The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song written by Linda Laurie and performed by Wesley Eure

• 001. Cha-Ka – 9/7/1974
  • After Rick Marshall (Spencer Milligan) and his children Will (Wesley Eure) and Holly (Kathy Coleman) are dumped into another world during a rafting expedition, they begin to explore the area. They run across a dinosaur which they nickname “Grumpy”, a mysterious pylon, and a tribe of Pakuni advanced simians. They befriend a young Paku named Cha-Ka (Phillip Paley), but after catching him attempting to steal their fire, they begin to mistrust him. Cha-Ka brings fruit to the Marshalls as a peace offering. 4/14/13
• 002. The Sleestak God – 9/14/1974
  • Will and Holly begin to explore the area as they set out fill their jugs of water, and end up discovering new dinosaurs, the ‘Lost City’, and run into Cha-Ka. But things go sour when they are attacked and kidnapped by a band of Sleestak monsters and taken back to the unseen ‘Sleestak God’ and suspended over his pit. Cha-Ka eventually leads Rick to the kids, and he is able to ward off the Sleestaks with fire to rescue them. 4/15/13
• 003. Dopey – 9/21/1974
  • Will and Holly take out the wagon that their father has built to bring back some giant strawberries. They happen upon a hatched dinosaur egg that turns out to be a herbivore brontosaurus, that the kids name “Dopey”. They attempt to feed it a strawberry, but it when it starts to chase them, it gets stuck between two trees and begins to cry. The noise rouses the ire of Grumpy, who then attacks. The kids manage to escape and assume that Dopey will be eaten, but soon discover that he is following them and eating all of their strawberries. Holly wants to keep Dopey, but after another attack from Grumpy, Rick talks Holly into bringing Dopey to the swamp to be with a mother dinosaur. 4/24/13
• 004. Downstream – 9/28/1974
  • Rick, Will, and Holly build a raft to take downstream from their camp in search of an ocean that might lead them back home. A waterfall inside of a cave forces them to abandon the raft and take refuge inside a nook in the wall. This leads to a giant cave where they find a Civil War soldier named Jefferson Davis Collie (Walker Edmiston) and his cannon. Collie had found crystals in the canyon that are apparently an energy source and emit bright lights when they are touched together. Sleestacks had previously attacked Collie, but he managed to kill them with his cannon – and eat them. Rick wants Collie to assist them in getting out of the caves, but a lonely Collie stubbornly wants them to stay so won’t give them any information. When the Sleestacks attack with crossbows, everyone is forced into the river and they continue their way downstream. Eventually they are led back to their camp – although they have been traveling in the opposite direction. Rick deduces that they are trapped in a ‘locked universe’ that has no beginning and no end.  4/27/13
• 005. Tag-Team – 10/5/1974
  • The Marshall family is out picking giant carrots and turnips, trying to train Dopey to assist with hauling as they go. He proves useless so they send him on his way. A trio of Pakuni, among them Cha-Ka, Sa (Sharon Baird), and Ta (Joe Giamalva) are caught stealing the Marshall’s vegetables. While attempting to settle their argument over the stolen property, Grumpy begins to pursue all of them. When the dinosaur begins to pursue Ch-Ka, Will and Holly run after Grumpy to re-direct his attention. Cha-Ka then does the same to distract Grumpy from Will and Holly. Eventually the groups split up, and Willy, Holly, and Cha-Ka get caught on a ledge in the crevasse, with Grumpy on one side and a rival allosaur, whom they’ve nicknamed “Alice,” on the other. Rick, Sa, and Ta then team up to rescue the other three. In the end, the Marshalls teach the Pakuni how to pick their own vegetables and they all declare each other to be friends. 4/28/13
• 006. The Stranger – 10/12/1974
  • While picking new fruits, Holly and Will roam into a nearby cave and discover an object that seems to emit some kind of power, knocking each kid backward when they display aggression toward each other. Rick then locates the kids, and the trio is almost immediately descended upon by Sleestaks. The object seems to frighten the Sleestaks, but it is not until another brown colored Sleestak with telepathic powers shows up and wards them off that they retreat. This Sleestak’s name is Enik (Walker Edmiston) and he claims to be a descendant of the Sleestaks, having been trapped in this ancient world of his less-developed ancestors. The mystery object is a Mageti, which has the power to ‘locate and fix’ the doorways between the dimensions that can lead him, and perhaps the Marshalls, back home. Unfortunately, Enik only intends to use the Mageti for himself. Will’s aggression toward Enik causes the power source in the Mageti to burn out. Enik wears a crystal around his neck that is the companion piece to the Mageti, but it needs a charge from similar power source stones. The Marshalls tell Enik that they have seen similar stones in the Lost City. After deflecting an attack of the Sleestaks and Alice along the way, Enik realizes that the Lost City is his former home and that he is not in the past as he thought…but in the future, his race having degenerated due to anger and war. When they reach the stones, Will steals Enik’s crystal, prompting Enik to telepathically induce great fear in all of the Marshalls. Rick tells Enik that he in fact is using the very same anger that will eventually destroy his race. Enik apologizes, and Will returns Enik’s crystal. Enik then teaches the Marshalls how to create a force field using the stones that they can use to defend against the Sleestaks. Enik disappears through the doorway to the future and Rick wishes him luck. 4/28/13
