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The LOST WORLD
EPISODE GUIDE
3 Seasons / 66 Episodes
Syndicated Television
1st Season
103. More Than Human
Roxton is out in
the jungle looking for elements to fabricate a crossbow large enough to kill
a T-Rex. His work is interrupted by the arrival of an actual T-Rex. To save
his fellow explorers, he runs off to lead the giant beast away from the
camp. It is almost upon him when the ground gives way and he disappears. The
T-Rex chases and eats a deer. The rest of the party search for Roxton when
he doesn't return. They too come to the point of his disappearance and are
swallowed up by the earth, falling into a whirlpool of water. They all
surface to find themselves in another part of the plateau. Here they
discover that the intelligent life forms have descended from the dinosaurs.
This world is almost Roman in origin. The "lizard-men" are the
rulers and the human are slaves. Roxton is captured and made a gladiator. In
order to save the others, he must fight one of the human slaves in an arena
known as the PIT.
104. Nectar
Summerlee is
out with Veronica, picking wild berries the size of melons. As he moves
toward a large flower, the air is suddenly filled with a loud buzzing.
Summerlee looks to the sky, thinking he has heard an airplane. It was a
giant bee and it attacks. He is stung, the poison filling him quickly
leaving him near death. The only hope for his survival lies in the heart of
the hive itself. Roxton, Veronica and Malone must find a way to enter the
hive and steal the nectar of the Queen Bee in order to save their dying
friend. Marguerite and Challenger prepare for a pending apemen attack on the
treehouse while Roxton and company find themselves sealed alive into a
honeycomb deep with the hive.
105. Cave of Fear
Running low on
gunpowder and facing death without it, Challenger, Malone and Veronica must
traverse an ancient burial ground -- an area of deadly taboos and horrors --
in search of one of its components, sulphur. Warriors in black and white
paint attack them. Challenger is taken away. At night the rest of the party
sneak into the warrior village. They reach the main hut and crash through
the door only to find Challenger sipping tea with a beautiful blond woman,
Cassandra. She was the wife of an explorer who died on the Lost World twelve
years earlier. She has since become the warriors queen. Cassandra explains
that Challenger has committed a mortal sin in violating the burial grounds
and must remain her prisoner. But, there is one way to free him, enter the
cave of fear and return with her husband's bones so that she can bury him.
Do that and Challenger can go free. They have two days.
106. Salvation
A young man stands
tied to a post weeping, surrounded by tar-soaked tinder, begging for his
life. He proclaims his innocence. This is the fortified encampment of The
Christecs, a people lost in time who practice a hybrid of Conquistador
Inquisition, Catholicism and Aztec paganism. The booming accusatory voice
belongs to the High Priest, Tolmac, who stands before his people with a
lighted torch in his hand preaching against evil and the devil. While
exploring a lakefront, Challenger, Summerlee and Veronica hear the scream of
a little girl drowning. They pull her from the water and Summerlee revives
her. Tolmac sees this and labels Summerlee a devil. Veronica escapes, but
Summerlee will be put on trial for heresy and witchcraft. Challenger will
defend him and if found guilty, both men will be burned at the stake. It
will be up to Roxton and the others to save their friends.
107. Blood Lust
Scouting the
plateau, Roxton is bitten by a crazed young man and infected with a vampiric
disease which elevates his hunting instincts to a blood thirsty new level.
Mad with blood lust, Roxton attacks Marguerite and Challenger and runs off
into the arms of Calista, a mysterious woman who understands his need for
fresh blood to survive. As Marguerite and Challenger search for Roxton and
clues to his sickness, they don't realize he is in turn hunting them. At the
Treehouse, Niko, a native man, becomes smitten with Veronica's beauty and
wishes to make her his bride. When Malone objects, the only honorable thing
for Niko to do is to fight Malone for her, to the death.
108. Out of Time
Roxton,
Marguerite and Malone are mapping a series of caves, trying to find one that
leads off the plateau without much luck. Marguerite, all the while, has been
gathering gleaming gemstones in her backpack. At least she will not go back
empty handed. A fog begins to fill the air around them...dense...deep fog.
From out of the mist forms take shape: cloaked figures and eerie rock
formations, encircling a stone slab. They find themselves surrounded by
Druid-like figures who swarm over Marguerite. Roxton tries desperately to
protect her, but she is torn from his grasp. The two men are restrained and
Marguerite is carried away and deposited on the stone slab. It turns out
that Marguerite figures in an ancient prophecy and that her fate has finally
caught up with her, here. What it means, she must discover for herself. Back
near the treehouse, Veronica and Summerlee make a startling discovery in the
jungle: a baby. As they take the child home, we discover they are being
watched by inhuman eyes. An ape-woman, softly follows their footsteps.
