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Out of the Blue

After the airship explodes in a fiery crash, Challenger, Marguerite and Roxton awaken seven years in the past, at a British air station during World War I. Having returned to the same day that Captain Askwith first embarked on his orginal mission, the trio have replaced his original crew and must retrace his voyage if they are to have any hopes of returning to the plateau. Their plans however are complicated when they run afoul of a suspicious British intelligence officer and come face-to-face with an old acquaintance of Marguerite's—the First Lord of the Admiralty and a future British icon.
Meanwhile, back on the plateau, Veronica is menaced by cannibals and ferocious dinosaurs as she searches for the dastardly Captain Askwith, hoping to return the damned captain to his airship and rescue her friends.

The Travelers

While searching for the missing Malone, Roxton is knocked unconscious and robbed while Marguerite is saved from a cannibal attack by a dashing trio of bandits. Their leader, the elegant Francois Locke, invites her to join his band of thieves. Marguerite declines his offer, only to be presented with proof that Locke can give her what she desires most—a way off the Plateau.
Meanwhile, as Challenger, Roxton, and Veronica search for Marguerite, they discover evidence that the bandits are something other than human. Even worse, they receive a ransom note from them, demanding Marguerite's jewels in exchange for her release. But when they deliver the ransom, they're shocked to see that Marguerite isn't a prisoner at all—she appears to have joined Locke's group!

Eye for an Eye

After stumbling upon a dinosaur bone yard, Roxton is attacked by a charging Triceratops and is forced to shoot it. The site however is actually a sacred bural site that is protected by a half-human, half-dinosaur guardian named Oseena who does not take kindly to Roxton's apparently senseless killing. To punish Roxton for his crime, Oseena curses him to become the prey in a deadly hunt. After returning to the Treehouse, the hunter tracks him down, endangering the lives of the others, and kidnapping Marguerite. As the relentless hunt unfolds, Challenger receives a clue from Malone that helps in revealing the hunter's true nature and aids Roxton in his final confrontation with the hunter.

True Spirit

An unnerving dream and a ghostly encounter convince Veronica that Malone is trapped in the spirit realm and needs her help to escape. Marguerite and Veronica use a Ouija board to contact Malone, which results in a frightening display of poltergeist-like activity, and a brief, but terrifying manifestation of Saros, a bloodthirsty warlord who was overthrown by the Zanga and died swearing to return from the grave to wreak vengeance on the living. Veronica is encouraged having made contact with Malone but Assai is convinced that any further attempts to rescue Malone from the spirit realm could release Saros instead.

The Knife

Jack the Ripper in the Lost World? When Malone finds a knife, he is transported back to the East End of London in 1888, the scene of Jack the Ripper's brutal murders. In the nightmare of his visions, Malone sees his friends playing key roles in the crimes, both as conspirators and victims.
Meanwhile, Veronica is approached by a famous British doctor, who enlists her to help find his missing knife. Could this man be Jack the Ripper? Or is it the Scotland Yard Inspector who runs into Roxton and Marguerite? Charmed by the Inspector and his claim to know a way off the plateau, Marguerite is eager to assist him in apprehending the Ripper. Marguerite realizes she could be walking into a deadly trap. Veronica is left to confront and defeat the infamous killer to prevent the murderous cycle from being repeated on the plateau.

Fire in the Sky

Challenger, Malone and Veronica are exploring ruins on a riverbank, when a man stumbles out of the jungle in a hail of deadly arrows. Malone drags the wounded man to safety, who dies in their arms issuing a cryptic message to find a man named Pierson Rice. Challenger recognises the name as that of a vain glorious hunter whom Roxton once held in high regard. The trio send a message to Roxton and Marguerite, then hurry on in search of Rice. Roxton is disgusted to learn that his one-time hero may be alive and well.
Arriving at a native village, our heroes discover that Rice is far from peril—in fact, he has made the natives his loyal subjects. With the help of his cold-hearted lieutenant, Rice plans to eliminate the queen and marry her beautiful daughter to consolidate his power.

Dead Man's Hill

When Roxton finds a hangman's noose dangling from a lonely tree in the jungle, he is transported back to the American West where he finds himself at the end of the rope. Facing him is Challenger, but in this world he's known as Sheriff Jack Challenger, a cruel lawman who neither recognizes Roxton nor listens to his plea of innocence.
Saved by a rancher's widow, Roxton begins a strange journey to clear his name and find his way back to the Lost World. Along the way he runs into all of his friends but none of them recognize him—Malone is a cold-hearted gunslinger, Veronica runs the local saloon and trading post, and Marguerite is the beautiful widow who saved Roxton's life. As Roxton struggles to make sense of it all, he is drawn to a final showdown in the saloon, where he must face his friends in a deadly shootout.

