- "Perhaps you're looking for perfection."
- ―Old Indy[src]
"New York, June 1920" is a one-hour episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles which was edited together with "New York, July 1920" and first aired as Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 on ABC in the United States. No other territory is known to have combined these two one-hour episodes into a single airing during their original broadcasts of the series, suggesting that the syndication package from Lucasfilm and Paramount Television only provided the episodes in this separated form as originally intended.
George Hall filmed linked bookends as Old Indy for both "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920," but these bookends were not included when the episodes were edited together and aired in their combined form as a TV movie.
Plot summary[]
Opening bookend[]
On a crowded street near Times Square in New York City, Professor Jones sits in a cab that is stuck in traffic as his cabbie honks and yells angrily at the other cars. When she yells "Men!" at one of them and Indy asks if she doesn't like men, she replies that all men are scum. Indy offers that she might be looking for perfection, but the cabbie says she "gave up on that a long time ago." He says he knows just what she means and begins to tell her how he came to feel that way when he left Chicago for a summer job in New York.
Closing bookend[]
The cabbie excitedly asks Indy what happened with the three girls he was dating, but they have now arrived at the theatre which was his destination. Indy is grateful not to be late, paying the 37 dollars in cab fare and saying he "can't afford to tell her," prompting the cabbie to exclaim that men are "all the same" as he heads off into the venue.
Appearances[]
- For appearances other than those in the bookends, see Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920.
Additional cast and characters[]
- George Hall as Old Indy
- Roma Maffia as New York Cabbie
Locations[]
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Broadway
- Palace Theatre
- Times Square
- Broadway
- New York City
- New York
Behind the scenes[]
Production[]
The second draft script by Jonathan Hales (combining both episodes into one teleplay as "New York, June/July 1920") is dated April 16, 1992.[1] That script explicitly references the additional bookends on its front cover and includes a "Story by George Lucas" credit which does not appear onscreen.
Principal photography for those bookends is presumed to have taken place during the same production block as the rest of the episode from May 13, 1992 to August 27, 1992,[2], with location filming in Wilmington, North Carolina, and soundstage shooting at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, along with additional filming on the backlot street then present at Carolco Studios.[3]
Continuity[]
- Although the specific show that Old Indy is taking a cab to attend is unidentified in this episode, the establishing shots in the opening bookend of the immediately following "New York, July 1920" will reveal that he is dropped off at the Palace Theatre on Broadway for a performance of Broadway Melody.
Release[]
Television[]
"New York, June 1920" never aired in this one-hour form in the United States. The episode's first known airing was on TV4 in Sweden on September 26, 1993, and it is also known to have aired on Sky One in the United Kingdom (May 21, 1994), MTV3 in Finland (July 3, 1994), and SBS6 in the Netherlands (September 9, 1995, with a rerun on June 2, 1996).[4]
Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 is known to have aired in two parts on Rai 1 in Italy (October 16 and 23, 1993) and Sat.1 in Germany (February 16 and 17, 1995), but it is unclear whether these were airings of "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920" or airings of the TV movie split in two without any of the additional material produced for those distinct episodes.
Notes and references[]
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