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Season 1

Pilot. The Journey Begins (1)  

Community Score

9.1 Superb 1
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First aired: 4/3/1999

A band of adventures sets off to prove the existence of dinosaurs deep in the forest of the Amazon. After an unfortunate accident leaves them stranded, they must put their trust in a jungle girl to save them from the dangerous predators on the plateau.

Pilot. Stranded (2)  

Community Score

8.8 Great 1
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First aired: 4/3/1999

Marguerite makes a deal with a local chieftain to get off the Plateau. The deal is to hand over Veronica to the chief for marriage, something she wants no part of. Like all such schemes, things don't work out as planned and the team must fight a variety of threats in order to save the chiefs daughter, Veronica's virtue, and their own necks.

3. More Than Human  

Community Score

8.5 Great 1
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First aired: 10/2/1999

Roxton and the others are in a dilema. After a run-in with a T-Rex, they find themselves in the midst of a new civilization--where lizards rule, and humans are slaves. The group must find a way to escape their cold-blooded captors and their evil leader, Tribune.

4. Nectar  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 10/9/1999

The adventurers must rush to find an antidote to save Summerlee's life after he is stung by a giant bee.

5. Cave of Fear  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 10/16/1999

When Roxton and Marguerite go into a special cave to rescue Challenger, they soon find that things are not as they seem. Haunted by past mistakes, the two come dangerously close to ending their lives. Can their friends save them in time?

6. Salvation  

Community Score

7.8 Good
First aired: 10/23/1999

In this episode, Challenger, Summerlee and Veronica save a little girl from drowning and Summerlee has to give her mouth to mouth resuscitation. Tolmac, of the Christec people, brands Summerlee a witch for bringing the girl "back to life." The Christecs have mingled the Catholic and Aztec religions, with a touch of Conquistador Inquisition, to form their theocracy. Veronica gets away to summon help from the others, but Challenger has to act as Summerlee's lawyer ~ if found guilty, both men will be burned at the stake.

7. Blood Lust  

Community Score

7.2 Good
First aired: 10/30/1999

Roxton's friends race against the clock to save his life after strange events cause him to become as a vampire.

8. Out of Time  

Community Score

9.5 Superb
First aired: 11/6/1999

Roxton, Marguerite and Malone are mapping a series of caves, trying to find one that leads off the plateau without much luck. Marguerite, all the while, has been gathering gleaming gemstones in her backpack. At least she will not go back empty handed. A fog begins to fill the air around them...dense...deep fog. From out of the mist forms take shape: cloaked figures and eerie rock formations, encircling a stone slab. They find themselves surrounded by Druid-like figures who swarm over Marguerite. Roxton tries desperately to protect her, but she is torn from his grasp. The two men are restrained and Marguerite is carried away and deposited on the stone slab. It turns out that Marguerite figures in an ancient prophecy and that her fate has finally caught up with her, here. What it means, she must discover for herself, but it involves retrieving a sacred jemstone. She, along with Roxton and Malone, must go through several obstacles like headhunters and a leap of faith to accomplish Marguerite's task.. Back near the treehouse, Veronica and Summerlee make a startling discovery in the jungle: a baby. As they take the child home, they are being watched by inhuman eyes. An ape-woman, softly follows their footsteps. After a time, the ape-men raid the tree house and "steal" the baby, after which Challenger and Summerlee come to a conclusion even more startling than the child's appearance - that the ape woman who originally followed them is the baby's mother. Veronica at first refuses to believe this, having started to bond with the infant, but comes to understand the truth after seeing the mother and child together.

9. Paradise Found  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 11/13/1999

The aged guide who brought Veronica's parents to the Lost World dies in Challenger and Veronica's arms, humming "Ode to Joy," leading the explorers to seek out a hidden paradise, where Veronica suspects her parents might be.

10. The Beast Within  

Community Score

6.8 Fair
First aired: 11/20/1999

While out in the jungle, Malone is hit in the neck with a poisoned dart and dies. A shaman, Lento, heals him and Malone is brought back to life, but Lento has been driven mad. He is sentenced to die by his village, but Malone rescues him. Summerlee is kept captive and will die unless Malone, Roxton and Challenger can bring Lento back. Lento leads them a merry chase, having booby-trapped the jungle, but the men do eventually catch up to him , and he is killed. In the meantime, back at the treehouse, Veronica and Marguerite have had a huge fight, and wind up down an old well, with a hungry dinosaur waiting for them above and snakes, water and each other, in the hole!