Hollow Victory

Challenger develops a new way to power a balloon but on its maiden voyage, the balloon is caught in a violent storm. When the balloon emerges from the clouds, the explorers discover that they are no longer on the plateau—but beneath it! The balloon has descended into a hostile volcanic landscape where escape hinges on Challenger's ability to repair the balloon, and on Malone's new friendship with a beautiful warrior.

A Witch's Calling

When a powerful witch named Dame Alice feels threatened by Challenger's science, she calls upon her two beautiful acolytes to help undo his power. In order to earn full witchhood, the two must lure Roxton and Malone to the witch's castle while she goes head to head with Challenger herself.

Brothers In Arms

When Keeran Raiders attack, a deadly poison dart forces Malone to relive a long-suppressed memory-his baptism of fire as a battlefield correspondent in World War I. Caught up in this nightmarish hallucination, Malone is once again an untried reporter cut off from Allied lines when an enemy advance pushes deep into No Man's Land. When the three battle-weary British soldiers who've been assigned to escort him are picked off by enemy action, the young reporter who's never fired a gun must take up arms to save his own life and the life of a wounded sergeant.

Ice Age

The impact of a meteor causes the mercury to drop all along the plateau, exposing the party to extreme cold and the threat of outerworldly invaders who plot to use the freezing conditions to take over Earth.

The End Game

Ambushed in the jungle, Roxton narrowly escapes with his life only to learn that he has apparently cheated death once too often. The Grim Reaper, in the guise of a dark seductress—is determined to add his soul to her collection. Transported to her domain—a bleak and desolate wasteland - Roxton must face a series of challenges if he hopes to get out alive. And to make the game more interesting, Death raises the stakes by putting the lives of his friends on the line as well.

Phantoms

Alone in the jungle, Veronica hears piano music and follows it to its source—a 19th century German village that has suddenly appeared in a fog choked valley. To her surprise, the handsome musician, Thomas Ducart, announces that he wrote the beautiful melody for her. Flattered by the musician's attention, Veronica takes him to the Treehouse, but Challenger is concerned. He fears that Ducart's village may be unstable, and Veronica could disappear into another dimension if she returns to the village with Ducart. Even more disturbing, are Challenger's ill feelings about Ducart's designs on Veronica, but Challenger's warnings only drive the beguiled Veronica further into Ducart's passionate embrace.

The Secret

An attack on Veronica convinces Marguerite that an unsavory former associate has tracked her to the Plateau, forcing her to reveal secrets about her past to Challenger and the rest of the party.

Finn

Challenger's experiments with an energy source lands him, Marguerite and Roxton in the future, where Earth has been devastated by war.

Suspicion

Challenger's party encounters survivors of a lost archaeological expedition that uncovered an ancient burial urn the survivors suspect was inhabited by a malevolent demon responsible for killing their friends.

The Imposters

Three demons take the place of Challenger, Roxton and Marguerite and Finn is the only one who can free her friends and kill the demons.

The Elixir

To combat starvation, Challenger develops an experimental elixir as a food substitute. After ingesting the substance, however, the scientist is beset by volatile hallucinations of his wife and himself as a young man.

Tapestry

A downed WWI pilot carrying top-secret Royal Navy cargo kidnaps Challenger and exposes Roxton's wartime record leading to some important revelations regarding the explorers connections to one another. It falls to the personality-clashing pair of Veronica and Finn to rescue their friends from capture.

Legacy

A dream prompts Veronica to place her mother's pendant next to a stone monolith, leading to changes in her memories and a showdown with a mystical swordsman.

Trapped

An explosion leaves Marguerite and Roxton trapped underground and only an amnesiac Challenger can save them. At the tree house, Veronica finds a memento from her childhood while playing a game with Finn.

Heart of the Storm

In the series finale, the explorers are affected by a bizarre time-distortion phenomenon and Challenger is reunited with the man whose journal inspired the expedition. Meanwhile, Marguerite is captured by Druids; Roxton is pursued by conquistadors; Veronica and Finn are thrust into the future.