New Guinea, March 1919

❌ New Guinea, March 1919 was an un-produced episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which would have been part of the third season of the series. The subject of the episode would have been anthropology, and the theme being "ritual".

In this episode, Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin would have been discharged from the Belgian Army and decide to go in search of treasure in the South Pacific. They would have had an encounter with pirates and headhunters and wrest a treasure box from them, which they think contains the Monk Diamond. While escaping, they land on an island and are captured by fierce New Guinea headhunting natives. They observe some of the rituals of the natives and then are traded to another native tribe and eventually find themselves with a third tribe, where the famed anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski is studying and living the Trobriand Islanders, a trading people. When they finally get the box open, it contains clues to locate the diamond. Remy decides to look for the treasure and after Malinowski talks with Indy, he leaves more resolved to return to America and pursue archaeology.

While the episode was not produced, its synopsis was expanded and changed significantly into what became Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye, available in Volume 3 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, although the Monk Diamond element was ultiamtely retconned to become the Peacock's Eye, the diamond traded by Indiana Jones and Lao Che during the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.