109. Paradise Found
An old man
struggles to run through the jungle, his eyes filled with fear. Pounding
feet are chasing him down. He nears the tree house just as a huge creature,
all teeth and claws, leaps from the jungle and knocks him down. Roxton grabs
his rifle and fires on the creature killing it. Veronica runs over to where
the ancient one is lying. In his hand he holds a small gold locket with
Veronica's picture in it. Sinta dies speaking her name. Veronica explains
that Sinta was her parents guide eleven years ago. How did he get to be so
old when he was only eighteen when Veronica last saw him? In the pocket of
the old man they find a hand drawn map. Their journey leads the group to a
hidden archway cut into a rock face. It is guarded by a giant horned lizard
which they manage to move away and pass the archway. What they find is a
world beyond their understanding. A world that is seductive enough to push
loyalty to its breaking point with temptation. A paradise of beauty, art,
drama and food. They also discover that the beast guarding the doorway was
not there to keep people out... but to keep them in.
110. the Beast Within
A woman's scream leads Malone
right into a booby trap and poison darts slam into his neck. By the time the
other men arrive, Malone is dead. A Shaman, LENTO, claims he can heal him.
As magic and medicine mix, the Shaman absorbs Malone's death. However,
saving Malone overloads Lento's healing capability and drives him to
madness. Lento is sentenced to death, but a regretful Malone helps him
escape. Summerlee covers for Malone and is himself sentenced to die unless
the other men can kill Lento--mad with murderous disease--in a jungle full
of deathtraps. Meanwhile, Marguerite and Veronica find themselves trapped in
an abandoned well, at each other's throats, and with deadly Herrerosaurs
looming overhead.
111. Creatures of the Dark
Tracking a
stream, Challenger, Veronica, Malone and Marguerite run into a group of
VANTU headhunters. There is nowhere to run or to hide... except in what
looks like an overgrown cave opening. They dash into it only to discover it
is man-made, an old, crumbling mine shaft. There is a loud rumbling and a
tremor that gives way to a cave in. Veronica escapes, but the others are
trapped inside. Near death from suffocation, they are saved by GARZA, part
of a group banished to the mine by a plague-like disease and led by a blind,
ten year-old boy known as THE ORACLE. The boy decrees our adventurers must
remain in the mine forever and is un=swayed even when Challenger discovers
the increasing tremors are caused by a volcano threatening to entomb them
all. Meanwhile, Veronica enlists Roxton and Summerlee's help to save their
friends. In their efforts to dig their friends out of the mountain, they
again meet the Vantus, still looking for a few good heads.
112. Tribute
A young
woman, Tarya, races along the beach chased by a warrior on horseback who is
quickly gaining on her. Seeing this from a nearby rock out-cropping, Roxton
leaps out and knocks the warrior from his horse in an effort to save the
girl. The warrior draws his dagger and charges toward Roxton and as they
fight the warrior falls mortally wounded. To his surprise Roxton finds that
Tarya's people live under the dominion of the war-like tribe the Hikari. For
centuries they have paid tribute to the Hikari for protection from anyone
who might harm them. But every form of protection has a price which Roxton,
Challenger and Veronica soon discover and set out to change. Meanwhile, near
the tree house, Marguerite, Summerlee and Malone spot a smoking bi-plane
flying above them. They rush to through the jungle to the plane and find
Hans Dressler, a World War One flying ace. A man who still believes he is at
war, and takes them all prisoner.
113. Absolute Power
Our
adventurers find the ruins of an ancient temple and at its center,
Challenger is amazed to find the crude etching of an atom. Searching to
unlock the mystery, Challenger places a nearby crystal sphere into the
"keyhole" of the atom. Suddenly a blinding white light engulfs
Challenger, leaving him near death. As Challenger's friends fight to save
his life, we see an alternate reality, where Challenger emerges from the
light unscathed and with extraordinary powers. When the vicious Dirkon and
his band of Slavers kidnap Veronica, Challenger easily defeats them.
Unfortunately, after this Challenger's arrogance increases tenfold with his
powers with murderous results. With Challenger near death in one world, and
his friends dying in the other, the two worlds begin a collision course with
destiny.
114. Camelot
While
Veronica practices her bolo throwing, Marguerite enjoys a cool dip in the
river. As she slips on her robe, sixteen year-old Gawain steps out of the
bushes and informs her he'd rather see her without it. As he is the King of
his Camelot-inspired realm, his word is law. Against the wishes of Vordred,
the young King's Grand Vizier, Gawain is determined to make Marguerite his
Queen. Marguerite has no choice; marry him or die. So begins a tale rife
with duplicity, plots and counter plots, a Kingly edict to slay a
"dragon", and a deadly joust between Roxton and Vordred to decide
the future of the Kingdom and the freedom of the explorers.
