8.5/1084 votesLoading...#1 - Barbarians at the Gate
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2000
Drakul and the Raiders shoot down the adventurers' balloon, beginning a game of cat and mouse.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: James Thorpe
8.3/1070 votesLoading...#2 - Mark of the Beast
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/21/2001
Roxton, Marguerite, Challenger and Malone are marked after touching an amulet, convincing them to return it to the cave.
Director: Michael Pattinson
Writer: Scott Kraft
8.3/1065 votesLoading...#3 - Survivors
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/2001
When the explorers enter an ancient temple, they release supernatural forces which threaten to destroy them.
Director: Ian Gilmour
- 8.3/1063 votesLoading...
#4 - Tapestry
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2002
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. Amazing twists and turns. We find out that there may be more than just coincidence that has brought our small group to the plateau.
Director: Geoffrey Nottage
- 8.3/1065 votesLoading...
#5 - Trapped
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2002
A peaceful day of exploration turns deadly when a sudden explosion traps Marguerite and Roxton in an underground chamber. Their only hope for escape is Challenger, but the same explosion has left him with no memory of who he is, or what has happened to his friends. Meanwhile, a contest of friendly rivalry between Veronica and Finn leads to an enigmatic discovery at the Treehouse, as another memory from Veronica's childhood is literally uncovered. Faced with certain death, Roxton and Marguerite reveal emotions best left buried, so that even if they do survive their ordeal, there's a chance their relationship will not.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Guy Mullally
- 8.3/1072 votesLoading...
#6 - Heart of the Storm
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2002
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… ?
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Guy Mullally
- 8.2/1078 votesLoading...
#7 - Amazons
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2000
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.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: David Barlow
8.1/1094 votesLoading...#8 - Paradise Found
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1999
A search for Veronica's parents leads to a paradise guarded by prehistoric creatures and filled with beautiful, talented immortals.
Director: Michael Pattinson
Writer: Morrie Ruvinsky
8.1/1075 votesLoading...#9 - Prophecy
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2000
A gypsy fortuneteller's visions eerily come true, leaving the band to fear for Malone's life.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Scott Kraft
- 8.1/1065 votesLoading...
#10 - The Pirate's Curse
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/2001
When Marguerite and Roxton kiss, the earth moves, and the explorers are launched on a wild treasure hunt.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Guy Mullally
- 8.1/1062 votesLoading...
#11 - The Secret
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2002
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.
Director: Michael Pattinson
8.0/1086 votesLoading...#12 - Time After Time
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/2000
Travelers from the future arrive in the Lost World to manipulate history.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Malozzi
- 8.0/1072 votesLoading...
#13 - All or Nothing
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2000
The friends emerge from battle to find that one of their number is lost, and goons have enslaved a village.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Charles Lazer
- 8.0/1067 votesLoading...
#14 - London Calling
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2000
An ancient map outlines an escape route; now the adventurers must prove to skeptics all they have seen.
Director: Michael Offer
8.0/1066 votesLoading...#15 - The Outlaw
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/2001
Roxton and Marguerite are jailed, accused of robbery after walking through a brilliant light on the far side.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Guy Mullally
8.0/1063 votesLoading...#16 - Quality of Mercy
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/10/2001
Aliens capture Veronica and Malone, forcing them to work in the mines alongside androids that have developed humanlike emotions and individuality.
Director: Ian Gilmour
Writer: John Sheppard
- 8.0/1068 votesLoading...
#17 - Out of the Blue
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/20/2001
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.
Director: Michael Pattinson
- 8.0/1063 votesLoading...
#18 - The Knife
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/2001
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.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Guy Mullally
- 8.0/1058 votesLoading...
#19 - Fire in the Sky
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/2001
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.
Director: Michael Pattinson
Writer: Guy Mullally, Richard Oleksiak
- 8.0/1061 votesLoading...
#20 - Legacy
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2002
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.
Director: Michael Carson
- 7.9/1078 votesLoading...
#21 - Tourist Season
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2000
A plane full of 21st-century tourists crashes in the jungle, bringing with it dreams of rescue.
Director: Richard Franklin, Darryl Sheen
Writer: Guy Mullally
- 7.9/1065 votesLoading...
#22 - Divine Right
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2000
Roxton saves a young woman and steps right into Balar's trap.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Tony Di Franco
- 7.9/1065 votesLoading...
#23 - Trophies
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/2001
Marguerite recognizes as a trophy hunter a man who claims to be part of a Zoological Society rescue party.
Director: Pino Amenta
Writer: Richard Oleksiak
7.9/1061 votesLoading...#24 - Under Pressure
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2001
Alex, a kobold, takes Roxton, Malone and Veronica prisoner; Holt is constructing a uranium generator to allow the kobolds to live above ground.
Director: Pino Amenta
- 7.9/1060 votesLoading...
#25 - A Man of Vision
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2001
During a thunderstorm visions of Summerlee, their lost colleague, lead the friends to the brink of destruction.
Director: Pino Amenta
Writer: Guy Mullally
The Best Episodes of The Lost World
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Best Episodes Summary
"Barbarians at the Gate" is the best rated episode of "The Lost World". It scored 8.5/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by Catherine Millar and written by James Thorpe, it aired on 5/20/2000. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mark of the Beast".