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3:46 - what indi's dad says here (believe it or not) is factually correct, and no, he is not a racist, he makes no attempt to justify the obvious immorality of slavery throughout history, he only suggests that it was a universal practice all over the world for thousands of years up until recent times, and he is correct.
@@jordanthomas4379 You are correct, in context to history, slavery abolitionist are relatively a product of western ideology. If you hate that then you muy at be against foreign history.
Harrison was in an episode. It was set in the 50's. I recall him bearded and driving in a chase scene with him and a Native American in ... New Mexico perhaps. I am positive... but then I have zero recollection of old man Indy bookends. Looked it up and it was from the tv movie Young Indiana Jones wave the Mystery of the Blues.
Fun Fact: This show actually saved my life. I don't know what episode it was, but someone was bitten by a snake and had the two puncture marks on their neck. I was bitten by a tiger snake in tasmaina and knew it was a snake bite from seeing the episode a few weeks earlier. Thanks young Indy for saving my life though education. I owe ya one.
@SmithandJones256 I didn't see the snake nor noticed I was bitten until my leg started to get itchy and numb. Once I rolled up my pant leg, I saw the two dots and knew from watching the episode that I had been bitten by a snake.
@@SonicBroomHead as i can plainly see you have survived and written about that attack ! good one sir ; who knew a series like this could actually save your life we need to keep shows like this alive i have some stories about working in stunts they may not be as adventurous as yours but i'd like to share stay tuned and be safe mate.
But it's so funny how Indy bumped into famous historical figures through this series. I understand it was done for a quick history lesson, but not accurate most of the time.
The show was GREAT. They shot the thing on location! They took the crew to each different country. Think of that! For the time, it was making cinema quality stories for network television -in an age where everybody else using cardboard sets. It was gorgeous and brilliantly written. It was too good to last. And I actually really appreciated the 10 year-old indy stories. The blatant moral messaging was deliberate, and it made perfect sense when you recognized that each story was framed by Old Man indy re-telling stories to young punks; they were on-purpose morality plays. Removing Old Man Indy basically destroyed the pacing and blunted the otherwise brilliant narrative technique, (as you pointed out). I don't even try to recommend Young Indiana Jones to people despite it being one of the best things ever to grace television, simply because the DVD editing castrated the whole thing. TYIJC was a moment in history, done and gone. If you missed it, tough.
The reviewer here deserves credit for recognizing the fuckery of re-editing the episodes and removing the book-end sections with Old Indy. These episodes should obviously be seen in the format each director originally intended. That is how they work best. Unfortunately George Lucas in his usual form could not resist meddling.
@@blixbelliose3206 The series wouldn't exist if not for George Lucas. He's the one who developed the scripts for each episode and selected the directors he wanted to film them. He was also the one who edited the original versions of the episodes--not the directors. In television the showrunner occupies the role the director usually does in feature films, and in this case the showrunner was Lucas. It's his show and it's his right to do what he wants with it. I watched it for the first time in its edited form and I loved it. I later went back and watched the Old Indy segments on UA-cam and, while entertaining, they're incredibly cheesy and would have made the show feel very dated to the 90's. Without the bookends, the series feels more like a serious, continuous chronicle of Indy's life, and it remains timeless. I think the series would have remained even more obscure than it already is if it had been left in its original form.
@@nineleafclover Indeed were it not for Lucas the show would not exist, and were it not for Lucas the show that he created would still exist as he created it originally. Sadly now it does not, unless someone foresighted managed to tape all the original episodes from TV, and later digitalized them. That would have been so much better. Also lets not forget that Lucas is not infallible. He did place Star Wars in the hands of Kathleen Kennedy after all, and for a boat load of cash no less.
@@blixbelliose3206 I never said he was infallible. I was mainly disputing your contention that he had wronged the directors of the individual episodes in some way. It was never their intentions that took precedence. They would have known that. They were working on George Lucas's show.
6:04, the Greek episode with Indy and his father was meant to be an unusual event - something that Indy would look back on with fondness, even regret. He even tells his father (in the Winds of Change, I believe) that he missed seeing his father the way he was when they went to Greece because it was the only time that he can remember bonding with him. I think having experienced that bond once gives more impact on the distance that he felt the rest of his childhood. As for being scared of snakes in the Africa episode - I was scared of things as a child that I wasn't as a teenager. It's entirely possible that he was scared of them at one point, overcame it, and then regressed after the Last Crusade Intro. I do agree though, the Sean Patrick Flannery episodes were much more engaging. I do really enjoy the "baby Indy" episodes in Austria, Russia and Greece though. I've only seen the show as the repackaged VHS (and later DVD) versions. I really hope Disney/LucasFilm decides to rerelease them in their original format once the Indiana Jones 5 hype kicks in.
I think you have a rather stagnant view of character growth. Kids can bond with parents at one age, and feel neglect from them in another. This series was awesome.
Ummm...no. This show was in 1992. River didn’t die until 1993 when he was 23. He had already played young Indy in the 1989 movie. Also he was too big of a star by that time. He was a movie star and hadn’t done TV since the late 70’s early 80’s.
Na mate doing tv in the 80s and 90s was a big step down for a movie star, especially someone as popular as Phoenix, he may have been in a new film, but never in this low grade show.. And you don't even mention him filming other things in your comment lol
Luvie1980 Luvie1980 really?! because I just read your comment...again and it clearly says “he was destined to play the roll, he didn’t live long enough”
@@ShobeOfficial I wouldn't say many, considering that most Indiana fans have never heard of it. In my opinion, the show is very boring, it has some great ideas but the execution really suffers, especially in final episodes of season 2.
I'm not going to lie, nothing about Crystal Skull contradicts Indy having a daughter on the TV show because, as I recall, he daughter is shown to be in her 40s in the show (meaning she was born in the 50s) and we're never told who her mother was so she could the product of some affair Indy had before he and Marian got married, or maybe he and Marian had a late in life daughter.
For anyone who was recommended this video recently there is a whole channel on UA-cam dedicated to the complete unedited Chronicles of Indiana Jones. Plus there is another channel that has most (not all) of the full episodes available.
I just binged this series. I agree with everything this video says. I overall loved it, and yes I think it should be brought back. Yes bring back Old Indy, he was a MAJOR part of what made that show so damned awesome. My personal favorite was when Indy learned to hunt fro Teddy Roosevelt, the theme of that episode was amazing and was relevant to the entiret of the rest of the show. However the one that ipressed me from a historical perspective the most was when Indy was the translator for the Treaty of Versailles; that episode was made in the 90s, and it perfectly showed how the Treaty of Versailles laid the grounds for WWII, the Vietnam War (by showing the little known historical fact that HoChiMinh was at the signing, and his countries request for freedom were literally thrown in the trash), and amazingly it showed the groundwork for the current war in Iraq, by showing the creation of the little known Picot-Sykes Agreement. Awesome show, it is hard to plod through, but worth it, and you can find the clips of Old Indy on UA-cam.