115. Unnatural Selection
Roxton ,
Challenger and Veronica come upon a young woman - - Rennata who is fleeing a
band of Apemen. Helping her escape with her life, they are shocked to find
Renata's father is Dr. William Hargrove, a scientific contemporary of
Challenger's. They travel to Hargrove's compound and discover he fled London
when his pioneering work in genetic experimentation turned deadly. As the
trio soon discovers, the plateau has been the perfect laboratory for
Hargrove to tinker with DNA, both Apemen and human. Meanwhile, Summerlee,
Marguerite and Malone come upon a strange, old witch whose
"necklace" is a pair of radio headphones. She promises to show
them where she found a radio transmitter, but they'll have to help her with
a spell first and Malone's blood is the key ingredient in her potion.
116. Time After Time
While out
hunting, Roxton accidentally shoots a young woman, Catherine Reilly, who
appears out of nowhere -- right in the path of Roxton's bullet.
Guilt-ridden, Roxton nurses her back to health, despite Veronica's
suspicions that Catherine is not who she claims to be. Meanwhile,
Marguerite, Malone and Challenger meet up with James Kemper, who promises
them a way off the plateau. But are they willing to pay the price? They are
in the midst of an overgrown temple, partially in ruin. A conflict of fate
begins whereby the face of history hangs on the balance. The decision the
explorers make may well mean the end or their existence, not a way off the
plateau.
117. Prodigal Father
Back from a
trading mission, Malone, Marguerite and Challenger come upon a man staked
between two trees and set upon by wild dogs. They save his life, only to
discover the man is Tom Layton -- Veronica's long lost father. As father and
daughter are reunited, the others discover Tom is being stalked by a bounty
hunter named Kartas. With a wide variety of weapons at his disposal Kartas
dispatches anyone or anything in his way with lethal precision. Convinced
Tom is a cold-blooded murderer, Kartas goes after Roxton and Malone to make
sure no one can prevent him from killing Tom. Veronica in turn resolves
nothing -- and no one -- will break up her family again. However, Tom has a
few tricks of his own which soon find our adventurers pitted against each
other as they slowly uncover the truth.
118. Birthright
Deep in the
jungle, Marguerite, Challenger and Malone come upon a buried, mummified
corpse. They are shocked when it springs to life before them. They learn the
would-be corpse, Ramsees, is Egyptian royalty. He weaves a tale about a
wonderful kingdom with untold riches and how he was to become king. He then
enlists our heroes in a plan to reclaim the throne he says has been stolen
from him by his sister, Neferetti After agreeing to help, the three discover
there is more to the dispute than Ramsees is revealing. He rules with an
iron fist, enslaving his former enemies. The adventurers decide they must
defeat Ramsees by convincing the true heir... his sister, to accept the
responsibility of rule. Meanwhile, Summerlee is relentlessly pursued by a
T-Rex after she mistakenly believes him responsible for the death of her
babies. Roxton and Veronica must help their friend or perish with him as a
T-Rex lunch.
119. Resurrection
After days
of searching the mountains for a pass off the plateau, Roxton and Marguerite
are camped for the night when they are taken by surprise by Norse warriors.
Roxton is run through with a sword by the leader, Ursula. As he sinks to his
knees, Marguerite is hauled off by the raiders. Near death, Roxton is
visited by a mystical young boy named Osric, who offers a deal. Osric will
restore Roxton's life so he can save Marguerite. However, there is a catch.
Roxton agrees to the deal and Marguerite is saved. It turns out that Osric
is the soul of evil who has been imprisoned on the Lost World. He reappears
and gleefully informs Roxton that he must murder Bergen, an old man with a
long-standing hold over the boys' manipulative intentions. Roxton refuses to
kill the old man, but Osric has many deadly ways to get what he wants.
Meanwhile, Malone and Veronica must defend their Treehouse from a band of
cutthroats who will stop at nothing to take it from them.
120. The Chosen One
Teenage
Gideon and his mentor Davos are on a mission to fulfill the boy's destiny of
leading his tribe of Moya out of the bondage of the evil Goths. Roxton and
Marguerite come upon them, just as Davos is fatally wounded in a Goth
attack. Before he dies, Davos charges Roxton with ensuring Gideon and the
"Star of Hope" quarterstaff he carries, reach their destination.
The time has come for him to take his rightful place... but he has been
betrayed, his mentor murdered. Roxton resolves to escort the boy back to his
people. Marguerite reluctantly goes along. At the Treehouse, Malone bonds
with a woman named Kaya who kisses him passionately. What he doesn't know is
that Kaya is the human host to a dying species that needs a human pair in
order to reproduce. Kaya's kiss passes the parasitic creature into Malone.
As Veronica wrestles with jealousy, she discovers Kaya's hold over Malone
may be a deadly one.
121. Prophecy
Exploring
the Plateau, Roxton, Marguerite, Veronica and Malone hear a scream for help.
