"Benares, January 1910" is the twenty-first episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series, and the fifteenth episode in season two. Written by Jonathan Hensleigh from a story by George Lucas, and directed by Deepa Mehta and Carl Schultz, the episode originally aired on ABC on July 3, 1993. For home video, the episode was paired with "Peking, March 1910" to form Journey of Radiance.
Plot summary[]
Opening bookend[]
Indy is at a coffee shop in 1993 when a disgruntled man sits down next to him at the counter. The man yells at the waitress and Indy asks why he's being so rude. The man tells him how the world is against him. He explained that he had transferred his job, sold his house and got laid off. He doesn't think he can get any lower. Indy tells him about when he was in Benares in 1910, and met Krishnamurti, the most extraordinary person he ever met.
Benares, January 1910[]
The Joneses go to India, where Indy meets the young Krishnamurti and Miss Seymour has strong disagreements with the Theosophical Society's Annie Besant.
Closing bookend[]
Indy tells him that in 1929, Krishnamurti renounced his membership in the Theosophist Society and spent the next fifty years traveling the world and telling people that God is in all of us and that we should be kind to each other. He leaves the man to think about what he has said.
Credits[]
Cast[]
- Corey Carrier ... Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr.
- George Hall ... "Old Indy" (bookend)
- Margaret Tyzack ... Miss Seymour
- Ruth de Sosa ... Anna Jones
- Lloyd Owen ... Professor Henry Jones, Sr.
- George Hall ... Dr. Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr.
- John Wood ... Charles Leadbeater
- Dorothy Tutin ... Annie Besant
- Hemanth Rao ... Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Anatol Yusef ... Hurbert Van Hook
- Kari Masengale ... Mrs. Van Hook
- Naved Aslam ... Theosophy Attendant
- Vhay Krishan ... Indian thief
- Chris Jose Matthew ... Nitya
- Udaya Inair ... Sanjeeva
- Lou Criscuolo ... Al (bookend)
- Michael Flippo ... Trucker (as Mike Flippo (bookend)
- Judy Simpson ... Louise (bookend)
- Terry L. Wallace ... Patron at Diner (bookend)
Behind the scenes[]
The episode was edited into Journey of Radiance, which was released on DVD in 2007 (as part of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One, The Early Years).
External links[]
Young Indy on DVD: A Tour of Volume 1: Disc 7 on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
"Benares, January 1910" at the Internet Movie Database
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