• 007. Album – 10/19/1974
  • While Holly works on a trap for a small animal that is stealing food, Will is pulled into a trance by a mysterious sound and is drawn to a room in the Lost City where he finds a crystal that makes him see his dead mother (Erica Hagen) beckoning him. He is hypnotized to the point where he is unable to tell his father or Holly, but Holly eventually sees him going there and follows him. She too sees her mother, and then both kids see their father beckoning them as well. They follow him, but he turns out to be a Sleestak leading him to other Sleestak and the ‘Sleestak God’. Rick trails them to the room and when he picks up the crystal, he sees his kids. He realizes that it is an illusion and is able to rescue the kids. Back at their cave High Bluff, Holly abandons her trap, deciding that she no longer likes ‘traps’. 5/12/13
• 008. Skylons – 10/26/1974
  • While Will is chasing colored chickens, Holly catches a glimpse of three pylons in the sky, but Will dismisses her. He and his father begin to signal each other with mirrors, and Will notices that the giant pylon seems to be signaling back. He and Holly head to the pylon, but are interrupted by Grumpy, who eats a smaller dinosaur that Holly has named Spot.  At the pylon they find a small pyramid attached to the pylon which falls off when he touches it. When he re-applies it, a doorway to the pylon opens up. Inside is a table full of glowing stones that seems to control the weather whenever they are touched. The kids’ experimentation with them brings about a tremendous storm that produces red skies, lightening, and hail. The pylons in the sky send a color code signal, that when followed, calms the storm. Back at High Bluff, Holly agrees to name the pylons “Skylons”. 5/12/13
• 009. The Hole – 11/2/1974
  • Rick and Will are searching for the time door in the Lost City when Sleestacks attack and knock Rick into the pit of the Sleestack gods. Down there he finds a non-hostile Sleestack named S’latch (voiced by Ralph James), who claims to have been born with the intelligence of his ancestors. While Will travels back to High Bluff, avoiding confrontations with Alice and Grumpy, to get rope, S’latch and Rick cooperate and pound pegs into the cave wall to climb out of the pit. Holly joins Will and when the two of them arrive, they find Rick out of the pit, but a another Sleestack attack forces them to enter a hole in the wall that descends right back into the pit. S’latch lowers a rope to help all three get out, vowing to try to teach peace to his people, who have cast him out because they find him to be a freak. 1/6/13
• 010. The Paku Who Came to Dinner – 11/9/1974
  • Will and Holly run into Cha-Ka while they are gathering berries with Dopey. The invite Cha-Ka to stay for dinner and Holly puts on makeup and perfume for the occasion. The perfume not only drives Cha-Ka crazy, but Sa and Ta kidnap Holly because they like it so much. Will, Rick, and Cha-Ka make their way to her between a storm and an attack by Grumpy and retrieve Holly, but she leaves her perfume-laden jacket with them. Grumpy then eats the jacket and Cha-Ka presents Holly with an edible flower. 1/6/14
• 011. The Search – 11/16/1974
  • While experimenting with making a dimensional doorway, Rick is nearly electrocuted by touching three crystals together. Holly struggles to get Rick back to the cave, while Will avoids Alice and searches for Enik in the Lost City for help. When he locates him, Enik has just started the process for opening the doorway so that he can return home and refuses to help Will because he will miss the opportunity to go back home. The doorway stops momentarily on Earth, but Will refuses to go through it without his father and Holly. This shames Enik into showing enough self-control to bypass his chance to leave, and he goes to the cave and heals Rick. 1/21/14
• 012. The Possession – 11/23/1974
  • The Pakuni discover the pylon and when Cha-Ka touches the table of stones inside he seems to be possessed. Her emerges with an electrified baton which knocks down Ta and Sa. He then passes the baton off to Holly, who is out collecting dessert with Dopey, and the possession transfers to her. She comes back to the cave and uses to the baton to deactivate the stones that they’ve collected and knocks Will out with the baton. After he wakes up, he is able to sense what Holly is doing, so he and Rick follow her to the Lost City where she continues to charge the baton by deactivating the crystals. Will snaps Holly out of it by throwing water on her, and she remembers being compelled to go back to the pylon with the baton. They all head there and a spirit inside takes possession of both Will and Holly and tells Rick that as the keeper of the pylon, it wants to be the ruler of all. Rick pulls all of the crystals out of the matrix table and the spirit seems to lose all power. An image of a Sleestak from Enik’s time appears, and Rick assumes that it might have been a builder of the pylon. 1/21/14
• 013. Follow That Dinosaur – 11/30/1974
