History Recap / YoungIndianaJonesAndTheTrenchesOfHell

* PrisonEscapeArtist. Lieutenant Blanc, the dead French officer whose identity Indy assumes after being captured, was one of these. Indy is quick to live up to his reputation. In Dusterstadt, he teams up with de Gaulle -- another of these.

* ForegoneConclusion: Given that the [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesAndTheDemonsOfDeception Verdun episode]] which follows this one chronologically had already been broadcast prior to the Germany part oh this one, viewers of ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' in its original AnachronicOrder would have been well aware that Indy would somehow make it back to the Allied lines. Viewers of this episode who have seen sons of the (chronologically subsequent) wartime episodes will also be aware that Indy will succeed. Those acquainted with the life of Charles de Gaulle would also be aware that he will be recaptured.

Two episodes from the second season ("Somme, Early August 1916" and "Germany, Mid-August 1916", first broadcast respectively on 28th September and 5th October 1992), later re-edited into a single TV movie.

August 1916: After experiencing heavy fighting in Flanders, Indy -- serving in the Belgian Army as "Henri Defense" -- is left in command of his unit after all of the officers and sergeants are killed. The unit is assigned to a French company and thrown into the thick of the Battle of the Somme, being ordered to attack a heavily-defended German position. During a brief leave, Indy meets two soldier-poets whose words encapsulate the plight of the soldier in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Back at the frontline, Indy is captured by the Germans -- after which he quickly gains a reputation as an escape artist, resulting in him being sent to a maximum-security prison where he encounters a future French leader.

* ShoutOut: The first POW camp, and the attempt by the prisoners to tunnel out, may put viewers in mind of ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', while Dusterstadt may remind viewers of ''Series/{{Colditz}} ''. Although POW camps in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII are more familiar to modern viewers than the ones from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the former were very much modelled on the latter (from which many escape attempts were made). In Australia, this episode was actually broadcast under the title ''Young Indiana Jones and the Great Escape''.

* CallForward: This isn't the last time a Jones is [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade held prisoner in, and escapes from, a German castle]].

* GreatEscape: After being taken prisoner, Indy gets involved in more than one prison break. The first sees him recaptured and sent to a maximum-security prison -- from which he plans to escape, and eventually succeeds.

* PlayingPossum: A variant; Indy and de Gaulle escape from Dusterstadt by removing the bodies of Yuri and Leonid from their coffins and ''taking their places''. Which works, until the Germans decide that rather than bury them (a job usually left to the British orderlies, who are of course in on the plan), they're going to cremate them instead.

* PlayingPossum: A variant; Indy and de Gaulle escape from Dusterstadt by removing the bodies of Yuri and Leonid from their coffins and ''taking their places''.

* GasAttack: The Germans launch one on the Belgians; one soldier, who had lost his gas mask, attempts to take one from the body of one of his dead comrades before succumbing to the effects of the gas. Immediately afterwards, gas mask-glad Germans emerge through the cloud armed with flame-throwers.

* ISurrenderSuckers: The Germans pull this trick, resulting in the death of Sergeant Giscard.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Two unproduced episodes for the abortive third season would have shown what happened to Indy's unit in Flanders prior to the events of this episode, and what happened to Indy after he escaped from Dusterstadt (he was to have been faced with a choice between returning to the USA, a neutral country at the time, or returning to the Belgian Army; he would choose the latter).

* ShoutOut: The first POW camp, and the attempt by the prisoners to tunnel out, may put viewers in mind of ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', while Dusterstadt may remind viewers of ''Series/{{Colditz}} ''. Although POW camps in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII are more familiar to modern viewers than the ones from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the former were very much modelled on the latter (from which many escape attempts were made). In Australia, this episode was broadcast under the title ''Young Indiana Jones and the Great Escape''.

* ShoutOut: The first POW camp, and the attempt by the prisoners to tunnel out, may put viewers in mind of ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', while Dusterstadt may remind viewers of ''Series/{{Colditz}} ''. Although POW camps in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII are more familiar to modern viewers than the ones from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the former were very much modelled on the latter (from which many escape attempts were made).

* MistakenForSpy: Upon arrival in Dusterstadt, Indy is quickly exposed by the other prisoners as not being the French officer [[DeadPersonImpersonation he's been posing as]]. Their first thought is that he's been sent to spy on them by the commandant -- but de Gaulle is quick to deduce that Indy is actually American, not German.

* MistakenForSpies: Upon arrival in Dusterstadt, Indy is quickly exposed by the other prisoners as not being the French officer [[DeadPersonImpersonation he's been posing as]]. Their first thought is that he's been sent to spy on them by the commandant -- but de Gaulle is quick to deduce that Indy is actually American, not German.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Remy evidently managed to evade capture when the Germans overran the Belgians' position, although we only know this because he's in [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesAndTheDemonsOfDeception the next episode]]. How he managed to get back to the Allied lines, and whether any of the other Belgian soldiers also managed to do so (Indy and Emile being the only ones to be take prisoner), is not stated.