History Series / TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles

* 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.
** In "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life", Indy miraculously survives a gunshot wound in a battle in Kenya after the bullet strikes a locket on his necklace. Said locket is the one that Princess Sophie gave him as a child in "Vienna, November 1908".

* 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.

* TranslationConvention: For simplicity's sake, most of the episodes set in Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI feature the actors speaking English, but with the characters clearly meant to be speaking French or German. For example: when Indy meets UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle in "Germany, Mid-August 1916", De Gaulle initially suspects him of being a German spy because he doesn't speak French well enough to be a native speaker.

* WorthyOpponent: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East Africa episodes.

* LooseCanon: In relation to the movies; WordOfGod described the Creator/HarrisonFord films as InUniverse adaptations of the actual Henry Walton Jones Jr's life, and the series was to tell the ''real'' history. References to the show did show up in further ''Indiana Jones'' media, as when Indy talked about meeting Pancho Villa in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''

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

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: 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.

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

** Part of the "Prague, August 1917" episode involves Indy (who's just trying to get a phone installed so he can take an urgent call) struggling with insane bureaucracy and even being arrested, tried and jailed for no very good reason. [[note]]Fortunately he manages to secure his release by signing a form which states that his arrest was due to a bureaucratic error.[[/note]]This is a massive ShoutOut to Creator/FranzKafka's ''The Trial'' - not surprising, since Kafka later turns up as a character - but very much PlayedForLaughs, as is the entire episode.
** In the same episode Indy's espionage contact is [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther an incompetent buffoon with a strange accent... who's named Clouseau]].

** The first half of the Congo storyline (aka ''Oganga, The Giver And Taker Of Life'') has '''a lot''' of parallels both to ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'' and ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', with Indy's regiment going through a long trek through the jungle and down the Congo river that increasingly threatens everyone's sanity. Both films draw heavily from ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', which was also set in Africa.
** "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" was pretty clearly inspired (at least in part) by ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''. The titular {{Macguffin}} was supposedly once part of a priceless gold statue of a bird with diamond eyes, and the villains plan to sell it to a mysterious figure referred to as "The Fat Man". And just like in that film, [[spoiler:it ultimately turns out that the {{Macguffin}} [[AllForNothing wasn't really the priceless treasure that the characters thought it was]]]].

* 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).

* TranslationConvention: Several instances of dialogue that's obviously made in French or German. One example is when Indy meets UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle and the latter suspects him of being a German spy, later when his suspicions are lifted he says that he has met many foreigners who spoke French fluently but not perfectly, which was the reason he initially suspected Indy.

** TheRedBaron (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.

* 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 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]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As this is a Hollywood production after all, the show sometimes bent historical truth for entertainment value.

* PlayingGertrude: Henry Sr. is in his mid-thirties during his earliest scenes, in "Florence, 1908", while he is played by then 26-year-old Creator/LloydOwen (the same age Flanery was in several episodes where he played the teenage Indy).

* {{Omniglot}}: Following the advice of T.E. Lawrence, 8-year-old Indy takes care of learning the local language of every country the family visits during their world tour. At 16 he engages in a duel of languages with the daughter of a diplomat, but loses because he can't speak Welsh. Later in the series he has a similar exchange with an American Intelligence officer, and forces a draw by using sign language.

* PlayingGertrude: Henry Sr. is in his mid-thirties during his earliest scenes, in "Florence, 1908", while he is played by then 26-year-old Creator/LloydOwen (the sama age Flanery was in several episodes where he played the teenage Indy).

* PlayingGertrude: Henry Sr. is in his mid-thirties during his earliest scenes, in "Florence, 1908", while he is played by then 26-year-old Creator/LloydOwen.

* PlayingGertrude: Henry Sr. is in his mid-thirties during his earliest scenes, in ""Florence, 1908", while he is played by then 26-year old Creator/LloydOwen.

* {{Omniglot}}: Following the advice of T.E. Lawrence, 8-year-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, 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.

* {{Omniglot}}: Following the advice of T.E. Lawrence, 8-year-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.

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

** Indiana Jones' best friend during his days in the military is a Belgian named Rémy. This could be a shout-out to ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' creator Creator/{{Herge}}, whose real name was Georges Remi (though he is not intended to be Hergé himself at a young age, because the real life Hergé was just a teenager during World War One). Steven Spielberg became a fan of ''Tintin'' after people told him ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' had the same atmosphere as the ''Tintin'' comics. He had never heard of it, bought an album and was immediately hooked.