History Series / YoungIndianaJones

* GreatWhiteHunter: TheodoreRoosevelt is portrayed this way in an episode set in Kenya in 1909. He kills dozens of rare animals in order to have them shipped back to America so that they can be displayed in museums, where ordinary people can come to be educated about them. Indiana eventually gets him to see the contradiction of someone who has such high regard for animals shooting so many of them.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Both Indy and his father take this opinion of Indy's mother after her death. Notable because one episode is all about showing her as a regular person who is tried and tempted (notably, with cheating on Henry Sr. with a handsome and charming composer) and makes mistakes like anyone else.

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** Watch the Young Indy series and see him slowly grow more and more cynical and wily, especially during his activities during WWI.
*** The first time he shoots someone ever (during the Mexican Revolution) he actually ''apologizes'' afterward.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat[=/=]VastBureaucracy: In "Prague, August 1917" Indy encounters these in Austro-Hungarian Bohemia, and is driven mad with frustration (Author/FranzKafka has a small role there).
** Although the bureaucrat in charge of dealing with bureuacratic errors is actually quite helpful - his department even issues simpler forms.

* 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''. An early script for [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the fourth film]] also gave Indy a daughter, but Spielberg decided against it as he felt it was too similar to [[Franchise/JurassicPark Ian Malcolm's]] situation in ''The Lost World''. The daughter thus became a son as seen in the final film.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat[=/=]VastBureaucracy: In "Prague, August 1917" Indy encounters these in Czechoslovakia, and is driven mad with frustration.

** There's a throwaway gag in "Attack of the Hawkmen" where Indy, after being captured, has been invited to dinner by Baron von Richtoven:
--->'''Von Richtoven''': ''(Snaps fingers)'' [[Music/TheBeatles Sergeant! Pepper!]]

* SpinoffBabies
* StockFootage
* TactfulTranslation: While fighting in the Mexican revolution, Indy is tasked with translating the {{Title Card}}s of captured American silent films and newsreels. When the reel turns to the revolution from an American perspective, Indy attempts to play off the footage as respectful to Pancho Villa, but fails: the revolutionaries shoot up the theater.

* YouLookFamiliar:
** Paul Freeman (Belloq!) as real-life explorer Frederick Selous in two episodes.
** Actors would often play multiple roles in the series; sometimes this could get a little confusing. The most iconic example is Vic Tablian, who already had two different roles in ''Raiders'' (Barranca and the Monkey Man). Here he plays villain Demetrios in the two-parter "The Curse of the Jackal" and an Armenian saboteur in "Istanbul, September 1918".

* TactfulTranslation: While fighting in the Mexican revolution, Indy is tasked with translating the title cards of captured American silent films and newsreels. When the reel turns to the revolution from an American perspective, Indy attempts to play off the footage as respectful to Pancho Villa, but fails: the revolutionaries shoot up the theater.

* LoveTriangle: Between Indy, a young Creator/ErnestHemingway, and a beautiful Italian girl. In the end [[spoiler: the girl marries her childhood friend]].

** "Adventures in the Secret Service" ends with Indy failing to warn his Bolshevik friend activists that the Czarist army is waiting for them with guns ready, as a result one of his friends is killed.

* PlanningWithProps: One of the WWI episodes used this to explain the complicated tangle of alliances and old grudges that set off the war. One notable segment had Austria (salt shaker) threatening Serbia (plate of meatballs) depicted by salting and eating the meatballs.

** "Adventures in the Secret Service" ends with Indy failing to warn his Bolshevik friends activist that the Czarist army is waiting for them with guns ready, as a result one of his friends is killed.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Befriending T.E. Lawrence, drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring ''the'' UsefulNotes/TheRedBaron to paint his plane red, helping Lawrence of Arabia take Jerusalem, killing Literature/{{Dracula}}, and hunting UsefulNotes/AlCapone: just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Henry Jones Junior's life. If he or she's famous in the 20th century, Indy has probably met, befriended, fought, fallen in love with, killed or slept with that person. Ah, the life of a historical edutainment hero.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatIsRight:

* DesignatedVillain: The Germans (in this case UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany) reprise their original films' role as antagonists. Justified as the stories are set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI where the Germans fought against the Allies.

* CardCarryingVillain: The Germans (in this case UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany) reprise their original films' role as antagonists. Justified as the stories are set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI where the Germans fought against the Allies.

* TheCastShowoff: One episode features a brief snippet of Indy singing in the bathtub as he cleans up for a date. Another is about him learning to play soprano sax in Chicago at the height of the Blues craze. Sean Patrick Flannery is an accomplished musician, as he proves here.

* RecycledTheSeries

* TactfulTranslation: While fighting in the Mexican revolution, Indy is tasked with translating the title cards of captured American silent films and newsreels. When the reel turns to the revolution from an American perspective, Indy attempts to play off the footage as respectful to Sancho Panza, but fails: the revolutionaries shoot up the theater.

A television series featuring the adventures of the silver-screen archaeologist Franchise/IndianaJones in his childhood and teen years, wherein he had a [[BeenThereShapedHistory remarkable tendency]] to keep encountering famous people and events. The series was conceived and produced by the films' co-creator Creator/GeorgeLucas, who drafted a 70-item timeline of interesting moments in Indy's young life for writers to take story ideas from.

* MsFanservice: The legendary UsefulNotes/MaraHari, of course, in the series' big HotterAndSexier episode. Also, Creator/CatherineZetaJones has a belly-dancing scene in ''Daredevils Of The Desert''.