The rub is that season 3 ends on a sixfold cliffhanger with all the characters in mortal danger, with the only resolution being a fourth & fifth season treatment of what might've been, and even followed up by some enthusiastic fan conventions. The program ran from 1999-2002, first broadcast on Pay-Per-View with minor nudity & longer scenes, shot in Australia, later airing edited versions in the United States, then syndicated, and put out in three fatty boom batty box sets. This other intellectual hero only featured in five stories of varied quality, but The Lost World stands as a genre-making classic. Doyle intended Professor George Edward Challenger to be a popular replacement for a Sherlock he'd become sick of writing, but no such luck. Dinosaurs, lizard men, supernatural beings, and ancient cultures all fill the narrative roster, along with just excellent writing, sewing it up into one grand package of adventure-filled goodness.īased on an unapologetic Victorian novella of Empire, the series extrapolates on the original's basic setting & characters, adding a mysterious femme fatale and pushing the time forward to just after World War I. During a recent binge marathon of "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World", one is again amazed that such a late-night gem of a series didn't garner more of the cult-like worship it so richly deserved.
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