2022 Update: This wonderful show is now on Paramount+. Now, Lucas ain't perfect but I'm glad he took so much time, effort and money to make it. The reason being is my first child will be born in a few months and I'm really looking forward to watching this show with him once he's old enough to enjoy it.
To be fair, Henry Jones Sr. didn't really have the falling out with Indy until he was in his adolescence and his mother died. Their relationship before that did involve Sr. dragging Indy around from country to country and the gradual resentment and emotional distance that built up over time starts there. It doesn't culminate there. The bit with the snakes, yeah, that's valid. I think the writers were trying to remind viewers how Indy felt about snakes and ignored the internal logic of why.
Ford did book end one episode The Mystery of the Blues which thankfully they did keep on the DVD. Thanks David, great memories of the show from one writer, editor to another.
It was a big deal back then, I remember..ABC advertised that Harrison Ford would be in an episode. And it was a great episode that dealt with Indy's love of jazz music.
The biggest reason I believe this show failed to maintain an audience - it was originally aired out of chronological order. It just didn't work jumping back and forth the way it did. The best thing about the re-edited versions is that they correct that issue and even filmed new scenes to bridge the stories. As for Old Indy, I can take or leave it. All of the bookends are on UA-cam, for free.
When they re-packaged the episodes they mashed two episodes together to make each 90 minute 'movie' and brought back the actors to shoot segue way sequences. Not so bad for Sean Michael Flannery, but the baby Indy scenes were often horrible. Carriere had grown so much between the ending of the series and the re-shoots that they had trouble matching anything. He goes from baby to adolescent and back to baby.
Jeese Shade, your writing and delivery is second to none on this channel. It takes alot for me to laugh and your particular take and knowledge makes it work for me bud, thank you for keeping me from deep deep depression during this time in history
Hey so I don't want to disappoint you but I actually wrote the episode, I make a conscious effort to match Jesses sense of humor. Because I am a fan of his videos and I'm so lucky to have him as my narrator. But I'm glad my writing made you laugh
Love this series. I really miss those individual episodes with the Old Indy bookends and Old Indy filling the viewer in on how it impacted history. Some of my favorite bookends was the art episode, which I really like a lot, because I'm an artist, and the Russian Revolution episode, where he was captured in a photograph becoming part of history. It really makes you wonder what your ancestors were doing when they were younger. I think I have all the shows on VHS still. Should see if I can get the bookends at a higher quality than on YT. The series was sold as entertainment disguised as an educational tool. Yeah, I could see what they were doing with some heavy handed stuff, but The Great War storyline was a watershed for the series and really made me interested in it more than WWII.
Want to point out that he made a true statement about slavery. It was accepted by Africans, Native American, Asians, Europeans, Arabs, etc. They fought the western powers to keep the practice once the western nations and empires abolished it. He pointed out fact not racism. Additionally, racism was a very modern phenomena and was not the basis for enslavement one most of human history. Drop Mic...
I still own the original released early 1990's VHS tapes, featuring the old indy George Hall book ends.. They gave the series such heart each episode. :)
Harrison Ford was in ONE episode in the old Indy role. I think it was "Indiana Jones and the Secret of Jazz" or something like that. Also, there was one episode where he was telling the story, at his daughter's house, to his grandchildren.
Yeah he filmed that episode when he was on break from filming The Fugitive (this would have been 1992 or 93). That's why he has the beard in his scenes.
He really did have a revolving door of women; his first ‘girlfriend’ was Duchess Sophie, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand- the portrait in the locket that saved him in Africa. I also recognised footage from at least one of the Middle Eastern Front eps, came from one of our Australian movies- I think it was ‘The Lighthorsemen’. I found the ‘Dracula’ episode to be one of the sillier eps- when the war years were otherwise done really well. And Indy’s confrontation with his dad in the later movie isn’t negated by TYIJC- one adventure doesn’t make up for years & decades of not being there, essentially ignoring your child- when they’d already been bereft of one parent.
You forgot the MOST amazing cameo when The God Emperor of the Universe, Emperor Palpatine, the great SITH lord played by Ian McDiarmid was in the show at 7:10
YO!! You forgot the amazing short documentaries that were made with each new “movie“ reedit of the three box set series. These were fantastic additions that more than make up for the loss of “old indie“ you keep lamenting. Watching the documentaries in context creates a homeschooling level education experience.
I've been saying this since Anthony Ingruber showed up on UA-cam. BRING BACK YOUNG INDIANA JONES! Harrison Ford could now play "Old Indy", and he gets a mysterious package that leads him on a journey with links to his past. This way, we can have Harrison Ford doing "Da Vinci Code" type thriller stuff, while the flashbacks would involve Anthony Ingruber, who would tackle the more traditional action/adventure part. We can also get to see Indy meet his classic friends. Come on, LucasFilm... if you can make "The Mandalorian", you can make this series. Do it. DO IT! AND, GET FRANK DARABONT BACK!
@@Romans8-9 Okay, fine... whatever. Boo, Ingruber. Fuck him. "Some other guy who can really, really act, for real" can play the part. The point I was on about was that I think that Harrison Ford should have given up the fedora & whip a long time ago. The majority of the books, comics, and games that cover the adventures of Indy mainly take place when he's in his late 20's to mid-40's. They got River Phoenix to play a "younger" Indy, because it would be ridiculous for Harrison to play a 13 year old. I'm saying that the man is too old to be playing a 30 year old now, and that's when Indy's adventures take place, mainly. I only mentioned Ingruber as an example, because I was trying to point out that fans are already more than willing to accept a new actor playing the roll. I grew up with "Raiders of the Lost Ark", just like I grew up with Roger Moore as James Bond. Other actors had played 007 before I started watching, and more have played him since.
I've been hoping for ages that instead of making another Indiana film with Harrison Ford, that Sean Patrick Flanery could be brought on to reprise the role and reboot the film series. Thoughts?
