Young Indiana Jones Episode Guide

Guide Notes

Episode guide revision date: July 9, 2021

The latest version of this guide can be found at: https://innermind.com/youngindy/

The episode order and seasons are based on how the series ran in the U.S. which was as follows:

The series was shown differently in other countries.

In the episode portion of the guide the credits at the beginning of the show are listed, or in the case of some of the movies just the credits listed for later episodes are given. A few of the credits at the end of the show are also listed. The cast and production credits are presented in the order in which the names appear on the screen except for several common credits listed in the additional credits section. Character names or partial names that don't appear in the on-screen credits are enclosed in brackets.

The productions refer to when the episodes were filmed.

• First production filmed 1991-1992 with 16 episodes, 5 with younger Indy, 10 with older Indy, 1 with both, 17 TV hours
• Second production filmed 1992-1993 with 12 episodes, 1 with younger Indy, 11 with older Indy, 15 TV hours
• Third production filmed 1994-1995 with 4 made for cable movies, 8 TV hours

Additional filming was done at later times to expand two episodes into longer episodes.

First season

1. Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/4/1992
This episode was 2 hours

The chronicles of Indy's youthful adventures begin with Old Indy relating to two jaded youths his departure from Princeton as a boy in 1908 to accompany his father's lecture tour around the world. Among the first stops is Egypt, where an expedition with T.E. Lawrence ends in a murder and a theft of an artifact that teenage Indy has a chance to resolve in 1916 when he rides with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Notes

The horse Sean rode was Hurricane which was the black horse Harrison Ford rode in the Indiana Jones movies. Mike Moroff's Grandfather actually rode with Villa's gang. Filming was done in 1996 to expand this episode into two 2 hour movies for the video release.

2. London, May 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/11/1992

Vanessa Redgrave appears in a recollection of war and romance: Indy arrives in London with pal Remy to enlist in the Belgian Army, but before shipping out, he's swept away by a British suffragette.

3. British East Africa, September 1909

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/18/1992

Indy and his parents are along for the rough ride when they join Teddy Roosevelt's 1909 safari in Africa, where Indy's determined to find a rare antelope Teddy Roosevelt wants for the Smithsonian.

Notes

Disclaimer at beginning and end of episode: No animals were harmed or killed for the purposes of the production. Location filming was done in Kenya.

4. Verdun, September 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/25/1992

Indy is a runner for the Belgian Army - and sometimes runs for his life - on the front line in France at the bloody battle of Verdun.

5. German East Africa, December 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 4/1/1992
This episode was part 1

Indy is second-in-command of a platoon on a trek for a weapon ship- ment. Along the way they discover a village wiped out by malaria, with the only survivor a 3-year-old boy.

Notes

This was originally to be a single episode but got expanded into a two-parter.

6. Congo, January 1917

Original U.S. Airdate: 4/8/1992
This episode was part 2

Indy continues his quest for weapons into the Congo, where he's overtaken by disease but is saved by the healing hand of Albert Schweitzer.

Second season

7. Austria, March 1917

Original U.S. Airdate: 9/21/1992

Indy goes undercover as a spy in WWI Austria where he escorts a pair of royal Bourbon-Parma brothers on a secret mission that could halt hostilities.

8. Somme, Early August 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 9/28/1992
This episode was part 1

Indy is under the command of a heroic French lieutenant and in the trenches with a contemptible compatriot.

Notes

In Australia this and the following episode were shown as a two hour movie titled "Young Indiana Jones and the Great Escape."

9. Germany, Mid-August 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 10/5/1992
This episode was part 2

As a POW, Indy has but one mission in mind - escape - an ambition he shares with fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle.

10. Barcelona, May 1917

Original U.S. Airdate: 10/12/1992

Indy's in cahoots with a bunch of bumbling Allied spies plotting to turn neutral Spain against Germany.

11. Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/13/1993
This episode was 2 hours

Snowbound in a Wyoming cabin, 50-year-old Indy recalls his wild adventures in 1920 Chicago, where jazz legend Sidney Bechet gives young Indy some tips on improvisation - a skill he uses when investigating an underworld murder with young reporter Ernie Hemingway.

Notes

For this episode the bookends shown in the U.S. were different than those shown in the U.K. See the Blues bookend for more details.

12. Princeton, February 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/20/1993

The plans for an electric-car battery are stolen from Thomas Edison's laboratories, which sparks Indy and his girlfriend to conduct an investigation that takes some shocking twists.

13. Petrograd, July 1917

Original U.S. Airdate: 3/27/1993

Indy's duty as an Allied spy collides with the comradeship with a group of young Bolsheviks as he tries to prevent a Red tide from washing over St. Petersburg.

14. Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920

Original U.S. Airdate: 4/3/1993
This episode was 2 hours

New York is the setting for romance when Indy gets involved with a Broadway-bound singer, a bohemian poet and a socialite all at once, while he works on a musical revue composed by George Gershwin.

Notes

This aired some places as 2 episodes: "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920."

15. Vienna, November 1908

Original U.S. Airdate: 4/10/1993

The Habsburg court is a gilded cage for a young princess who enchants young Indy, but he's told to repress his feelings for her by almost everyone ... except Freud, Jung and Adler.

16. Northern Italy, June 1918

Original U.S. Airdate: 4/17/1993

On the Italian front in World War I, smitten Indy asks Red Cross ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway's advice on how to woo a beautiful young Italian woman.

17. Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom

Original U.S. Airdate: 6/5/1993
This episode was 2 hours

Indy gets tricked into joining a team of experts to try to take out a massive German rail gun in German East Africa during WWI.

18. Ireland, April 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 6/12/1993

Broke and stranded in Dublin on the eve of the Easter Rebellion, Indy gets a job at a pub, where he meets some of Ireland's revolutionaries, including playwright Sean O'Casey.

