History Series / TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles

It originally aired from 1992 to 1993, taking the form of hour-long episodes, as ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles''. The series principally showcased Indy at the ages of 9-10 (as played by Corey Carrier) and 16-up (as played by Sean Patrick Flanery). The Carrier episodes focus on Indy touring the globe alongside his parents as part of a world lecture tour given by his father, a noted medieval scholar. The Flanery episodes primarily deal with Indy's service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, in just about every theater you can think of. In each episode, Indy would meet some famous person from the early 20th century, and learn some sort of moral lesson. Yes, Lucas very openly envisioned the series as {{edutainment|show}}.

* {{Bandito}}: "Mexico, March 1916".

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron to paint his plane red, helping Lawrence of Arabia take Jerusalem, killing Literature/{{Dracula}}, competing for a girl's affections with Creator/ErnestHemingway and hunting UsefulNotes/AlCapone are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}...

* GirlOfTheWeek: To the point where he ends up dating ''three'' girls at once, and gets his face shoved in a cake for his troubles. Another episode sees him in a relationship with none other than UsefulNotes/MataHari.

* HalloweenEpisode: Though not aired during the initial series run, "Transylvania, January 1918" seems to have been intended as one with its bookends of Old Indy with trick-or-treaters, supernatural plot, and the villain of the episode being [[spoiler:a reincarnated {{UsefulNotes/Vlad|TheImpaler}} {{Dracula}}.]]

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Indiana Jones meets countless celebrities of his day. Some people who were already famous around the time he met him, others [[YoungFutureFamousPeople would become celebrities in later decades]]. Among them UsefulNotes/TELawrence, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, Joseph Joffre, Albert Schweitzer, Emperor Karl of Austria, UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, UsefulNotes/MataHari, Creator/PabloPicasso, Sidney Bechet, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, Music/GeorgeGershwin, Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary, UsefulNotes/CarlJung, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, Alfred Adler, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Creator/FranzKafka, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Sean O'Casey, Creator/NormanRockwell, Krishnamurti, Annie Besant, Mustafa Ataturk, Music/GiacomoPuccini, Creator/ErichVonStroheim, Creator/JohnFord, Manfred von Richthofen (aka Red Baron), Anthony Fokker and Creator/LeoTolstoy. Even that little boy he saved from a smallpox-stricken village in Africa [[note]] in the Old Indy bookend, he is stated to have been a young Barthelemy Boganda, the first President of the Central African Republic [[/note]]!

* RankUp: Indy starts out in the Belgian Army as a corporal, but he and Rémy are both promoted to lieutenant as a perk after being transferred to East Africa, and Indy is later promoted to captain after helping capture a German machine gun nest in a battle in Kenya.

A notable proportion of Indy fans, regardless of their opinions of the series as a whole, refuse to accept the ''Chronicles'' FramingDevice, which depicts Indy as a one-eyed, possibly-senile nonagenarian (played by George Hall), pottering around suburbia and boring people with reminisces of his GloryDays. It may or may not be significant that the Old Indy sequences were the first thing to be thrown out of the ''Adventures'' release, although his hand can be glimpsed closing Indy's diary at the end of the closing titles. One special feature-length broadcast of the original series, however, featured Creator/HarrisonFord playing a late middle-aged Indy in its framing device.

** In "Peking, March 1910", Miss Seymour pronounces the name of the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Qin Dynasty]] (pronounced "Chin") as "Quin", and a Chinese guide promptly corrects her. This implies she was mispronouncing the Pinyin transcription, but the Pinyin romanization wasn't developed until the 1950s and took a few more decades before it became the standard. In 1910 the Wade-Giles romanization was the most commonly used, which transcribed the name as "Ch'in".

* AffablyEvil: Embodied by several German officers who Indy encounters.

** In "Peking, March 1910", Miss Seymour pronounces the name of the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Qin Dynasty]] (pronounced "Chin") as "Quin", and a Chinese guide promptly corrects her. This implies she was mispronouncing the Pinyin transcription, but the Pinyin romanization wasn't developed until the 1950s and took a few more decades before it became the standard. In 1908 the Wade-Giles romanization was the most commonly used, which transcribed the name as "Ch'in".

