History Series / YoungIndianaJones

* 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 UsefulNotes/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]]

* 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}}, competing for a girl's affections with Creator/ErnestHemingway, 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.

* VampireEpisode: "Transylvania, January 1918" has Indy traveling to the eponymous region and facing off against a rogue Romanian general/nobleman named Mattias Targo, who believes himself to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, but it turns out he's an authentic vampire (probably the real Vlad Tepes himself). [[ParanormalEpisode An uncommon episode]], considering that it's the only one of the entire TV series to have supernatural elements (despite the fact that magic is known to exist in the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' universe).

* VampireEpisode: "Transylvania, January 1918" has Indy traveling to the eponymous region and facing a mad nobleman who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vlad Tepes, but it turns out he's an authentic vampire (probably the real Tepes). An uncommon episode, considering that it's the only of the entire PrequelSeries to have supernatural elements (despite the fact that magic is known to exist in the Indiana Jones universe). Also overlaps with BizarroEpisode.

* AnachronicOrder

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.

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 [[InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous 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.

** In "Hollywood Follies" while visiting a movie stage, Indy witnesses a snow scene being filmed, in which [[NoOSHACompliance they blow powdered asbestos]] as snow to the face of the actress.

** In "Hollywood Follies" while visiting a movie stage, Indy witnesses a snow scene being filmed, in which they blow powdered asbestos as snow to the face of the actress.

* PocketProtector: In the episode "Oganga".

* 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 Vlad Dracula.]]

* ParanormalEpisode: One film involves Indy and a team of spies visiting an apparently haunted Transylvanian castle and trying to find a rogue Romanian general, who is heavily implied to be some kind of {{Dracula}}-style vampire.

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 WorldWarOne, 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.

* WarIsHell: In "Spring Break Adventure" Indy writes to Ned about how he wishes he could be in the war and it's mentioned that Ned wants to see action. The series shatters Indy's idealistic perception of war throughout the series by showing the horrors of the trenches, machine guns, artillery, chemical weapons, and disease culminating in "Winds of Change" where it's shown how badly the war has broken and changed Indy and Ned.

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

** 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.
*** Of course, both films draw heavily from Literature/HeartOfDarkness, which was also set in Africa.

* AffablyEvil: The Red Baron was very much so in "Attack of the Hawkmen."

* DarkerAndEdgier: "Trenches of Hell" and "Demons of Deception", since despite the BloodlessCarnage, they show a gritty picture of [=WWI=] trench warfare.

* 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 UsefulNotes/TheRedBaron), Anthony Fokker and Creator/LeoTolstoy. Even that 6 year-old he saved from a plague-striken village in the Congo! [[note]]He is Barthelemy Boganda, the first president of the Central African Republic.[[/note]]

* CaliforniaDoubling: Yes and no. Most of the series was shot in London, South Africa, Spain, Morocco and the Czech Republic, but they still managed to send the actors to many actual locations and film more than the EstablishingShot there.

* 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 Italian opera composer Puccini) and makes mistakes like anyone else.