19. Paris, September 1908

Original U.S. Airdate: 6/19/1993

Young Indy has an artful adventure with young Norman Rockwell in Paris, where the two meet Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas.

20. Peking, March 1910

Original U.S. Airdate: 6/26/1993

Young Indy becomes seriously ill on a journey with his mother and tutor in rural China, where they're sheltered by a Chinese farming family, far from the nearest Western doctor.

21. Benares, January 1910

Original U.S. Airdate: 7/03/1993

Young Indy has a spirited encounter in India with Krishnamurti, a youth who's been declared New World Teacher by a group espousing the religion of theosophy.

22. Paris, October 1916

Original U.S. Airdate: 7/10/1993

Paris brings out the passion in amorous Indy, who has a fling with the most infamous and exotic figure of the day - Mata Hari.

23. Istanbul, September 1918

Original U.S. Airdate: 7/17/1993

While on a dangerous WWI spy mission, Indy keeps his real identity a secret from the young woman he intends to marry.

24. Paris, May 1919

Original U.S. Airdate: 7/24/1993

Indy sees the Realpolitik seeds of many 20th-century conflicts sown at the 1919 WWI Paris peace conference, where he encounters a young Vietnamese patriot later known as Ho Chi Minh.

Unaired in U.S.

These episodes never aired in the U.S. in this format. They did air in other countries. For the DVD release these episodes were edited and combined with other episodes.

25. Florence, May 1908

While touring Florence, Italy, Indy meets opera composer Giacomo Puccini, who has romantic designs on Indy's mother.

26. Prague, August 1917

Indy tries to get a phone installed in his apartment, but runs into a bureaucratic nightmare. Only Franz Kafka is willing to help him.

27. Palestine, October 1917

On an undercover mission to the town of Beersheba, Indy must defuse Turkish explosives in preparation for the arrival of a regiment of the Australian Light Horsemen.

Notes

This episode was expanded to two hours for the video release.

28. Transylvania, January 1918

Indy goes behind enemy lines to investigate the sudden disappearance of all the prisoners at an Austrian POW camp.

Notes

This episode was scheduled to air in the U.K. on May 14, 1994 but did not because it was considered too violent for the 6pm timeslot. It did air at a later time and date.

Third Season

The 4 made-for-cable-movies aired in the U.S. on the Family Channel. The movies ran a number of times but just the first air date is listed. The Family Channel never aired any of the episodes that were made for ABC. Since then the channel has changed its name a number of times.

29. Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies

Original U.S. Airdate: 10/15/1994

To earn college tuition money, Indy takes a job as assistant to a studio executive. His assignment: get extravagant director Erich von Stroheim to bring in his latest epic on time and on budget - or else.

Note before closing credits

Lucasfilm Ltd. would like to thank the people of Fillmore, California for their invaluable assistance during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake which occurred on the first day of shooting of HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES. Their support during the difficult time following the earthquake was truly inspirational and greatly appreciated.

30. The Young Indiana Jones Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

Original U.S. Airdate: 1/15/1995

A dying soldier's last words, a map bearing an ancient Greek inscription, and the promise of a 140-carat diamond, once the possession of Alexander the Great, lead Indy on an adventure. He pursues the treasure where along the way he comes across E.M. Forster, Lily the misleading chanteuse Jin-Wing, Chinese pirates, and the unforgettable child Biok.

31. Young Indiana Jones Attack of the Hawkmen

Original U.S. Airdate: 10/08/1995

After being assigned to the Lafayette Escadrille flying squadron, Indy encounters notorious German flying ace Baron von Richthofen; then goes undercover to persuade aircraft designer Anthony Fokker to defect from Germany.

32. Young Indiana Jones Travels With Father

Original U.S. Airdate: 6/16/1996

Indy feels like a stranger returning home from World War I. He recalls happier times with his father during a 1910 journey through the countryside of Russia and the ancient ruins of Athens.

Additional Credits

Credits common to all episodes

A few of the other credits

The numbers refer to the episode numbers in this guide

Disclaimer starting with episode 3

This is a work of fiction. While Young Indiana Jones is portrayed as taking part in historical events and meeting real figures in history, many of the characters in the story as well as the situations and scenes have been invented. In addition, where real historical figures and events are described, in some cases the chronology and historical facts have been altered for dramatic effect.

Miscellaneous Credits

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is a trademark of LUCASFILM LTD.
Presented in Dolby Surround
Produced in association with Amblin Television, Lucasfilm Television, Paramount (for ABC), The Family Channel (for Family Channel).

Other notes regarding this episode guide

The synopses for the episodes that aired in the U.S. were adapted from TV Guide listings.

For providing information and/or corrections thanks to Laurie Yadon, Lance Oshiro, Timo Mannikko, Kent Keltner, Randall Miyashiro, Greg Bole, Andreas Bewersdorff, Kathy Li, Ed Weiland, Quinn McCord, Rick Kitchen, Terry Gaetz, George Fergus, Sally Smith, Mike Brown, Lisle Brown, Kerrin Jones, Janne Kantola, Rick Heli, Danny Moses, Bart Barenbrug, Sebastiaan Nijhof, Michael Arvallius, Darryll Hobson, Sascha Krasny, Thorfinn Tait, Torsten Kracke, Gerhard Maierhofer, Mark Martinez, Donald Lowe, Leslie Ann Remencus, Russell Lee, Ted Staff, and Chris Daly.

Much thanks: to Nick Sauer for his Indiana Jones timeline from where the idea and some of the information for the timeline came from; to Steven Grimm and Edwin Yau for typing in some of the info; and to the people who made the guide available on the internet before this website came to be.

This guide is for personal use only and may be distributed freely. No charge may be made for this document beyond the costs of printing and distribution.