List of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes

This is a list of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" episodes. 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 were released on DVD throughout 2007 and 2008.

Seasons

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.

Film versions

In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes. The series was also retitled "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones". Each chapter contains two episodes, with all the chapters being in chronological order. As such, the scenes where an older Indiana Jones reminisces are never seen in these versions.

*Chapter 1: "My First Adventure"This feature-length episode was released on VHS in 1999 and DVD in 2007.] (Egypt + Tangiers 1908)
*Chapter 2: "Passion for Life" (British East Africa + Paris 1908)
*Chapter 3: "The Perils of Cupid" (Vienna + Florence 1908)
*Chapter 4: "Travels with Father" (Russia + Athens 1910)
*Chapter 5: "Journey of Radiance" (Benares + Beijing 1910)
*Chapter 6: "Spring Break Adventure"This feature-length episode aired on ABC in 2001, and was released on DVD in 2007.] (Princeton + Mexico 1916)
*Chapter 7: "Love's Sweet Song" (Ireland + London 1916)
*Chapter 8: "Trenches of Hell" (Somme + Germany 1916)
*Chapter 9: "Demons of Deception" (Verdun + Paris 1916)
*Chapter 10: "Phantom Train of Doom" (German East Africa 1916)
*Chapter 11: "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life" (German East Africa + Congo 1916)
*Chapter 12: "Attack of the Hawkmen" (Ravanelle + Alhorn, Germany 1917)
*Chapter 13: "Adventures in the Secret Service" (Austria + Petrograd 1917)
*Chapter 14: "Espionage Escapades" (Barcelona + Prague 1917)
*Chapter 15: "Daredevils of the Desert" (Palestine 1917)
*Chapter 16: "Tales of Innocence"This feature-length episode was released on VHS in 1999 and DVD in 2008.] (Northern Italy + Morocco 1917)
*Chapter 17: "Masks of Evil"This feature-length episode aired on ABC in 2001, and was released on DVD in 2008.] (Istanbul +Transylvania 1918)
*Chapter 18: "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" (London/Egypt + South Pacific 1919)
*Chapter 19: "Winds of Change" (Paris + Princeton 1919)
*Chapter 20: "The Mystery of the Blues" (Chicago 1920)
*Chapter 21: "The Scandal of 1920" (New York 1920)
*Chapter 22: "The Hollywood Follies" (Hollywood 1920)

In 1999, only Chapters 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 22 were released on VHS in the "Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones" along with the re-release of the movie trilogy (credited as Chapters 23-25). It was promoted to have the rest of the episodes to be released in later in the following year, but was later cancelled.

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. [http://www.indyfan.com/articles/yijchb.html Young Indy That Could Have Been] - List of episodes never produced]

*"Princeton, May 1905" was to involve Indy meeting Paul Robeson for the first time. [Additional stories set in 1905 were planned as well, per "Young Indy: Around the World".]
*"Russia, March 1909"
*"Geneva, May 1909"
*"Jerusalem, June 1909" was to involve Indy meeting Abner Ravenwood, who is trying to find a "sacred relic"—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" was to be a homage to Swedish children's novel "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils". Indiana Jones said Stockholm was his favourite city in Sweden in the "London, May 1916" episode.
*"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" was to involve a meeting between the young Indy and Prince Hirohito of Japan, the future Emperor Shōwa.
*"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 Belgian 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 return 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 outplay Babe Ruth. [ [http://www.stormloader.com/users/stardivision/Insider/Insider29Hales03.html Insider 29 - Interview Hales 03 ] ]
*"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.

DVD bonus content

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 Art
**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 Emil 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 - "Revolution", based on "Spring Break Adventure"
**Vol. 2 - "Special Delivery", based on "Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life"

Notes and references