History Series / TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The plot of "The Phantom Train of Doom" is kicked off when Indy and Remy accidentally board a train to Moshi, Tanzania while trying to travel from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, and end up traveling in the opposite direction from their destination (Remy realizes that they're on the wrong train when they pass Mount Kilimanjaro on the right instead of on the left). In reality, Moshi and Lake Victoria are ''both'' east of Mombasa, so a train from Mombasa to Lake Victoria would travel in roughly the same direction as a train from Mombasa to Moshi. Moshi and Mount Kilimanjaro are also located roughly the same distance from Mombasa, so a train from Mombasa to Moshi probably wouldn't pass Mount Kilimanjaro at all.

* RealityEnsues: Despite taking place in the same universe as the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' films, the TV series take a much more grounded approach to history for the most part. There's only one episode which involves the supernatural (''Masks of Evil''), and sometimes Indy doesn't save the day or achieve a decisive victory.
** Indy's attempts to join the war and heroically fight against German aggression prove to be pointless. The conflict is a GrayAndGrayMorality battle that ends indecisively.
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indy spies on his Russian communist friends, as per orders from the French secret service. They find out about this and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about an upcoming massacre of a communist demonstration by Cossack soldiers. It ends badly.
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Indy might be an intelligent AdventurerArchaeologist in training, but the Peacock's Eye is an immensely valuable relic that was looted by treasure hunters centuries ago, and has traveled far ever since. Indy could spend the rest of his life following up leads and never find it. It also sours his friendship with Rémy, who invested his fortune backing Indy's hunch. Made more poignant when you realize the intent is that it is the diamond in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' that Indiana went to elaborate lengths (including losing a friend) for, only to fail to recover the item again.
** Indy tries to reign in Erich Von Stroheim in ''Hollywood Follies'', but finds the film crew turning against him, and the director fully capable of leaving him in the dust. The fact he just walks in and tries to order people around works about as well as you'd expect.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In "TheTreasure of the Peacock's Eye", a young woman tells off a wealthy (crooked) man that "money doesn't excuse bad manners" and walks off in anger.

--->'''Von Richthofen''': ''(Snaps fingers)'' [[Music/TheBeatles Sergeant! Pepper!]]

* RuthlessModernPirates: In "The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye", while Indy and his friend Rémy are traveling on a cruise ship through Southeast Asia in 1919, the ship gets attacked and robbed by Chinese pirates. The pirates' leader is a woman who was disguised as a singer, entertaining the passengers until her men boarded the ship.

** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Indy might be an intelligent AdventurerArchaeologist in training, but the Peacock's Eye is an immensely valuable relic that was looted by treasure hunters centuries ago, and has traveled far ever since. Indy could spend the rest of his life following up leads and never find it. It also sours his friendship with Rémy, who invested his fortune backing Indy's hunch.
*** Made more poignant when you realize the intent is that it is the diamond in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' that Indiana went to elaborate lengths (including losing a friend) for, only to fail to recover the item again.

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Indiana Jones meets countless celebrities of his day. Some people who were already famous around the time he met him, others would become celebrities in later decades. Among them T.E. Lawrence (aka ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''), 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 TheRedBaron), 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]]

** In "Princteon, 1919" and "Chicago, 1920", Indy encounters some racist hostility for being a white guy trying to befriend black people.

** Indy's attempts to join the war and heroically fight against German aggression prove to be pointless. The conflict is a GrayAndGrayMorality battle that ends indecisively. Indeed, it sets up the rise to power of his classical archenemies.

** Indy's attempts to join the war and heroically fight against German aggression prove to be pointless. The conflict is a GrayAndGrayMorality battle that ends indecisively. Indeed, [[FromBadToWorse it sets up the rise to power of]] [[ThoseWackyNazis his classical archenemies]].
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indy spies on his Russian communist friends, as per orders from the French secret service. They find out about this and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about an upcoming massacre of a communist demonstration by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly]].

** Indy tries to reign in [[AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim]] in ''Hollywood Follies'', but finds the film crew turning against him, and the director fully capable of leaving him in the dust. The fact he just walks in and tries to order people around works about as well as you'd expect.

* RuthlessModernPirates: In "The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye", while Indy and his friend Rémy are traveling on a cruise ship through Southeast Asia in 1919, the ship gets attacked and robbed by Chinese pirates. The pirates' leader is a [[PirateGirl woman]] who was disguised as a singer, entertaining the passengers until her men boarded the ship.

* ToiletPaperSubstitute: In "The Phantom Train of Doom", German troops use old memos and other documents, actual toilet paper being virtually impossible to acquire in World War I East Africa. Knowing this, Indy and his comrades raid a German latrine for intelligence.

* BlackBestFriend:
** Sgt. Barthelemy to Indy, in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
** Paul Robeson in "Winds of Change".

