The Lost World (TV series)

The Lost World
Season one titlecard
Genre	Action Adventure Science fantasy
Starring	Peter McCauley Rachel Blakely William Snow David Orth Jennifer O'Dell
Country of origin	Canada Australia United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	66 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Greg Coote Jeffery Hayes Guy Mullally John Landis Leslie Belzberg
Running time	60 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)	The Over the Hill Gang (2001-2002) Action Adventure Network (1999-2001) Telescene (1999-2001) St. Clare Entertainment (1999-2001) Coote-Hayes Entertainment New Line Television
Release
Original network	PPV/DirecTV (1999) TNT (1999) (pilot/TV-movie only) syndicated (1999–2002)
Picture format	Season 1 & 2 4:3 Season 3 16:9
Original release	October 2, 1999 – May 13, 2002

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. 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, and on the Space TV network in Canada. 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.