The Lost World (TV Series)

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Television series
German title The lost world
Original title Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Country of production Canada ,
Australia
New Zealand
original language English
Year (s) 1999-2002
Production
company		 Coote Hayes Productions ,
St. Clare Entertainment ,
Telescene Film Group Productions ,
The Over the Hill Gang
length 44 minutes
Episodes 66 in 3 seasons
genre adventure
First broadcast April 1, 1999 (USA) on The WB
German-language
first broadcast		 November 6, 1999 on ProSieben
occupation
synchronization

The Lost World (original title: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World ) is an adventure series produced from 1999 to 2002 in Canada, New Zealand and Australia . It is loosely based on the novel The Forgotten World by Arthur Conan Doyle . A total of three seasons of the series were produced before it was discontinued in 2002 before the fourth season began. The series ended surprisingly with an episode that was never planned to end. The story does not come to an end.

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The series builds on the idea and characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World . The two main female roles have been added to the series concept.

At the beginning of the 20th century, an expedition group headed by Professor Challenger set out from London for the Amazon. They hope to discover a prehistoric world on a high plateau in which dinosaurs could have survived. The expedition reaches its destination. However, in the certainty that their way back to civilization is cut off. In the jungle they meet Veronica Layton, who offers the expedition members to find shelter in her tree house as her guests. The young woman was around 22 years old at this point and had survived the last 11 years alone in the jungle. Her parents, who were also scientists and who came to “the lost world” with an earlier expedition group, have been missing for 11 years. The result is two recurring main stories in the series: Together, the adventurers and Veronica try to find a way off this plateau as well as Veronica's parents. In addition, they do not neglect the actual intention of their expedition: the exploration of the unknown plateau.

Book template

The series is based on the book The Forgotten World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . To the main characters he invented, the scientists Challenger and Summerlee, the journalist Malone and the adventurer Lord Roxton, two female lead roles were added that did not appear in the book. This is the millionaire Marguerite Krux, who finances the expedition, and Veronica Layton, who was born and raised in the jungle. The first part of the pilot film sticks to the template, then - apart from the names of the characters - the plot is fictitious.

In the book, the expedition manages to return to London, whereupon Roxton and Malone set off for the second time into the lost world.

Pilot film

There are two different versions of the pilot. The first was actually broadcast as a film under the name The Adventure Begins . This pilot film is also available on DVD under this name. In the United States, the pilot was broadcast as part of the series, i.e. in two 44-minute episodes. This contains various alternative scenes as well as partly new material which does not appear in the pilot film. On the other hand, various scenes from the pilot were not used for the series.

Seasons

Transitions

At the end of season one, Professor Summerlee was struck by an arrow while fighting on a bridge and fell into the depths. It is driven down by a waterfall, which some species on the plateau say is a way back to the "other world". As it turns out later, this was a way to Avalon / El Dorado. During this fight, Malone also falls from the bridge. After the bridge is blown up, Challenger and Roxton are also hanging on the precipice and falling. Roxton could have saved himself, but tries to help Challenger as he swore to "follow him to Hell".

At the end of the second season, the expedition participants are confronted with a possible rescue. An English pilot promises the expedition to fly them home to London in his zeppelin. The zeppelin turns out to be a ghost ship. During a fight, Malone falls and is lost. The zeppelin with the other expedition members crashes on a cliff and is destroyed. However, the expedition members are caught in the time warp and soon find themselves in 19th century London.

The third season ends with Veronica trying to prevent the plateau from being destroyed. However, the continuation is no longer possible.

Content

While in the first season the exploration of the plateau, the search for an opportunity to return and dealing with the various species on the plateau were in the foreground, the consequences from the second season were marked by mysticisms. The supernatural played a major role. In addition, there were various contradictions to the first season in the second season. So z. B. was often pointed out that nobody on the plateau is in possession of the gunpowder, while in the second season several races have pistols.

The first season ends with Ned Malone giving up on returning to civilization with the friends in the balloon to stay with Veronika. He fell in love with her in the first episode when she saved his life. For the entire second season, however, this is rarely an issue.

