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Movie Summary  Movie: The Lost Continent:  Stars Cesar Romero, Acquanetta, Hugh Beaumont, Sid Melton. Some scientists who aren't very good lose a really expensive rocket. Enlisting the help of some resentful air force personnel, they fly to the jungle to retrieve it and immediately crash. Their sensors indicate the rocket to be at the top of a mysterious mountain, so ignoring all conventional wisdom, they climb it and are harassed by dinosaurs. Sid Melton gets bitten in half by a triceratops, but unfortunately they have no time to celebrate. The mysterious mountain begins to explode, hurling dangerous Styrofoam boulders down on their heads. They escape without further incident. — Mike Nelson Host Segments  Prologue:  Joel gives the Robots a Ditka-like pep talk.  Invention:  The Mads unveil their plan for the day-rock climbing. Frank shows off his invention, a treadmill that moves as you walk, so you can get exercise outside. They don't have time for Joel's invention.  Segment 2:  Hugh Beaumont appears in the view screen as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He's really nice, just as you'd expect him to be.  Segment 3:  Joel, Tom, and Crow perform a preachy sketch entitled Quinn Martin's The Explorers.  Segment 4:  Joel and the 'Bots look out the window at the Cool Thing. It's out the window. We don't know what it is. Do you?  Segment 5:  The Robots and Joel give little-known "facts" about the movie à la Bob Dornan, jokingly implying that Cesar Romero may have had ties to the Nazis. Ha-ha. Seriously, he didn't.  Stinger:  Two explorers snuggle by the fire. Reflections We actually convinced a few people that the Hugh Beaumont sketch was done using an expensive black-and-white insert shot. It is, of course, Mike Nelson standing in a cheap black-and-white painted set. The real giveaway is when the pipe lights in glorious color. There is a wonderful moment in The Lost Continent that we failed to point out in our treatment of it. During the rock-climbing sequence when they are hauling Sid Melton up onto a plateau by the butt, Hugh Beaumont is in the background completely losing it. He's barely trying to cover the fact that he's laughing. Luckily for us, Sam Newfield never did a second take. Look for it, you'll not be disappointed. Sid Melton was in this movie. People used to think he was very funny. These people were wrong. But then, every generation needs its Pauly Shore. — Mike Nelson