ORBzine - UK TV Review - June 2001
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World
Based on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Lost World is about a group of British scientists and adventures who are trapped in a world that time forgot. Producer John Landis serves up cannibals, dinosaurs, man-eating plants, and ape men in this series.
Cast:
Season 1 (1999-2000)
(22 Episodes In Season 1)Pilot
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 1]
The Journey begins
World-famous explorer Professor Challenger leads an expedition to South America to find a remote plateau he claims is filled with species believed to be extinct. The crew includes:
Lani Tupu [ Farscape ] is the group's guide. However, since he is not in the title credits we can rest assured he comes to a sticky end during the first episode. However, on the plateau they meet a Sheena-looking blonde babe in a leather bikini [ Jennifer O'Dell ].
This was produced by John Landis, and has nice CGI. It's quite silly, but it's not American so can be given the benefit of the doubt.
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 3]
Better Than Human
(Originally Aired 9/27/1999)
The group are chased by a T-rex, and Roxton saves Margerite. In a scene straight out of Planet of the Apes they are captured by a horse-riding superior species. The slavers are lizard-men who apparently evolved from dinosaurs but dress as Romans and speak perfect English. Wayne Pygram [ Farscape ] plays the lizard Tribune's sidekick. While enslaved, the women have to wear skimpy lingerie. Ooh! As you can guess, the ending owes more than a little to Spartacus.
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 4]
Nectar
(Originally Aired 10/4/1999)
The old guy is fatally poisoned by a giant bee-sting. The local caucasian healer-woman [named Adama] tells the group to get Royal Jelly from the bees' hive. In there they meet the babelicious Simone McKinnon .
Meanwhile, the others build an electric fence to keep ape-men away from their tree-house.
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 5]
Cave Of Fear
(Originally Aired 10/11/1999)
Malone, the biscuit of the group, is wounded by a Raptor. Challenger is held captive by a white woman who uses him for sex.
Roxton [Crocodile Dundee guy] and the raven-haired babe explore a cave. They get infected with a halucinogen that acts in the same way the Dispair Squid did in Red Dwarf. They both dream things that are more powerful than they could imagine. Roxton sees his brother, Margerite sees her mother ...
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 6]
Salvation
(Originally Aired 10/18/1999)
The two old guys and the blonde Sheena clone fall foul of some Incas whose religion was mixed with Roman Catholicism and as a result want to burn the heretics at the stake. The chief prosecutor at the witch-trial is Lani Tupu [ Farscape ] in a long-haired wig. Challenger stupidly doesn't think to use swimming underwater and lightning as metaphors for being alive while not breathing.
Margerite spends her time annoying Ruxton and Malone. She mentions she can read the ancient inscriptions on a tomb they find, and to explain it says she spent years at Oxford. Unusually, this episode she's a complete wimp and gets physically
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 7]
Blood Lust
(Originally Aired 10/25/1999)
Roxton discovers a wounded white man in the jungle. The man attacks and bites him. The group also discover a dead tiger, perhaps killed by the man. Roxton pays Margerite a visit that night, but his lust is for blood instead of for flesh. He finds better sport taking on Rators in hand-to-hand combat. Later he discovers a Transylvanian castle in the middle of the jungle, inhabited by a vamp named Callisto ...
Things hot up between Malone and the blonde babe, Veronica. They kiss and go skinny-dipping together. Unfortunately, Malone has a GF back home. Meanwhile, Veronica is stalked by a native - or is he her fantasy? He wants to buy her [with gems - useless in the jungle], and Malone refuses to sell her.
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 8]
Out Of Time
(Originally Aired 11/1/1999)
Roxton, Malone and Margerite meet the Druids of Morrigun, and must go on a quest to retrieve some emeralds. This is part of Margerite's destiny.
The old guys and the blonde babe find a human-looking baby in the hands of some ape-people.
