List of Young Indiana Jones episodes



This is a list of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes. The series has had a rather complicated history in terms of air dates and home video releases. Although 44 episodes were produced by Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm, many were unaired during the series' original 1992-1993 run on ABC. In 1996, some of the remaining episodes were combined and aired as four two-part TV movies on USA. The entire series was edited into 22 feature-length films later that year. Some of the films were released on VHS in 1999, while the rest were aired on the Fox Family Channel in 2001. All of the films will be released on DVD as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones throughout late 2007 and early 2008.

Television


The pilot episode was aired by ABC in the United States in March 1992. For the pilot, the episodes "Egypt, May 1908" and "Mexico, March 1916" were edited together to form the television movie Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal. Eleven further hour-long episodes were aired in 1992 (seven in the first season, four were part of the second season). Only 16 of the remaining 20 episodes were aired in 1993 when ABC cancelled the show. USA Network later broadcast the unaired episodes and also produced eight more episodes (each part of two-part television movies, making four TV movies) that were broadcast from 1994 to 1996. Though Lucas intended to produce episodes leading up to a 24-year-old Jones, the series was cancelled with the character at age 21.

Home video
In the early nineties, a laserdisc boxset of fifteen episodes was released in Japan, along with a documentary on the series. In 1999, re-edited versions of the series were released on VHS. However, only twelve of the planned twenty-two tapes were produced. In April 2007, producer Rick McCallum announced that the complete series was being prepared for DVD release; the first set of episodes would be available by Christmas 2007.

The revised and updated edition of the book George Lucas: The Creative Impulse, by Charles Champlin, explains how The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series would be re-edited into the new structure of twenty-two "Chapter" TV films, for the 1999 VHS release. New footage was shot in 1996 to be incorporated with the newly re-edited and re-titled "chapters" to better help it chronologically and provide supposedly smooth transitions. The newly shot "Tangiers, 1908" was joined with "Egypt, 1908" from the original pilot episode Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal to form My First Adventure, and "Morocco, 1917" was joined with "Northern Italy, 1918" (now re-dated as 1917) to form Tales of Innocence. The "Mexico, March 1916" segment from Curse of the Jackal has been joined with "Princeton, 1916" to form Spring Break Adventure. Also included in the home video release were four unaired episodes made for the ABC network, "Florence, May 1908", "Prague, 1917", "Transylvania, 1918", and "Palestine, 1917".

The 93-year-old Indy bookends for the original series were removed, as well as Sean Patrick Flanery's bookend for Travels With Father (It would seem that bookend was dropped so that it could be expanded into the second half of Winds Of Change). However, the Harrison Ford bookend, set in 50s, from The Mystery of The Blues was not cut.

The 1999 collection also included the four episodes that were made for the ABC network that never aired. Including Florence, May 1908, Prague, Aug. 1917, Transylvania, Jan. 1918, and Palestine, 1917 (note that the dates of these episodes have changed to be a part of the collection). Palestine may end up as the most interesting as it has been made into a film of its own, versus the one-hour version that aired in Europe. As stated above Tangiers, 1908 and Morocco, 1917 were filmed just for this collection. Finally, the little bit of Princeton, 1919 that was shown in the Family Channel's airing of Young Indiana Jones Travels With Father, was actually a part of its own one-hour story now combined with Paris, May 1919.

VHS and Laserdisc
The series received its first home video release on April 21, 1993, when a Laserdisc box set was released in Japan containing fifteen of the earlier episodes and a short documentary on the making of the series. The discs were formatted in NTSC and presented with English audio in Dolby surround with Japanese subtitles. In 1994, eight NTSC format VHS tapes with a total of fifteen episodes from the first two seasons were released in Japan. The pilot episode Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal was released on VHS in the United Kingdom, kept in its original format.

On October 26, 1999, half of the series was released on VHS in the United States for $14.99 each, along with a box set of the feature films making up The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones. The series was labeled as Chapters 1-22, while the films were labeled as Chapters 23-25. In an effort to promote the series, Treasure of the Peacock's Eye was included with the purchase of the film trilogy box set. As a result, while the other videos are often expensive and difficult to find, multiple copies of Peacock can often be found at many thrift stores for low prices. The twelve VHS releases were released worldwide over the course of the year 2000, including the U.K., Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, Mexico, France, and Japan. The UK and Netherlands tapes were in PAL format, while the tapes released in the rest of the countries were in NTSC format.

DVD


In 2002, series producer Rick McCallum confirmed in an interview with Variety that DVDs of the series were in development, but would not be released for "about three or four years". At the October 2005 press conference for the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith DVD, McCallum explained that he expected the release to consist of 22 DVDs in all, which would include around 100 documentaries which would explore the real-life historical aspects that are fictionalized in the show. For the DVDs, Lucasfilm upgraded the picture quality of the original 16mm prints and remastered the soundtracks. This, along with efforts to get best quality masters and bonus materials on the sets, delayed the release to a date later than expected. It was ultimately decided that the release would tie into the release of the fourth Indiana Jones feature film. A fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was officially announced in December 2006.

In 2004, in preparation for the restoration of the original Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm sent Lowry Digital some of the 16 mm footage from the series as a test. It is unknown what effect, if any, that this had to do with the series' DVD release.

In a 2007 interview with Star Wars fan site Tochestation.nl, McCallum stated that after five years in production, the "first set" of the series was expected to be released around Christmas of 2007&mdash;although he could not confirm the exact date or any other details. On July 10, 2007, Paramount Home Entertainment (through CBS DVD, whose cousin production company predecessor, Paramount Television, partnered with Lucasfilm on the series) announced that the series will be released in three volumes on DVD, with the first set to be released on October 23, 2007; however, at Star Wars Celebration Europe, Rick McCallum stated that the first DVDs will be released on October 13th. Since the 13th is on a Saturday, this was deemed by some to be unlikely. StarWars.com finally confirmed October 23, 2007 as the correct first date, while giving December 18, 2007 as the release date for the second volume, and Spring 2008 as the planned release date for the third volume. Two variations of Volume One were released: one as simply "Volume One", and the other as "Volume One, The Early Years" in order to match the subtitle of Volume Two.

The History Channel acquired television rights to all 94 of the DVD historical documentaries. The airing of the documentaries is meant to bring in ratings for the history channel and serve as marketing for the DVD release and the theatrical release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The History Channel and History International began airing the series every Saturday morning at 7AM/8C on The History Channel, and every Sunday morning at 8AM ET/PT on History International. Following each episode, two documentaries related to the respective episode are aired. A new division of History.com was created devoted to the show. Additionally, as Paramount and Lucasfilm had already reserved IndianaJones.com solely for news and updates related to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, StarWars.com temporarily served as the official site for the DVDs&mdash;providing regular updates, insider looks and promotions related to them. However, Lucasfilm and Paramount soon set up an official website proper for the series&mdash;YoungIndy.com. Paramount released a press kit for the media promoting the DVDs, which consists of a .pdf file and several videos with interviews with Lucas and McCallum, and footage from the DVDs. A trailer for the DVDs was also published on YoungIndy.com, with a shorter version being shown on The History Channel and History International.

Lucas and McCallum hope that the DVDs will be helpful to schools, as they believe the series is a good way to aid in teaching history. Lucas explained that the series' DVD release will be shopped as "films for a modern day high school history class." He believes the series is a good way to teach high school students 20th Century history. The plan was always to tie the DVD release of the series to the theatrical release of the fourth Indiana Jones feature film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which is currently in post-production.

The DVD release is in three volumes as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones:


 * The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One, The Early Years was released on October 23, 2007. It contains 12 discs, including Chapters 1-7, as well thirty-eight in-depth companion documentaries, interactive game & timeline, and a historical overview. It contains all of the episodes with Corey Carrier as well as some episodes with Sean Patrick Flanery.