  • Grumpy comes for a visit to High Bluff first thing in the morning and Holly figures out that the foliage that they were using for curtains is some sort of ‘dinosaurnip.’ Will and Holly clear the area of it and while they are disposing of it, they find a dummy stuffed with the same plant, and a diary in its pocket. It has been written by Peter Koenig and details the plight of he and his partner Harry Potts, but gives details on where to find a suspected portal that will lead them back to New England. Rick joins them on the search with Grumpy following them, even surprisingly crossing the crevasse to the Lost City, where he immediately gets into a fight with Alice. They enter the caves, sneaking past the dormant Sleestak, and find the second part of the diary which includes a map to the portal. When they arrive to their destination, they find the remains of both Potts and Koenig, as well as a lava pit that seems to be rising and warming up the caves, which brings the Sleestak out of their slumber. They are momentarily trapped between the Sleestak and dinosaurs but throw some exploding crystals to scare of the dinosaurs. When they get back to High Bluff, they read the third part of the diary that they found on the remains – which indicates that they were part of General Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War. 2/11/14
• 014. Stone Soup – 12/7/1974
  • As a drought is overtaking the land, Will and Holly fight about who is making dinner, Rick coaxes them by making ‘stone soup’ which gets both of the kids to search out ingredients for it. While they are out gathering food, they notice that the drought is causing the dinosaurs to behave strangely, including Emily the brontosaurus who charges at Will and Holly forcing them to take refuge in the weather pylon. They notice that all of the crystals are gone, which may be why the weather is acting strangely. They track the missing crystals to the Paku dwelling and Rick comes up with a plan to peacefully get the crystals back. He establishes an atmosphere of friendly trading while introducing them to stone soup as well. He then offers to trade bowls of soup for the crystals, but the paku actually want the stone so that they can make their own. Rick and the kids take the crystals back to the pylon and arrange them on the matrix, restoring rain to the land. Later, Dopey chases Cha-Ka to High Bluff and Holly invites him to dinner. Cha-Ka turns his nose up at the soup and goes over and adds a stone to it. 2/12/14 
• 015. Elsewhen – 12/14/1974
  • Rick, Will, and Holly venture to Enik’s cave to experiment with the Time Doorway, trying different combinations on the crystal matrix.  Holly roams off and finds a series of pylon symbols that lead them to a hole in the wall that Rick and Will exlore. Feeling shunned when they won’t let her help, Holly returns to Enik’s cave and runs into a woman named Rani (Erica Hagen) who has a scar on her arm that she says she got from helping her brother. She is kind to Holly but tells her to act more mature and gives her advice to avoid the Sleestaks and to get over her fear of heights by ‘looking at the earth’. She also gives her crystal necklaces for her family to wear that help communicate each other’s emotions to one another. Holly returns to her family and offers to explore the hole since she is small enough to fit in it. After she is lowered into it, Sleestak attack and kidnap Rick and Will and take them to be fed to the Sleestak God. Holly uses her new crystals to determine they are in trouble and uses Rani’s advice to overcome her fear of heights to climb out of the hole. She saves her family by attacking the Sleestak with crystals and then bringing the rope down into the pit. She is attacked by the god and cuts her arm. After everyone is safe, she returns to see Rani, realizing that she is actually Holly from the future, who has returned through a time doorway to assist with saving her family. 3/26/14
• 016. Hurricane – 12/21/1974
  • In order to avoid the constant dinosaur attacks, Will and Holly venture up a mountain and discover a new pylon which contains a matrix similar to Enik’s. Will experiments with it and creates a new time portal through which a glider pilot named Beauregard Jackson from a future Earth fell using a parachute. Will and Holly introduce him to their father, and they all attempt to use the matrix to move the portal closer to their mountain so they can go through it and return home. The portal is also causing a weather phenomenon with hurricane-like conditions, so Rick uses messages form the Skylons to attempt to correct the weather, but it only makes it worse since the winds aren’t actually weather–related. In the end, Rick and the kids realize they can’t go through the portal because they have no parachutes, so Jackson goes through alone. 3/29/14
• 017. Circle – 12/28/1974
  • Rick, Will, and Holly are swimming in a pond and Will discovers and underwater entrance to some new cave similar to those in the Lost City. They awaken some hibernating Sleestak and all three are split up during the chase. Will is saved by Enik who creates an invisible forcefield that keeps the Sleestak out of a room. In the room is another matrix, which Enik has used to open up a time doorway, but he explains that he cannot cross through it because the balance of the land is off and the matrix is locked on the point in time that he and his family went over the rapids and passed through the doorway – which repeats on an endless loop through the doorway. Enik explains that nothing can enter the world unless an equal amount of people leaves it, and therefore their presence there has created a paradox. Rick and Holly find each other and the come to the room as well. Rick suggests that if they leave, then the three earlier versions of them will be able to pass through again. By his code, Enik cannot interfere with the lives of others, but he is willing to tell Rick how to stop the paradox by placing a crystal on the matrix. Rick, Will, and Holly are then able to go through the doorway back to earth, while the earlier versions of themselves are arriving once again into the land of the lost. 3/30/14