Thank you! ITA that it’s a travesty that the Old Indy bookends were removed! The whole meaning and reason for each story are contained in the bookends. For example, the episode you mention about the boy who grew up to be president of the Central African Republic was really about Indy learning humanist life-affirming philosophy from Albert Schweitzer, hence his rescue of the boy. But it takes on even greater meaning in the bookends because Old Indy is in an ER when a young boy is brought in with a gunshot wound, and a doctor comes out and asks if anyone can donate blood for the boy’s rare blood type. The guy next to Indy has the type but doesn’t want to donate because he’s a racist and makes disparaging remarks about the boy, who happens to be African American. Old Indy then launched into his story about meeting Albert Schweitzer. At the end, the man is chastened by Indy’s story and donates his blood and saves the boy’s life, the boy he was saying earlier was “worthless”. It’s in my mind the most moving episode because I still get weepy just thinking about it, as I am right now as I write about it! I taped the series on my VCR. I have all of the episodes, but one got messed up because the episode ran longer than my trimmer was set for so I lost part of it. But most important is that I was able to capture the bookends of the show! I need to locate the tapes and dub them onto DVDs. Part of the re-edit had to do with a re-airing on either A&E or History Channel because they showed mini-docs about the episodes’ historical context and got rid of Old Indy. It really dumbed down the series by not letting it speak for itself and imposing the mini-docs. I think the DVD set has those mini-docs. I never bought them because of editing out Old Indy. It would be nice to have a restored edition be released. Until then, I have my tapes!
Special effects from the Dracula episode aside, this series was essentially a testbed for digital special effects and other aspects of digital filmmaking. www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/making_4_specialeffects.php You also left out -- which is OK -- that Nicolas Roeg, Mike Newell, Joe Johnston, and other well-known people directed episodes, and Frank Darabont wrote some, as well. This series is also where George Lucas and Rick McCallum linked up, leading to McCallum's prinicipalship during the Star Wars prequels, for better or worse.
I forgot all about this one, thanks for bring it back up. And also, give Solo another try, I found that when I'm not upset with the rest of what happened to star wars, Solo was a fun popcorn flick.
As far as their rift when it came to bonding it's not uncommon for parents and children to become more distant in their teenage and early adult years. It's entirely possible a rift like that could have happened as Indy's father became more obsessed with the Grail
I was so in love with River Phoenix who played young Indy in the 3rd movie AND Sean Patrick Flannery who looked exactly like my boyfriend at the time ❤️
This show is fantastic, even after the re-edits, though I wish we could get the originals because that’s what I remember watching as a kid. You didn’t mention two of my favorite episodes. When Indy is a POW in the camp and then is sent to the castle in Germany. And then the absolute best episode Young Indiana Jones and the Treasurs of the Peacocks Eye! That is a great film to watch before watching the trilogy, if you watch it chronologically.
I've just started a channel where I restore the series to how it originally aired. I'm releasing them on my youtube channel: ua-cam.com/channels/aeMV8OeMJZz2zl7YpHTj1Q.html
Why has it become so cool to bash Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the internet? People talk about it like its Jaws the Revenge or something, when it's really a decent movie. Sure it has it's flaws, but it's not that bad. I think most of the people that bash it like this went into it thinking it was going to be just as good as the original trilogy, when that was never gonna happen.
I recorded the episodes back in the 90s and one thing particular annoys me. In the German East Africa 1916 episode the actor playing Barthelmy had a wonderful accent and voice that was subsequently dubbed over in the DVD release. Also, I actually worked with the actor Steve Michael Ayers, who played rocket scientist Robert Goddard at a regional theatre. I will forever love Young Indy. I still have my trading cards.
I loved this show. This is the show that made me name my son Indiana (not the movies). I agree about the old Indy bookends, which also included narration at the beginnings and endings of the episodes that put everything in historical context, particularly in the episode about the Russian Revolution, where he's looking at photos in a museum and ends with "See that figure there? That would be me." Such a great show. What hurt the ratings was that it wasn't the balls-out action that people expected (Lucas said that it was more like Howard's End than Raiders Of The Lost Ark). But I think this is one of the all-time greatest shows ever made, hands down.
now now the "you left just as you were becoming interesting" line can make sense with the context of the Young series. It could also be they are trying to annoy eachother.
I know some people look at it as being lame or bad. But I actually like the special effects from the late 80's/early 90's. Shows like War of the Worlds, Sliders, Captain Powers and Young Indiana Jones are nostalgic are to me. I can watch them over and over again.
I just love this series with Sean Patrick Flanery. I love history - and the series is build up aorund history: 1 and second war etc. I have it on DVD the whole series...
It really bums me out they haven't done a proper DVD release of these and that it's difficult to find them streaming. I was lucky enough to be able to watch them on Amazon and I was blown away at the production values and the quality of the stories especially for the era. Hopefully they'll get put up somewhere
I remember watch this on Sunday mornings, before Tia Carrere's Archaeologist show (I know the title on my language but not sure if they directly translated it from English). And then I had Kommissar Rex in the evenings. Early 2000's where a good time.
I agree that the younger Indy episodes worked better as single episodes as they were very episodic and their morality plays functioned better in shorter stories. But also because they jump around in time more. There's one movie where Cory Carrier goes from being 13 to 11 because they spliced together two episodes shot out of order. The more epic WWI stuff with Sean Patrick Flannery works pretty well as films because the scope is larger. I do miss George Hall as Old Indy, though, the same way I miss Sebastian Shaw as Old Anakin. Seems like George doesn't like actual old versions of his characters as they seem to get younger because he focuses on prequels or he revises their stories to omit their aging. The DVD sets contain beautiful packaging and extensive special features, but I do wish they'd included "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (televised version) and "The Young Indiana Jones Adventures" (the edited version) together for viewers to choose which one. But after the Special Editions, I've come to realise that Lucas is a revisionist and doesn't want to preserve the history of his own work or how it was presented.
My favorite episode was the one where Indy was shaking his ass in front of a theater. Okay it isn't my favorite episode, but that episode was really funny to me just for the sheer ridiculousness of Indy was doing the whole time. Imaging Harrison Ford doing something like that is both terrifying and hilarious.
15:31 My sentiments exactly. Honestly, Lucas could of just made it so that she was born after the last movie. Sure the main character was old, but still possible.
I swear 90% who shit on that movie hasn't seen it (we know that because the ones who saw it afterwards on DVD or whatever "changed their mind"). It's an ok movie, maybe not the best Solo backstory. But the hate it gets is BS if you ask me.
In a vacuum, it’s a solid, entertaining movie. As a prequel about the guy we met in A New Hope, it doesn’t feel like an honest and true representation of that character. I think for many, the latter point negates the former because it’s impossible to watch it in a vacuum when you know it is supposed to connect to a beloved film and character and isn’t feeling accurate to the character
I know some will call this sacrilege, but I think they made the right call in getting rid of Old Indy for the DVD release. I don't want to see grandpa, old fart, "get off my property", "back in my day" Indiana Jones, & this is coming from a guy who actually kinda likes Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. No disrespect to George Hall, he did the best with what he was given, but I just really don't like seeing a literally ancient Indy. I can handle seeing a leading hero in their sunset years, but only to a certain degree. I was fine with Indy in Crystal Skull, Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond, & the remaining Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters Afterlife, but they were in their 60's & 70's, not their 90's. 90's is too old to focus on a hero who we previously focused on in his younger years, imo.
