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->''Before the world discovered Indiana, Indiana discovered the world.''
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. The concept was inspired by the first act of the popular ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', which depicted Indiana as a teenager.
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 [[Main/EdutainmentShow edutainment]].
Notably, the show aired in an extremely AnachronicOrder, with Carrier's and Flanery's episodes often alternating. This may have hurt the series in the long run. The writers produced scripts for three seasons' worth of episodes, including some stories that would introduce more characters from the films. However, the show was cancelled after its second season, before those episodes could be shot. Nonetheless, four additional TV movies were later broadcast from 1994 to 1996, which incorporated some material from the various unproduced scripts (though not from the ones which featured more of the films' characters, sadly).
George Lucas prided ''Young Indy'' on managing a film-level quality production on a television budget, helped by revolutions in digital technology, and he has said that the show was partly a test to see how far he could take the later ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels. Also like ''Star Wars'', the series was subject to subsequent [[ReCut furious re-editing by Lucas]], the new cuts first showing up during re-airings in the late 90s.
This re-cut version, with new footage added and other parts removed, is the only one currently available on DVD: it's known as ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones''. The ''Adventures'' combines the original ''Chronicles'' episodes into two-hour tele-movies, two shows per film (often in a quite different, and much more strictly chronological, order than in the original airings). Again, some of the newly shot material was based on the unfilmed ''Chronicles'' scripts. In keeping with the show's semi-educational nature the [=DVDs=] also feature numerous well-researched half-hour documentaries, which place the historical personages and events of the various episodes in context.
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. One special feature-length broadcast of the original series, however, featured Creator/HarrisonFord playing a late middle-aged Indy in its framing device; this scene is itself problematic as it contradicts some of what was seen more than a decade later when Ford next played the role in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
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!!''Young Indiana Jones'' provides examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: One episode focusing on Indy and his father (Travels With Father, especially the second half), and two focusing on Indy and his mother (the second halves of both Perils of Cupid and Journey of Radience).
* AnachronicOrder: The episodes were initially broadcast in anachronic order. For the home video release, they were re-edited and put in chronological order.
* AffablyEvil:
** 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.
** Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was also quite affable in "Phantom Train of Doom". Even while actively trying to evade capture by the Allied forces, Lettow calmly discusses military tactics with Indy; and even after finally being defeated, he gifts Indy with a compass to show no hard feelings.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As this is a Hollywood production after all, the show sometimes bent historical truth for entertainment value.
* {{Bandito}}: "Mexico, March 1916"
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}...
* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in this series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often, Indy DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save some of his friends.
* BlackBestFriend:
** Sgt. Barthelemy to Indy, in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
** Paul Robeson in "Winds of Change".
* 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.
* BreatherEpisode: "Barcelona: May 1917", in which Indy meets a bunch of bumbling international spies (led by Creator/MontyPython's Terry Jones) and "Prague: August 1917", in which Indy embarks on a quest to install a telephone in his room...and meets Creator/FranzKafka. The two are combined in the ''Adventures'' version as "Espionage Escapades".
* CharacterDevelopment:
** 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.
** Young Indy has to learn his famous IndyPloy the hard way, as when he does try to plan things out they never go as he intends.
** 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.
* 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.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Some WWI episodes such as "Trenches of Hell" and "Demons of Deception", despite the BloodlessCarnage, still show a gritty picture of trench warfare.
** "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]].
* DeadlyGas[=/=]FogOfDoom: Indy witnesses poison gas attacks while serving in France. In at least one instance, the terror is amplified when [[KillItWithFire flamethrower teams]] emerge from the gas cloud.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** In "Tangiers, 1908", the Jones family and Ms. Seymour arrive in Morocco, where chattel slavery is still legal. They have a debate with a local nobleman regarding the morality of slavery.
** In "Princteon, 1919" and "Chicago, 1920", Indy encounters some racist hostility for being a white guy trying to befriend black people.
** 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.
* DownerEnding: A few episodes end on a less-than-high-note:
** "Love's Sweet Song" ends with Indy's girlfriend rejecting his marriage proposal, and even failing to talk again just before Indy is sent to the front lines of World War I.
** "Adventures in the Secret Service" ends with Indy [[CassandraTruth failing to warn]] his Bolshevik friend activists that the Cossack army is waiting for them with guns ready, as a result one of his friends is killed.
** "Mystery of the Blues" ends with the corrupt police chief burning the evidence that incriminates Capone and warning Indy not to meddle, a depressed Indy then starts playing the Blues.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Most of the first episode with teenage Indy is in Spanish with English subtitles, both from the Mexican characters and Indy himself. This is a severe contrast to later episodes where TranslationConvention and JustAStupidAccent is the norm, with foreign dialogue only present when the script strictly called for it (e.g. Indy showing his knowledge of the German language when he volunteers for intelligence gathering in the Western Front).
* EdutainmentShow: The time period of the show permitted many historical figures and events to appear, although significant liberties were also taken.
* EstablishingShot: A given in a show like this.
* ExpandedUniverse: The ''Chronicles'' spawned a 12-issue comic book series in 1992-3 from Dark Horse. These comics were more-or-less faithful adaptations of eight early ''Chronicles'' episodes, including the two-hour pilot. They even included the Old Indy bookend narration segments (although unlike his TV counterpart, the Old Indy of the comics doesn't wear an eyepatch, still having both eyes intact). There was one comic not based on an episode: ''Mid-Atlantic, April 1916'' (placed chronologically between ''Mexico'' and ''Ireland'').
