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90s Sci-Fi Adventure Series Brought Classic Novel To Life, Stream For Free On Tubi
By Jonathan Klotz
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The 90s were a treasure trove of offbeat syndicated shows based on every intellectual property in the public domain, from Robin Hood to Hercules, and the less popular work of Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Of course, because it’s less popular than the world’s most famous detective, doesn’t mean it’s bad, and in fact, The Lost World is a seminal work of science fiction that helped influence Marvel’s Savage Land and every single work of fiction that includes a secret world where dinosaurs still roam. It was also a three-season syndicated show that never came close to the standard set by its source material.
Discovering The Lost World
The Lost World loosely follows the basic plot of the novel, with a group of adventurers, led by Professor Challenger, a character described by Doyle himself as “an aoe in a tuxedo,” setting sail over the South American jungle in a hot air balloon that eventually crashes, leaving them stranded on top of a plateau filled with dinosaurs and lost civilizations. Alongside the Professor are reporter Ned Malone, adventurer Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Marguerite Knux, the financier of the expedition and a talented linguist. They are soon joined by Veronica Layton, the survivor of a previous expedition who has now become an expert at surviving in the harsh jungle, and also the focus of every single piece of marketing for the series.
Together, the explorers challenge the unknown of the plateau, which includes giant bees, giant dinosaurs, vampires, a pirate’s treasure, lizard people, and a meteor strike. The Lost World plays fast and loose with the source novel, but it’s par for the course compared to its syndicated contemporaries at the time. Every episode is essentially a standalone adventure, but that’s part of the charm of the old-school series that ends up escalating to the point where competing realities are colliding together.
Pay-Per-View Adventure
In 1999, then The Lost World first debuted, it wasn’t in syndication, instead, it was available on DirectTV as a PPV series. It was a one-of-a-kind setup, with episodes airing on broadcast television a few weeks after the PPV airing, which included a few “blink and you’ll miss it” shots that you’d expect to see on a PPV series. That wasn’t enough to find an audience though, with the show taking off once TNT started airing episodes, doing well enough to warrant three seasons and 66 episodes in total.
The Lost World had been adapted before the 1999 series, perhaps most notably in 1925, when the original film adaptation was able to include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself introducing the film. Prior to the syndicated series, a film was made starring John Rhys-Davies as Professor Challenger and Eric McCormack as Malone, that was made so cheaply, a sequel was released the same year. None of the adaptations have had the staying power of the 1999 series that remains the definitive pop-culture take on the seminal novel.
Syndicated adventure shows of the 90s remain a strange time capsule of a lost era of television, where campy, low-budget fare would air on upstart networks as a cheap way to fill time. Hercules, Xena, even Relic Hunter, proved alongside The Lost World that to be successful, embracing the low-budget and leaning hard into the camp of re-using sets, actors, and even special effect shots, could result in a surprise hit. There’s nothing quite like them airing today and even if they were, they would never make it past the first season.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World is available for free on Tubi.
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Hurdle hints and answers for April 29, 2026
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.
An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.
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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today’s Hurdle, don’t worry! We have you covered.
Hurdle Word 1 hint
To admire.
Hurdle Word 1 answer
ADORE
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Hurdle Word 2 hint
Heavy.
Hurdle Word 2 Answer
HEFTY
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Hurdle Word 3 hint
Two-legged.
Hurdle Word 3 answer
BIPED
Hurdle Word 4 hint
Hefty.
Hurdle Word 4 answer
HEAVY
Final Hurdle hint
Pointy.
Hurdle Word 5 answer
SHARP
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Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on April 29
It may appear full, but the Moon isn’t actually at 100% illumination yet. In fact, we’re still a couple of days away. But it’s still big and bright enough to do some moon gazing, so keep reading to find out what features you might be able to see tonight.
What is today’s Moon phase?
As of Wednesday, April 29, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. Tonight, 94% of the moon will be lit up, according to NASA’s Daily Moon Guide.
Without any visual aids, tonight you should be able to see the Mares Vaproum, Tranquillitatis, and Imbrium. With binoculars, you’ll see the Mare Frigoris, Clavius Crater, and the Alphonsus Crater. And, finally, with a telescope you’ll see all this plus the Apollo 17 landing spot, Rima Ariadaeus, and the Fra Mauro Highlands.
When is the next Full Moon?
The next Full Moon is predicted to take place on May 1, the first of two in May.
What are Moon phases?
According to NASA, the Moon takes roughly 29.5 days to circle Earth once, going through eight distinct phases in the process. Even though we always see the same side of the Moon, the amount of sunlight hitting it changes as it moves in its orbit. The shifting light creates the changing shapes we know as full, half, and crescent Moons. Altogether, there are eight main lunar phases.
New Moon – The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it’s invisible to the eye).
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Waxing Crescent – A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).
First Quarter – Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.
Waxing Gibbous – More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.
Full Moon – The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.
Waning Gibbous – The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)
Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) – Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.
Waning Crescent – A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.
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The ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop is down to a record-low price at Amazon — now $400 off
TL;DR: Amazon has the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop on sale for $899.99, down from its $1,299.99 list price. That saves you $400 on a 2025 gaming laptop with an Intel Core i5-13450HX processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 graphics, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 165Hz FHD+ display.
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Finding a current-gen gaming laptop in today’s economy for under $1,000 is already amazing, but Amazon’s latest ASUS deal is offering you an all-time low bargain.
As of April 28, the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop is on sale for $899.99 at Amazon, marked down from $1,299.99. Price tracker camelcamelcamel has confirmed that this is the lowest-ever price for this gaming laptop.
For that price, you’re getting the RTX 5050 and Intel Core i5 version of the TUF Gaming F16, which is built around an Intel Core i5-13450HX processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU. It also comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB PCIe Gen4 SSD, so it should be nicely suited for jumping between games, school work, everyday browsing, and plenty of tabs without causing your sessions to come to a sudden crash.
With those sorts of specs, this version of the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 lets you comfortably run games from the latest graphically demanding titles — including Crimson Desert, Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Pragmata.
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The 16-inch FHD+ display is a big part of the appeal, with ASUS’s fitted 165Hz 16:10 panel with 100% sRGB color giving you extra vertical space compared to a standard 16:9 screen while keeping motion smoother in fast-paced games like Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2. The handy Adaptive-Sync also helps cut down on stuttering and screen tearing when your frame rate starts shifting during intense firefights or brawls with lots of assets moving around at the same time.
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The TUF Gaming F16 keeps the series’ usual more rugged angle, as well. ASUS has had the laptop tested to MIL-STD-810H standards, while its 2nd Gen Arc Flow Fans, full-width heatsink, and full-width vent are designed to help keep performance steady without making the machine unnecessarily loud.
If you’re after a laptop that’s more for work than gaming, Samsung’s ultra-sleek Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 just got a $450 price cut.
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