SEASON 2

• 018. Tar Pit – 9/6/1975
  • While playing with Spot, Dopey gets stuck in a tar pit. Cha-Ka is busy painting Ka on the side of a large rock when he hears Dopey’s distress call. He abandons the painting much to the irritation of Ta and Sa to go and get the Marshalls. The try to throw a vine around Dopey and pull him out, then construct a block and tackle device and use bamboo reeds, but are unsuccessful. Cha-Ka threatens to not finish his painting unless Ta and Sa assist, but even the six of them cannot pull him out. Eventually Cha-Ka brings Emily to the tar pit and Rick manages to get a rope around her neck and then they prod her to move with fire, and Dopey is successfully rescued. Scutter McKay takes over the role of Ta. 6/23/14
• 019. The Zarn – 9/13/1975
  • While exploring a mist marsh, Rick and Will are forced to enter it when threatened by Grumpy. They spot an arrangement of lights that appear to be surrounding an invisible craft. Will has a bad feeling that someone or something is intruding in his brain, but Rick wants to explore it anyway. Inside they find a woman named Sharon Williams (Brooke Bundy) who hails from Rick’s hometown of Indianapolis and had fallen through the time doorway. The two share a lot of the same memories including teachers they had in school. They take her back to High Bluff to stay with them, although Holly and Will are both suspicious of her. There is another being at the ship – also invisible and adorned with lights – and he visits High Bluff and guides Sharon away. Rick follows them and confronts the being, who says his name is Zarn (Van Snowden/voiced by Marvin Miller). He claims that both he and Sharon are studying human behavior but that human emotions feel like fire to him, so Sharon is the only one who can get close to people. Rick pleads with Sharon to return with him, but she goes up in a cloud of smoke, leaving her robot hand behind. 6/24/14
• 020. Fair Trade – 9/20/1975
  • The Sleestak are trying to capture a multicolored pig, but Rick ends up falling into their trap. He is able to elude the capture of the Sleestak for a while by remaining in the sunlight from above. Holly sees Rick fall into the pit with her pendant, and she and Will head out to find him. They lower a rope into the hole, but Grumpy chases Spot by their area and they have to hide. Then Grumpy steps into the hole, which allows Rick to be captured. Holly and Will then head to Enik for help and after convincing him that he should be displaying compassion, he visits the Library of Skulls and the Sleestak council to find out that the Sleestak were attempting to capture the pig to place in the Egg Cave for the hatchlings to feed on after they are born. They agree that if Will and Holly present them with the original pig, they will let Rick go in its place. The kids place a rope over the hole and bribe Ta using Will’s knife that Ta admired, to hang for the rope as bait for the pig, his natural enemy. When the pig charges Ta, it falls in the pit and Will and Holly take it to the head Sleestak, who releases Rick as promised. 6/27/14
• 021. One of Our Pylons Is Missing – 9/27/1975
  • While the Marshalls are exploring and looking for additional pylons, Cha-Ka separates from the group and comes across a hole that appears and reappears. Spot falls into the hole while chasing Cha-Ka, and Will deduces that there should be a pylon in the location of the ‘hole’. They find Cha-Ka who explains what he saw…before falling into the pit himself. Rick and Will go in search of the nearest pylon since Rick thinks it might control the hole. Inside the pylon, they can see an image of Holly lowering herself into the hole with a rope attached to her. The hole closes up while she is inside and her rope breaks, so Rick lowers himself into the hole as well. Will, Cha-Ka, and Spot all float around a pulsating heart-like generator. The object shoots a beam that absorbs Spot, but Rick is able to deflect the beam back at the source, which causes it to stop pulsating and all three are able to float back to the surface. Rick determines that the source traps and consumes matter, and distributes energy around the Land of the Lost through the pylons. 9/5/14
• 022. The Test – 10/4/1975
  • Ta and Sa present Cha-Ka with the challenge to prove his manhood by stealing one of Alice’s dinosaur eggs. When Will finds out about it, he follows Cha-Ka to make sure he is safe. Cha-Ka finds an egg and starts to take it but Alice gives chase and attacks, temporarily stunned by Will shining a mirror into her eyes. Will, Holly, and Cha-Ka roll the egg into an uninhabited ruin in the Lost City and are trapped. The egg hatches and out comes a baby Allosaurus that Holly names Junior. Cha-Ka brings back a piece of the hatched egg, but Ta sees this as a failure. However he is scared by Junior whereas Cha-Ka is not, so he gives Cha-Ka the ceremonial ‘manhood’ beads. 9/5/14
• 023. Gravity Storm – 10/11/1975