 * The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two, The War Years is scheduled for release on December 18, 2007. It will contain 9 discs, including Chapters 8-15, as well twenty-six in-depth companion documentaries, interactive game & timeline, and a historical lecture.


 * The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Three, The Years of Change is scheduled for release on April 29, 2008. It will contain Chapters 16-22 and about thirty documentaries.

The DVDs present the re-edited versions of the series, similar to the VHS release. While the original television broadcast versions skipped around chronologically in the character's life&mdash;alternating stories between Indy as a child and Indy as a teenager&mdash;the DVDs present Indy's life in chronological order. The DVD episodes correspond to two one-hour TV episodes, combined together, with the George Hall bookend segments removed. Some of the episode pairs work well together, such as episodes 6 and 7 forming Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life. However, others are more disjointed, such as Passion for Life, which was made from "British East Africa, September 1909" and "Paris, September 1908".

Season I (1992)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles debuted on ABC on March 4, 1992 with the feature-length episode Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal, which served to introduce the character at the two ages he would be portrayed as in the show. The five subsequent episodes in season one were hour-long.

Season II (1992-1993)
Season two began on September 21, 1992 with the episode "Austria, 1917", and the seventeen subsequent episodes consisted of both new episodes and some episodes originally produced for the first season&mdash;each an hour long. In an effort to boost ratings, Harrison Ford made a guest appearance in the feature-length episode Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues. When the show was cancelled, four episodes remained unaired: "Florence, May 1908", "Prague, August 1917", "Palestine, October 1917" and "Transylvania, January 1918". In Australia, "Somme, Early August 1916" and "Germany, Mid-August 1916" were shown as a two-hour television movie entitled Young Indiana Jones and the Great Escape.

Season III (1994-1996)
The third "season" consisted of four television movies which aired on the The Family Channel from 1994 to 1996. No "Old Indy" bookend segments were filmed for the television movies, although Sean Patrick Flanery bookended Young Indiana Jones and the Travels with Father.

Film versions
In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes, called chapters. Several of the chapters were released on VHS in 1999 as part of The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones, which also included VHS versions of the three existing theatrical release films.

Chapters 1-7 were released on DVD in 2007 in the box set The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One, The Early Years. Chapters 8-15 were released on DVD in 2007 in the box set ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two, The War Years. Chapters 16-22 will be released in 2008 in the box set The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Three.


 * Chapter 1: My First Adventure
 * Chapter 2: Passion for Life
 * Chapter 3: The Perils of Cupid
 * Chapter 4: Travels with Father
 * Chapter 5: Journey of Radiance
 * Chapter 6: Spring Break Adventure
 * Chapter 7: Love's Sweet Song
 * Chapter 8: The Trenches of Hell
 * Chapter 9: Demons of Deception
 * Chapter 10: Phantom Train of Doom
 * Chapter 11: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
 * Chapter 12: Attack of the Hawkmen
 * Chapter 13: Adventures in the Secret Service
 * Chapter 14: Espionage Escapades
 * Chapter 15: Daredevils of the Desert
 * Chapter 16: Tales of Innocence
 * Chapter 17: Masks of Evil
 * Chapter 18: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
 * Chapter 19: Winds of Change
 * Chapter 20: The Mystery of the Blues
 * Chapter 21: The Scandal of 1920
 * Chapter 22: The Hollywood Follies

Chronological order
Listed below are all 44 episodes of the series, organized by story chronology:

Unproduced episodes
When the series was cancelled in 1993, there were a number of episodes Lucas had intended to shoot, but never went into production.


