Rick Marshall

Richard "Rick" Marshall is one of the main characters in the Land of the Lost. He was played by Spencer Milligan and replaced for one episode by Jon Kubichan.
==Personality and Appearance==
Rick Marshall is a tall, solid figure and a devoted and protective father. He is compassionate, educated, and analytical with training in survival and animal behavior and some knowledge in prehistoric animals. He is mostly seen in his park ranger uniform of matching tan shirt and pants.
==Background==
Rick is a widower, a park ranger, and the father of Will Marshall and Holly Marshall. He was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He took his children on a rafting trip on the Colorado River. A massive earthquake happened and the Marshalls got sent to the Land of the Lost through a time doorway. Rick Marshall is very wise about making decisions. He normally can figure out what to do and how to do it. Rick uses mirror necklaces to communicate when he is away from his children.
Rick often talked with Enik, giving advice and teaching him life lessons. Rick was very curious and liked to know about the things in the Land of the Lost so that he can be prepared to survive there. He experimented with the energy Crystals to see what combinations did, in hopes of one day managing to get back to his own home, time, and space. Rick would experiment with the Pylons and he and Will created maps of the Land of the Lost.
Rick also acquired a form of telepathy, which Enik explained was due to his exposure to the Sacred Smoke, a vaporous substance appearing in the Library of Skulls, where the Skull of Wisdom could produce visions for those who enquire of it. Whether Rick's telepathy was temporary or permanent was never revealed, but it is known that he was able to read Enik's mind for a brief time, which not even the telepathic Sleestak Leader could do. Not much more was revealed of the extent or capability of this ability afterward.
Sometime after that event, Rick attempted to try using a newly discovered pylon to get Will, Holly and himself home. Although he managed to open a doorway, it turned out to be unstable, and he inadvertently caused an great cataclysm within the Land of the Lost. The resulting earthquake devastated the entire realm, resulting in knocking over the crystal table in the Pylon just before the doorway pulled Rick out of the Land of the Lost and separated him from Will and Holly, leaving them alone to restart from scratch up until Rick's brother, Jack Marshall arrived through the other end of the doorway, possibly through the other end of the doorway Rick had created.
Rick Marshall's status and whereabouts are completely unknown. It is unknown if he was able to return home alive or to another as yet unknown third dimension.
==2009 film==
See Dr. Rick Marshall
==Notes and Trivia==
* Spencer Milligan's absence in the original series third season was explained by having Rick Marshall disappear after he was trying to use a newly discovered pylon to get home, but the storyline never revealed whether or not he succeeded in returning home. At the same time, his brother, Jack had stumbled upon the Land of the Lost after he embarked on a search of his own to find his lost family after they were missing for 6 months.
* It is heavily suggested that being a park ranger is not Rick's only occupation. He may be a scientist of some sort.
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