  • While working on heating some clay pots that Holly made, the Marshalls are suddenly forced to the ground by intensified gravity. The Pakuni experience the same thing while picking berries. The Marshalls head to a Pylon and note the matrix table flashing, then spot the Skylons over the mist march and assume that the Zarn is responsible. Holly’s foot is hurt during another gravity attack and Ta and Sa take her back to High Bluff. Rick and Will confront the Zarn and find out that he is trying to leave in his ship, but a faulty gravity drive is causing the disturbance. Rick warns him that the Land of the Lost will not let him leave, but he refuses to listen and sends a robotic dinosaur named Fred after them. Rick has the idea to get to higher ground, where Fred is struck by lightening and killed. The return to the Zarn and use their angry emotions to hurt the Zarn, resulting in the ship to crumble apart. although they pity the Zarn, Rick explains that if the Zarn tried to leave, the Land of the Lost would have destroyed itself, resulting in death for both the Zarn and them. 10/4/14
• 024. The Longest Day – 10/18/1975
  • As the Marshalls are eating dinner, they notice that the animals are going berserk outside and the sun hasn’t move positions since earlier in the day. Rick sets out to ask Enik what is going on, but is captured by the Sleestak. Will and Holly see this through the crystals and set out to save him. Rick is taken to the Library of Skulls where he is shown an image of himself entering the pylon and is put on trial for causing the disturbance, thus interfering with the hunting rituals of the Sleestak that enable them to feed their eggs. A smoke enables Rick to understand the Sleestak, but he pleads with them that visions are not what happened, but what will happen, and to let him go so he can try to fix the problem. Although Will and Holly are trapped by Alice and never make it into the caves, Rick hallucinates that they help him escape, and then see a series of bizarre scenes of the family as cavemen, Holly as a British debt collector, and Will as a Confederate soldier. When he gets out of the cave, he meets up with his kids and they head to the pylon. There he uses one of Holly’s crystals to restore the matrix, and the sun immediately begins to go down. As they make their way back home, they see the Sleestak out hunting the Altrusian moth to feed their young. The Sleestak ignore them, but return the knife that they took from Rick. 10/5/14
• 025. The Pylon Express – 10/25/1978
  • Rick and Will wake up in the middle of the night and hear the Paku chanting, and follow the sound to discover that they are dancing around the only pylon that won’t open with the ‘key’. They witness the door open and Ta throwing a gourd inside, followed by groceries and a grocery cart seemingly from the regular world come pouring out. They investigate and go inside the pylon, which closes behind them. Holly wakes up to find her family gone and goes looking. Cha-Ka tells her that Ta can open the pylon and she bribes him with all of the Marshall’s belongings to open it. She goes inside and the door closes, after which Rick and Will return. While she is inside, the door open periodically on seemingly different worlds and time periods, one of which bears a message for her not to exit the pylon, one of which is her home on Earth. She doesn’t exit without her family and returns to them. They have found out that Ta really had no power, that the pylon opens only when the three moons are aligned…the next time of which will be three or four years. Ta returns their belongings so that Rick will not tell Sa or Cha-Ka that he has no power. Rick and Will deny that they wrote the message for Holly not to exit the pylon. 11/4/14
• 026. Nice Day -11/1/1975
  • Will is excited to use the fishing pole that he has fashioned, and convinces Holly to make some of her Smilax cakes, pretending that he likes them, in order to go alone. Will fishes with Cha-Ka, while Rick works on an animal trap, and Holly digs up roots from the Smilax plant. When Will catches a fish, Cha-Ka throws in and the pole in the water because he thinks they are poison. Rick’s trap catches a multi-colored pig, but Cha-Ka is terrified of that as well. When he freaks out, he knocks Holly into a plant that bites and poisons her. Ta offers to heal her, with the agreement that Rick and Will bow before him. Holly awakens, but they soon realize that she would have woken up anyway. They let the pig loose, which scares Ta and traps him on top of the cage, while back at High Bluff, Rick, Will, and Cha-Ka struggle to stomach the Smilax cakes. 11/5/14
• 027. Baby Sitter – 11/8/1975
  • Rick and Will head out on an overnight hike in order to create a map, and Marshall agrees to let Holly stay back at High Bluff. Will teases Holly about the Zarn in order to scare her. The Zarn overhears him and then sets out on some mischief in which he causes melons to hit Ta in the face, and Cha-Ka gets the blame. He runs to Holly for protection and she tries to convince Cha-Ka to stick up for himself. She then realizes that the Zarn has caused the havoc, and he admits that he is doing ‘research’. She asks him to make Cha-Ka win a battle against Ta. When he refuses, she gets angry, and her emotions cause the Zarn great pain. Ta seeks out Cha-Ka, but Cha-Ka doesn’t defend himself. However, the Zarn causes a plant to hit Ta, who thinks he has been hit by Cha-Ka. Holly tries to tell the Zarn that he has feelings after all, but he insists that Holly should have no feelings toward him as they hurt him. He also tells her that the ‘research’ was actually about her and not Cha-Ka. Will and Rick return, and Cha-Ka visits High Bluff, once again the victim of Ta’s anger. 12/8/14
• 028. The Musician – 11/15/1975
