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Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Lost World Season 1 Episode 7 - Blood Lust
    7.0/10(123 votes)

    #1 - Blood Lust

    S1:E7

    A vampire bite elevates Roxton's hunting instincts to a bloodthirsty level; a smitten native will fight Malone to the death for Veronica.

    Director:Richard Franklin
    Writer:James Thorpe

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  2. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 12 - The End Game
    7.1/10(80 votes)

    #2 - The End Game

    S3:E12

    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.

    Director:Karl Zwicky
    Writers:Nick Jacobs, Guy Mullally

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  3. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 1 - The Journey Begins
    7.2/10(211 votes)

    #3 - The Journey Begins

    S1:E1

    Scientist and explorer George Challenger learns from a dying colleague of a prehistoric world and organizes an expedition to find it.

    Director:Richard Franklin
    Writers:Peter Mohan, Jim Henshaw

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  4. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 2 - Stranded
    7.2/10(160 votes)

    #4 - Stranded

    S1:E2

    Desperate to escape and more than a little greedy, Marguerite offers Veronica to a tribal chief in return for jewels and safe passage off the plateau for her group.

    Director:Richard Franklin
    Writers:Peter Mohan, Jim Henshaw

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  5. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 3 - More Than Human
    7.2/10(152 votes)

    #5 - More Than Human

    S1:E3

    When Roxton is running from a tyrannosaur, the earth suddenly swallows him up; the party follows a river to an underground ocean.

    Director:Colin Budds
    Writer:James Thorpe

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  6. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 4 - Nectar
    7.2/10(134 votes)

    #6 - Nectar

    S1:E4

    Stung by a giant bee, Summerlee lies near death; Challenger seeks a way to repel an attack by the ape-men.

    Director:Colin Budds
    Writer:Durnford King

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  7. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 6 - Salvation
    7.2/10(120 votes)

    #7 - Salvation

    S1:E6

    Christecs brand Summerlee a devil after he revives a drowning child.

    Director:Richard Franklin
    Writer:Catherine Porciuncula

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  8. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 9 - A Witch's Calling
    7.2/10(78 votes)

    #8 - A Witch's Calling

    S3:E9

    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….

    Director:Michael Pattinson
    Writer:Guy Mullally

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  9. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 17 - The Impostors
    7.2/10(80 votes)

    #9 - The Impostors

    S3:E17

    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…

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Guy Mullally

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  10. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 18 - The Elixir
    7.2/10(79 votes)

    #10 - The Elixir

    S3:E18

    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?

    Director:Colin Budds
    Writers:Nick Jacobs, Guy Mullally

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  11. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 11 - Ice Age
    7.3/10(82 votes)

    #11 - Ice Age

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Michael Carson
    Writers:Shane Brennan, Guy Mullally

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  12. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 5 - Cave of Fear
    7.4/10(128 votes)

    #12 - Cave of Fear

    S1:E5

    In order to free Challenger from her tribe, the team must retrieve the bones of a warrior queen's husband.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Alison Lea Bingeman

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  13. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 12 - Tribute
    7.5/10(114 votes)

    #13 - Tribute

    S1:E12

    Roxton changes the lives of the Tintas when he kills a warrior from the Hikari tribe; a World War I flying ace crashes in the jungle and takes Marguerite, Malone and Summerlee as prisoners.

    Director:Colin Budds
    Writer:Michael Teversham

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  14. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 18 - Birthright
    7.5/10(99 votes)

    #14 - Birthright

    S1:E18

    Ramses, a vivified mummy, enlists Marguerite, Challenger and Malone to help him regain the Egyptian throne; a grieving dinosaur targets Summerlee.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Frank Encarnacao

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  15. The Lost World Season 2 Episode 8 - The Prisoner
    7.5/10(82 votes)

    #15 - The Prisoner

    S2:E8

    Veronica unwittingly releases a savage giant from captivity, and Marguerite and the others must use all their talents to subdue him.

    Director:Richard Franklin
    Writer:Guy Mullally

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  16. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 10 - Brothers in Arms
    7.5/10(80 votes)

    #16 - Brothers in Arms

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:Michael Offer
    Writers:Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens

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  17. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 13 - Phantoms
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #17 - Phantoms

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Michael Carson
    Writer:Guy Mullally

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  18. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 16 - Suspicion
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #18 - Suspicion

    S3:E16

    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.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writers:Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens

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  19. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 8 - Out of Time
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #19 - Out of Time

    S1:E8

    Druids worship Marguerite, who bears the mark of an ancient prophet; Veronica and Summerlee find a baby.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Guy Mullally

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  20. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 11 - Creatures of the Dark
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    #20 - Creatures of the Dark

    S1:E11

    Challenger, Malone and Marguerite find a subterranean civilization after being trapped in an abandoned mine.

    Director:Colin Budds
    Writer:Gilbert M. Shilton

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  21. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 13 - Absolute Power
    7.6/10(111 votes)

    #21 - Absolute Power

    S1:E13

    The adventurers come upon the ruins of a civilization destroyed by an enormous explosion.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Frank Encarnacao

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  22. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 3 - An Eye for an Eye
    7.6/10(82 votes)

    #22 - An Eye for an Eye

    S3:E3

    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.

    Director:Geoffrey Nottage
    Writers:Richard Oleksiak, Guy Mullally

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  23. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 4 - True Spirit
    7.6/10(78 votes)

    #23 - True Spirit

    S3:E4

    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.

    Director:Esben Storm
    Writers:Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens

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  24. The Lost World Season 3 Episode 8 - Hollow Victory
    7.6/10(75 votes)

    #24 - Hollow Victory

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Michael Offer
    Writers:Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens

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  25. The Lost World Season 1 Episode 10 - The Beast Within
    7.7/10(113 votes)

    #25 - The Beast Within

    S1:E10

    Roxton, Challenger and Summerlee bring badly injured Malone to a magic healer in order to save his life.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Scott Kraft

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Blood Lust" is the worst rated episode of "The Lost World". It scored 7/10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Richard Franklin and written by James Thorpe, it aired on 10/30/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The End Game".