* EyepatchOfPower: Senior-citizen-Indy sported one of these over his right eye, complete with a nasty facial scar trailing out from beneath. Because of the large time gap between the present-day (well, 1990s) ''Chronicles'' framing segments and the 1930s period films, this is also an EyepatchAfterTimeSkip.
* ForeignCorrespondent
* FramingDevice
* GenreShift: Taking an action film franchise and using it to create an edutainment series rankled a few people.
* GirlOfTheWeek: To the point where he ends up dating ''three'' girls at once, and gets his face shoved in a cake for his troubles.
* GreatWhiteHunter: UsefulNotes/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.
* 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 {{UsefulNotes/Vlad|TheImpaler}} {{Dracula}}.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Indy and Remy.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Indy meets many people who were already famous during his lifetime or would be become more famous in later decades.
* HotterAndSexier: The UsefulNotes/MataHari episode has a lot of bed scenes with her and Indy, and has her belly-dancing for his pleasure.
* HowUnscientific: The Transylvania episode.
* IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The... Eye... of the Peacock! THE EYE... OF THE PEACOCK!!
* IKnowKarate: Indy himself briefly, Northern-Style Kung-Fu to be exact, on the South-China seas.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Selous destroying an entire train in East Africa, with a single shot, from about a mile away!
* IndyPloy: We find out where Indy learned it from.
* 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]]
* LighterAndSofter: Almost any episode involving Kid Indy (played by Corey Carrier), which usually lack the violence found in episodes about Teen / Young Adult Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery).
* 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.
* LoveTriangle: Between Indy, a young Creator/ErnestHemingway, and a beautiful Italian girl. In the end [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption the girl marries her childhood friend]]]].
* MrFanservice: Probably not originally intended that way, but with as often as Sean Patrick Flanery [[ShirtlessScene takes his shirt off]]...
* MsFanservice:
** The legendary UsefulNotes/MataHari, in the series' big HotterAndSexier episode.
** Creator/CatherineZetaJones has a belly-dancing scene in ''Daredevils Of The Desert''.
* MusicalEpisode: Both "Mystery of the Blues" and "The Scandal of 1920"
* NoodleIncident: The history of the eyepatch.
* NostalgicNarrator: Senior-citizen-Indy. And, in "Mystery of the Blues", [[Creator/HarrisonFord MOVIE Indy.]]
* {{Oireland}}: The episode featuring the Easter Rising. Humorously, the first half or so of the episode consists of Sean O'Casey and Sean Lemass complaining about the stereotypical "Oirish" portrayal of their nation, then drops straight into the same stereotypes that were lambasted earlier.
* OldSoldier: Four soldiers still fighting on the Allies' side in Africa in ''The Phantom Train of Doom'' movie.
* {{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.
* ParanormalEpisode: "Transylvania, January 1918" 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.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The team of Allied spies Indy meets in "Barcelona: May 1917" are initially operating this way - they tell Indy that it's easier to hang out in the same bar and get drunk with the city's German agents instead of faffing around with a bunch of cloak-and-dagger nonsense. Naturally, Indy's arrival causes some espionage hijinks to ensue.
* 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.
** In another episode Indy and his Bolshevik friends illustrate the differences on the distribution of wealth between Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism by cutting Indy's birthday cake in different sized slices... and then one guy illustrates Anarchism by grabbing the entire cake.
* PocketProtector: In the episode "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
* PunchClockVillain: 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.
* PuppyLove: Eight year old Indy and Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary.
* 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. 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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, leaving their canonical existence uncertain (especially in the light of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', which gives Indy a son but as yet no daughter).
* RedRightHand: By the time Indy meets Demetrios again in Mexico, he has lost a hand and is nicknamed "Claw".
* 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.
* 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.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
** In the first part of "Demons of Deception", Indy purposely crashes his motorcycle that's carrying a message to an army commander with orders to start an attack that intelligence knows it's going to be useless and will result in hundreds of allied casualties.
** In "Oganga the Giver and Taker of Life", Indy refuses to leave behind a child who's the sole survivor of a plague-ravaged village, and defies his superior officer for it.
** A smaller one, but in the second half of "Journey of Radiance", Anna gives money to the man the Chinese family they are staying with is in debt to. She's told not to at first, but insists on repaying them for housing her and her son when Indy was gravely ill.
* ShoutOut:
** When Indy and a couple other men have escaped from the Austrian secret police by hiding in the sewer, one of them remarks [[Film/ANewHope "What an incredible new smell you've discovered!"]]
** There's a throwaway gag in "Attack of the Hawkmen" where Indy, after being captured, [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine has been invited to dinner]] by Baron von Richthofen:
--->'''Von Richthofen''': ''(Snaps fingers)'' [[Music/TheBeatles Sergeant! Pepper!]]
** 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* StartMyOwn: In ''The Phantom Train of Doom'', one of the {{Old Soldier}}s tells Indy they formed their own unit since all the conventional army units considered them too old to fight.
* StockFootage: Noticeable in battle scenes, which often feature shots inserted from war films. There is also the occasional recycled footage from the series itself (in one episode with teenage Indy in Paris, you can see briefly see Indy's father and childhood nanny on a carriage from the time they visited it during the World Tour).
* 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.
-->'''Title Card:''' To the Halls of Montezuma! US troops sweep into Mexico.\\
'''Indy:''' US troops ... pay a courtesy visit to Canada.\\
'''Card:''' General Pershing: "We shall soon have that cowardly bandit Pancho Villa on the run."\\
'''Indy:''' It says General Pancho Villa ... is a great man.
* 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.