Totally agree with your review - some of the Indy child episodes verge on silly and dull, but it improves a huge amount with teenage Indy, who spies, lies, cheats and scams his way into heavy duty trouble and tries hilariously to resolves his problems and come out a hero!!! The entire series is certainly well worth watching - and loads better than a lot of TV shit these days! The locations are brilliant, acting is good, scripts are good and the action is really great - many of the later episodes are total gold.
I remember catching a few episodes and thinking it was uneven and wondered why it was so hard to find. 1 episode always stuck with me though, it was called Paris October 1916 and in it Indy has an affair with Mata Hari. I was kinda shocked by the love scenes since I thought it was a kid’s show. Turns out it was written by Carrie Fisher and directed by Nicolas Roeg (walkabout, Don’t Look Now, The man who fell to earth, the witches).
Young Indy was on Paramount+ when it was CBS All Access, but then when it went to P+, they were removed. Not sure if that was a Disney acquisition thing or not
I don't understand why everyone still gets mad about Sean Connery talking about hitting a woman with an open hand. I think he was very progressive for his time, trying to be inclusive towards women and treat them equally.
NOW SILLY GUY, this is one of the best shows performed by a kid ever. For those days standards, nothing is close to it. Home alone, a fluke. And Picasso episode, if you know about him, you really appreciate how much effort the director or writer put into know those characters. Of course, its fiction, but good fiction. Kids in a bordello? It was 1920 man
for someone that is just watching this and reads comments, Paramount + is streaming it now. It says the Chronicles, but its the reedited versions. no old man Indy still.
Loved this series as a kid, but it really hasn't aged as well as it could have. Oh, and Harrison Ford did make one book end appearance in the episode The Mystery of the Blues.
People watching it now may not realize it, but the production values for this show in 1992 blew away anything else on television at the time. However, there was an unevenness to the episodes. The War episodes are the best of the series. The other stories with Sean Patrick Flanery feel like ways for Indy to bump into every other historical figure of the early 20th century. For people who complained there wasn't enough action, like in the movies, I suggest watching The Phantom Train of Doom. Taking out George Hall's Old Indy bookends may be the greatest sin George Lucas committed against humanity.
If parents are mad that the war stuff is to violent that means they showed their kids the Indy movies meaning the probably watched temple of doom or the ending scene from raiders or when someone turned into a skeleton right in front of us.
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3:46 - what indi's dad says here (believe it or not) is factually correct, and no, he is not a racist, he makes no attempt to justify the obvious immorality of slavery throughout history, he only suggests that it was a universal practice all over the world for thousands of years up until recent times, and he is correct.
@@jordanthomas4379 You are correct, in context to history, slavery abolitionist are relatively a product of western ideology. If you hate that then you muy at be against foreign history.
Harrison was in an episode. It was set in the 50's. I recall him bearded and driving in a chase scene with him and a Native American in ... New Mexico perhaps. I am positive... but then I have zero recollection of old man Indy bookends.
Looked it up and it was from the tv movie Young Indiana Jones wave the Mystery of the Blues.
Yes; I do know there was a Indiana Jones Chronicles show; but I have only seen part of 1 episode so I still do not know much about it.
Why were all the finer details of the first 3 Indian Jones films left out of the tv series?
Fun Fact: This show actually saved my life. I don't know what episode it was, but someone was bitten by a snake and had the two puncture marks on their neck. I was bitten by a tiger snake in tasmaina and knew it was a snake bite from seeing the episode a few weeks earlier. Thanks young Indy for saving my life though education. I owe ya one.
@SmithandJones256 I didn't see the snake nor noticed I was bitten until my leg started to get itchy and numb. Once I rolled up my pant leg, I saw the two dots and knew from watching the episode that I had been bitten by a snake.
@SmithandJones256 I was rushed to the hospital, put on life support and given anti venom. Then I survived and wrote about it on UA-cam.
@@SonicBroomHead Haha. Well done sir.
@@SonicBroomHead well that is one great story.
@@SonicBroomHead as i can plainly see you have survived and written about that attack ! good one sir ; who knew a series like this could actually save your life we need to keep shows like this alive i have some stories about working in stunts they may not be as adventurous as yours but i'd like to share stay tuned and be safe mate.
As an Indy lover and a history lover, this show was made for people like myself. Good for you for covering it!
Your welcome
-David-
But it's so funny how Indy bumped into famous historical figures through this series. I understand it was done for a quick history lesson, but not accurate most of the time.
The show was GREAT. They shot the thing on location! They took the crew to each different country. Think of that! For the time, it was making cinema quality stories for network television -in an age where everybody else using cardboard sets. It was gorgeous and brilliantly written. It was too good to last.
And I actually really appreciated the 10 year-old indy stories. The blatant moral messaging was deliberate, and it made perfect sense when you recognized that each story was framed by Old Man indy re-telling stories to young punks; they were on-purpose morality plays.
Removing Old Man Indy basically destroyed the pacing and blunted the otherwise brilliant narrative technique, (as you pointed out).
I don't even try to recommend Young Indiana Jones to people despite it being one of the best things ever to grace television, simply because the DVD editing castrated the whole thing. TYIJC was a moment in history, done and gone. If you missed it, tough.
I watched the new DVD edit and I loved it! Although it would be nice to see an older Indy.
The reviewer here deserves credit for recognizing the fuckery of re-editing the episodes and removing the book-end sections with Old Indy. These episodes should obviously be seen in the format each director originally intended. That is how they work best. Unfortunately George Lucas in his usual form could not resist meddling.
@@blixbelliose3206 The series wouldn't exist if not for George Lucas. He's the one who developed the scripts for each episode and selected the directors he wanted to film them. He was also the one who edited the original versions of the episodes--not the directors. In television the showrunner occupies the role the director usually does in feature films, and in this case the showrunner was Lucas. It's his show and it's his right to do what he wants with it.
I watched it for the first time in its edited form and I loved it. I later went back and watched the Old Indy segments on UA-cam and, while entertaining, they're incredibly cheesy and would have made the show feel very dated to the 90's. Without the bookends, the series feels more like a serious, continuous chronicle of Indy's life, and it remains timeless. I think the series would have remained even more obscure than it already is if it had been left in its original form.
