escape. Each episode detailed two separate, simultaneous adventures.

The new season would have also revealed that Marguerite and Roxton were always meant to be together from the beginning. As Veronica is the new Protector of the Plateau, Marguerite is a descendant of Morrighan, a druid priestess who once served as "third power" within the Trion forces between the Protectors and the line of Mordren. As with her ancestor, Marguerite would have been a free will agent allowed to choose good or evil in the battle against power over the Plateau. Roxton, Marguerite's knight, protector, and future groom, would have been her personal guide so that Marguerite would ultimately choose "good". Because Morrighan's line descends from a child born to a Protector and the line of Mordren and Veronica's bloodline is of the Protectors, Veronica and Marguerite are cousins genetically, but spiritually are sisters. Roxton's role as Marguerite's modern day knight originates with his childhood and ancestral home having close proximity to Avebury, nearly twenty miles from Stonehenge. Finn would have been revealed to be Malone's great-great-granddaughter, her grandmother being the Amazon Phoebe (also played by Lara Cox) whom Malone had sex with in the episode "Amazons".[2] The series would have been resolved with Malone and Veronica together as a couple and staying in Avalon, while Challenger uses his teleportation invention from the episode "Finn" to send himself, Roxton, Marguerite, and Summerlee to London, but travels forward in time to the year 2005 where they are warmly greeted by the zoological society due to Malone having sent them a letter explaining when they would arrive.

The first part of the series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired in syndication. The original airing was uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.[4][5][6][unreliable source?][7][unreliable source?][8][unreliable source?]

Following the limited run on PPV, the first broadcast TV run of the series ran weekly in syndication on hundreds of stations in the United States,[9] including the WB 100+ group stations, a joint Time Warner and Tribune Broadcasting entity. Because of syndex rules each episode aired one week later on WGN America,[10][11] and on the Space TV network in Canada.[12][13] The series continued to be rerun in daily strip form in the United States on the Time Warner owned TNT in the early morning hours Monday through Friday.[14]

In addition to the English language broadcasts in North America and Europe, the series has aired around the globe in other languages. The series aired in Europe on the SciFi Channel Europe.[15] The series was also dubbed in Bengali in Bangladesh and was subsequently aired on ATN Bangla in 2009.[16]

During the original run the weekly syndicated primary and backup satellite wildfeed for the series utilized the Galaxy 26 satellite located at 93 West longitude.[17][18] As of 2022 the series is airing on South African channel SABC 3 on weekdays at around 01:00 in the early hours of the morning.

The series was removed from the schedule after the DVD release in the United States after a third Time Warner company, New Line Television, sold the DVD region 1 distribution rights to Image Entertainment.The DVD region 2 distribution rights were sold to Liberation Entertainment.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World was a syndicated adventure show loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. It premiered in the fall of 1999 and ran for three seasons before being cancelled in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Edward Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of a lost world isolated from the rest of the modern world. The British expedition team consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey begin their trip under less than ideal conditions. The intrepid band consists of:

During their expedition, their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric 'Plateau'. The group then meets up with Veronica Layton (Jennifer O'Dell) whose parents had disappeared on another expedition eleven years before. The group (later joined by a woman named Finn (Lara Cox), near the end of the third season) must find their way to civilization through the various pre- (and, in some cases, post-) historic landscapes and civilizations that have been preserved on the Plateau.