11. Creatures of the Dark  

Community Score

6.5 Fair
First aired: 11/27/1999

Tracking a stream, Challenger, Veronica, Malone and Marguerite run into a group of Vantu headhunters. There is nowhere to run or hide, except in what looks like an overgrown cave opening. They dash into it only to discover it is man-made, an old, crumbling mine shaft. There's a loud rumbling that leads to a cave-in. Veronica escapes, but the others are trapped inside. Near death from suffocation, they are saved by Garza, part of a group banished to the mine by a plague-like disease, and led by a blind little boy known as The Oracle. The boy decrees our group must remain underground forever, and is unswayed even by Challenger's discovery that the tremors are caused by a sleeping volcano waking up around them. On the outside, Veronica manages to get Roxton and Summerlee from the treehouse, but they meet up with the Vantu again, who are not easily persuaded to let them rescue the others from their mountain prison.

12. Tribute  

Community Score

7.9 Good
First aired: 1/15/2000

Roxton saves Tayra of the Tinta people from a Hikari warrior who is chasing her. The two men fight and the Hikari man is killed. Roxton discovers that the Tintas live in fear of the fierce Hikari, and pay them a tribute to ensure the Hikari leave them in peace and protect them from other dangers. The Tinta are very peaceful, a fishing and gathering tribe, and do not know how to fight, but are determined to stop the tribute practice, but freedom may come at a high price. Roxton and Veronica teach them some fundamentals of hand to hand, help set up some traps to slow the Hikari down and help the Tinta organize in defense of their village, which the Hikari are due to strike, since there was no tribute paid. Challenger reluctantly helps, since he is not sure whether the Tinta are going to survive the fight ~ he does rouse them the night before with some inspring words from Shakespeare. The day of battle dawns and at the end, the fight is won, but the cost is great in Tinta lives, including Tayra's lover, the father of her unborn child. While Roxton, Veronica and Challenger are helping the Tintas in their quest for independence, Summerlee, Malone and Marguerite are taken prisoner by a World War I pilot, Hans Dressler, who's still fighting the war. They find him in his crashed plane, unconscious, and bring him back to the treehouse. Malone starts to work on fixing the plane, while Marguerite nurses Dressler, but for reasons other than those of Florence Nightingale. Apparently she and Dressler have met previously, and the circumstances were not the best ~ they seem to have been on opposing sides during the war. Dressler overpowers Marguerite, and leads her, at gunpoint, out to the plane, now able to fly again, thanks to Malone. Dressler is determined to kill Marguerite before he flies back to civilization, but Summerlee, ever the gentleman, steps in front of her and tells Dressler that he will not turn the prop on the plane if he shoots her. Malone agrees to the same, and Dressler leaves, but leaves saying mysteriously that he wonders if they know what kind of woman they are so gallantly protecting. Later, Marguerite sits on the balcony of the tree house, deep in thought. Summerlee, seeing that Marguerite needs someone to talk to, sits out with her and offers comfort.

13. Absolute Power  

Community Score

8.2 Great
First aired: 1/22/2000

When he finds a powerful crystal, Professor George Challenger gains the powers of a God, putting himself and the other explorers in great danger.

14. Camelot  

Community Score

8.6 Great
First aired: 1/29/2000

Marguerite is the future Queen of Camelot as far as a boy King is concerned, but the explorers and Marguerite, as well as the King's crafty advisor don't agree.

15. Unnatural Selection  

Community Score

7.4 Good
First aired: 2/5/2000

Challenger, Roxton, and Veronica come upon an old friend of Challengers, who resembles the sadistic "creator" Dr. Moreau. Elsewhere, Summerlee, Malone, and Marguerite meet an elderly woman who has a radio headset.

16. Time After Time  

Community Score

8.7 Great
First aired: 2/12/2000

Though the explorers find a gateway that can transport them back home, following them are enemies: one who doesn't want them to return, and one who does but wants them to bring a deadly virus with them.

17. Prodigal Father  

Community Score

6.9 Fair 2
reviews
First aired: 2/19/2000

Veronica thinks she has found her father, but instead she has found an imitator, with deceit in mind.

