abstract
| - At the dawn of the 20th century, a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Edward 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 (Peter McCauley) -- leader of the expedition, who hopes to prove his theories to his skeptical University academic peers;
* Professor Arthur Summerlee (Michael Sinelnikoff) -- the elderly member of the band and a colleague to George Challenger, who does not believe Challenger's claim about there being a lost world.
* Marguerite Krux (Rachel Blakely) -- the selfish financier of the expedition who goes along for her own reasons;
* Lord John Richard Roxton (William Snow) -- the nobleman with vast hunting experience, serves as protector of the group;
* Edward "Ned" T. Malone (David Orth) -- an American newspaper reporter, hoping to make a name for himself and impress his girl back home, if he survives the ordeal. During their expedition, their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric 'Plateau'. The group then meets up with Veronica Layton (Jennifer O'Dell) whose parents had disappeared on another expedition ten years before. The group (later joined by a woman named Finn, near the end of the third season) must find their way to civilization through the various pre- (and, in some cases, post-) historic landscapes and civilizations that have been preserved on the Plateau.
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