@@nineleafclover Indeed were it not for Lucas the show would not exist, and were it not for Lucas the show that he created would still exist as he created it originally. Sadly now it does not, unless someone foresighted managed to tape all the original episodes from TV, and later digitalized them. That would have been so much better. Also lets not forget that Lucas is not infallible. He did place Star Wars in the hands of Kathleen Kennedy after all, and for a boat load of cash no less.
@@blixbelliose3206 I never said he was infallible. I was mainly disputing your contention that he had wronged the directors of the individual episodes in some way. It was never their intentions that took precedence. They would have known that. They were working on George Lucas's show.
6:04, the Greek episode with Indy and his father was meant to be an unusual event - something that Indy would look back on with fondness, even regret. He even tells his father (in the Winds of Change, I believe) that he missed seeing his father the way he was when they went to Greece because it was the only time that he can remember bonding with him. I think having experienced that bond once gives more impact on the distance that he felt the rest of his childhood.
As for being scared of snakes in the Africa episode - I was scared of things as a child that I wasn't as a teenager. It's entirely possible that he was scared of them at one point, overcame it, and then regressed after the Last Crusade Intro.
I do agree though, the Sean Patrick Flannery episodes were much more engaging. I do really enjoy the "baby Indy" episodes in Austria, Russia and Greece though. I've only seen the show as the repackaged VHS (and later DVD) versions. I really hope Disney/LucasFilm decides to rerelease them in their original format once the Indiana Jones 5 hype kicks in.
Indiana Jones 5 hype turned out to be mild at best, but a channel called Young Indy Restored did reconstruct the TV versions on UA-cam
I think you have a rather stagnant view of character growth. Kids can bond with parents at one age, and feel neglect from them in another.
This series was awesome.
They literally show this in the series. Indy's relationship with his father grows much more strained after his mother dies.
River Phoenix was destined to play this role. Too bad he didn’t live long enough. RIP River Phoenix.
Ummm...no. This show was in 1992. River didn’t die until 1993 when he was 23. He had already played young Indy in the 1989 movie. Also he was too big of a star by that time. He was a movie star and hadn’t done TV since the late 70’s early 80’s.
@@ckotcher1 he was busy filming other things. Read my comment again!
Na mate doing tv in the 80s and 90s was a big step down for a movie star, especially someone as popular as Phoenix, he may have been in a new film, but never in this low grade show..
And you don't even mention him filming other things in your comment lol
Luvie1980 Luvie1980 really?! because I just read your comment...again and it clearly says “he was destined to play the roll, he didn’t live long enough”
GsterfunkGLA82 I know right? It’s like she didn’t read her own comment before writing that 🤦🏼♀️
This show needs more attention. Most people forgot about it.
Nah, buddy, it sucks.
@@emperorpalpatine6239 lot of people liked it
@@ShobeOfficial I wouldn't say many, considering that most Indiana fans have never heard of it. In my opinion, the show is very boring, it has some great ideas but the execution really suffers, especially in final episodes of season 2.
But not us
@@emperorpalpatine6239 Because most Indiana Jones fans only want something that's exactly like the old movies.
I'm not going to lie, nothing about Crystal Skull contradicts Indy having a daughter on the TV show because, as I recall, he daughter is shown to be in her 40s in the show (meaning she was born in the 50s) and we're never told who her mother was so she could the product of some affair Indy had before he and Marian got married, or maybe he and Marian had a late in life daughter.
The old man Indy segments have been basically decanonized.
For anyone who was recommended this video recently there is a whole channel on UA-cam dedicated to the complete unedited Chronicles of Indiana Jones. Plus there is another channel that has most (not all) of the full episodes available.
I just binged this series. I agree with everything this video says. I overall loved it, and yes I think it should be brought back. Yes bring back Old Indy, he was a MAJOR part of what made that show so damned awesome. My personal favorite was when Indy learned to hunt fro Teddy Roosevelt, the theme of that episode was amazing and was relevant to the entiret of the rest of the show. However the one that ipressed me from a historical perspective the most was when Indy was the translator for the Treaty of Versailles; that episode was made in the 90s, and it perfectly showed how the Treaty of Versailles laid the grounds for WWII, the Vietnam War (by showing the little known historical fact that HoChiMinh was at the signing, and his countries request for freedom were literally thrown in the trash), and amazingly it showed the groundwork for the current war in Iraq, by showing the creation of the little known Picot-Sykes Agreement. Awesome show, it is hard to plod through, but worth it, and you can find the clips of Old Indy on UA-cam.
I also liked how he met Sophie the daughter of Franz Ferdinand and has a crush on her
2022 Update: This wonderful show is now on Paramount+. Now, Lucas ain't perfect but I'm glad he took so much time, effort and money to make it. The reason being is my first child will be born in a few months and I'm really looking forward to watching this show with him once he's old enough to enjoy it.
This is the greatest show ever made and I will fight anyone who disagrees.
Come then bruh !
lol it was lame, one or two of the sean patrick flannery episodes were ok the rest was cringey trash
That show was garbage bruh.
I stand with you, Emily!
Really? It looks shitty
I took the George Ball elder Indy to mean that the Holy Grail from the Last Crusade gave him longevity,if not immortality.
An amusing thing you missed is that Paul Freeman (the actor who played Belloq) was the leader of the 25th Frontiersmen Battalion, Frederick Selous.
Forget Chris Pratt bring Sean Patrick Flanery back to play Indy again.
Agreed!
Please
He is way too old now
No
@@moviefan8533 yes we need chris pratt . Fat indy
To be fair, Henry Jones Sr. didn't really have the falling out with Indy until he was in his adolescence and his mother died. Their relationship before that did involve Sr. dragging Indy around from country to country and the gradual resentment and emotional distance that built up over time starts there. It doesn't culminate there. The bit with the snakes, yeah, that's valid. I think the writers were trying to remind viewers how Indy felt about snakes and ignored the internal logic of why.
Ford did book end one episode The Mystery of the Blues which thankfully they did keep on the DVD. Thanks David, great memories of the show from one writer, editor to another.
Thank you! Also thanks for reading the credits
I remember being STUNNED when that episode aired and we got a Harrison Ford bookend.
Yeah I remember him in some mountain cabin with a beard playing the saxophone, which on paper sounds weird but Ford pulled it off.
It was a big deal back then, I remember..ABC advertised that Harrison Ford would be in an episode. And it was a great episode that dealt with Indy's love of jazz music.
Hearing about the original cut with the old Indy framing device makes me regret that I didn't get the VHS Boxes back in the 90s.
I love how passionately angry Narrator Jesse gets in this, haha. 😅
I loved those episodes with teenage Indi played by Sean Patrick Flanery. He was perfect for this role.
It's scary how forgotten this series is, its really good. Very underated.
