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''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World'' is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ''The Lost World''. The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT in April), it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To this day, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets in 2004. The first part of the series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired in syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.〔() 1997. "DIRECTV(R) Agreement With Action Adventure Network Marks Entry Into Original First-Run Entertainment"〕〔() (PDF) Lost World review. Morgan, C. Demetrius.〕〔() RPG.net Forum〕〔() PulpandDagger.com review〕〔() RPG.net. Lost World Review. Morgan, C. Demetrius.〕 Following the limited run on PPV, the first broadcast TV run of the series ran weekly in syndication on hundreds of stations in the United States, including the WB 100+ group stations, a joint Time Warner and Tribune Broadcasting entity, because of syndex rules the show aired one week later on Superstation WGN,〔http://web.archive.org/web/20030821014325/http://wgnsuperstation.trb.com/entertainment/syn/action/〕 and on the Space TV network in Canada.〔 https://web.archive.org/web/20010306181122/http://www.spacecast.com/hits/lostworld/episodes.asp〕 The series later aired in Europe on the SciFi Channel Europe. The series continued to be rerun in daily strip form in the United States on Time Warner owned TNT in the early morning hours Monday through Friday. Eventually the series was removed from the schedule after the DVD release in the United States by a third Time Warner company New Line Television, sold the DVD region 1 distribution rights to Image Entertainment. The DVD region 2 distribution rights were sold to Liberation Entertainment. ==Plot== At the dawn of the 20th century a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor 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, Professor Arthur Summerlee, Marguerite Krux, Major Lord John Richard Roxton, Edward T. Malone. 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, whose parents disappeared eleven years before. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and was then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox), the group fights to survive against carnivorous dinosaurs, vicious Neanderthals, a race of lizardmen, 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Lost World (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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