Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World Information

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. Premiered 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), it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To date, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets through 2004. The series continued to be rerun in the United States on TNT at 5:00AM EST Monday through Friday, until eventually that came to an end as well.

The series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired on syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.

Plot

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:

• Professor George Edward Challenger (Peter McCauley) "? The leader of the expedition, who hopes to prove his claims to the skeptical London Zoological Society.
• Professor Arthur Summerlee (Michael Sinelnikoff) "? The elderly member of the band and a colleague to George Challenger, who initially does not believe Challenger's claims about a lost world.
• Marguerite Krux (née Smith) (Rachel Blakely) "? The selfish financier of the expedition who goes along for her own reasons.
• Major Lord John Richard Roxton (William Snow) "? The nobleman with vast hunting experience, who accidentally killed his brother while trying to save him from an ape. He serves as protector of the group.
• Edward "Ned" T. Malone (David Orth) "? An American newspaper reporter, hoping to make a name for himself and impress his girl back home, if he survives the ordeal.

During their journey disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric plateau. There they find themselves trapped and isolated in this dangerous land. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton (Jennifer O'Dell) whose parents disappeared eleven years prior. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together "? along with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox) who from the year 2033 joins the band near the middle of season three "? the group fights to survive against fearsome dinosaurs, tribal headhunters, vicious ape-men, a race of Lizardmen led by Tribune (Jerome Ehlers), and other perils as they search for a way to escape. The stories usually worked out that two separate adventures were going on at the same time.

Episodes

See List of Lost World episodes for more information

Episode #	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3
1	The Journey Begins (Pilot pt. 1)	All or Nothing	Out of the Blue
2	Stranded (Pilot pt. 2)	Amazons	The Travelers
3	More Than Human	Tourist Season	An Eye for an Eye
4	Nectar	Stone Cold	True Spirit
5	Cave of Fear	Divine Right	The Knife
6	Salvation	Skin Deep	Fire in the Sky
7	Blood Lust	London Calling	Dead Man's Hill
8	Out of Time	The Prisoner	Hollow Victory
9	Paradise Found	The Games	A Witch's Calling
10	The Beast Within	The Source	Brothers in Arms
11	Creatures of the Dark	Trophies	Ice Age
12	Tribute	Voodoo Queen	The End Game
13	Absolute Power	The Guardian	Phantoms
14	Camelot	Under Pressure	The Secret
15	Unnatural Selection	The Outlaw	Finn
16	Time After Time	Quality of Mercy	Suspicion
17	Prodigal Father	Mark of the Beast	The Imposters
18	Birthright	Survivors	The Elixir
19	Resurrection	The Pirate's Curse	Tapestry
20	The Chosen One	The Visitor	Legacy
21	Prophecy	A Man of Vision	Trapped
22	Barbarians at the Gate	Into the Fire	Heart of the Storm (Series Finale)

Cast and crew

The list follows the credits order. The seasons during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in black. Note that the actors don't necessarily appear in every episode during their time as a main star.

When a starring actor also has appeared as a guest star during other seasons, this is marked in gray, with the number of guest appearances noted in italics. White square means the actor doesn't appear in that season at all.

Actor(s)	Character	Appearances
		Pilot	S 1	S 2	S 3
Peter McCauley	Professor George Edward Challenger
Rachel Blakely	Marguerite Krux
William Snow	Lord John Richard Roxton
Jennifer O'Dell	Veronica Layton
Michael Sinelnikoff	Professor Arthur Summerlee			1
David Orth	Edward 'Ned' T. Malone
Lara Cox	Finn
William deVry	Edward 'Ned' T. Malone

DVD releases

Image Entertainment has released all three seasons of The Lost World on DVD in Region 1.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date
Season 1	22	January 27, 2004
Season 2	22	April 20, 2004
Season 3	22	November 16, 2004

Trivia

Lara Cox appeared in the second half of the third season as Finn, but was never given credit in the opening credits. In the 2nd season episode "Amazons" she had a guest appearance as the Amazon "Phoebe".

William deVry played Ed Malone in the two-hour telefilm that preceded the series (the film was split into two episodes for syndication purposes). David Orth took over the role at the start of the series proper.

The character of Arthur Summerlee, as portrayed by Michael Sinelnikoff, was killed off in the first season finale, but returned once as a ghost during Season 2.

During the third season both David Orth and Jennifer O'Dell were absent from the series for several consecutive episodes, due in part to financial constraints.

The show was primarily filmed on the Gold Coast, near Brisbane, Queensland on Australia's east coast.

Several well-known Australian actors appeared as one off characters throughout the series, including Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Rebecca Gibney.

Malone having left several episodes earlier to go off on a quest; at the end of the last episode, while Veronica is subjected to the power of the talisman, all the other characters are about to be killed. That is where the series ended.