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The Hollywood Follies.

Indy goes to hollywood, What is up with that? It wouldn't have bothered me if the hollywood setting played a small role in the adventure, (like the Club Obi Wan scene in Temple of doom) but to have an entire episode in Hollywood? that was bad.

This reminds me of a line in the movie "The Three Amigos" where the studio head tells the Amigos that they strayed from the formula, not anticipating the negative reaction to a Three Amigos short where the amigos take a holiday in Manhattan.

I saw the same thing here. That episode was too much.

Needs a new category for the *****/DVD release. While the supplements are top-notch, the complete removal of Old Indy and bridging different episodes with extremely poorly-shot new footage is pretty unforgivable.

I remember really loving this show. However I do understand why it got cancelled. The show was quite expensive and it often dealt with historical periods Americans are uninterested in or ignorant of. Still it was good while it lasted.

Criticising the programme for Indy meeting historical characters every week is missing the point. That was part of this series's cheeky charm. I enjoyed it tremendously. It was repackaged on repeats a few years ago, with two episodes joined together, without the 'old Indy' bookends. This workes well, as the audience does not really need to be told so-and-so was later famous etc etc.

This show NEVER JUMPED! It was outstanding and stunning it was a regular TV show. When they had two hour specials you felt like you were in the theater watching a major motion picture. