Plot
At the dawn of the 20th century, a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Edward Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of a lost world isolated from the rest of the modern world. The British expedition team consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey begin their trip under less than ideal conditions. The intrepid band consists of:
- Professor George Edward Challenger (Peter McCauley) — The leader of the expedition, who hopes to prove his claims to the skeptical London Zoological Society.
- Professor Arthur Summerlee (Michael Sinelnikoff) — The elderly member of the band and a colleague to George Challenger, who initially does not believe Challenger's claims about a lost world.
- Marguerite Krux (née' Smith) (Rachel Blakely) — The selfish financier of the expedition who goes along for her own reasons.
- Major Lord John Richard Roxton (William Snow) — The nobleman with vast hunting experience, who accidentally killed his brother while trying to save him from an ape. He serves as protector of the group.
- Edward "Ned" T. Malone (David Orth) — An American newspaper reporter, hoping to make a name for himself and impress his girl back home, if he survives the ordeal.
During their journey disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric plateau. There they find themselves trapped and isolated in this dangerous land. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton (Jennifer O'Dell) whose parents disappeared eleven years prior. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together - along with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox) who from the year 2033 joins the band near the middle of season three - the group fights to survive against fearsome dinosaurs, tribal headhunters, vicious ape-men, a race of Lizardmen led by Tribune (Jerome Ehlers), and other perils as they search for a way to escape. The stories usually worked out that two separate adventures were going on at the same time.
Read more about this topic: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
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