A horse and wagon race toward the edge of the cliff, out of control with a
terrified woman at the reins. Roxton leaps to the rescue and the flamboyant
beauty he saves introduces herself as Isadore, "Queen of the Gypsies
and teller of fortunes." She offers a bottle of wine, and reads each of
their immediate futures... benign, even silly... until she gets to Malone:
"You will battle a monster with razor sharp claws. He will rip the
heart from your chest." When they wake the next morning, Isadore is
gone - along with their guns and ammo. They set off after Isadore and
discover Isadore's visions are accurate and they fear her vision of Malone's
death will come true. Meanwhile, on a plant collecting trip, Challenger and
Summerlee are taken by surprise by Raptors in the jungle. Defending
themselves, they find to their terror that the Raptors are not acting as
beasts but as intelligent creatures, working together in an effort to herd
them to their deaths.
122. Barbarians at the Gate
Challenger,
Summerlee, Roxton and Marguerite take off in the balloon after calculating a
rare weather pattern which may allow them to escape the tumultuous winds off
the plateau. Seen by a rampaging group of Raiders, the balloon is shot down.
So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between our adventurers and the
Raiders. Drakul and his son Thane have resolved to rule the plateau with the
help of their newfound weapon -- gunpowder. Meanwhile, Malone and Veronica
learn how the Raiders gained the secret of gunpowder when the half-human,
half-dinosaur Tribune drops at their feet having been double-crossed and
nearly killed by Drakul. This event begins their uneasy alliance, as the
one-time enemies must unite in an attempt to steal the store of gunpowder
Drakul has amassed. The Raiders vow not to stop until death greets all those
who stand in their way. Together, the adventurers will risk everything,
facing death in the end as they plunge over a chasm into oblivion in the
struggle to save the Lost World.
2nd Season 201.All or Nothing
On a bridge
spanning a deep gorge, a fierce battle unfolds with Drakul's raiders.
Marguerite and Veronica watch as Summerlee is hit. Tribune, betrayed by
Drakul, hurls a bomb that destroys the bridge...throwing the men into the
river far below. Veronica clings to the hope that her friends have survived
and searches for them with Marguerite. Once reunited, they discover that
Tribune has saved Roxton's life and demands a favor in return. Since they
need a boat to return home, they follow Tribune to a run-down fishing
village - where he disappears. A beautiful prostitute named Raina informs
them that Nemak has enslaved the town. When our gang clashes with Nemak and
his goons, they are thrown into jail.
202. Amazons
While
looking for a way off the plateau, Roxton, Malone, and Challenger are saved
by three Amazon women from an attack by a vicious flock of pterodactyls.
Invited back to their camp, they find there are no men or boys, yet they are
welcomed with open arms. While the Amazons celebrate
by the light of a full moon, the men happily learn that it's breeding time
-- and they have been chosen as studs. By the time they realize they will
die as soon as they have served their purpose, it's too late to save
themselves.
203. Tourist Season
Challenger is trying to harness the energy of
lightning when a gigantic bolt splits the sky. In a blinding flash, the
ground is scorched, and by some miracle, no one is injured. In the silence
after the thunder, the sputtering sound of a small engine is heard, and a
small plane appears in the distant sky. It drops from view, crashing into
the jungle. All survive: four modern day tourists - a couple, a middle-aged
man and a gorgeous young woman. The group are set upon by a hostile tribe
and taken prisoner. Our explorers arrive to find only the disabled plane,
which Challenger and Malone set about trying to repair. Kenner, the leader
of the hostile tribe, is fascinated by his captives but keeps them in a
dungeon. Roxton and Veronica devise a plan to save them.
204. Stone Cold
While
mapping an unexplored valley, Roxton is surprised by a terrified young
woman, who after uttering an enigmatic warning, dies in Marguerite's arms.
Roxton, Marguerite, and Malone head toward an ominous castle when a sudden
rainstorm forces them to seek shelter. There, under a mysterious influence,
the three are led to separate rooms where they each find opulent evening
wear of the same vintage as that worn by the young woman.
Marguerite and the two men begin to take on new personalities, eerily
re-enacting a romantic triangle of intrigue, with Marguerite playing Roxton
against Malone as both men compete for her attention. Meanwhile Challenger
and Veronica similarly find themselves at the castle, where they are
welcomed by Roxton, Marguerite, and Malone, all strangely possessed by the
spirit-wearers
205. Divine Right
A riderless
horse approaches our explorers, as if on a mission. When Roxton saddles up,
the horse carries him to a mountain tribe, who welcome him as their king.
Roxton tries to decline, but when the royal advisor, Balar,
tells him that if he's an imposter; he shall die, Roxton reconsiders. Using
the horse, Roxton tries to warn hisfriends. Balar has the horse followed and
they are captured. One of the customs of the tribe is to sacrifice a virgin
to appease a monstrous dragon, but Roxton saves the young woman and steps
right into Balar's trap. The only way to stop the dragon now is for the
rightful king to hunt it down and kill it.