In the third season, the series lost one of the most important characters with Ned Mallone and, after Prof. Summerlee, another original character from Conan Doyle's book. In addition, Veronica is also missing for some time and therefore only three main characters are left in some episodes. Mysticism and the supernatural are vehemently placed in the foreground, the known species in the lost world hardly come to light. However, the past life of the main characters is also explored in more detail in the third season. To give the series another main character, the character of "Finn" was invented; a young woman from the future who, like Veronika, usually appears very lightly dressed. Despite the cast with Lara Cox , a former Australian model, this could not significantly increase the ratings. The series had lost too much of its original salary for fans.

The end of the "love story" between Veronica and Ned also ended rather unexpectedly. Ned raised the subject with Veronica, who wasn't sure of her feelings for Ned and declared him a friend. These were the last words they spoke to each other, as Veronica was initially missing and the character of Ned disappeared from the series. Although the authors had left the option of resuming Ned's role, they did not.

Season 4

The third season ended with a typical cliffhanger , an open end, which should usher in the fourth season. Writers and producers began work on the fourth season in 2002, creating templates for 16 of 22 new episodes. However, this plan was no longer realized because the series was discontinued.

At the "Lost World Convention" in 2005, the main authors and executive producer Guy Mullaly told the fans "verbally" the outcome of the series.

The plateau was of course saved. At the end of season 3, the main actors were each confronted with a "life-or-death" situation, which each solved in his own way. Challenger, Roxton and Marguerite returned to the tree house, and Malone was to return to the series too. "Finn" was no longer to be seen. The plateau had changed slightly, and these changes were the basis for new adventures in Season 4. Among other things, the search for the mystical place Avalon, which Veronica had to find in order to get to her mother, who was the protector of the plateau. A role that would one day also fall to Veronica.

After the friends were able to locate Avalon at the end of the series, Veronica found her dying mother there. The time had come for Veronica to stay in Avalon herself and to fulfill her duties as the protector of the plateau. Malone would choose to stay at Avalon with Veronica, marry her, and write the history of the plateau. You would also have learned that Professor Summerlee survived after falling over the waterfall at the end of season 1. He was rescued by Veronica's mother, Abigail, and taken to Avalon. A place he couldn't leave, though. Challenger, Roxton and Marguerite returned to London on a transport machine invented by Challenger (which he used in season 3). However, due to a mistake by Challengers, they ended up in 2005 and not as planned in 1923. They were greeted there by a woman who looked like Veronica. It was a great-granddaughter of Veronica and Malone. Roxton and Marguerite would get married in London.

The fans would also have learned that "Finn" was a direct descendant of Malone. Malone had a brief interlude in the second episode of the second season (Amazons) with two Amazon warriors, one of whom looked like Finn (the role was also played by Lara Cox), from which a child emerged.

Cast and dubbing

For the German synchronization , the dubbing studio was EUR Arts Entertainment Film Production responsible for dialogue book and dialogue director Thomas Prauße .

role actor origin Voice actor
Dr. Georg Edward Challenger Peter McCauley New Zealand Bodo Wolf
Lord John Roxton William Snow Australia Jörg Hengstler
Marguerite Krux Rachel Blakely Australia Traudel Haas
Edward "Ned" Malone David Orth Canada Peter Flechtner
Dr. Arthur Summerlee Michael Sinelnikoff England Klaus Jepsen
Veronica Layton Jennifer O'Dell United States Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Finn Lara Cox Australia

Others

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  • Jennifer O'Dell and David Orth did not appear in several episodes of the third season. The reason for this was due to financial disputes with the producers on both sides.
  • William deVry played the role of Edward Mallone in the pilot, but was replaced for the series by Canadian David Orth.
  • In the original English version, William deVry incorrectly introduces himself as "John Mallone" at the beginning.
  • Most of the series was filmed in the Gold Coast, near Brisbane , Australia.
  • In the 1998 film The lost world (director: Bob Kean) Michael Sinelnikoff already took on the role of Professor Summerlee and was then engaged for the series.
  • Although the series was filmed in Australia and featured two Australians in the lead roles, the series failed to achieve popularity in that country. For a long time it was not broadcast at all, at the beginning of the new millennium it was broadcast by a small Australian TV station (Will Snow said “We call it Channel 10” to point out its insignificance).

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