* {{Irony}}: The series' original airings ended with a Creator/{{Paramount}} Television logo that had a jingle that sounded like the theme to fellow Lucasfilm property ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]]''.
** It's actually a re-arrangement of "Paramount on Parade".
** During the time this series aired, Paramount owned the rights to ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek]]''. All episodes of ''Star Trek'' series aired between 1987-2005 ended with a logo that used this jingle.

* GrailInTheGarbage: ''Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom'' depicts German troops in Africa using their old documents as field expedient toilet paper, which the British exploit to gain valuable intelligence. Zigzagged, however, as the Germans are well aware of their "toilet paper's" usefulness to enemy spies, this is simply a convenient means of disposal that also alleviates a supply problem.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Played with in ''Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom.'' Indy is decidedly nonplussed when ordered to risk his life behind enemy lines for "toilet paper"... until he learns that lacking real toilet paper, the Germans have resorted to using old documents from which he and his companions can gain valuable intelligence.

* GirlOfTheWeek: To the point where he ends up dating ''three'' girls at once, and gets his face shoved in a cake for his troubles.

* BreakoutCharacter: The older Flanery Indy proved to be much more popular than the younger Carrier Indy, to the point where most people know only his era of the series. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7doRociGrXE This promo]] that was included with the VHS boxset of the original trilogy almost exclusively focuses on the Flanery episodes. It included some footage from the Carrier episodes showing the historical characters encountered by Indy, but doesn't include any shots of Carrier as Indy (except briefly near the beginning where he is shown silhouetted against the sunset).

* BreakoutCharacter: The older Flanery Indy proved to be much more popular than the younger Carrier Indy, to the point where most people know only his era of the series. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7doRociGrXE&t=184s This promo]] that was included with the VHS boxset of the original trilogy almost exclusively focuses on the Flanery episodes. It included some footage from the Carrier episodes showing the historical characters encountered by Indy, but doesn't include any shots of Carrier as Indy (except briefly near the beginning where he is shown silhouetted against the sunset).

* BreakoutCharacter: The older Flanery Indy proved to be much more popular than the younger Carrier Indy, to the point where most people know only his era of the series. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7doRociGrXE&t=184s This promo] that was included with the VHS boxset of the original trilogy almost exclusively focuses on the Flanery episodes. It included some footage from the Carrier episodes showing the historical characters encountered by Indy, but doesn't include any shots of Carrier as Indy (except briefly near the beginning where he is shown silhouetted against the sunset).

* BreakoutCharacter: The older Flanery Indy proved to be much more popular than the younger Carrier Indy, to the point where most people know only his era of the series.

* SpinoffBabies: Of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', showing underage Indy and a younger version of his father (plus characters only mentioned in the film, such as Indy's mother and childhood dog). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Had the third season been filmed]], we'd also have been treated to the younger version of Belloq and the final onscreen apparition of Abner Ravenwood.

* SpinoffBabies: Of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', showing underage Indy and a younger version of his father (plus characters only mentioned in the film, such as Indy's mother and childhood dog). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Had the third season been filmed]], we'd also been treated to the younger version of Belloq and the final onscreen apparition of Abner Ravenwood.

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The Series

* {{Omniglot}}: Following the advice of T.E. Lawrence, 8 years-old Indy takes care of learning the local language of every country the family visits during their world tour. At 16 he bets the daughter of a diplomat that he can speak more languages than her, [[SubvertedTrope but loses because he can't speak Welsh]]. Later in the series he makes the same bet with an American Intelligence officer, and forces a draw by using sign language.

** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Despite being an intelligent AdventurerArchaeologist in training, the Peacock's Eye is an immensely valuable relic that was looted by treasure hunters centuries ago, and has traveled far ever since. Indy could spend the rest of his life following up leads and never find it. It also sours his friendship with Rémy, who invested his fortune backing Indy's hunch.

** "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life". While Indy and Remy travel with an army unit from the Belgian Congo across the African frontier, many of their men become extremely ill and die, including [[spoiler:Barthelemy]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Indy and Remy.

* LineOfSightAlias: When joining the Belgian Army underage under an assumed name ("Henri Defense", from "Defense de Fumer/No Smoking"). Remy 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.

** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Despite being an intelligent AdventurerArchaeologist in training, the Peacock's Eye is an immensely valuable relic that was looted by treasure hunters centuries ago, and has traveled far ever since. Indy could spend the rest of his life following up leads and never find it. It also sours his friendship with Remy, who invested his fortune backing Indy's hunch.

* RuthlessModernPirates: In "The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye", while Indy and his friend Remy are traveling on a cruise ship through Southeast Asia in 1919, the ship gets attacked and robbed by Chinese pirates. The pirates' leader is a [[PirateGirl woman]] who was disguised as a singer, entertaining the passengers until her men boarded the ship.

* LineOfSightName: When joining the Belgian Army underage under an assumed name. Remy 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.

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