206. Skin Deep
When
Marguerite starts being nice to everyone, they wonder what she's up to. Even
when pushed to find out why she's acting this way, she maintains her
uncharacteristic serenity. In the jungle, Roxton and Veronica are attacked
by a dinosaur that after giving them a huge scare, starts to move very
clumsily, giving them a chance to escape. We learn that an alien invader,
who could not control the dinosaur's huge body, occupied it. We also learn
that Marguerite's body has been possessed when she drops her spoon into a
vat of boiling water and
plunges her arm in to retrieve it - with no ill effect. We discover that the
Alien Invaders are skeletons that our heroes have to fight.
207. London Calling
Our
adventurers recover an ancient map showing the escape route from the Lost
World. Knowing they will face skeptics in the scientific world to which they
shall return, Challenger and Malone capture a T-Rex egg to take with
them. Veronica cannot share their joy, however, for she must continue her
search for her long lost parents. Malone's dreams of successfully returning
to his beautiful fiancée in London appear to come true. But is this what he
really wants?
208. The Prisoner
A mysterious
old woman, a shape-shifter, appears to Veronica, convincing her that her
lost parents are safe in El Dorado. The woman gives her the directions to
its entrance in a rock wall, and warns that she must tell no one and can
never return. When Veronica unwittingly releases a savage giant from
captivity, Marguerite and the others must use all their talents to subdue
him again.
209. the Games
Empress
Centuria has ordered her lizardmen to hunt kill Tribune, who flees to the
tree house for help. They track him there and overwhelm our heroes.
Malone, Margaurite are taken prisoner along with Tribune and brought back to
Centuria's city. Malone posing as Prof. Challenger, is ordered to make
gunpowder, while Roxton and Margaurite are sent to the gladiators' dungeon.
210. The Source
A young
woman saves our heroes from raging Raptors during a drought and begs their
help as an escort. She is the last survivor of her people and is gifted with
the knowledge of the Fountain of Youth.
211. Trophies
The Lost
World is shatters by gunfire as trophy hunters attempt to capture a
Troglodyte Child. Veronica goes into the jungle to save it, only to become
the new target of the hunters.
212. Voodoo Queen
Drums sound
through the jungle and Roxton is seduced by a beautiful woman. She uses
voodoo to lure Roxton back to her village and enslaves him. The others must
fight to save Roxton.
213. The Guardian
Challenger
is knocked unconscious and dragged to a hidden village by three youths.
Veronica and Marguerite follow the tracks and get inside the city only the
learn the village is protected by a meat eating plant that must be fed
daily. Challenger is to be the plants next meal.
214. Under Pressure
The
explorers have a strange guest at the Treehouse who impresses Challenger
with his knowledge of geology. Meanwhile something attacks Challenger's
electrostatic accumulator. The explorers chase after a group of
underground dwellers whom they believe to be the culprits. Their guest turns
out to be one of them, and the explorers are soon taken hostage. It turns
out that the underground dwellers need Challenger's scientific expertise to
help them evolve above ground.
215. The Outlaws
Roxton and
Marguerite are out looking for a way off the plateau when they discover a
promising looking crevice. Once through, they discover an old English
village where they meet a masked woman who has just robbed the local pub.
She drops her bag of spoils in front of the two explorers and vanishes.
Roxton and Marguerite enter the pub in an effort to find the rightful owners
of the loot, when they are promptly arrested by the local prosecutor. When
Roxton tries to escape, he is shot.
216. Quality of Mercy
Veronica and
Malone are captured by an angry mob who need slaves to mine their quarry.
They soon discover that their fellow prisoners are not human; they are
machines who are helping aliens repair their spaceship.
217. Mark of the Beast
Roxton and
Marguerite return to the treehouse to find it raided by a monkey. They
follow the monkey to a cave where they find an amulet that leaves a mark of
a dinosaur skull on their hands. Those infected with the mark soon begin to
morph into their “animal” selves.
218. Survivors
Challenger
and Marguerite discover an ancient Temple whose entrance is guarded by a
carving of three armed warriors. When Marguerite falls into a pit of spikes,
Challenger must leave her, to get help. As he leaves, the Guardians come to
life. While Marguerite lies bleeding, she hallucinates. As Challenger is
returning with the others, the Guardians attack them with invincible
strength, but stop suddenly when they see Malone bleeding from a chest
wound. While Veronica takes Malone home, the others hurry to the temple.
When Roxton and Challenger reach her, Marguerite is baffled when they can
see her hallucination, Adrienne. Following Adrienne's claims there is an
exit from the plateau via the Temple, Challenger follows her map to the
Temple's altar where he is confronted by William Maple White, a dead
colleague whose journals had led him to the Lost World.
219. the Pirate's Curse
Marguerite
and Roxton are enjoying an intimate moment, when suddenly the earth moves!
They find themselves sprawled in the bottom of a pit, with a pirate's
skeleton and his cursed treasure chest filled with a fortune in booty.
Unimpressed by a little curse, Marguerite takes it to the Treehouse.