The biggest reason I believe this show failed to maintain an audience - it was originally aired out of chronological order. It just didn't work jumping back and forth the way it did. The best thing about the re-edited versions is that they correct that issue and even filmed new scenes to bridge the stories. As for Old Indy, I can take or leave it. All of the bookends are on UA-cam, for free.
The entirety of this series is on UA-cam. It's also split into parts, so it's much easier to watch. I'm enjoying it.
When they re-packaged the episodes they mashed two episodes together to make each 90 minute 'movie' and brought back the actors to shoot segue way sequences. Not so bad for Sean Michael Flannery, but the baby Indy scenes were often horrible. Carriere had grown so much between the ending of the series and the re-shoots that they had trouble matching anything. He goes from baby to adolescent and back to baby.
Yeah I was confused while watching it but now I get it
@@The_washing_board No. You can't say "segue way" because what you are actually saying is "seg-way way". Segue is two syllables. Not one.
Jeese Shade, your writing and delivery is second to none on this channel. It takes alot for me to laugh and your particular take and knowledge makes it work for me bud, thank you for keeping me from deep deep depression during this time in history
Hey so I don't want to disappoint you but I actually wrote the episode, I make a conscious effort to match Jesses sense of humor. Because I am a fan of his videos and I'm so lucky to have him as my narrator. But I'm glad my writing made you laugh
@@Arroyo2099 definitely I need to acknowledge you as well, thank you for letting me know it was a team effort!
Love this series. I really miss those individual episodes with the Old Indy bookends and Old Indy filling the viewer in on how it impacted history. Some of my favorite bookends was the art episode, which I really like a lot, because I'm an artist, and the Russian Revolution episode, where he was captured in a photograph becoming part of history. It really makes you wonder what your ancestors were doing when they were younger. I think I have all the shows on VHS still. Should see if I can get the bookends at a higher quality than on YT. The series was sold as entertainment disguised as an educational tool. Yeah, I could see what they were doing with some heavy handed stuff, but The Great War storyline was a watershed for the series and really made me interested in it more than WWII.
This show was made a long time ago but I still want a season 4 that would take place between the end of season 3 until the events in Temple of Doom.
Want to point out that he made a true statement about slavery. It was accepted by Africans, Native American, Asians, Europeans, Arabs, etc. They fought the western powers to keep the practice once the western nations and empires abolished it. He pointed out fact not racism. Additionally, racism was a very modern phenomena and was not the basis for enslavement one most of human history.
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I still own the original released early 1990's VHS tapes, featuring the old indy George Hall book ends.. They gave the series such heart each episode. :)
Harrison Ford was in ONE episode in the old Indy role. I think it was "Indiana Jones and the Secret of Jazz" or something like that. Also, there was one episode where he was telling the story, at his daughter's house, to his grandchildren.
Yeah he filmed that episode when he was on break from filming The Fugitive (this would have been 1992 or 93). That's why he has the beard in his scenes.
@@TheMrHavish I wondered about that actually. Thanks.
The Harrison Ford bookend was actually very good. I'd have loved to have seen more of Indiana Jones and the Adventure of the Peace Pipe.
I always took what Indy said about his father relationship to have meant for the time after his mother had died
How was it useful for you? Have you also lost your mother? Or have you a bad relationship with your father?
@@max-eu2qi no to each
@@LeighMet then what was it?
For anybody who doesn't believe Harrison Ford is a good actor remember he still around
His best performance was in bladerunner 2049.
ITS BACK. I’ve never heard of this show but it’s out on Disney+ right now
He really did have a revolving door of women; his first ‘girlfriend’ was Duchess Sophie, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand- the portrait in the locket that saved him in Africa.
I also recognised footage from at least one of the Middle Eastern Front eps, came from one of our Australian movies- I think it was ‘The Lighthorsemen’.
I found the ‘Dracula’ episode to be one of the sillier eps- when the war years were otherwise done really well.
And Indy’s confrontation with his dad in the later movie isn’t negated by TYIJC- one adventure doesn’t make up for years & decades of not being there, essentially ignoring your child- when they’d already been bereft of one parent.
The footage is from The Lighthorsemen similar to the Western front episodes using footage from the 70s version of All Quiet On The Western Front.
I actually love the Eye of The Peacock episode because Indy was actually treasure hunting
This was freaking hilarious. And I agree with you on everything. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching check out previous episodes
You forgot the MOST amazing cameo when The God Emperor of the Universe, Emperor Palpatine, the great SITH lord played by Ian McDiarmid was in the show at 7:10
One of my fave TV series! I have them all on DVD, downloaded to my PC. Incredible educational series.
YO!! You forgot the amazing short documentaries that were made with each new “movie“ reedit of the three box set series. These were fantastic additions that more than make up for the loss of “old indie“ you keep lamenting. Watching the documentaries in context creates a homeschooling level education experience.
Indy's father was Bond, him fighting Bond is nothing special!
I've been saying this since Anthony Ingruber showed up on UA-cam. BRING BACK YOUNG INDIANA JONES! Harrison Ford could now play "Old Indy", and he gets a mysterious package that leads him on a journey with links to his past. This way, we can have Harrison Ford doing "Da Vinci Code" type thriller stuff, while the flashbacks would involve Anthony Ingruber, who would tackle the more traditional action/adventure part. We can also get to see Indy meet his classic friends.
Come on, LucasFilm... if you can make "The Mandalorian", you can make this series. Do it. DO IT! AND, GET FRANK DARABONT BACK!
Yeah, sure... Because Harrison Ford would be totally af*ford*able nowadays. LOL.
Ingruber is not an "actor". He is a look-alike doing a Harrison Ford impression.
@@Romans8-9 Okay, fine... whatever. Boo, Ingruber. Fuck him. "Some other guy who can really, really act, for real" can play the part. The point I was on about was that I think that Harrison Ford should have given up the fedora & whip a long time ago. The majority of the books, comics, and games that cover the adventures of Indy mainly take place when he's in his late 20's to mid-40's. They got River Phoenix to play a "younger" Indy, because it would be ridiculous for Harrison to play a 13 year old. I'm saying that the man is too old to be playing a 30 year old now, and that's when Indy's adventures take place, mainly.
I only mentioned Ingruber as an example, because I was trying to point out that fans are already more than willing to accept a new actor playing the roll. I grew up with "Raiders of the Lost Ark", just like I grew up with Roger Moore as James Bond. Other actors had played 007 before I started watching, and more have played him since.
@@CaptainRetroStation I agree with what you said as being a new take oj the series. Just not particularly a fan of Ingruber.
I've been hoping for ages that instead of making another Indiana film with Harrison Ford, that Sean Patrick Flanery could be brought on to reprise the role and reboot the film series. Thoughts?