* TimeshiftedActor: Corey Carrier as Very Young Indy, Sean Patrick Flanery as Young Indy, George Hall as Old Indy. And, for one episode only, Harrison Ford as No Longer Young But Still Not Old Indy.
* 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 Music/GiacomoPuccini) and makes mistakes like anyone else.
* TwoTimerDate: Actually three-timer in "The Scandal of 1920"
* {{Uberwald}}: "Transylvania, January 1918"
* 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 ''Indiana Jones'' universe).
* VastBureaucracy: In "Prague, August 1917" Indy encounters these in Austro-Hungarian Bohemia, and is driven mad with frustration (Franz Kafka 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.
* 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 and Ned's idea that WarIsGlorious 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.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Just like in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy has a strained relationship with his father; In his early years his father was a stern but loving family man if a [[TheStoic little emotionally distant]], but after Indy's mother died his father in grief shut himself in his work. More poignant in the episode when after being away for several years fighting in [=WWI=] Indy returns home and is received by his father as if he just left the last week.
* WhiteMansBurden: Discussed in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life". [[WideEyedIdealist Indy]], serving as an officer in the colonial Belgian Army, is honestly convinced that European rule can benefit Africa. But one of his Congolese troops, Sgt. Barthelemy, knows better and [[BrutalHonesty points out]] that the war is nothing more than competition between European empires for control of African land, and regardless of who wins, African people will get the short end of the stick.
* WideEyedIdealist: This series reveals how idealistic Indiana Jones was in his youth, often to the point of naivety.
** As a preteen kid, he was too innocent and frequently wandered off on his own to explore the amazing world around him, often being oblivious to the potential dangers waiting for him.
** As a teenager, he decided to volunteer as a soldier and spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, acting under the belief that he was doing something very heroic by fighting on the Allied side. But some traumatic experiences gradually erode his prior beliefs, especially in realizing that the conflict was [[GreyAndGreyMorality far from being as black-and-white as he thought it was]].
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: How the first act of "Winds of Change" ends.
* WorthyOpponent: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East Africa episodes.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In "Trenches of Hell" Indy ends up being in command of his unit as all superior officers are dead.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The Series
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->''Before the world discovered Indiana, Indiana discovered the world.''
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. The concept was inspired by the first act of the popular ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', which depicted Indiana as a teenager.
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 [[Main/EdutainmentShow edutainment]].
Notably, the show aired in an extremely AnachronicOrder, with Carrier's and Flanery's episodes often alternating. This may have hurt the series in the long run. The writers produced scripts for three seasons' worth of episodes, including some stories that would introduce more characters from the films. However, the show was cancelled after its second season, before those episodes could be shot. Nonetheless, four additional TV movies were later broadcast from 1994 to 1996, which incorporated some material from the various unproduced scripts (though not from the ones which featured more of the films' characters, sadly).
George Lucas prided ''Young Indy'' on managing a film-level quality production on a television budget, helped by revolutions in digital technology, and he has said that the show was partly a test to see how far he could take the later ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels. Also like ''Star Wars'', the series was subject to subsequent [[ReCut furious re-editing by Lucas]], the new cuts first showing up during re-airings in the late 90s.
This re-cut version, with new footage added and other parts removed, is the only one currently available on DVD: it's known as ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones''. The ''Adventures'' combines the original ''Chronicles'' episodes into two-hour tele-movies, two shows per film (often in a quite different, and much more strictly chronological, order than in the original airings). Again, some of the newly shot material was based on the unfilmed ''Chronicles'' scripts. In keeping with the show's semi-educational nature the [=DVDs=] also feature numerous well-researched half-hour documentaries, which place the historical personages and events of the various episodes in context.
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. One special feature-length broadcast of the original series, however, featured Creator/HarrisonFord playing a late middle-aged Indy in its framing device; this scene is itself problematic as it contradicts some of what was seen more than a decade later when Ford next played the role in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
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!!''Young Indiana Jones'' provides examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: One episode focusing on Indy and his father (Travels With Father, especially the second half), and two focusing on Indy and his mother (the second halves of both Perils of Cupid and Journey of Radience).
* AnachronicOrder: The episodes were initially broadcast in anachronic order. For the home video release, they were re-edited and put in chronological order.
* AffablyEvil:
** 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.
** Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was also quite affable in "Phantom Train of Doom". Even while actively trying to evade capture by the Allied forces, Lettow calmly discusses military tactics with Indy; and even after finally being defeated, he gifts Indy with a compass to show no hard feelings.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As this is a Hollywood production after all, the show sometimes bent historical truth for entertainment value.
* {{Bandito}}: "Mexico, March 1916"
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}...
* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in this series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often, Indy DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save some of his friends.
* BlackBestFriend:
** Sgt. Barthelemy to Indy, in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
** Paul Robeson in "Winds of Change".
* 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.
* BreatherEpisode: "Barcelona: May 1917", in which Indy meets a bunch of bumbling international spies (led by Creator/MontyPython's Terry Jones) and "Prague: August 1917", in which Indy embarks on a quest to install a telephone in his room...and meets Creator/FranzKafka. The two are combined in the ''Adventures'' version as "Espionage Escapades".
* CharacterDevelopment:
** 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.
** Young Indy has to learn his famous IndyPloy the hard way, as when he does try to plan things out they never go as he intends.
** 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.
* 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.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Some WWI episodes such as "Trenches of Hell" and "Demons of Deception", despite the BloodlessCarnage, still show a gritty picture of trench warfare.
