Lost Turns 20: How Well Do You Remember the Iconic Series’ 2-Hour Premiere? Take Our Quiz!
We have to go baaaaaack… to the night that ABC‘s Lost first splashed onto the airwaves.
Sunday, Sept. 22 marks the 20th anniversary of the supernatural-tinged mystery drama’s debut. So we thought it a good opportunity to flash back — not forward, nor sideways — to the two-hour premiere that aired across a pair of Wednesdays in September 2004, cost a record $10 million to $14 million to make (versus the industry average at that time of $4 million), and averaged 18 million total viewers.
In that first season, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, which was traveling from Australia to Los Angeles, explored the nutty island that their half of the plane had crash-landed on. The original cast featured no fewer than 14 series regulars: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lily, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia, Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace, Harold Perrineau, Malcolm David Kelley, Terry O’Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim and Dominic Monaghan.
Lost would go on to air a total of 121 episodes over six seasons, and it was one of the first modern series to boldly plan out its end point in advance — somewhat to ABC’s chagrin.
How well do you remember how the castaways’ thrilling, mysterious, romantic, spooky and deadly adventure started? Take our quiz below and find out! (And if this gets you hankering for a rewatch, all six seasons are streaming on Hulu.)
I did worse than I expected, 11 wrong.
Can’t believe it has been 20 years. I remember that the series premiered within weeks in Germany, which never happened back then. We didn’t know what to expect and the series had me excited for new episodes for years. I have re-watched the entire series several times since it ended. Many shows tried, but I think only GoT came close to the phenomenon that Lost was. But nowadays the TV landscape has changed too much, I don’t think we will see anything like it again.
Missed two, i love this show so much.
Great quiz!! I got a 60%
Can’t believe how much of the premiere I’ve forgotten!
It a shame, I got 74% while I have started the show all over again a few weeks ago. I am now approaching the end of season 2…this show is amazing, specially the 4 first seasons. The pilot along with all season 1 is iconic, while season 2 and 3 are for me a huge part of the peak TV years on the second half of the 00’s.
I got 69% (nice)
Disappointed in myself, I may need to do another rewatch
I only got 46%, which shouldn’t be a surprise as it’s been many years since I watched it. Still, it might be more than less memorable pilots I’ve seen more recently.
I only got 40%. I’m so disappointed I didn’t do better. I was obsessed with Lost. I’d watch it live and record it, then I watch it immediately after it aired live. Then I’d watch it again on the weekend and then I’d watch the previous weeks show just before the new episode aired. I was so obsessed. lol
I’d usually watch the new episode at least twice. LOST really was one of the few shows that you’d always spot something new the second time, no matter how closely you were paying attention the first time you watched an episode.
I got 63%. I got Walt’s age & Claire’s pregnancy wrong. But knew who says “where are we”, translates the French, how long it has been playing, that Greg Grunberg was the pilot, and what Jin caught. Plus a few others. Need to watch it again.
I used to rewatch the entire series before the next season started, so I really thought I’d do better on this haha… But it has been at least 10 years since i have watched, and I’ve been jonesing to go back… We have to go back! Absolutely some of the best days of television