  • Holly attempts to teach Cha-Ka to play the recorder, but he is so inept at it that Will gets annoyed by the noise and tosses it aside. Cha-Ka joins the Marshalls as they explore a temple near the Lost City, which appears to have been designed by humans. Cha-Ka unwittingly opens the door and they discover a giant matrix inside, along with a human statue. Cha-Ka touches the matrix and the sky changes, and a ring appears that Holly tries on and can’t get off. A being known as The Builder materializes and calls out the names of Cha-ka, Ta, Sa, and Holly, who is told telepathically to return the ring. On the way back the Builder encounters Will and Rick and tells them both that they have proven themselves and it is not ‘their time’. Both of them faint, and Holly also collapses from weakness. The Builder transforms into a human version of Cha-Ka (also played by Phil Paley) and gives him the ability to remove the ring and put it on. Back at High Bluff, the Marshalls discuss what happened and are unable to come up with any explanation. Cha-Ka however is now playing the recorder fluently. 12/9/14
• 029. Split Personality – 11/22/1975
  • After a giant earthquake, the Marshalls are visited by a specter resembling Holly who uses Holly to pass on the information to help “Dad and Will.” Holly deduces that it is not her Dad and Will that need help but that of mirror images of themselves, a different family who still has their mother alive. Holly is able to channel the other Holly to get information that leads to them to a cave they’ve never explored. Inside they find another Rick and Will sticking out of a green rock wall. The other Will is holding a green crystal and there are two more on the floor. A matrix on the wall has three empty spots so Rick and Will put the crystal into the slots. After a giant rumbling, they see that the other Rick and Will have disappeared. They deduce that there is another Marshall family in an alternate universe who is also trapped in the Land of the Lost. 1/20/15
• 030. Blackout – 11/29/1975
  • The Sleestak manipulate a clock matrix so that the sun will never come up and they can consume mass quantities of Altrusian moths and lay thousands of eggs, thus taking over the Land of the Lost. Enik questions the council in the Library of Skulls and warns them that eternal darkness will kill the moths and wipe out their race. The Sleestak do not believe him and they throw him out. Enik approaches Rick to ask that he invoke his “Altrusian Grace” that he earned by previously making the sun go down, and use it to ask a question the Library of Skulls. The Sleestak honor their Grace tradition and allow Enik to counsel Rick to ask about the future of the Sleestak and the location of the clock pylon, which is guarded by Sleestak. Enik is able to trick the Sleestak at the pylon into thinking he is their leader, and Rick enters the pylon and adds a crystal to the matrix and makes the sun come up. The light causes the Sleestak to retreat from the pylon and High Bluff, where Will is running out of wood to feed the fire that has been keeping the Sleestak away from them. Walker Edmiston is also the voice of the head Sleestak and head Skull. 1/20/15

SEASON 3

Title music with re-worked lyrics written by Linda Laurie, with lyrics by Wayne Osmond. Sung by Wesley Eure.

• 031. After-Shock – 9/11/1976
  • An earthquake hits while Rick is inside a pylon, and he disappears and is presumably sent home. Likewise, the earthquake has separated Cha-Ka from his Pakuni family. In addition, a two-headed dinosaur that Holly names Lulu has emerged from the lagoon, and High Bluff is completely destroyed along with their possessions. The trio forms a new family-of-sorts and begin searching for a new lace to live. They spot someone fall from the sky and gradually they get close enough to him to find out that he is their Uncle Jack (Ron Harper), who has been searching for the Marshalls by following their route on Earth. After Jack gets acclimated to the Land of the Lost, they decide to settle in the old Temple. However, the Sleestak have their eyes set on it as a home since they fear the safety of the caves after the earthquake. Through the warning of the Sleestak leader (Jon Locke), they threaten to take the Temple by force if they don’t give it up. The Marshalls stand their ground and barricade themselves inside. Bill Boyd and Cleveland Porter play Sleestaks. 3/11/15
• 032. Survival Kit – 9/18/1976
  • A giant Cro-Magnon human named Malak (Richard Kiel) diverts the underground rivers which threatens to flood the Sleestak caves if they do not bring him proper tribute. Holly is feverish and while Jack and Will retrieve the Marshalls’ survival kit from the lagoon, Enik and the Sleestak steal materials from the Marshalls’ home as well – as the survival kit – to pay tribute to Malak. Jack agrees to work on getting the river waters stopped if Enik will look after Holly. The Sleestak present their tribute, but Malak demands a human slave. Jack, Will, and Cha-Ka visit Malak and he demands that they show him more miracles after he cures his toothache. They end up bestowing their flashlight on him in exchange for their stolen tribute an agreement to shut off the underground river. As the Sleestak return, the flashlight batteries give out and Malak loses his authority over them. Cha-Ka eats the soap out of the survival kit. 3/11/15
• 033. The Orb – 9/25/1976