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron to paint his plane red, helping Lawrence of Arabia take Jerusalem, killing Literature/{{Dracula}}, competing for a girl's affections with Creator/ErnestHemingway and hunting UsefulNotes/AlCapone are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it ''was'' a historical {{edutainment show}}...

** During the "Peking, March 1910" episode, Miss Seymour mistakenly pronounces the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Qin Dynasty]] (pronounced "Chin") as the "Quin Dynasty", to which a Chinese guide promptly corrects her. This scene would imply that Miss Seymour was mispronouncing the Pinyin transcription of the name; in actuality, the Pinyin transcription of Chinese was not developed until the 1950s, and even then it took a few more decades before it became the universally accepted transcription in the west. At the time of the episode, the Wade-Giles transcription was the most commonly used romanization of Chinese, and transcribed the Chinese name of the first imperial dynasty as "Ch'in"; thus, Miss Seymour would have had no trouble pronouncing its name.

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Indiana Jones meets countless celebrities of his day. Some people who were already famous around the time he met him, others [[YoungFutureFamousPeople would become celebrities in later decades]]. Among them UsefulNotes/TELawrence, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, Joseph Joffre, Albert Schweitzer, Karl I of Austria, UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, UsefulNotes/MataHari, Creator/PabloPicasso, Sidney Bechet, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, Music/GeorgeGershwin, Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary, UsefulNotes/CarlJung, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, Alfred Adler, Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Creator/FranzKafka, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Sean O'Casey, Creator/NormanRockwell, Krishnamurti, Annie Besant, Mustafa Ataturk, Music/GiacomoPuccini, Creator/ErichVonStroheim, Creator/JohnFord, Manfred von Richthofen (aka Red Baron), Anthony Fokker and Creator/LeoTolstoy. Even that 6-year-old boy he saved from a smallpox-stricken village in Africa! [[note]]He is Barthelemy Boganda, the first President of the Central African Republic.[[/note]]

* LineOfSightAlias: When joining the Belgian Army underage under an assumed name ("Henri Défense", from "Défense de Fumer/No Smoking"). Rémy points out how dumb this is and explains that he didn't even have to do it in the first place as the Belgian Army at the time (1916) accepted almost any able-bodied volunteer regardless of age or nationality.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Done in the name of RuleOfCool, and to allow for a greater variety of stories. Indy's service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI sees him fighting in the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the African theatre, ''and'' the Palestine Campaign--and he serves as a soldier, a motorcycle courier, an aerial reconnaissance photographer and a spy (in that order). There weren't many real World War I veterans who served in that many roles.

* ReCut: In the original ''Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'', each show began and ended with short scenes featuring a 93-year-old Indy (with an EyepatchOfPower) circa 1992. He'd narrate adventures from his youth--the titular "Young Indy" stories, here told in flashback--to basically anyone who'd bother to listen (and some who didn't). However, in the later ''Adventures'' re-edits, the Old Indy segments were edited out entirely. Instead, newly (and often, poorly) shot linking footage, starring the other original members of the Young Indy cast (that is to say, the characters from the around-WWI era) was used to bridge the gaps. The recut also removed Old Indy's daughter and grandchildren, leaving their canonical existence uncertain (especially in the light of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', which gives Indy a son but as yet no daughter).

** Manfred von Richthofen was very much so in "Attack of the Hawkmen". After shooting down the plane Indy was riding in and taking him prisoner, Richtofen invites him to have a nice lunch together.

** [[Creator/StratemeyerSyndicate Edward Stratemeyer]] didn't have a daughter named [[Literature/NancyDrew Nancy]]; his daughters were named Edna and Harriet.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron to paint his plane red, helping Lawrence of Arabia take Jerusalem, killing Literature/{{Dracula}}, competing for a girl's affections with Creator/ErnestHemingway and hunting UsefulNotes/AlCapone are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}...