 * "Princeton, May 1905" was to involve Indy meeting Paul Robeson for the first time.
 * "Russia, March 1909"
 * "Geneva, May 1909"
 * "Jerusalem, June 1909" was to involve Indy meeting Abner Ravenwood, who is trying to find a "sacred relic"&mdash;the Ark on the temple mount. In "Palestine, October 1917", Indy and his comrades suggest that they will be returning to this location by Christmas of 1917.
 * "Stockholm, December 1909"
 * "Melbourne, March 1910" was to involve Indy meeting Harry Houdini and flying in a balloon with him. The events of this episode are mentioned in "Palestine, October 1917".
 * "Tokyo, April 1910"
 * "LeHavre, June 1916" was to involve Indy and Remy in basic training. When Remy is accused of murdering their drill sergeant, Indy defends him. The two also meet Jean Renoir, who teaches them how to fight in battles.
 * "Flanders, July 1916" was to involve Indy, Remy and Jaques fighting in Flanders. The events of this episode are mentioned in "Trenches of Hell".
 * "Berlin, Late August 1916" was to be a second season episode that involved Indy escaping from prison and fleeing to Berlin, and would have been the third part in the Somme/Germany cycle following Indy's capture in Somme, his escape from prison, his escape from Germany itself. He has to decide between returning to the US (since the US isn't at war with Germany yet) or returning to the Belgium Army. He ultimately decides to return to the Belgian army. Indy would have met Sigrid Schultz.
 * "Moscow, March 1918" was meant as a sequel to "Russia, 1917". It would have involved Indy working with counter-revolutionary groups in order to allow the U.S. to takeover.
 * "Bombay, April 1919" was to involve Indy meeting Gandhi on his way back from his search for the Eye of the Peacock diamond, while Remy is still searching for the diamond. Remy and Indy fight about continuing the treasure search.
 * "Buenos Aires, June 1919" was to involve Indy being robbed while trying to returning to the U.S.. where he works as a tutor. He then ends up in South America as a tutor.
 * "Princeton, August 1919"
 * "Havana, December 1919" was to involve Indy his father in Cuba. The episode would have revolved around integration issues and Indy and Henry Sr. seeing a black player outplaying Babe Ruth.
 * "Honduras, December 1920" was to involve Indy meeting Belloq for the first time and they become friends. Belloq steals a crystal skull and sells it.
 * "Alaska, June 1921" was to involve Indy studying eskimos, and rushing to deliver medical supplies by dogsled in order to save a village. The events of this episode are foreshadowed in "Travels with Father".
 * "Brazil, December 1921" was to involve Indy and Belloq in a search for a lost city, and meeting Charles Fawcett.

Historical documentaries
Ninety-four historical documentaries were created over a five-year period by Lucasfilm's documentary crew for the DVD release of the series.