A-D Action Girl: Veronica Layton, so very much. Marguerite Krux isn't a physical fighter, but she knows how to wield a gun and a whip. And Finn is an expert survivalist. Adam and Eve Plot: Kaya, a water nymph, uses Malone for one. It doesn't stop Veronica from getting the wrong idea. Adaptational Nationality: Malone is American, but the character was Irish in the original novel. Adaptational Nice Guy: While the book version of Challenger was just as heroic, he was also known for his abrasive, narcissistic and explosive temperament, which is not true of this Challenger. Adventurer Archaeologist: Professor Challenger. Age Lift: "Time After Time" establishes Roxton as being 36/37 years of age. In the original story, he was in his mid-forties. All Just a Dream: Used in an episode to great effect: Malone undertakes a storyteller ritual of the Zanga, and ends up trapped in a dreamworld of his creation. Amazon Brigade: The episode "Amazons" had a society of female warriors, whom Veronica has a prior history with. They are actually quite pleasant to the men at first, then they are held captive. And You Were There: One episode had Malone find himself in London and facing Jack the Ripper, and his friends are other people notable to the story. There's another episode with featured the same plot with the Western theme. Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever Badass in Distress: It's a rare episode when one of the explorers isn't kidnapped or held hostage or horribly injured in some fashion. Beam-O-War: Happened between a Wicked Witch and her two repentant apprentices. The apprentices win when Malone interferes and knocks the witch's wand out of her hand. Bee People: There is a woman raised by a hive of intelligent bees. It's the daughter of the medicine woman who treats Summerlee. She dies when the hive is lit on fire. Becoming the Costume: In one episode, the heroes take shelter from the rain in a castle. When they decide to change out of their wet clothes into the formal outfits they find, they become possessed by the original wearers, who were evil. Fortunately, Challenger didn't do this, leaving him free to save the day. When the power was ended, they all ended up naked. Betty and Veronica: To Malone, Gladys is Betty and Veronica is... well, Veronica. Except for blonde hair and physical beauty, both couldn't be more different from each other. Gladys is a rich, spoiled, vain and materialistic young woman, who lives in London at the beginning of the 20th century, and demanded that Malone go on an expedition so that he could impress her and prove himself worthy of her love. Meanwhile, Veronica has spent her entire life in a forest, learning to survive, with a Fur Bikini and an affectionate, sweet and friendly personality, who loves Malone for her sensitive personality and his courage. Though not in a love triangle, Veronica (the Betty) and Marguerite (the Veronica) otherwise fit this trope to a T. Black Vikings: In one episode, several modern people are transported to the plateau. Even though the main characters are from the start of the 20th century, they don't seem to notice that the helicopter pilot is black and treat him like anyone else. There's also the black giant, whom Marguerite makes out with. She did it to escape, but seems breathless and excited from the kiss. Later, she comments the giant was charming when he wanted to be. Seems she was somewhat attracted to him. It should also be noted that all of the characters who appeared in the original novel are portrayed as far less, if at all, bigoted toward people of color and other cultures in general than their literary counterparts were. Bold Explorer: Professor Challenger Bound and Gagged: Happens to Veronica surprisingly often. Broken Bird: Marguerite qualifies. Even though she grew up alone because her adoptive parents did not seem to want her, her guilt over the death of her best and only friend before she came to the Plateau, her involvement in the war and her dealings with more than shadowy business contacts, she also has never seen her own birth certificate and sports abilities (like being able to read and speak any language no matter how old it is) that she doesn't understand and seem to frighten her. Butt-Monkey: Marguerite, particularly in the earlier season. Being the Alpha Bitch, it was more than a little cathartic. Cannibal Tribe: Or Tribes - to be exact. If our explorers are not attacked by ape-men, raptors, the villain of the week or get in danger because of some stupid stunt, one can always count on cannibals to add some spices to the party. Captive Push: One episode had a hunter take an interest in Veronica as a trophy to take back to Europe. He lures her down then has one of his cohorts snap a collar at the end of a pole around her neck, ties her hands then begins marching her out of the valley, Veronica mouthing off the entire way and trying to work her bindings loose enough to escape. Cat Fight: Veronica gets drugged to mindless order following in one episode which nearly leads to her killing one of her friends. Marguerite appears in the right moment and gets into a fight with her. It ends in Mud Wrestling as they land in the only mud pit around. And of course, Veronica wins the fight. Chess with Death: A female Death offers Roxton several chances to win back his life. Roxton accepts that he died and actually requests that she just claim him, but she says that if he doesn't try, his friend's lives will be forfeit, too. Death uses an hourglass to give the games a time limit, and Roxton fails at each one: Retrieve a diamond from a maze made of walls of fire (ran out of time), Retrieve a raptor egg (he tripped and dropped it), Guess which bowl holds oysters (guessed wrong). Each time he loses, Death captures another one of his friends. The final game is: shoot his own girlfriend, or himself. Roxton shoots the hourglass, making it impossible for the game to end. Death concedes victory to Roxton, and lets them all go. Cowboy Episode: When Roxton happens upon a hangman's noose dangling from a lonely tree in the jungle in "Dead Man's Hill", he's suddenly transported back to the American West where he finds himself at the end of the rope. Crossover: Averted. One of the scripts for the unmade fourth season would have featured the group meeting Conan Doyle's most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. Another proposed episode would have had appearances from Frankenstein and his monster. Culture Chop Suey: There are an absolute ton of cultures mishmashed on the plateau together. It might be easier to name the ones not represented. Deadpan Snarker: All of them surprise with snark at one point or another but Marguerite can always be counted on for saying something snarky. Roxton usually knows a clever response to whatever she says. Death World: The plateau. Defrosting Ice Queen: Marguerite. In the beginning she appears cold and uncaring. She is perfectly willing to sell Veronica for a way home of the Plateau and usually seems to not care about any of the others. And then one looks closer. She grows to care about the others a lot. When Summerlee gets stung by a gigantic bee and hallucinates about his dead wife she resumes that role to comfort him, she looks out for Malone and Veronica, helps Challenger and becomes Roxtons confidante whenever the memory of his brother breaks him. But although she learns to trust every expedition member with her life she's still careful about letting them know about her past and why she really came to the Plateau. Dinosaurs Are Dragons: One episode featured a dinosaur that could breathe fire. Does Not Like Guns: In one episode, Roxton fights a ninja, and is getting his ass handed to him. When he tries to draw his gun, the ninja knocks it away and says, "Guns are a coward's weapon." Veronica also disdains guns, and only uses them to scare people. Dress Hits Floor: In "More Than Human", a mistress tries to seduce Roxton by taking off her dress this way in front of him. He walks over to her and puts her dress back up around her as she complains. Notable in that it was shot in both a Dress Hits Floor and uncensored version.

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