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 9]
Paradise Found
(Originally Aired 11/15/1999)
(Originally Aired 11/22/1999)
The babes get trapped down a 20ft hole.
The Men visit a native [caucasian] village. Shaman raises Malone from the dead, then turns eeevil.
(Originally Aired 11/29/1999)
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 12]
Tribute
(Originally Aired 1/15/2000)
(Originally Aired 1/22/2000)
Challenger is KO'd, and dreams - Anthony Simcoe [ Farscape ] kidnaps Jennifer O'Dell . The name Durkhan is used, perhaps a reference to the Xena: S6 episode about slavers.
The moral of the story? Power corrupts.
(Originally Aired 1/29/2000)
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 15]
Unnatural Selection
(Originally Aired 2/5/2000)
Dr Moreau [Challenger's pal] tests "genetics" on ape men. Another anachronism is a metal monoplane [Edwardian??]
Melissa Jaffer is the Faerie Queen. And Malone is a virgin!
(Originally Aired 2/12/2000)
(Originally Aired 2/19/2000)
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 18]
Prodigal Father
(Originally Aired 2/26/2000)
A white man claims to be Veronica's father. We also get to see Mud-wrestling between Veronica and Margerite!
(Originally Aired 3/4/2000)
(Originally Aired 4/22/2000)
Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Season 1, Episode 21]
Prophecy
(Originally Aired 5/13/2000)
(Originally Aired 5/20/2000)
All Or Nothing
(Originally Aired 10/2/2000)
Amazons
(Originally Aired 10/9/2000)
Tourist Season
(Originally Aired 10/16/2000)
Stone Cold
(Originally Aired 10/23/2000)
Divine Right
(Originally Aired 10/30/2000)
Skin Deep
(Originally Aired 11/6/2000)
London Calling
(Originally Aired 11/13/2000)
The Prisoner
(Originally Aired 11/20/2000)
The Games
(Originally Aired 1/15/2001)
The Source
(Originally Aired 1/22/2001)
Trophies
(Originally Aired 1/29/2001)
Voodoo Queen
(Originally Aired 2/5/2001)
The Guardian
(Originally Aired 2/12/2001)
Under Pressure
(Originally Aired 2/19/2001)
The Outlaw
(Originally Aired 2/26/2001)
The Quality Of Mercy
(Originally Aired 3/5/2001)
Mark Of The Beast
(Originally Aired 4/16/2001)
Survivors
(Originally Aired 4/23/2001)
The Pirate's Curse
(Originally Aired 4/30/2001)
The Visitor
(Originally Aired 5/7/2001)
A Man Of Vision
(Originally Aired 5/14/2001)
Into The Fire
(Originally Aired 5/21/2001)
45. 3- 1 20 Oct 01 Out of the Blue 46. 3- 2 27 Oct 01 The Travelers 47. 3- 3 3 Nov 01 An Eye for an Eye 48. 3- 4 10 Nov 01 True Spirit 49. 3- 5 17 Nov 01 The Knife 50. 3- 6 24 Nov 01 Fire in the Sky 51. 3- 7 1 Dec 01 Dead Man's Hill 52. 3- 8 8 Dec 01 Hollow Victory 53. 3- 9 12 Jan 02 A Witch's Calling 54. 3-10 19 Jan 02 Brothers in Arms 55. 3-11 26 Jan 02 Ice Age 56. 3-12 2 Feb 02 The End Game 57. 3-13 9 Feb 02 Phantoms 58. 3-14 16 Feb 02 The Secret 59. 3-15 23 Feb 02 Finn 60. 3-16 2 Mar 02 Suspicion 61. 3-17 8 Apr 02 The Imposters 62. 3-18 15 Apr 02 The Elixer 63. 3-19 22 Apr 02 Tapestry 64. 3-20 29 Apr 02 Legacy 65. 3-21 6 May 02 Trapped 66. 3-22 13 May 02 Heart of the Storm
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