 * My First Adventure
 * Archaeology – Unearthing Our Past
 * Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
 * Colonel Lawrence's War – T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
 * From Slavery to Freedom
 * Passion for Life
 * Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
 * Ecology: Pulse of the Planet
 * American Dreams – Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post
 * Art Rebellion – The Making of the Modern
 * Edgar Degas – Reluctant Rebel
 * Braque Picasso: A Collaboration Cubed
 * Perils of Cupid
 * Giacomo Puccini – Music of the Heart
 * It's Opera!
 * The Archduke's Last Journey – End of an Era
 * Powder Keg – Europe 1900 to 1914
 * Sigmund Freud – Exploring the Unconscious
 * Carl Jung and the Journey of Self Discovery
 * Psychology – Charting the Human Mind
 * Travels With Father
 * Seeking Truth – The Life of Leo Tolstoy
 * Unquiet Voices – Russian Writers and the State
 * Aristotle – Creating Foundations
 * Ancient Questions – Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning
 * Jouney of Radiance
 * Jiddu Krishnamurti – The Reluctant Messiah
 * Annie Besant – An Unlikely Rebel
 * Medicine in the Middle Kingdom
 * Eastern Spirituality – The Road to Enlightenment
 * Spring Break Adventure
 * Thomas Edison – Lighting up the World
 * Invention and Innovation – What's Behind a Good Idea?
 * The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer
 * Wanted: Dead or Alive – Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
 * General John J. Pershing and his American Army
 * George S. Patton – American Achilles
 * Love's Sweet Song
 * Easter Rising – The Poets' Rebellion
 * The Passions of William Butler Yeats
 * Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland
 * Ireland – The Power of the Poets
 * Winston Churchill – The Lion's Roar
 * Demanding the Vote – The Pankhursts and British Suffrage
 * Fighting for the Vote – Women's Suffrage in America
 * Trenches of Hell
 * Siegfried Sassoon – A War Poet's Journey
 * Robert Graves and the White Goddess
 * I Am France – The Myth of Charles de Gaulle
 * The Somme – A Storm of Steel
 * Demons of Deception
 * Marshal Petain's Fall From Grace
 * Flirting With Danger – The Fantasy of Mata Hari
 * Into the Furnace – The Battle of Verdun
 * Reading the Enemy's Mind – Espionage in World War I
 * Phantom Train of Doom
 * Chasing the Phantom – Paul von Lettow Vorbeck
 * Dreaming of Africa – The Life of Frederick Selous
 * At Home and Abroad – The Two Faces of Jan Smuts
 * Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
 * Albert Schweitzer – Reverence for Life
 * Waging Peace – The Rise of Pacifism
 * Congo – A Curse of Riches
 * Attack of the Hawkmen
 * Blood Red – The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen
 * Anthony Fokker – The Flying Dutchman
 * Flying High for France – The Lafayette Escadrille
 * War in the Third Dimension – Aerial Warfare in World War I
 * Adventures in the Secret Service
 * Karl – The Last Habsburg Emperor
 * V.I. Lenin – History Will Not Forgive Us
 * The Russian Revolution – All Power to the Soviets!
 * Espionage Escapades
 * Impresario – Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
 * Franz Kafka's Dark Truth
 * Ballet – The Art of Dance
 * Daredevils of the Desert
 * Col. Lawrence's War – T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
 * Lines in the Sand – The Middle East and the Great War
 * Tales of Innocence
 * Unhealed Wounds – The Life of Ernest Hemingway
 * The Secret Life of Edith Wharton
 * Lowell Thomas – American Storyteller
 * The French Foreign Legion – The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force
 * Masks of Evil
 * For the People Despite the People – The Ataturk Revolution
 * The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib
 * Dracula – Fact and Fiction
 * The Ottoman Empire – A World of Difference
 * Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
 * Bronislaw Malinowski – God Professor
 * Anthropology – Looking at the Human Condition
 * New Guinea – Paradise in Peril
 * Winds of Change
 * Woodrow Wilson – American Idealist
 * Gertrude Bell – Iraq's Uncrowned Queen
 * Ho Chi Minh – The Price of Freedom
 * Paul Robeson – Scandalize My Name
 * Robert Goddard – Mr. Rocket Science
 * The Best Intentions – The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
 * Mystery of the Blues
 * Al "Scarface" Capone – The Original Gangster
 * Ben Hecht – Shakespeare of Hollywood
 * On the Trail of Eliot Ness
 * Louis Armstrong – Ambassador of Jazz
 * Jazz – Rhythms of Freedom
 * Prohibition – America on the Rocks
 * Hellfighters – Harlem's Heroes of World War One
 * The Scandal of 1920
 * Tin Pan Alley – Soundtrack of America
 * Broadway – America Center Stage
 * Wonderful Nonsense – The Algonquin Roundtable
 * The Hollywood Follies
 * Erich von Stroheim – The Profligate Genius
 * The World of John Ford
 * Irving Thalberg – Hollywood's Boy Wonder
 * The Rise of the Moguls – The Men Who Built Hollywood

Historical overview lectures

 * Vol. 1 - Historical Lecture: "The Promise of Progress"
 * Vol. 2 - Historical Lecture: "War and Revolution"

Interactive content

 * Interactive timeline included on each set.
 * Interactive games
 * Vol. 1 - The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution, based on Spring Break Adventure
 * Vol. 2 - The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery, based on Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life