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The Journey Begins (Part 1)

This tale begins in the jungle with a man, William Maple White, running for his life in the dark and pouring rain. The beast pursuing him, whatever it is, must be enormous by its speed and sound. Just as the man seems likely to escape, he falls down a muddy slope and is quickly pounced upon. The man, a scientist, is brought to the camp of George Challenger, explorer and scientist. Although the injured man dies from his vicious wounds, his death is not in vain. In his notes are discoveries of a prehistoric world. Jump to London, weeks later, where the distinguished scientist George Challenger is trying to convince his fellow scholars at the London Zoological Society of the existence of the prehistoric world. It is here that we meet the rest of the eventual expedition—Lord Raxon, the hunter, the reporter Ned Malone, Marguerite Krux, an heiress funding the expedition, and the skeptical scientist Professor Summerlee.
The expedition travels up the Amazon River and through the jungle following the map White's notebook. They are attacked by tribal headhunters and make a daring escape in a hot air balloon piloted by Ned Malone. A terrible thunderstorm causes them to crash on the eerie plateau of The Lost World. Here they meet Veronica, a beautiful young woman who has raised herself since her parents disappeared when she was just eleven years of age. Veronica's parents have left her the legacy of their treehouse and a lifetime of work on the flora and fauna of The Lost World.

Stranded (Part 2)

Veronica, an untamed beauty raised in the jungle by her parents, has taken our group in and offered them shelter. After seeing what jewels the native girl Assai has, Marguerite secretly offers Veronica as a bride to Assai's father, leader of the local Zanga tribe. In exchange for Veronica, Marguerite will receive jewels and the group's passage off the plateau. The savage Apemen, however, attack the Treehouse, taking Assai captive and injuring Veronica. As the others look for Assai, Marguerite follows through on her plan but when Veronica realizes what's happening, Marguerite's plan goes astray and she herself is in danger of not only never getting off the plateau, but not leaving the village alive.

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.

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.

Cave of Fear

Running low on gunpowder and facing death without it, Challenger, Malone and Veronica must traverse an ancient burial ground in search of one of its components, sulphur. When warriors in black and white paint suddenly attack them, Challenger is captured and taken away. That 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, a former member of London's High Society. She was the wife of an explorer who died on the Lost World twelve years earlier and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 treehouse just as an apeman leaps from the jungle and knocks him down. Challenger grabs his rifle and fires on the creature killing it. Veronica runs over to where the ancient one is lying. Around his neck is a small silver locket with the pictures of Veronica's parents inside. 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 nineeen 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.

The Beast Within

Responding to the frightened screams of a young woman, Malone walks into a booby trap and is struck by a poisoned dart causing him to come to an untimely demise. A Shaman absorbs his death and Malone is restored back into the land of the living. However, the leader of the Shaman's tribe decrees that balance must be restored by the taking of a life before the birth of the tribe's new healer. Malone intervenes to save the life of the shaman who has become filled with evil spirits as a result of his lifetime of absorbing other people's illnesses. When the Shaman escapes into the jungle, Malone, Challenger and Roxton must hunt him down or forfeit the life of Summerlee. Meanwhile, Marguerite and Veronica continue to battle each other after falling into an abandoned well after fleeing an attacking dinosaur.

Creatures of the Dark

Running into a tribe of headhunters, Veronica, Challenger, Marguerite, and Malone seek refuge in an abandoned mine. Once inside the mine, a series of tremors collapses the entrance to the mine shaft, separating Veronica, who escapes unscathed, from the trio left trapped inside. Veronica returns to the treehouse to fetch Summerlea and Malone to help in the rescue. Meanwhile, Challenger, Marguerite, and Malone are on the verge of suffocating inside the sealed mine when they are rescued by a group of underground dwellers—but their hope for a safe exit is short-lived as the people's all-knowing Oracle will not trust the trio, Marguerite in particular, to keep their existence a secret from those who would wish to plunder their gold-filled caves. To complicate matters further, when Challenger discovers they are inside and active volcano, he must convince their captors that all of their lives are in danger.

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 treehouse, 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.

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. Curious 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.

Camelot

When Marguerite catches the eye of fourteen-year-old boy-king Gawain, he decides that she should be his bride and she is left with the choice to either marry him or die. Veronica fetches Malone and Roxton to try to free Marguerite and before long, they all become embroiled in a power struggle between Gawain and Vordred, Gawain's Grand Vizier who wants to kill the boy-king and seize the throne for himself. While Marguerite tries to protect Gawain, Roxton and Malone are sent on a quest to slay a T-Rex with events culminating in Roxton engaging in joust with Vordred to decide the fate of the Kingdom.

Unnatural Selection

The discovery that one of Challenger's old friends from London is living on the plateau with his daughter causes Challenger some concern considering he was at the girl's funeral fifteen years ago. Furthermore, Veronica's disappearance coupled with encounters with armed, intelligent apemen, lead Roxton and Challenger to uncover the secret genetic experimentation being carried out by Dr. Hargrove.
Meanwhile, a faint image in a photograph helps Summerlee, Marguerite and Malone locate an elderly woman, who claims to be an exiled fairy queen, who may have access to a radio transmitter — however she is only willing to divulge it's location in exchange for help in breaking her curse — all she requires is a few drops of blood from a virgin.

Time After Time

While out hunting with Veronica, Roxton accidentally shoots a young woman who appears suddenly in a flash of light. Returning to the treehouse, Summerlea helps Roxton nurse her back to health. Meanwhile, Marguerite, Malone and Challenger discover a tablet that points to a possible way off the plateau. After making their way to some ancient ruins, the trio are attacked by armed warriors but a stranger arrives to help fend off the attackers. As events play out for the two groups, the two mysterious new arrivals tell separate tales of what they are doing on the plateau. They both purport to be from the future and Marguerite is the focus for each of them — one wants her dead to stop her unleashing a deadly plague, while the other wants to ensure she returns to London.

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.

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, Ramses, 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, Nefertiti. After agreeing to help, the three discover there is more to the dispute than Ramses is revealing. He rules with an iron fist, enslaving his former enemies. The adventurers decide they must defeat Ramses 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.

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.

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.

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.

Barbarians at the Gate   ~ Season Finale

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.