18. Birthright  

Community Score

6.8 Fair 1
review
First aired: 2/26/2000

Deep in the jungle, Marguerite, Challenger and Malone come upon a half-buried, mummified corpse. They are shocked when it shows signs of life. They learn the would-be corpse, Ramses, is Egyptian royalty. He weaves a tale about a wonderful kingdom with untold riches and how he was to become king. He then enlists our heroes in a plan to reclaim the throne he says has been stolen from him by his sister, Nefertiti. After agreeing to help, the three discover there is more to the dispute than Ramses is revealing. He rules with an iron fist, enslaving his former enemies. He blinds his sister, and leave her to die. Marguerite, Challenger and Malone help her escape. The adventurers decide they must defeat Ramses by convincing the true heir, Nefertiti, to accept the responsibility of rule, and helping her regain control. Meanwhile, Summerlee is relentlessly pursued by a T-Rex after she mistakenly believes him responsible for the death of her babies. Roxton and Veronica must help their friend or perish with him as a T-Rex lunch.

19. Resurrection  

Community Score

9.3 Superb 1
review
First aired: 3/4/2000

After days of searching the mountains for a pass off the plateau, Roxton and Marguerite are camped for the night when they are taken by surprise by Norse warriors. Roxton is run through with a sword by the leader, Ursula. As he sinks to his knees, Marguerite is hauled off by the raiders. Near death, Roxton is visited by a mystical young boy named Osric, who offers a deal. Osric will restore Roxton's life so he can save Marguerite. However, there is a catch. Roxton agrees to the deal and Marguerite is saved. It turns out that Osric is the soul of evil who has been imprisoned on the Lost World. He reappears and gleefully informs Roxton that he must murder Bergen, an old man with a long-standing hold over the boys' manipulative intentions. Roxton refuses to kill the old man, but Osric has many deadly ways to get what he wants. Meanwhile, Malone and Veronica must defend their Treehouse from a band of cutthroats who will stop at nothing to take it from them.

20. The Chosen One  

Community Score

7.7 Good 1
review
First aired: 4/22/2000

Teenage Gideon and his mentor Davos are on a mission to fulfill the boy's destiny of leading his tribe of Moya out of the bondage of the evil Goths. Roxton and Marguerite come upon them, just as Davos is fatally wounded in a Goth attack. Before he dies, Davos charges Roxton with ensuring Gideon and the "Star of Hope" quarterstaff he carries, reach their destination. What they discover is that Gideon has been taken from his parents as a child, raised by monks, and chosen to lead his people from the isolated caves where they have hidden for a generation. The time has come for him to take his rightful place... but he has been betrayed, his mentor murdered. Roxton resolves to escort the boy back to his people. Marguerite reluctantly goes along. The trio meets up with Gideon's brother Lucas and they reach the Moyan elders. Unfortunately, they discover the Goths won't rest until the Moyans and their friends are dead. At the Treehouse, Malone bonds with a woman named Kaya who kisses him passionately. What he doesn't know is that Kaya is the human host to a dying species that needs a human pair in order to reproduce. Kaya's kiss passes the parasitic creature into Malone. As Veronica wrestles with jealousy, she discovers Kaya's hold over Malone may be a deadly one.

21. Prophecy  

Community Score

7.8 Good 1
review
First aired: 5/13/2000

Teenage Gideon and his mentor Davos are on a mission to fulfill the boy's destiny of leading his tribe of Moya out of the bondage of the evil Goths. Roxton and Marguerite come upon them, just as Davos is fatally wounded in a Goth attack. Before he dies, Davos charges Roxton with ensuring Gideon and the "Star of Hope" quarterstaff he carries, reach their destination. What they discover is that Gideon has been taken from his parents as a child, raised by monks, and chosen to lead his people from the isolated caves where they have hidden for a generation. The time has come for him to take his rightful place... but he has been betrayed, his mentor murdered. Roxton resolves to escort the boy back to his people. Marguerite reluctantly goes along. The trio meets up with Gideon's brother Lucas and they reach the Moyan elders. Unfortunately, they discover the Goths won't rest until the Moyans and their friends are dead. At the Treehouse, Malone bonds with a woman named Kaya who kisses him passionately. What he doesn't know is that Kaya is the human host to a dying species that needs a human pair in order to reproduce. Kaya's kiss passes the parasitic creature into Malone. As Veronica wrestles with jealousy, she discovers Kaya's hold over Malone may be a deadly one.

22. Barbarians at the Gate  

Community Score

9.1 Superb 1
review
First aired: 5/20/2000

The explorers are caught in the middle of a war between Tribue, with gunpowder in toe, and Drakul and his barbaric raiders. One of them will be lost, possibly forever, when this battle reaches its cliffhanger!

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