** "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]].
* DeadlyGas[=/=]FogOfDoom: Indy witnesses poison gas attacks while serving in France. In at least one instance, the terror is amplified when [[KillItWithFire flamethrower teams]] emerge from the gas cloud.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** In "Tangiers, 1908", the Jones family and Ms. Seymour arrive in Morocco, where chattel slavery is still legal. They have a debate with a local nobleman regarding the morality of slavery.
** In "Princteon, 1919" and "Chicago, 1920", Indy encounters some racist hostility for being a white guy trying to befriend black people.
** 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.
* DownerEnding: A few episodes end on a less-than-high-note:
** "Love's Sweet Song" ends with Indy's girlfriend rejecting his marriage proposal, and even failing to talk again just before Indy is sent to the front lines of World War I.
** "Adventures in the Secret Service" ends with Indy [[CassandraTruth failing to warn]] his Bolshevik friend activists that the Cossack army is waiting for them with guns ready, as a result one of his friends is killed.
** "Mystery of the Blues" ends with the corrupt police chief burning the evidence that incriminates Capone and warning Indy not to meddle, a depressed Indy then starts playing the Blues.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Most of the first episode with teenage Indy is in Spanish with English subtitles, both from the Mexican characters and Indy himself. This is a severe contrast to later episodes where TranslationConvention and JustAStupidAccent is the norm, with foreign dialogue only present when the script strictly called for it (e.g. Indy showing his knowledge of the German language when he volunteers for intelligence gathering in the Western Front).
* EdutainmentShow: The time period of the show permitted many historical figures and events to appear, although significant liberties were also taken.
* EstablishingShot: A given in a show like this.
* ExpandedUniverse: The ''Chronicles'' spawned a 12-issue comic book series in 1992-3 from Dark Horse. These comics were more-or-less faithful adaptations of eight early ''Chronicles'' episodes, including the two-hour pilot. They even included the Old Indy bookend narration segments (although unlike his TV counterpart, the Old Indy of the comics doesn't wear an eyepatch, still having both eyes intact). There was one comic not based on an episode: ''Mid-Atlantic, April 1916'' (placed chronologically between ''Mexico'' and ''Ireland'').
* EyepatchOfPower: Senior-citizen-Indy sported one of these over his right eye, complete with a nasty facial scar trailing out from beneath. Because of the large time gap between the present-day (well, 1990s) ''Chronicles'' framing segments and the 1930s period films, this is also an EyepatchAfterTimeSkip.
* ForeignCorrespondent
* FramingDevice
* GenreShift: Taking an action film franchise and using it to create an edutainment series rankled a few people.
* GirlOfTheWeek: To the point where he ends up dating ''three'' girls at once, and gets his face shoved in a cake for his troubles.
* GreatWhiteHunter: UsefulNotes/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.
* 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 {{UsefulNotes/Vlad|TheImpaler}} {{Dracula}}.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Indy and Remy.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Indy meets many people who were already famous during his lifetime or would be become more famous in later decades.
* HotterAndSexier: The UsefulNotes/MataHari episode has a lot of bed scenes with her and Indy, and has her belly-dancing for his pleasure.
* HowUnscientific: The Transylvania episode.
* IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The... Eye... of the Peacock! THE EYE... OF THE PEACOCK!!
* IKnowKarate: Indy himself briefly, Northern-Style Kung-Fu to be exact, on the South-China seas.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Selous destroying an entire train in East Africa, with a single shot, from about a mile away!
* IndyPloy: We find out where Indy learned it from.
* 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]]
* LighterAndSofter: Almost any episode involving Kid Indy (played by Corey Carrier), which usually lack the violence found in episodes about Teen / Young Adult Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery).
* 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.
* LoveTriangle: Between Indy, a young Creator/ErnestHemingway, and a beautiful Italian girl. In the end [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption the girl marries her childhood friend]]]].
* MrFanservice: Probably not originally intended that way, but with as often as Sean Patrick Flanery [[ShirtlessScene takes his shirt off]]...
* MsFanservice:
** The legendary UsefulNotes/MataHari, in the series' big HotterAndSexier episode.
** Creator/CatherineZetaJones has a belly-dancing scene in ''Daredevils Of The Desert''.
* MusicalEpisode: Both "Mystery of the Blues" and "The Scandal of 1920"
* NoodleIncident: The history of the eyepatch.
* NostalgicNarrator: Senior-citizen-Indy. And, in "Mystery of the Blues", [[Creator/HarrisonFord MOVIE Indy.]]
* {{Oireland}}: The episode featuring the Easter Rising. Humorously, the first half or so of the episode consists of Sean O'Casey and Sean Lemass complaining about the stereotypical "Oirish" portrayal of their nation, then drops straight into the same stereotypes that were lambasted earlier.
* OldSoldier: Four soldiers still fighting on the Allies' side in Africa in ''The Phantom Train of Doom'' movie.
* {{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.
* ParanormalEpisode: "Transylvania, January 1918" 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.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The team of Allied spies Indy meets in "Barcelona: May 1917" are initially operating this way - they tell Indy that it's easier to hang out in the same bar and get drunk with the city's German agents instead of faffing around with a bunch of cloak-and-dagger nonsense. Naturally, Indy's arrival causes some espionage hijinks to ensue.
* 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.
** In another episode Indy and his Bolshevik friends illustrate the differences on the distribution of wealth between Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism by cutting Indy's birthday cake in different sized slices... and then one guy illustrates Anarchism by grabbing the entire cake.
* PocketProtector: In the episode "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
* PunchClockVillain: 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.
* PuppyLove: Eight year old Indy and Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary.
* 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. 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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, leaving their canonical existence uncertain (especially in the light of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', which gives Indy a son but as yet no daughter).
* RedRightHand: By the time Indy meets Demetrios again in Mexico, he has lost a hand and is nicknamed "Claw".
* 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.
* 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.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
** In the first part of "Demons of Deception", Indy purposely crashes his motorcycle that's carrying a message to an army commander with orders to start an attack that intelligence knows it's going to be useless and will result in hundreds of allied casualties.
** In "Oganga the Giver and Taker of Life", Indy refuses to leave behind a child who's the sole survivor of a plague-ravaged village, and defies his superior officer for it.
** A smaller one, but in the second half of "Journey of Radiance", Anna gives money to the man the Chinese family they are staying with is in debt to. She's told not to at first, but insists on repaying them for housing her and her son when Indy was gravely ill.
* ShoutOut:
** When Indy and a couple other men have escaped from the Austrian secret police by hiding in the sewer, one of them remarks [[Film/ANewHope "What an incredible new smell you've discovered!"]]
** There's a throwaway gag in "Attack of the Hawkmen" where Indy, after being captured, [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine has been invited to dinner]] by Baron von Richthofen:
--->'''Von Richthofen''': ''(Snaps fingers)'' [[Music/TheBeatles Sergeant! Pepper!]]
** 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* StartMyOwn: In ''The Phantom Train of Doom'', one of the {{Old Soldier}}s tells Indy they formed their own unit since all the conventional army units considered them too old to fight.
* StockFootage: Noticeable in battle scenes, which often feature shots inserted from war films. There is also the occasional recycled footage from the series itself (in one episode with teenage Indy in Paris, you can see briefly see Indy's father and childhood nanny on a carriage from the time they visited it during the World Tour).
* 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.
-->'''Title Card:''' To the Halls of Montezuma! US troops sweep into Mexico.\\
'''Indy:''' US troops ... pay a courtesy visit to Canada.\\
'''Card:''' General Pershing: "We shall soon have that cowardly bandit Pancho Villa on the run."\\
'''Indy:''' It says General Pancho Villa ... is a great man.
* 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.
* TimeshiftedActor: Corey Carrier as Very Young Indy, Sean Patrick Flanery as Young Indy, George Hall as Old Indy. And, for one episode only, Harrison Ford as No Longer Young But Still Not Old Indy.
* 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 Music/GiacomoPuccini) and makes mistakes like anyone else.
* TwoTimerDate: Actually three-timer in "The Scandal of 1920"
* {{Uberwald}}: "Transylvania, January 1918"
* 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 ''Indiana Jones'' universe).
* VastBureaucracy: In "Prague, August 1917" Indy encounters these in Austro-Hungarian Bohemia, and is driven mad with frustration (Franz Kafka 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.
* 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 and Ned's idea that WarIsGlorious 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.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Just like in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy has a strained relationship with his father; In his early years his father was a stern but loving family man if a [[TheStoic little emotionally distant]], but after Indy's mother died his father in grief shut himself in his work. More poignant in the episode when after being away for several years fighting in [=WWI=] Indy returns home and is received by his father as if he just left the last week.
* WhiteMansBurden: Discussed in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life". [[WideEyedIdealist Indy]], serving as an officer in the colonial Belgian Army, is honestly convinced that European rule can benefit Africa. But one of his Congolese troops, Sgt. Barthelemy, knows better and [[BrutalHonesty points out]] that the war is nothing more than competition between European empires for control of African land, and regardless of who wins, African people will get the short end of the stick.
* WideEyedIdealist: This series reveals how idealistic Indiana Jones was in his youth, often to the point of naivety.
** As a preteen kid, he was too innocent and frequently wandered off on his own to explore the amazing world around him, often being oblivious to the potential dangers waiting for him.
** As a teenager, he decided to volunteer as a soldier and spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, acting under the belief that he was doing something very heroic by fighting on the Allied side. But some traumatic experiences gradually erode his prior beliefs, especially in realizing that the conflict was [[GreyAndGreyMorality far from being as black-and-white as he thought it was]].
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: How the first act of "Winds of Change" ends.
* WorthyOpponent: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East Africa episodes.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In "Trenches of Hell" Indy ends up being in command of his unit as all superior officers are dead.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The Series
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->''Before the world discovered Indiana, Indiana discovered the world.''
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. The concept was inspired by the first act of the popular ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', which depicted Indiana as a teenager.
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 [[Main/EdutainmentShow edutainment]].
Notably, the show aired in an extremely AnachronicOrder, with Carrier's and Flanery's episodes often alternating. This may have hurt the series in the long run. The writers produced scripts for three seasons' worth of episodes, including some stories that would introduce more characters from the films. However, the show was cancelled after its second season, before those episodes could be shot. Nonetheless, four additional TV movies were later broadcast from 1994 to 1996, which incorporated some material from the various unproduced scripts (though not from the ones which featured more of the films' characters, sadly).
George Lucas prided ''Young Indy'' on managing a film-level quality production on a television budget, helped by revolutions in digital technology, and he has said that the show was partly a test to see how far he could take the later ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels. Also like ''Star Wars'', the series was subject to subsequent [[ReCut furious re-editing by Lucas]], the new cuts first showing up during re-airings in the late 90s.
This re-cut version, with new footage added and other parts removed, is the only one currently available on DVD: it's known as ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones''. The ''Adventures'' combines the original ''Chronicles'' episodes into two-hour tele-movies, two shows per film (often in a quite different, and much more strictly chronological, order than in the original airings). Again, some of the newly shot material was based on the unfilmed ''Chronicles'' scripts. In keeping with the show's semi-educational nature the [=DVDs=] also feature numerous well-researched half-hour documentaries, which place the historical personages and events of the various episodes in context.