Thank you! ITA that it’s a travesty that the Old Indy bookends were removed! The whole meaning and reason for each story are contained in the bookends.
For example, the episode you mention about the boy who grew up to be president of the Central African Republic was really about Indy learning humanist life-affirming philosophy from Albert Schweitzer, hence his rescue of the boy. But it takes on even greater meaning in the bookends because Old Indy is in an ER when a young boy is brought in with a gunshot wound, and a doctor comes out and asks if anyone can donate blood for the boy’s rare blood type. The guy next to Indy has the type but doesn’t want to donate because he’s a racist and makes disparaging remarks about the boy, who happens to be African American. Old Indy then launched into his story about meeting Albert Schweitzer. At the end, the man is chastened by Indy’s story and donates his blood and saves the boy’s life, the boy he was saying earlier was “worthless”. It’s in my mind the most moving episode because I still get weepy just thinking about it, as I am right now as I write about it!
I taped the series on my VCR. I have all of the episodes, but one got messed up because the episode ran longer than my trimmer was set for so I lost part of it. But most important is that I was able to capture the bookends of the show! I need to locate the tapes and dub them onto DVDs.
Part of the re-edit had to do with a re-airing on either A&E or History Channel because they showed mini-docs about the episodes’ historical context and got rid of Old Indy. It really dumbed down the series by not letting it speak for itself and imposing the mini-docs. I think the DVD set has those mini-docs. I never bought them because of editing out Old Indy. It would be nice to have a restored edition be released. Until then, I have my tapes!
2:26 Julian Fellowes writer of Gosford Park and creator of Downton Abbey......holy shit you can see Hurley's knickers !
90s needed 3 indiana movies
Special effects from the Dracula episode aside, this series was essentially a testbed for digital special effects and other aspects of digital filmmaking. www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/making_4_specialeffects.php
You also left out -- which is OK -- that Nicolas Roeg, Mike Newell, Joe Johnston, and other well-known people directed episodes, and Frank Darabont wrote some, as well.
This series is also where George Lucas and Rick McCallum linked up, leading to McCallum's prinicipalship during the Star Wars prequels, for better or worse.
I forgot all about this one, thanks for bring it back up. And also, give Solo another try, I found that when I'm not upset with the rest of what happened to star wars, Solo was a fun popcorn flick.
Thank you for this emotionally charged review. I am sick today and needed a pick-me-up!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 your videos are some of my favorites Jesse!!!! I love your sense of humor 🖤💁🏻♀️!!!!
I’m pretty lucky that Jesse and I have a similar sense of humor which is why he’s the perfect narrator for the show
16:29 - Oh, be quiet. The fourth movie exists. Deal with it.
I had dismissed these, but I revisited them a couple of years ago and was really impressed.
One of my all-time favourite shows. Brilliant, ambitious, well ahead of its time.
As far as their rift when it came to bonding it's not uncommon for parents and children to become more distant in their teenage and early adult years. It's entirely possible a rift like that could have happened as Indy's father became more obsessed with the Grail
Love this his show!!! I think the TV movie format without old Indy is one of the few good revisions Lucas did. Old Indy was way too hokey.
Daniel Craig would star with Harrison Ford in the awful Cowboys Vs Aliens.
Awful? Not a masterpiece but totally okay ffs
@@MLdoktor calm down is only my opinion.
@@leejones8582 😍
Young Indiana Jones with Sean Patrick Flannery was a cool show. Met him in wetumpka, al while he was in a movie called grass harp. Cool dude!
I was so in love with River Phoenix who played young Indy in the 3rd movie AND Sean Patrick Flannery who looked exactly like my boyfriend at the time ❤️
I liked Solo. It wasn't my Han Solo, but it was a fun heist movie set in the Star Wars Universe.
This show is fantastic, even after the re-edits, though I wish we could get the originals because that’s what I remember watching as a kid. You didn’t mention two of my favorite episodes. When Indy is a POW in the camp and then is sent to the castle in Germany. And then the absolute best episode Young Indiana Jones and the Treasurs of the Peacocks Eye! That is a great film to watch before watching the trilogy, if you watch it chronologically.
I've just started a channel where I restore the series to how it originally aired. I'm releasing them on my youtube channel: ua-cam.com/channels/aeMV8OeMJZz2zl7YpHTj1Q.html
That’s awesome! Thank you!
So because we saw one scene where father and son bond it automatically discounts what Indiana Jones says about his father 30 years later?
Why has it become so cool to bash Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the internet? People talk about it like its Jaws the Revenge or something, when it's really a decent movie. Sure it has it's flaws, but it's not that bad. I think most of the people that bash it like this went into it thinking it was going to be just as good as the original trilogy, when that was never gonna happen.
I recorded the episodes back in the 90s and one thing particular annoys me. In the German East Africa 1916 episode the actor playing Barthelmy had a wonderful accent and voice that was subsequently dubbed over in the DVD release. Also, I actually worked with the actor Steve Michael Ayers, who played rocket scientist Robert Goddard at a regional theatre. I will forever love Young Indy. I still have my trading cards.
"Baby Indy" when he's ~8 years old. Hilarious!
I loved this series as a kid. In particular the WW1 episodes.
The break for commercial was a perfectly cut scream. *Chef's kiss*
I loved this show. This is the show that made me name my son Indiana (not the movies). I agree about the old Indy bookends, which also included narration at the beginnings and endings of the episodes that put everything in historical context, particularly in the episode about the Russian Revolution, where he's looking at photos in a museum and ends with "See that figure there? That would be me." Such a great show. What hurt the ratings was that it wasn't the balls-out action that people expected (Lucas said that it was more like Howard's End than Raiders Of The Lost Ark). But I think this is one of the all-time greatest shows ever made, hands down.
now now the "you left just as you were becoming interesting" line can make sense with the context of the Young series. It could also be they are trying to annoy eachother.
I know some people look at it as being lame or bad. But I actually like the special effects from the late 80's/early 90's. Shows like War of the Worlds, Sliders, Captain Powers and Young Indiana Jones are nostalgic are to me. I can watch them over and over again.
I just love this series with Sean Patrick Flanery. I love history - and the series is build up aorund history: 1 and second war etc. I have it on DVD the whole series...
I just the dvds. There still in print and affordable.
Just borrowed the first volume of the DVDs from my library. I’ve always been a big Indy fan and I’m excited to dig into the series.
It really bums me out they haven't done a proper DVD release of these and that it's difficult to find them streaming. I was lucky enough to be able to watch them on Amazon and I was blown away at the production values and the quality of the stories especially for the era. Hopefully they'll get put up somewhere
There is a DVD release on Amazon.
