The Lost Planet
The Lost Planet may refer to: * The Lost Planet (serial), a 1953 American science fiction serial film * The Lost Planet (novel), a 1953 juvenile science fiction novel by Angus MacVicar * The Lost Planet (Des Moines), the former dumping site for lime filtered out of the water supply of Des Moines, Iowa * The Lost Planet, a working title of Lost Planet Airmen, a 1951 American science fiction film See also * Lost Planet ''Lost Planet'' is a video game series of third-person shooters published by Capcom. The series follows a number of protagonists on E.D.N III, a planet in the process of an ice age, as they survive and fight the environment, various alien creature ...

The Lost Planet (serial)
''The Lost Planet'' is a 1953 American science fiction serial film 15-chapter serial which has the distinction of being the last interplanetary-themed sound serial ever made. It was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet with a screenplay by George H. Plympton and Arthur Hoerl (who also wrote for ''Rocky Jones, Space Ranger''). It appears to have been planned as a sequel to the earlier chapterplay '' Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere'' and shares many plot-points, props and sets, as well as some of the same cast. However, the Video Rangers do not appear, and their uniforms are instead worn by "slaves" created electronically by Reckov, the dictator of the Lost Planet (Gene Roth) with the help of mad scientist Dr. Grood (Michael Fox) and enslaved "good" scientist Professor Dorn (Forrest Taylor). Plot Dr. Ernst Grood has succeeded in winning control over the planet Ergro as the first step in his desired conquest of the Universe. Reporter Rex Barrow, his photographer Tim Johns ...
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The Lost Planet (novel)
''The Lost Planet'' is a 1953 juvenile science fiction novel by Angus MacVicar, published by Burke, London. It is the first of the popular novel series The Lost Planet, which was adapted for radio (1952 Childrens Hour, BBC Home Service) and later on television There are six novels in the main series: ''The Lost Planet'' (1953), ''Return to the Lost Planet'' (1954), ''Secret of the Lost Planet'' (1955), ''Red Fire on the Lost Planet'' (1959), ''Peril on the Lost Planet'' (1960) and ''Space Agent from the Lost Planet''. Two further books continue the adventures of the Space Agent: ''Space Agent and the Isles of Fire'' (1962), and ''Space Agent and the Ancient Peril'' (1964). It was the first science fiction series ever translated to Hebrew and had considerable impact on the development of this genre in Israel.Review on the website of the Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Plot summary The narrator, 16-year-old Jeremy Grant, who has been recently orphaned, travels fr ...
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The Lost Planet (Des Moines)
The Lost Planet, in Des Moines, Iowa was the former dumping site for lime filtered out of the water supply by the Des Moines Water Works. It is located in the middle of Waterworks Park in central Des Moines, across the river west of the Des Moines Water Works treatment plant and east of Valley Park Stables which is located at 2901 Seniomsed Avenue and to get there you follow 31st Street south from Grand Avenue as far as you can, then look for the street that crosses the train tracks and turns into gravel. Go all the way to the end of it to Lost Planet. ( During dry stints, the surface of the site would become cracked and take on an other-worldly look, hence the name. It is primarily a location where neighbors walk their dogs, students from Des Moines high schools visit, and birders watch shorebirds and ducks. Notable events In the mid-1990s, Kelderman Agricultural Lime contracted with the Des Moines Water Works to haul away filtered lime to be dried and resold to farmers as agri ...
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Lost Planet Airmen
''Lost Planet Airmen'' is a 1951 black-and-white American science fiction film produced and distributed by Republic Pictures, which is actually the feature film condensation of their 1949 12-chapter serial, ''King of the Rocket Men''. ''Lost Planet Airmen'' was directed by Fred C. Brannon and written by Royal K. Cole and William Lively. The lead actors in ''Lost Planet Airmen'' were Tristram Coffin and Mae Clark. Plot Professor Millard ( James Craven), a scientist who is a member of the group Science Associates, works in a secluded desert location in a cave laboratory on a secret research project. Reporter and photographer Glenda Thomas (Mae Clarke) is curious about that secret project. When she tours the Science Associates building, she meets Burt Winslow ( House Peters, Jr.), the project's publicity director, and Jeff King ( Tristram Coffin), a research project member. The mysterious "Dr. Vulcan" is intent on stealing the various weapons being developed by the scientists of ...
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