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. One special feature-length broadcast of the original series, however, featured Creator/HarrisonFord playing a late middle-aged Indy in its framing device; this scene is itself problematic as it contradicts some of what was seen more than a decade later when Ford next played the role in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
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!!''Young Indiana Jones'' provides examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: One episode focusing on Indy and his father (Travels With Father, especially the second half), and two focusing on Indy and his mother (the second halves of both Perils of Cupid and Journey of Radience).
* AnachronicOrder: The episodes were initially broadcast in anachronic order. For the home video release, they were re-edited and put in chronological order.
* AffablyEvil:
** 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.
** Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was also quite affable in "Phantom Train of Doom". Even while actively trying to evade capture by the Allied forces, Lettow calmly discusses military tactics with Indy; and even after finally being defeated, he gifts Indy with a compass to show no hard feelings.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As this is a Hollywood production after all, the show sometimes bent historical truth for entertainment value.
* {{Bandito}}: "Mexico, March 1916"
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}...
* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in this series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often, Indy DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save some of his friends.
* BlackBestFriend:
** Sgt. Barthelemy to Indy, in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
** Paul Robeson in "Winds of Change".
* 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.
* BreatherEpisode: "Barcelona: May 1917", in which Indy meets a bunch of bumbling international spies (led by Creator/MontyPython's Terry Jones) and "Prague: August 1917", in which Indy embarks on a quest to install a telephone in his room...and meets Creator/FranzKafka. The two are combined in the ''Adventures'' version as "Espionage Escapades".
* CharacterDevelopment:
** 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.
** Young Indy has to learn his famous IndyPloy the hard way, as when he does try to plan things out they never go as he intends.
** 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.
* 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.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Some WWI episodes such as "Trenches of Hell" and "Demons of Deception", despite the BloodlessCarnage, still show a gritty picture of trench warfare.
** "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]].
* DeadlyGas[=/=]FogOfDoom: Indy witnesses poison gas attacks while serving in France. In at least one instance, the terror is amplified when [[KillItWithFire flamethrower teams]] emerge from the gas cloud.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** In "Tangiers, 1908", the Jones family and Ms. Seymour arrive in Morocco, where chattel slavery is still legal. They have a debate with a local nobleman regarding the morality of slavery.
** In "Princteon, 1919" and "Chicago, 1920", Indy encounters some racist hostility for being a white guy trying to befriend black people.
** 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.
* DownerEnding: A few episodes end on a less-than-high-note:
** "Love's Sweet Song" ends with Indy's girlfriend rejecting his marriage proposal, and even failing to talk again just before Indy is sent to the front lines of World War I.
** "Adventures in the Secret Service" ends with Indy [[CassandraTruth failing to warn]] his Bolshevik friend activists that the Cossack army is waiting for them with guns ready, as a result one of his friends is killed.
** "Mystery of the Blues" ends with the corrupt police chief burning the evidence that incriminates Capone and warning Indy not to meddle, a depressed Indy then starts playing the Blues.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Most of the first episode with teenage Indy is in Spanish with English subtitles, both from the Mexican characters and Indy himself. This is a severe contrast to later episodes where TranslationConvention and JustAStupidAccent is the norm, with foreign dialogue only present when the script strictly called for it (e.g. Indy showing his knowledge of the German language when he volunteers for intelligence gathering in the Western Front).
* EdutainmentShow: The time period of the show permitted many historical figures and events to appear, although significant liberties were also taken.
* EstablishingShot: A given in a show like this.
* ExpandedUniverse: The ''Chronicles'' spawned a 12-issue comic book series in 1992-3 from Dark Horse. These comics were more-or-less faithful adaptations of eight early ''Chronicles'' episodes, including the two-hour pilot. They even included the Old Indy bookend narration segments (although unlike his TV counterpart, the Old Indy of the comics doesn't wear an eyepatch, still having both eyes intact). There was one comic not based on an episode: ''Mid-Atlantic, April 1916'' (placed chronologically between ''Mexico'' and ''Ireland'').
* EyepatchOfPower: Senior-citizen-Indy sported one of these over his right eye, complete with a nasty facial scar trailing out from beneath. Because of the large time gap between the present-day (well, 1990s) ''Chronicles'' framing segments and the 1930s period films, this is also an EyepatchAfterTimeSkip.
* ForeignCorrespondent
* FramingDevice
* GenreShift: Taking an action film franchise and using it to create an edutainment series rankled a few people.
* GirlOfTheWeek: To the point where he ends up dating ''three'' girls at once, and gets his face shoved in a cake for his troubles.
* GreatWhiteHunter: UsefulNotes/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.
* 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 {{UsefulNotes/Vlad|TheImpaler}} {{Dracula}}.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Indy and Remy.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Indy meets many people who were already famous during his lifetime or would be become more famous in later decades.
* HotterAndSexier: The UsefulNotes/MataHari episode has a lot of bed scenes with her and Indy, and has her belly-dancing for his pleasure.
* HowUnscientific: The Transylvania episode.
* IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The... Eye... of the Peacock! THE EYE... OF THE PEACOCK!!
* IKnowKarate: Indy himself briefly, Northern-Style Kung-Fu to be exact, on the South-China seas.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Selous destroying an entire train in East Africa, with a single shot, from about a mile away!
* IndyPloy: We find out where Indy learned it from.
* 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]]
* LighterAndSofter: Almost any episode involving Kid Indy (played by Corey Carrier), which usually lack the violence found in episodes about Teen / Young Adult Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery).
* 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.