I remember watch this on Sunday mornings, before Tia Carrere's Archaeologist show (I know the title on my language but not sure if they directly translated it from English). And then I had Kommissar Rex in the evenings. Early 2000's where a good time.
Relic Hunter?! I loved that show!
Man I totally forgot about this show but had them all on VHS and loved it as a kid.
That's so true about parents being mad about the violence. I remember my dad turning off one of the war episodes and not letting us watch it again.
I agree that the younger Indy episodes worked better as single episodes as they were very episodic and their morality plays functioned better in shorter stories. But also because they jump around in time more. There's one movie where Cory Carrier goes from being 13 to 11 because they spliced together two episodes shot out of order. The more epic WWI stuff with Sean Patrick Flannery works pretty well as films because the scope is larger. I do miss George Hall as Old Indy, though, the same way I miss Sebastian Shaw as Old Anakin. Seems like George doesn't like actual old versions of his characters as they seem to get younger because he focuses on prequels or he revises their stories to omit their aging. The DVD sets contain beautiful packaging and extensive special features, but I do wish they'd included "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (televised version) and "The Young Indiana Jones Adventures" (the edited version) together for viewers to choose which one. But after the Special Editions, I've come to realise that Lucas is a revisionist and doesn't want to preserve the history of his own work or how it was presented.
It's a pity folk like you will only remember Sean Connery for only one thing.
He was in Zardoz. He can get behind it.
My favorite episode was the one where Indy was shaking his ass in front of a theater. Okay it isn't my favorite episode, but that episode was really funny to me just for the sheer ridiculousness of Indy was doing the whole time. Imaging Harrison Ford doing something like that is both terrifying and hilarious.
15:31 My sentiments exactly. Honestly, Lucas could of just made it so that she was born after the last movie. Sure the main character was old, but still possible.
The future of Indiana Jones is covering the period from high school graduation to when he gets his PhD. He’s not yet “Doctor Jones.”
Lmao for chrissakes, Solo isn't even a bad movie.
lol I went straight to the comments after that anti-solo bs rant
I swear 90% who shit on that movie hasn't seen it (we know that because the ones who saw it afterwards on DVD or whatever "changed their mind"). It's an ok movie, maybe not the best Solo backstory. But the hate it gets is BS if you ask me.
In a vacuum, it’s a solid, entertaining movie. As a prequel about the guy we met in A New Hope, it doesn’t feel like an honest and true representation of that character. I think for many, the latter point negates the former because it’s impossible to watch it in a vacuum when you know it is supposed to connect to a beloved film and character and isn’t feeling accurate to the character
@@zackadams309 because Han in this movie not Han from A New Hope. He is 10 years younger. He shouldn't be the same person at this point.
@Andrew Salter but should ot be great? No
I know some will call this sacrilege, but I think they made the right call in getting rid of Old Indy for the DVD release.
I don't want to see grandpa, old fart, "get off my property", "back in my day" Indiana Jones, & this is coming from a guy who actually kinda likes Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
No disrespect to George Hall, he did the best with what he was given, but I just really don't like seeing a literally ancient Indy.
I can handle seeing a leading hero in their sunset years, but only to a certain degree.
I was fine with Indy in Crystal Skull, Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond, & the remaining Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters Afterlife, but they were in their 60's & 70's, not their 90's.
90's is too old to focus on a hero who we previously focused on in his younger years, imo.
One of my favorite tv show. Please Disney + remake and air the old Episodes. As well as Guy Williams's Zorro.
Even as a kid couldnt get into this. Reminded me of Anne of Green Gables in a thinly veiled Indy skin.
They should totally bring this back on Disney+.
Just need to find the right actor to play young Indy again.
Totally agree with your review - some of the Indy child episodes verge on silly and dull, but it improves a huge amount with teenage Indy, who spies, lies, cheats and scams his way into heavy duty trouble and tries hilariously to resolves his problems and come out a hero!!! The entire series is certainly well worth watching - and loads better than a lot of TV shit these days! The locations are brilliant, acting is good, scripts are good and the action is really great - many of the later episodes are total gold.
Thanks for repping "YUB NUB". The world needs to remember that OG ending. Original ROTJ owns.
Victory celebration was a better song.
I remember catching a few episodes and thinking it was uneven and wondered why it was so hard to find. 1 episode always stuck with me though, it was called Paris October 1916 and in it Indy has an affair with Mata Hari. I was kinda shocked by the love scenes since I thought it was a kid’s show. Turns out it was written by Carrie Fisher and directed by Nicolas Roeg (walkabout, Don’t Look Now, The man who fell to earth, the witches).
had the whole series on VHS
should have kept it.
Young Indy was on Paramount+ when it was CBS All Access, but then when it went to P+, they were removed. Not sure if that was a Disney acquisition thing or not
I don't understand why everyone still gets mad about Sean Connery talking about hitting a woman with an open hand. I think he was very progressive for his time, trying to be inclusive towards women and treat them equally.
NOW SILLY GUY, this is one of the best shows performed by a kid ever. For those days standards, nothing is close to it. Home alone, a fluke. And Picasso episode, if you know about him, you really appreciate how much effort the director or writer put into know those characters. Of course, its fiction, but good fiction. Kids in a bordello? It was 1920 man
for someone that is just watching this and reads comments, Paramount + is streaming it now. It says the Chronicles, but its the reedited versions. no old man Indy still.
And the dvds are also pretty affordable on Amazon
Partially filmed here in Wilmington, NC. I'm in the first few scenes. You can't miss me... I'm three times wider than every other kid... :)
Timestamp?
@@Brandon.S.Brooker Episode 1 0:00
We're literally the first scenes when Indy's 10. I'm also the pitcher.
Loved this series as a kid, but it really hasn't aged as well as it could have. Oh, and Harrison Ford did make one book end appearance in the episode The Mystery of the Blues.
Playing the saxophone with Felix Leiter
People watching it now may not realize it, but the production values for this show in 1992 blew away anything else on television at the time. However, there was an unevenness to the episodes. The War episodes are the best of the series. The other stories with Sean Patrick Flanery feel like ways for Indy to bump into every other historical figure of the early 20th century. For people who complained there wasn't enough action, like in the movies, I suggest watching The Phantom Train of Doom. Taking out George Hall's Old Indy bookends may be the greatest sin George Lucas committed against humanity.
If parents are mad that the war stuff is to violent that means they showed their kids the Indy movies meaning the probably watched temple of doom or the ending scene from raiders or when someone turned into a skeleton right in front of us.
Loved this series and how it educated kids on history too
Indy served in like every theater of WW1.
absolutely loved the scandal of 1920 episodes ... in the bookend Indi actually meets the girl again by chance!