Lost’s Film and TVAncestry

“What are we to make of a television show like Lost which comes up against the wind of not only an astonishing variety of literary fictions, but movies, too, and other television series as well?”—”Is There a Text on This Television?”

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Lost Media Ancestry

Lost’s Creative Team’sPrevious/Contemporaneous

Series

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Lost Buffy/Angel/Whedon Alums: Brian K. Vaughan David Fury (middle), Drew Godard (right)

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Lost Deadwood Alum: Elizabeth Sarnoff

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J. J. Abrams (1966- ). Lost episodes written/co-written: “Pilot” (1), “Pilot” (2), “A Tale of Two Cities.” In addition to authoring/co-authoring such films as Taking Care of Business, Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Gone Fishin’, and Armageddon has also written episodes of Alias and Felicity. Directed Lost’s Pilot, Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek (2009)

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Lost Media Ancestry Alias (ABC, 2001-2006)

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Mission Impossible III (J. J. Abrams, 2006)

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Fringe (FOX, 2008- )

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Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009)

Carlton Cuse (1959- ). Lost episodes written/co-written: “Hearts & Minds,” “Deus Ex Machina,” “Exodus (I),” “Exodus (II),” “. . . And Found,” “The Other 48 Days,” “The 23rd Psalm,” “One of Them,” “Lockdown,” “?,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2,” “Further Instructions,” “I Do,” “Not in Portland,” “Enter 77,” “One of Us,” “The Brig,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The Beginning of the End,” “The Constant,” “There’s No Place Like Home” (Parts I, II, and III), “Because You Left.” Has also written episodes of Nash Bridges, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Crime Story.

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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (FOX, 1993-1994)

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Nash Bridges (CBS, 1996-2001)

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Damon Lindelof (1973- ). Lost episodes written/co-written: “Pilot (1),” “Pilot (2),” “Tabula Rasa,” “Confidence Man,” “Whatever the Case May Be,” “Homecoming,” “Deus Ex Machina,” “Exodus (I),” “Exodus (II),” “Man of Science, Man of Faith,” “. . . And Found,” “The Other 48 Days,” “The 23rd Psalm,” “One of Them,” “Lockdown,” “?,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” “I Do,” “Flashes Before Your Eyes,” “Enter 77,” “Left Behind,” “The Brig,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The Beginning of the End,” “The Constant,” “There’s No Place Like Home” (Parts I, II, and III), “Because You Left.” Has also written episodes of Crossing Jordan, Nash Bridges.

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Crossing Jordan (NBC, 2001-2007). Cuse and Lindelof both worked together on this series created by Tim Kring (Heroes)

Lost’s Film and TVAncestry: Movies

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The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

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Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)

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Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

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Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

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Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

Solaris (Steven Soderberg, 2002)

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Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)

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Disaster Movies

Lost’s Film and TVAncestry: Television

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Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-1965)

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The Prisoner (ITV, 1967-1968)

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Gilligan’s Island (CBS, 1964-1967)

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The X-Files (FOX, 1993-2002)

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Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990-1991)

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Lost Media Ancestry Survivor (CBS,

2000- )

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