Challenger and Malone find the pirate's journal, and decide to unravel his
story. Traveling to the described inland sea, they are ambushed by pirate
descendant Pappin, who seizes the journal. He sends his men to find the
treasure, then shackles Malone in a tidal cave, leaving Challenger tied up
in his shack
220. the Visitor
When Malone
is slashed by a beast in the jungle, he shoots wildly. While looking for the
animal, he and Veronica come across Danu, her childhood sweetheart, wounded,
and warning them of the danger from this beast. Later that night, the team
is disturbed by a howling animal, and discovers Danu gone and Malone
feverish. Marguerite stays to nurse Malone, the others search for Danu,
hoping to learn more about Malone's condition. Veronica leads them to his
village, where only a witchdoctor and a few warriors armed with
silver-tipped weapons, remain. The witchdoctor tells them that Danu has
become a werewolf and must be killed by silver or fire, there is no cure.
She
gives Veronica a potion to delay the onset of Malone's transformation, then
sends Challenger and Roxton to the Valley of Shadows where the werewolves
live. Danu, wanting to transform Veronica to a werewolf like him, drives her
towards the Valley of Shadows
221. A Man of Vision
During a
powerful thunderstorm on the plateau, all five of our heroes experience
dreams and visions of their "lost" colleague, Summerlee, who had
disappeared into a raging waterfall and presumed dead. Malone sets off after
this ghost, and Challenger Marguerite and Roxton follow Ned. The three are
ambushed by cannibals who fancy Marguerite's arm for an aperitif. Roxton and
Challenger break free and save her, and then the three resume their hunt for
Malone, only to be trapped by a hungry T-Rex. Ned meanwhile, has fallen and
knocked himself out. He regains consciousness, concussed and thirsty, and
follows Summerlee's ghost along a dry riverbed. He stumbles and twists his
ankle, but still hobbles on. Summerlee appears to be leading him to the now
dry waterfall where he was last seen.
222. Into the Fire
Our heroes
are astonished to see a British Navy dirigible flying low over their
plateau. Malone, working away from the rest, is close enough to catch the
last rung of its boarding ladder and clambers aboard. He finds the airship
damaged and without crew, but as he opens a logbook, Capt. Askwith appears,
and knocks Malone unconscious. As the airship flies beyond view, the others
hear screams from a T-Rex hatchery. Luring the dinosaur
away, they rescue, not Malone, as they expected, but Askwith! He claims not
to have seen Malone. Marguerite is quite taken by him, and offers to bring
him back to the Treehouse to recover. Roxton, a little jealous, and very
suspicious, accompanies them, as Challenger and Veronica follow the airship.
They locate it in foothills nearby, and discover that the damage is not too
serious, and enough fuel for three days flight off the plateau.
3rd Season:
301. 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
302. 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
303. 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
304. True Spirit
An
unsettling dream and a ghostly encounter convince Veronica that Malone is
trapped in the spirit realm and needs her help to escape. At the same time,
Assai and Challenger investigate a mysterious symbol burned into a field of
grass, which Assai identifies as the mark of Saros, a bloodthirsty warlord
who was overthrown by the Zanga and died swearing to return from the grave
to wreak vengeance on the living. Back at the treehouse, Marguerite and
Veronica use a Ouija board to contact Malone, which results in a frightening
display of poltergeist-like activity, and a brief, but terrifying
manifestation of Saros. Assai is convinced that any new attempt to rescue
Malone from the spirit realm threatens to release Saros instead.
305. The Knife
When Malone
finds a knife, he is transported back to the East End of London in 1888, the
scene of Jack the Ripper's brutal murders. In the nightmare of his visions,
Malone sees his friends playing key roles in the crimes, both as
conspirators and victims. Meanwhile, Veronica is approached by a famous
British doctor, who enlists her to help find his missing knife. Could this
man be Jack the Ripper? Or is it the Scotland Yard Inspector who runs into
Roxton and Marguerite? Charmed by the Inspector and his claim to know a way
off the plateau, Marguerite is eager to assist him in apprehending the
Ripper. Marguerite realizes she could be walking into a deadly trap.
Veronica is left to confront and defeat the infamous killer to prevent the
murderous cycle from being repeated on the plateau.
306. Fire in the Sky
Challenger,
Malone and Veronica are exploring ruins on a riverbank, when a man stumbles
out of the jungle in a hail of deadly arrows. Malone drags the wounded man
to safety, who dies in their arms issuing a cryptic message to find a man
named Pierson Rice. Challenger recognizes the name as that of a vain
glorious hunter whom Roxton once held in high regard. The trio send a
message to Roxton and Marguerite, then hurry on in search of Rice. Roxton is
disgusted to learn that his one-time hero may be alive and well. Arriving at
a native village, our heroes discover that Rice is far from peril -- in
fact, he has made the natives his loyal subjects. With the help of his
cold-hearted lieutenant, Rice plans to eliminate the queen and marry her
beautiful daughter to consolidate his power.
