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Lost World

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Two-part adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs.

The team's success is threatened when two of its members compete for the affections of a missionary's daughter, and is further endangered by the possibility of an enemy within the group. Show less

Contributors

Challenger:
Bob Hoskins
Summerlee:
James Fox
John Roxton:
Tom Ward
Edward Malone:
Matthew Rhys
Agnes Cluny:
Elaine Cassidy
Theo Kerr:
Peter Falk
Illingworth:
Robert Hardy

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