* LoveTriangle: Between Indy, a young Creator/ErnestHemingway, and a beautiful Italian girl. In the end [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption the girl marries her childhood friend]]]].
* MrFanservice: Probably not originally intended that way, but with as often as Sean Patrick Flanery [[ShirtlessScene takes his shirt off]]...
* MsFanservice:
** The legendary UsefulNotes/MataHari, in the series' big HotterAndSexier episode.
** Creator/CatherineZetaJones has a belly-dancing scene in ''Daredevils Of The Desert''.
* MusicalEpisode: Both "Mystery of the Blues" and "The Scandal of 1920"
* NoodleIncident: The history of the eyepatch.
* NostalgicNarrator: Senior-citizen-Indy. And, in "Mystery of the Blues", [[Creator/HarrisonFord MOVIE Indy.]]
* {{Oireland}}: The episode featuring the Easter Rising. Humorously, the first half or so of the episode consists of Sean O'Casey and Sean Lemass complaining about the stereotypical "Oirish" portrayal of their nation, then drops straight into the same stereotypes that were lambasted earlier.
* OldSoldier: Four soldiers still fighting on the Allies' side in Africa in ''The Phantom Train of Doom'' movie.
* {{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.
* ParanormalEpisode: "Transylvania, January 1918" 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.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The team of Allied spies Indy meets in "Barcelona: May 1917" are initially operating this way - they tell Indy that it's easier to hang out in the same bar and get drunk with the city's German agents instead of faffing around with a bunch of cloak-and-dagger nonsense. Naturally, Indy's arrival causes some espionage hijinks to ensue.
* 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.
** In another episode Indy and his Bolshevik friends illustrate the differences on the distribution of wealth between Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism by cutting Indy's birthday cake in different sized slices... and then one guy illustrates Anarchism by grabbing the entire cake.
* PocketProtector: In the episode "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life".
* PunchClockVillain: 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.
* PuppyLove: Eight year old Indy and Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary.
* 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. 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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, leaving their canonical existence uncertain (especially in the light of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', which gives Indy a son but as yet no daughter).
* RedRightHand: By the time Indy meets Demetrios again in Mexico, he has lost a hand and is nicknamed "Claw".
* 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.
* 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.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
** In the first part of "Demons of Deception", Indy purposely crashes his motorcycle that's carrying a message to an army commander with orders to start an attack that intelligence knows it's going to be useless and will result in hundreds of allied casualties.
** In "Oganga the Giver and Taker of Life", Indy refuses to leave behind a child who's the sole survivor of a plague-ravaged village, and defies his superior officer for it.
** A smaller one, but in the second half of "Journey of Radiance", Anna gives money to the man the Chinese family they are staying with is in debt to. She's told not to at first, but insists on repaying them for housing her and her son when Indy was gravely ill.
* ShoutOut:
** When Indy and a couple other men have escaped from the Austrian secret police by hiding in the sewer, one of them remarks [[Film/ANewHope "What an incredible new smell you've discovered!"]]
** There's a throwaway gag in "Attack of the Hawkmen" where Indy, after being captured, [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine has been invited to dinner]] by Baron von Richthofen:
--->'''Von Richthofen''': ''(Snaps fingers)'' [[Music/TheBeatles Sergeant! Pepper!]]
** 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]].
** 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* StartMyOwn: In ''The Phantom Train of Doom'', one of the {{Old Soldier}}s tells Indy they formed their own unit since all the conventional army units considered them too old to fight.
* StockFootage: Noticeable in battle scenes, which often feature shots inserted from war films. There is also the occasional recycled footage from the series itself (in one episode with teenage Indy in Paris, you can see briefly see Indy's father and childhood nanny on a carriage from the time they visited it during the World Tour).
* 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.
-->'''Title Card:''' To the Halls of Montezuma! US troops sweep into Mexico.\\
'''Indy:''' US troops ... pay a courtesy visit to Canada.\\
'''Card:''' General Pershing: "We shall soon have that cowardly bandit Pancho Villa on the run."\\
'''Indy:''' It says General Pancho Villa ... is a great man.
* 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.
* TimeshiftedActor: Corey Carrier as Very Young Indy, Sean Patrick Flanery as Young Indy, George Hall as Old Indy. And, for one episode only, Harrison Ford as No Longer Young But Still Not Old Indy.
* 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 Music/GiacomoPuccini) and makes mistakes like anyone else.
* TwoTimerDate: Actually three-timer in "The Scandal of 1920"
* {{Uberwald}}: "Transylvania, January 1918"
* 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 ''Indiana Jones'' universe).
* VastBureaucracy: In "Prague, August 1917" Indy encounters these in Austro-Hungarian Bohemia, and is driven mad with frustration (Franz Kafka 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.
* 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 and Ned's idea that WarIsGlorious 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.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Just like in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy has a strained relationship with his father; In his early years his father was a stern but loving family man if a [[TheStoic little emotionally distant]], but after Indy's mother died his father in grief shut himself in his work. More poignant in the episode when after being away for several years fighting in [=WWI=] Indy returns home and is received by his father as if he just left the last week.
* WhiteMansBurden: Discussed in "Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life". [[WideEyedIdealist Indy]], serving as an officer in the colonial Belgian Army, is honestly convinced that European rule can benefit Africa. But one of his Congolese troops, Sgt. Barthelemy, knows better and [[BrutalHonesty points out]] that the war is nothing more than competition between European empires for control of African land, and regardless of who wins, African people will get the short end of the stick.
* WideEyedIdealist: This series reveals how idealistic Indiana Jones was in his youth, often to the point of naivety.