307. Dead Man's Hill
When Roxton
happens upon a hangman's noose dangling from a lonely tree in the jungle,
he's suddenly transported back to the American West where he finds himself
at the end of the rope. Facing him is Challenger, but in this world he's
known as Sheriff Jack Challenger, a cruel lawman who neither recognizes
Roxton nor listens to his plea of innocence. Saved by a rancher's widow,
Roxton begins a strange journey to clear his name and find his way back to
the Lost World. Along the way he runs into all of his friends but none of
them recognize him -- Malone is a cold-hearted gunslinger, Veronica runs the
local saloon and trading post, and Marguerite is the beautiful widow who
saved Roxton's life. As Roxton struggles to make sense of it all, he is
drawn to a final showdown in the saloon, where he must face his friends in a
deadly shootout.
308. Hollow Victory
Challenger
develops a new way to create lift in the balloon. All go along for a test
flight, but the balloon is drawn into violent turbulence then crash-lands
inside the vast caldera of an extinct volcano where our heroes find
themselves trapped in a world beneath the earth's surface. With the balloon
damaged and the supply of iron lost, our heroes can only survive for a
matter of days in this hot and hostile environment. Aleece, a strong-willed
female warrior-in-training, hurries to the rescue. In exchange for a ride in
the balloon she offers to help replenish the iron that is needed. Malone
accompanies her to a mine, but instead of raw ore, her plan is to steal from
the supply of a vengeful exile named Arjax. After being caught by Arjax,
Malone and Aleece face death unless they lead Arjax back to the balloon.
309. A Witch's Calling
When a powerful witch named Dame
Alice feels threatened by Challenger's science, she calls upon her two
beautiful acolytes to help undo his power. In order to earn full witchhood,
the two must lure Challenger's "guards" - Roxton and Malone - to
the witch's castle while she goes head to head with the "wizard" -
Challenger - herself. While the two young witches distract Roxton and
Malone, Dame Alice visits the Treehouse for a visit. In spite of
Marguerite's protests and warnings, Challenger is intrigued by the witch's
power and too easily lowers his guard. When Dame Alice sabotages
Challenger's newest invention and almost kills him, it is only Marguerite's
quick thinking that saves the scientist from his own folly. But in the end
it is not Challenger's life that is in danger, but the lives of Roxton and
Malone….
310. Brother in Arms
When Keeran
Raiders attack, a deadly poison dart forces Malone to relive a
long-suppressed memory-his baptism of fire as a battlefield correspondent in
World War I. Caught up in this nightmarish hallucination, Malone is once
again an untried reporter cut off from Allied lines when an enemy advance
pushes deep into No Man's Land. When the three battle-weary British soldiers
who've been assigned to escort him are picked off by enemy action, the young
reporter who's never fired a gun must take up arms to save his own life and
the life of a wounded sergeant.
311. Ice Age
When a blindingly bright meteor
strikes the Plateau, Challenger, Roxton, and Marguerite set out to
investigate the impact site. But the closer they get, the colder the
temperature becomes. As the explorers turn back, they discover what appears
to be a victim of the intense cold - a beautiful, blue-skinned woman,
unconscious and nearly frozen. To save her life, the explorers take her back
with them. When the frigid temperatures reach the Treehouse and all attempts
to warm the woman makes her condition worse, Challenger suspects that things
are not as they appear. Roxton and Marguerite are attacked by a group of
blue-skinned male warriors and the truth becomes clear - the heat-absorbing
meteorite now buried in the Plateau is the first step in a terrifying
invasion of creatures who need the cold to survive
312. The End Game
Ambushed in the jungle, Roxton
narrowly escapes with his life only to learn that he has apparently cheated
death once too often. The Grim Reaper, in the guise of a dark seductress -
is determined to add his soul to her collection. Transported to her domain -
a bleak and desolate wasteland - Roxton must face a series of challenges if
he hopes to get out alive. And to make the game more interesting, Death
raises the stakes by putting the lives of his friends on the line as well.
Confronted by shifting rules and deception, Roxton cannot hope to win. At
every turn, Death torments and goads him, encouraging him to abandon his
friends to save himself. Round one goes to Death, rounds two and three as
well, and with growing horror, Roxton loses Challenger, Veronica, and
finally his beloved Marguerite to Death's netherworld inferno
313. Phantoms
Alone in the jungle, Veronica
hears piano music and follows it to its source - a 19th century German
village that has suddenly appeared in a fog choked valley. To her surprise,
the handsome musician, Thomas Ducart, announces that he wrote the beautiful
melody for her. Flattered by the musician’s attention, Veronica takes him
to the Treehouse, but Challenger is concerned. He fears that Ducart’s
village may be unstable, and Veronica could disappear into another dimension
if she returns to the village with Ducart. Even more disturbing, are
Challenger’s ill feelings about Ducart’s designs on Veronica, but
Challenger’s warnings only drive the beguiled Veronica further into
Ducart’s passionate embrace
314. The Secret
A mysterious visitor attacks
Veronica, leaving an enigmatic ivory tile as his calling card. But when
Marguerite finds the tile, she hides it from the others because only she
knows what it means… one of the deepest secrets of her past has finally
caught up with her, and now endangers her life and those of her friends.
Back on the Plateau, with her friends facing death because of her actions in
the past, Marguerite has no choice but to finally reveal the real reason she
funded the Challenger Expedition, and what she has come to the Plateau to
find
315. Finn
Using the Plateau's mysterious
energy lines as a source of power, Challenger constructs a machine to send
the explorers back to London. But when he, Roxton, and Marguerite find
themselves in the same place they started from, they conclude the machine is
a failure and head back to the Treehouse-only to discover the Treehouse is
gone! While investigating what else has changed, Roxton is captured by
slavers with automatic weapons and stripped-down cars, and learns the
shocking truth-he and his friends are in the year 2033, eighteen years after
an apocalyptic war devastated every place on Earth except for the Plateau.
316. Suspicion
When a lost archaeological
expedition discovers a mysterious burial urn, the young student who opens it
suddenly collapses in convulsions. Though she quickly recovers, Professor
Hamilton, the expedition's leader, suspects she's contracted a disease from
the urn's skeletal remains. He believes that's the only rational explanation
for the inscription on the urn, warning that an evil demon is imprisoned
within. But the next day, Roxton and Marguerite discover the expedition's
camp has been torn apart, and that of all the archaeologists only two
survive-Hamilton and his rival, Professor Campbell. In a tense standoff, the
two men claim the other is possessed by the demon. Roxton's and Marguerite's
intervention only succeeds in making the archaeologists suspect the demon
has jumped into one of the two explorers.
317. The Imposters
Challenger, Roxton, and Marguerite
take Finn to a cave where one year earlier a blinding light opened a doorway
to another reality. Once inside, the explorers witness an eerie apparition
of a man Finn recognizes and fears. But when Finn races from the cave, the
three figures who follow are not her friends-they're Kayle, Una, and Rixxel,
three demons who have taken the place of Challenger, Roxton, and Marguerite.
If the demons can remain on the Plateau for two days, they will permanently
replace the explorers, and Kayle will be free to bring chaos and destruction
to the world. In the final deadly showdown between Finn and the demons, Finn
must make the decision of her life-save the future or save her friends.
Until an unexpected sacrifice changes everything…
318. Elixir
Hoping to end starvation,
Challenger becomes the first human subject to test his new experimental
substitute for food. But his nutritional beverage is not as successful for
him as it was for his lab mice, and he quickly becomes obsessed with
discovering the reason why. Then obsession leads to madness as Challenger is
confronted by two opposing hallucinations. The first is a vision of himself
as a young, driven scientist. The second is his beloved wife, Jessie, as he
left her in London three years earlier. Unconscious and near death,
Challenger is finally discovered by his friends. But will their limited
medical knowledge be enough to reverse the ravages of his experiment,
without placing him in even greater peril.
319. Tapestry
When Challenger discovers the
wreckage of a World War I transport plane, he’s captured by its pilot,
Lieutenant Drummond. Drummond has been stranded for five years since the
crash, protecting the plane’s cargo—a crate of iridium ingots stolen
from the Royal Navy. Challenger is astounded to see the iridium because it
had been intended for his secret wartime research. The sight of it prompts
him to remember the night five years earlier, when he was questioned about
the theft by two British intelligence agents working for MI5. Back on the
Plateau, when Challenger and Drummond arrive at the Treehouse, Marguerite
recognizes the iridium, too—she also was a suspect in its theft, and she
recalls her own MI5 interrogation, the same night Challenger was questioned
320. Legacy
Led by a dream, Veronica touches
her mother's pendant to a stone monolith. A flash of mysterious energy
knocks her unconscious, causing her to relive her last days with her
long-lost parents as a young girl. When she awakes, she's shocked to realize
her new memories don't match what she's always remembered of that time.With
the fate of her parents no longer unknown, Veronica is at peace, though she
realizes a larger mystery is still to be revealed-her mother's pendant is
somehow the key to her own destiny… and that destiny is fast approaching.
321. Trapped
UNKNOWN
322. Heart of the Storm
Two days before Challenger's
latest attempt to leave the Plateau by balloon, Veronica and Finn encounter
a strange phenomenon and are briefly transported into the post-apocalyptic
future of New Amazonia. Soon after, Roxton finds himself being chased by
17th-century Conquistadors while Marguerite is captured by Druids determined
to sacrifice her in order to avert a mysterious storm which is fast
approaching. As different planes of reality continue to collide, Veronica at
last realizes the time has come for her to fulfill her destiny as Protector
and wield her mother's pendant-the Trion. But even as she prepares to
sacrifice her life to save her friends, she does not know if she's made the
right decision-for once the power of the Trion is unleashed, will it save
the Plateau, or destroy it?
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