* ADayInTheLimelight: One episode focusing on Indy and his father (Travels With Father, especially the second half), and two focusing on Indy and his mother (the second halves of both Perils of Cupid and Journey of Radience).

* IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The... Eye... of the Peacock! THE EYE... OF THE PEACOCK!! [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], however, in that Indy and Rémy have to find the map on the guy's corpse rather than him ''giving'' it to them.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Done in the name of RuleOfCool, and to allow for a greater variety of stories. Indy's service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI sees him fighting in the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the African theatre, ''and'' the Palestine Campaign--and he serves as a soldier, a motorcycle courier, a fighter pilot, and a spy (in that order). There weren't many real World War I veterans who served in that many roles.

* GreenAesop: "British East Africa, September 1909", where Indy learns the importance of sustainable hunting after meeting former President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, who's trying to find a rare fringe-eared oryx so that he can shoot it and display its taxidermized body in a museum. While Indy is unable to dissuade Roosevelt from killing the oryx, he convinces him to leave most of its herd alive so that the local population will be able to repopulate. He also proves that the oryx only became a rare animal because it depends on a local plant that was nearly wiped out by human development--demonstrating that all living things are connected.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Indy and Rémy.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Indy meets many people who were already famous during his lifetime or would be become more famous in later decades.

* LineOfSightAlias: When joining the Belgian Army underage under an assumed name ("Henri Défense", from "Défense de Fumer/No Smoking"). Rémy points out how dumb this is and explains that he didn't even have to do it in the first place as the Belgian army at the time accepted almost any able-bodied volunteer regardless of age or nationality.

* NomDeGuerre: In the war epsiodes, Indy is referred to by the name of "Henri Defense" -- this being the name he used when he signed up with the Belgian Army in 1916, even though it was not necessary for him to use an alias as the Belgians were by that point not fussed about where their recruits came from.

* NomDeGuerre: In the war epsiodes, Indy is referred to by the name of Henri

A notable proportion of Indy fans, regardless of their opinions of the series as a whole, refuse to accept the ''Chronicles'' FramingDevice, which depicts Indy as a one-eyed, possibly-senile nonagenarian (played by George Hall), pottering around suburbia and boring people with reminisces of his GloryDays. It may or may not be significant that the Old Indy sequences were the first thing to be thrown out of the ''Adventures'' release, although his hand can be glimpsed closing Indy's diary at the end of the closing titles. One special feature-length broadcast of the original series, however, featured Creator/HarrisonFord playing a late middle-aged Indy in its framing device; this scene is itself problematic as it contradicts some of what was seen more than a decade later when Ford next played the role in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.

* AffablyEvil:

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Sometimes in play, what with the show's propensity to have Indy interact with real people and bear witness to (or get involved in) real events. There's even a disclaimer to this effect that appears in the closing credits:

* CallForward: The Peacock's Eye is the diamond which Indiana Jones is seeking in ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. It adds a bit more to his treasure hunting that not only was he seeking something he'd been after for decades but lost two friends over.

** In the first episode, Indy and Miss Seymour visit the pyramids of Giza and wind up stranded in the Sahara after their guides abandon them. But Giza isn't a remote area in the middle of the Sahara--it's a heavily populated suburb of Cairo. "Stranding" someone in Giza is akin to stranding someone in Long Island.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Often in play, to the point where the following message appeared in the closing credits:

* ArtisticLicenseHistory:

* CassandraGambit: "Palestine, October 1917": Indy and his Arab cohort stage an elaborate con in Ottoman-occupied Beersheba whereby they "reveal" that 50,000 Allied troops are about to attack, which the German liaison officer, Schiller, scornfully dismisses as an elaborate illusion; consequently, the Turks are less than fully prepared when said 50,000 men crash into their defenses. Lampshaded by the more savvy Turkish commander, Colonel Bey:
-->'''Bey:''' An old proverb came to mind: "A skillful liar will tell his enemy the truth, and convince him it's a lie."