** As a preteen kid, he was too innocent and frequently wandered off on his own to explore the amazing world around him, often being oblivious to the potential dangers waiting for him.
** As a teenager, he decided to volunteer as a soldier and spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, acting under the belief that he was doing something very heroic by fighting on the Allied side. But some traumatic experiences gradually erode his prior beliefs, especially in realizing that the conflict was [[GreyAndGreyMorality far from being as black-and-white as he thought it was]].
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: How the first act of "Winds of Change" ends.
* WorthyOpponent: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East Africa episodes.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In "Trenches of Hell" Indy ends up being in command of his unit as all superior officers are dead.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The Series
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* 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.
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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 edutainment.
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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 edutainment.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Such is the way of a historical {{edutainment show}}.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Such is the way of Well, it was a historical {{edutainment show}}.show}}...
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with them. Such is the way of a historical {{edutainment show}}...show}}.
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* {{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 wins because Indy knows sign language.
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* {{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 officer, and wins because Indy knows forces a draw by using sign language.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If he or she's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with that person. Such is the way of a historical {{edutainment show}}...
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring the RedBaron 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 are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Indy's life. If he or she's someone's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has befriended, antagonized or slept with that person.them. Such is the way of a historical {{edutainment show}}...
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Don't need to mention Lawrence twice.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Befriending T.E. Lawrence, drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring ''the'' RedBaron 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.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Befriending T.E. Lawrence, drinking Drinking with Creator/PabloPicasso, losing his virginity to UsefulNotes/MataHari, inspiring ''the'' the RedBaron to paint his plane red, helping Lawrence of Arabia take Jerusalem, killing Literature/{{Dracula}}, competing for a girl's affections with Creator/ErnestHemingway, Creator/ErnestHemingway and hunting UsefulNotes/AlCapone: UsefulNotes/AlCapone are just some of the ''less'' extreme contrivances in young Henry Jones Junior's Indy's life. If he or she's famous in the 20th century, chances are Indy has probably met, befriended, fought, fallen in love with, killed antagonized or slept with that person. Ah, Such is the life way of a historical edutainment hero.{{edutainment show}}...
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** In another episode Indy and his Bolshevik friends illustrate the differences between Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism by cutting Indy's birthday cake in different sized slices... and then one guy illustrates Anarchism by grabbing the entire cake.
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** In another episode Indy and his Bolshevik friends illustrate the differences on the distribution of wealth between Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism by cutting Indy's birthday cake in different sized slices... and then one guy illustrates Anarchism by grabbing the entire cake.
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* 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.
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* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in the series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often Indiana Jones DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save his friends.
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* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in the this series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often Indiana Jones often, Indy DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save some of his friends.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite taking place in the same universe as the Franchise/IndianaJones films, the movies take a much more grounded approach to history for the most part. There's only one movie 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. [[FromBadToWorse Indeed, it sets up the rise to power of his classical archenemies.]]
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indiana spies on his communist friends. They find out and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about a coming massacre of a march by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly.]]
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to Alexander the Great. 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 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.
** Indiana Jones tries to reign in AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim in, in ''Hollywood Follies'' but finds the crew 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.
** 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. [[FromBadToWorse Indeed, it sets up the rise to power of his classical archenemies.]]
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indiana spies on his communist friends. They find out and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about a coming massacre of a march by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly.]]
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to Alexander the Great. 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 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.
** Indiana Jones tries to reign in AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim in, in ''Hollywood Follies'' but finds the crew 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.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite taking place in the same universe as the Franchise/IndianaJones ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' films, the movies TV series take a much more grounded approach to history for the most part. There's only one movie episode which involves the supernatural (''Masks of Evil'') 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. Indeed, [[FromBadToWorseIndeed, it sets up the rise to power of of]] [[ThoseWackyNazis his classical archenemies.]]
archenemies]].
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'',Indiana Indy spies on his Russian communist friends. 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 a coming an upcoming massacre of a march communist demonstration by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly.]]
badly]].
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged toAlexander the Great. UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Despite being an intelligent AdventurerArchaeologist in training, the Peacock's eye Eye is an immensely valuable relic that was looted by treasure hunters centuries ago 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.
**Indiana Jones Indy tries to reign in AwesomeEgo [[AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim in, Stroheim]] in ''Hollywood Follies'' Follies'', but finds the film crew turning against him 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.well as you'd expect.
** 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
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** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to
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* BittersweetEnding: A very common thing in the series. Indiana Jones isn't able to change the course of [=WW1=] or human history in general. Very often Indiana Jones DidNotGetTheGirl or isn't able to save his friends.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite taking place in the same universe as the Franchise/IndianaJones films, the movies take a much more grounded approach to history for the most part. There's only one movie 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. [[FromBadToWorse Indeed, it sets up the rise to power of his classical archenemies.]]
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indiana spies on his communist friends. They find out and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about a coming massacre of a march by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly.]]
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to Alexander the Great. 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 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.
** Indiana Jones tries to reign in AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim in, in ''Hollywood Follies'' but finds the crew 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.
** 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. [[FromBadToWorse Indeed, it sets up the rise to power of his classical archenemies.]]
** In ''Adventures in the Secret Service'', Indiana spies on his communist friends. They find out and want nothing to do with him anymore, even when his position allows him to know about a coming massacre of a march by Cossack soldiers. [[DownerEnding It ends badly.]]
** In ''The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye'', Indy believes he can track down the titular gemstone that belonged to Alexander the Great. 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 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.
** Indiana Jones tries to reign in AwesomeEgo Erich Von Stroheim in, in ''Hollywood Follies'' but finds the crew 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.
