History Series / TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles

** In the first episode, the Joneses visit the pyramids of Giza and are stranded there after their guides abandon them. The trouble is that Giza is a suburb of Cairo, making it akin to stranding someone in Long Island.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The plot of "The Phantom Train of Doom" is kicked off when Indy and Rémy accidentally board a train to Moshi, Tanzania while trying to travel from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, and end up hopelessly lost in the middle of the savanna. In reality, Moshi and Lake Victoria are ''both'' west of Mombasa, and Moshi is about halfway between Mombasa and Lake Victoria--so a train from Mombasa to Moshi would travel in roughly the same direction as a train from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, and their initial mistake shouldn't have gotten them ''that'' lost. They also somehow end up passing Mount Kilimanjaro on the way to Moshi, even though Moshi and Mount Kilimanjaro are roughly the same distance from Mombasa.[[note]] Moshi is, in fact, the capital of the Kilimanjaro Region, so Mount Kilimanjaro is visible from most areas in the municipality.[[/note]]
** In the first episode the Joneses visit the pyramids of Giza and are stranded there after their guides abandon them. The trouble is that Giza is a suburb of Cairo, making it akin to stranding someone in Long Island.

* WheresTheKaboom: Happens twice in "The Phantom Train of Doom": first when the bombs' timers fail (forcing the team to hijack the titular train in order to blow it up), then when they fail to manually trigger the bombs thanks to Indy carelessly letting [[DemolitionsExpert Big Mac]]'s detonator caps get wet. [[GreatWhiteHunter Selous]] is forced to improvise a Plan B, and manages to blow up the train by [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting the rigged bomb from a distance with his hunting rifle]].

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Narendra Singh, the treasonous Indian soldier in "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye". He's killed in the first few minutes of the story, but the entire plot is kicked off when Indy and Rémy find the map to the titular diamond in his pocket.

* WheresTheKaboom: Happens in "The Phantom Train of Doom": Indy carelessly lets [[DemolitionsExpert Big Mac]]'s detonator caps get wet, resulting in the group failing to blow up the titular German artillery train as they planned. [[GreatWhiteHunter Selous]] is forced to improvise a Plan B, and manages to blow up the train by [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting the rigged bomb from a distance with his hunting rifle]].

* 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.

* SceneryPorn: The series loves to linger nostalgically on famous landmarks as establishing shots for the country of the week Indy is adventuring in. The series was intended to be semi-educational.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In "The Treasure 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.

* PocketProtector: In the episode "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".

* MusicalEpisode: Both "Mystery of the Blues" and "The Scandal of 1920"

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: 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.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Zyke, the one-eyed thief from "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye", is the primary antagonist for the first half of the story. [[spoiler:He abruptly dies at the halfway point after being betrayed by one of his accomplices.]]

* GenreShift: Taking an action film franchise and using it to create an edutainment series rankled a few people.

* IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The... Eye... of the Peacock! THE EYE... OF THE PEACOCK!!

* 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 hopelessly lost in the middle of the savanna. In reality, Moshi and Lake Victoria are ''both'' west of Mombasa, and Moshi is about halfway between Mombasa and Lake Victoria--so a train from Mombasa to Moshi would travel in roughly the same direction as a train from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, and their initial mistake shouldn't have gotten them ''that'' lost. They also somehow end up passing Mount Kilimanjaro on the way to Moshi, even though Moshi and Mount Kilimanjaro are roughly the same distance from Mombasa.[[note]] Moshi is, in fact, the capital of the Kilimanjaro Region, so Mount Kilimanjaro is visible from most areas in the municipality.[[/note]]

** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', the originally warm and joyful Rémy becomes chilly and unpleasant as he becomes progressively more obsessed with finding the titular treasure. Indy, meanwhile, gradually comes to realize that he cares more about learning about the past than about looking for treasure. This finally leads to the two friends breaking up, and Indy deciding to return home.
* ContinuityNod: 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.

** At the end of "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye", Indy and Remy decide to part ways after Indy decides that he doesn't want to waste his life on a fruitless quest for the titular diamond, while Remy refuses to give up looking for it. This is incredibly ironic if you know that Indy is the one who ultimately finds the diamond: the Peacock's Eye is the diamond from the opening of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''

* WhamEpisode: "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" features both [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal the death of Miss Seymour]]]] and [[spoiler:Indy and Remy's friendship ending]]. Indy is never quite the same after either event.

** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', the originally warm and joyful Rémy becomes chilly and unpleasant as he obsesses with finding the title treasure. This finally leads to the two friends breaking up and Indy deciding to return home.

* {{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''. 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.

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 [[EdutainmentShow edutainment]].

* AnachronicOrder: The episodes were initially broadcast in anachronic order. For the home video release, they were re-edited and put in chronological order.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: For the most part the series was grounded entirely in the real world, sometimes during real-life events from history, with none of the supernatural shenanigans that appear in the movies... Except for one episode where Indy fights Dracula.

-->'''Bey''': An old proverb came to mind: "A skillful liar will tell his enemy the truth, and convince him it's a lie."

* ForeignCorrespondent
* FramingDevice

* BreakoutCharacter: The older Flannery 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 at the 24 second mark when he is shown silhouetted against the sunset).

* 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 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 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]]

* 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 Moshi would travel in roughly the same direction as a train from Mombasa to Lake Victoria. 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.[[note]] Moshi is, in fact, the capital of the Kilimanjaro Region, so Mount Kilimanjaro is visible from most areas in the municipality.[[/note]]

* 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 at the 24 second mark when he is shown silhouetted against the sunset).