  • The Sleestak plan to fulfill their prophecy by obtaining an orb that is guarded by the God of the Pit, which will blot out all light, make them the leaders, and destroy the Marshalls. Will, Cha-Ka, and Enik discover a new pylon and when will goes inside, he becomes invisible. Cha-Ka and Enik are captured by the Sleepstak, and Enik is dangled over the pit with the intention of having the Marshalls come to save him by retrieving the orb for him. Will uses his invisibility to follow Enik’s instructions to get the orb for the Sleestak, even though it will mean the Marshall’s demise. However, the sun comes up and the time to fulfill the prophecy has passed, so even though he has put the Marshalls at risk, he also stops them from being destroyed. Enik admits that he does understand Will’s selfless act, but finds it not to be logical, and only does things in his own self-interest. 5/29/15
• 034. Repairman – 10/2/1976
  • The Sleestak continue to try and rid the Land of the Lost of the Marshalls by consulting the Library of Skulls. They are told to take a crystal from a pylon that will cause sun flares and destroy all life above ground. The Marshalls lock themselves in the Temple until Jack has to leave to get water. He encounters a mysterious man named William Blandings (Laurie Manns), who can produce milkshakes at will and claims that he can only stay there for six hours. He and Jack go to the Library of Skulls and Blandings takes the crystal, but is captured by the Sleestak and thrown into the pit. Jack and Will get gas bags from the swamp to explode at the Sleestak to fend them off and are able to rescue Blandings. It turns out that he is a repairman of the sun and has come to return the crystal to its proper place, which ultimately stops the flares. Holly notes that Blandings said he’d always tell the truth, and has told them that they will escape the Land of the Lost… although he didn’t say when. 5/30/15
• 035. Medusa – 10/9/1976
  • While testing a new canoe, Holly is swept upstream where she meets a lady who calls herself “Meddy” (Marion Thompson) but who is really a Medusa capable of turning anything at which she stares into stone. Meddy convinces Holly to stay so that she can lure her family and they can all be added to her Garden of Eternity in stone form. Meddy constantly banters and bickers with her own reflection in a mirror. Jack, Will, and Cha-Ka set out to rescue Holly and when the realize that she is in the custody of Medusa, Jack hatches a plan, sending Will and Cha-Ka ahead to rescue Holly. Jack steals Medusa’s mirror and as she tries to turn him to stone, she sees her own reflection and turns herself into stone. 7/18/15
• 036. Cornered – 10/16/1976
  • There’s a new inhabitant in the Land of the Lost that appears to be a fire breathing dinosaur. Jack and Will are afraid that if it runs off Alice, she will terrorize the entire jungle. When they try to approach it, Will is swatted in the leg by its poisonous tail. The Sleestak Leader instructs Enik to tell the Marshalls that if Will falls asleep, he will not wake up until the end of time, but if they are able to rid the land of “Torchy”, he will tell them the antidote. Jack devises a plan to lure Torchy with pieces of coal toward Echo Canyon where they have created a makeshift mirror out of isinglass that Torchy attacks. While Torchy is in the canyon, they release a boulder that traps him in the canyon. Enik then tells them that if Will lays perfectly still the poison will fall out of the place it went in… which is what they were doing anyway. Nevertheless, Will wakes up and performs a little ditty for Holly. 7/18/15
• 037. The Flying Dutchman – 10/23/1976
  • Cha-Ka finds a sea telescope that Malak tries to take from him, and when he shows the Marshalls, they go an expedition to find the source of it. They also find a sextant and eventually stumble on a barka and hear the voices of sailors. As they explore the ship, Jack and Will are captured by the sea captain Ruben Van de Meer (Rex Holman), who thinks they work for Malak. The captain becomes more friendly when he realizes that they have only found the items that he says Malak stole from him, although he insists that the Marshalls were hallucinating hearing other sailors. Van de Meer agrees to let the Marshalls sail out on his ship if Jack and Will will retrieve his goods from Malak, who lets them have the loot when they help him flee the Sleestak. Jack discovers that Van de Meer has actually been found guilty of dereliction and sentenced to sail on his ship, the Flying Dutchman, until the end of time. It becomes clear that he plans to kidnap Holly to keep him company, but he allows Jack to rescue her without incident before he flies off in his ship. 10/11/15
• 038. Hot-Air Artist – 10/30/1976
  • An adventurer named Colonel Roscoe T. Post (David Healy) while traveling in hot air balloon over the Andes in 1920 lands in the Land of the Lost. The Marshalls agree to assist him in repairing his balloon by using dinosaur egg lining if he will let them travel with him back to civilization. Post agrees but secretly plans to exhibit Cha-Ka around the world as the ‘Missing Link.’ Meanwhile the Sleestak try to eliminate Post’s perceived power by destroying the balloon. Jack warns Post that he is going to make sure that Cha-Ka is taken care of appropriately. Post tries to leave early in the morning with only Cha-Ka, but the Marshalls are able to rescue him as Post takes off on his own. 10/13/15
• 039. Abominable Snowman – 11/6/1976
