6.9/1098 votesLoading...#1 - Blood Lust
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1999
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
7.1/10173 votesLoading...#2 - The Journey Begins
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/1999
Scientist and explorer George Challenger learns from a dying colleague of a prehistoric world and organizes an expedition to find it.
Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Jim Henshaw, Peter Mohan
7.2/10126 votesLoading...#3 - Stranded
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/3/1999
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
Writer: Jim Henshaw, Peter Mohan
7.2/10122 votesLoading...#4 - More Than Human
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1999
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
7.2/1060 votesLoading...#5 - A Witch's Calling
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2002
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
7.3/1095 votesLoading...#6 - Salvation
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1999
Christecs brand Summerlee a devil after he revives a drowning child.
Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Catherine Porciuncula
- 7.3/1062 votesLoading...
#7 - The End Game
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2002
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
Writer: Guy Mullally, Nick Jacobs
- 7.4/1065 votesLoading...
#8 - The Prisoner
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2000
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
- 7.4/1063 votesLoading...
#9 - Ice Age
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2002
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
Writer: Shane Brennan, Guy Mullally
- 7.4/1060 votesLoading...
#10 - The Impostors
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/2002
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
7.5/1088 votesLoading...#11 - Tribute
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2000
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
- 7.5/1060 votesLoading...
#12 - Brothers in Arms
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2002
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
- 7.5/1063 votesLoading...
#13 - Phantoms
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2002
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
7.6/1077 votesLoading...#14 - Prodigal Father
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/2000
Veronica reunites with her father; the team must fight Kartas, a bounty hunter after Veronica's father.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: David Tynan
7.6/1077 votesLoading...#15 - Birthright
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/2000
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
7.6/1075 votesLoading...#16 - The Chosen One
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/2000
Roxton promises a teen's dying mentor to help the boy fulfill his destiny as savior of his people.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Jon Cowan
- 7.6/1062 votesLoading...
#17 - The Elixir
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2002
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
Writer: Guy Mullally, Nick Jacobs
7.7/10109 votesLoading...#18 - Nectar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1999
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
7.7/1091 votesLoading...#19 - Out of Time
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1999
Druids worship Marguerite, who bears the mark of an ancient prophet; Veronica and Summerlee find a baby.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Guy Mullally
7.7/1090 votesLoading...#20 - Creatures of the Dark
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1999
Challenger, Malone and Marguerite find a subterranean civilization after being trapped in an abandoned mine.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Gilbert M. Shilton
7.7/1085 votesLoading...#21 - Absolute Power
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2000
The adventurers come upon the ruins of a civilization destroyed by an enormous explosion.
Director: Ian Gilmour
Writer: Frank Encarnacao
7.7/1090 votesLoading...#22 - Unnatural Selection
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/2000
Challenger meets up with a former scientific rival; an old witch may have the key to an escape from the Lost World.
Director: Catherine Millar
Writer: Kristy Dobkin
- 7.7/1063 votesLoading...
#23 - The Games
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/20/2001
Captured by lizard men, Malone, Marguerite and Roxton are forced to fight as gladiators in the arena.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Charles Lazer
- 7.7/1066 votesLoading...
#24 - Voodoo Queen
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/2001
Danielle crafts a voodoo doll of Roxton, putting him in her control.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Guy Mullally
- 7.7/1061 votesLoading...
#25 - The Visitor
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/12/2001
Werewolves make life a nightmare in the treehouse; Challenger faces a scientific challenge when Malone turns beastly.
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: Guy Mullally
The Worst Episodes of The Lost World
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Blood Lust" is the worst rated episode of "The Lost World". It scored 6.9/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Richard Franklin and written by James Thorpe, it aired on 10/30/1999. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Journey Begins".