Must See Series: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

(The Young Indiana Jones is on Netflix)

Watching that trailer makes me want to watch the show all over again!

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, 1992-1996, has got to be one of the best series to ever grace the small screen.  It always amazes me how few people have actually seen it, and those who haven't are missing out.  The storytelling is fun and adventurous, and the production quality is incredibly high, so high that the show's expensive budget got the series canceled.  Young Indiana Jones traveled the World, and the show was filmed on location in many countries. 

     (All the Countries the "Young Indiana Jones" visits.  Source Info)

The show lasted for two seasons from 1992-1993.  Then in 1994-1996, four made for television movies were produced.  In 1999 all the material was then re-edited into 22 episodes, which is found in the box-sets.  The show starts out with Corey Carrier playing Indiana Jones (ages 8-10), but by the end of the first volume Sean Patrick Flanery plays Indiana Jones (ages 16-21) for the rest of the series, and he makes a fantastic Indiana Jones!  He really does . . . I'm tempted to say I like him more then Harrison Ford.  No, I can't say that!  Sean Flanery does the role justice.  By the way, Harrison Ford did guest star in the Jazz themed episode "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues".

If you can afford the box-sets they're worth the investment.  Each episode is pared with quite a few mini documentaries which talk about the culture Indiana Jones visits and the famous people he meets, and Jones meets many famous people.  I'm pretty sure Norman Rockwell and Picasso never met in Paris, but it's still fun.

Oh, and that 4th Indiana Jones movie about the Crystal Skulls, turns out the crystal skulls were supposed to be a plot point in a season 3 episode.  It makes me wonder: If season 3 got produced, would there have been an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?  Some series should never be canceled . . .