  • While gathering strawberries, Jack and Will find a small unicorn and bring it back to the Temple to give to Holly as a pseudo-birthday gift. Enik warns them that Tapa (Jon Locke), a yeti-like creature, living among the snow sees the unicorn, whom they have named Corny, as a prey and might come looking for it. Sure enough Holly loses Corny and finds the Tapa footprints, which she and Ch-Ka track. In doing so, the tree that branches the crevasse falls to the bottom with Holly and Cha-Ka stuck on the wrong side. Jack is able to climb over the crevasse using a rope. The Tapa finds Holly and Cha-Ka and chases them to his cavern lair. Holly is able to distract the Tapa by giving him cake and showing him fire, allowing Cha-Ka and her to escape. By this time Will has cut down a tree to create another bridge and they cross back to their side. The Tapa removes the tree and growls a warning indicating that the Marshalls stay on their own side from now on. 12/14/15
• 040. Timestop – 11/13/1976
  • A small earthquake causes a door near the temple to open and Will and Holly enter to explore it. The find a crystal set in a metal plaque with ancient Altrusian writing on it and escape with it before being chased out by the Sleestak. Jack, the kids, and Cha-Ka take the crystal to Enik for interpretation, and he tells them that the crystal is a key that can be used to manipulate time. Both parties think they can use this to turn back time and escape the Land of the Lost, and Enik tries to hold them all prisoners until they turn it over to him. They escape with only the crystal and realize that it is pointing like a compass to the geyser that goes off each hour. When they arrive, they are attacked by Torchy and as they flee, Cha-Ka becomes trapped on some volatile volcanic crust under the geyser as Torchy sinks into the lava. Will and Jack locate the pylon and matrix inside which serves as the temporal regulator that will allow them to manipulate time and save Cha-Ka, but cannot use it without the plaque. When Enik arrives, he agrees to let them use the plaque to save Cha-Ka if they will then return the crystal key to him so that he can return to his time. Jack successfully turns back time and saves Cha-Ka, but Torchy breathes fire and melts the pylon lock, making the crystal key worthless, and leaving Enik and Marshalls all with a sense of deja vu. 12/17/15 
• 041. Ancient Guardian – 11/20/1976
  • The Marshalls discover a statue shaped like a Sleestak and thinking that the writing on it might be a clue on how to go home, they take it back to their home. Cha-Ka is scared of it, so they leave it outside for the night. Meanwhile a yeti-like hairy monster that the Sleestak refer to as Kona (Mickey Morton) comes out of the high country and terrorizes the Sleestak. The head Sleestak turns to Enik, who knows the humans meant no harm but cautions the Marshalls to return the ‘ancient guardian.’ They return the statue but Kona walks right by it, knocks it down, and proceeds to steel some of the Sleestak eggs, endangering their future. The Sleestak seek revenge and attempt to attack the Marshalls, but Cha-Ka saves them by throwing an exploding crystal at them. Jack is able to solve the writing on the statue and determines that it actually acts as a solar energy machine, with eyes that concentrate the sun’s rays and beams out a heat ray. When they return the statue to its exactly correct position, it shoots out a ray around the home of Kona that keeps the monster from leaving the high country. Will sings a song. 2/18/16
• 042. Scarab – 11/27/1976
  • Cha-Ka finds a giant golden beetle and takes it back to the old Temple, but when he attempts to force it into a cave, he is bitten. Immediately he becomes a destructive version of himself, trashing the Marshall’s belongings, antagonizing Grumpy, and stealing the Skull of Wisdom from the Sleestak Library of Skulls. Cha-Ka then lures Will into the Sleestak cave by pretending he has been captured. The Sleestak assume that Will has stolen the skull and hold him hostage until he tells them where it is. Meanwhile Jack discovers that there is something wrong with Cha-Ka’s disobedient behavior and is told by Enik that the scarab is known as a “tula” and when it is mistreated, its bite can set its victim on a self-destructive path. The only way to reverse its effect is to be nice to the scarab. Jack and Holly force Cha-Ka to feed the tula a flower, which causes Cha-Ka to rush to the Sleestak cave with the skull and help free Will. The Sleestak pursue Will but are stopped by a lightning storm. Cha-Ka is restored to his normal helpful self. 2/18/16
• 043. Medicine Man – 12/4/1976
  • When the hot water that Holly and Cha-Ka are making is stolen, Jack goes looking for the culprit and finds a member of the Nez Perce tribe of 1877 who is named Lone Wolf (Ned Romero), who is fleeing a U.S. Cavalry soldier named Captain Elmo Diggs (Gregory Walcott). Lone Wolf is a medicine man who has cured himself of a fever that has overtaken his tribe. Diggs himself suffers from the same fever and is pursuing Lone Wolf for stealing his troop’s medicine. Lone Wolf claims that he was only retrieving the Nez Perce allotment that was given to the white soldiers by the Indian agent. Lone Wolf agrees to make medicine for Diggs in exchange for his horse, which he will use to gather the ingredients. When Lone Wolf doesn’t return in the amount of time he said he would. Jack goes looking for him, and finds him trapped by Grumpy. After he is freed, Lone Wolf prepares the medicine which does in fact cure Diggs. Once Diggs has regained his strength, he handcuffs Lone Wolf to arrest him, but Jack convinces him that he is now indebted to Lone Wolf. Diggs gives Lone Wolf his horse so that he can find his way home, and as he leaves, he invites Diggs to join him on the horse so that they can find their way home together. Will sings a song. 5/17/16

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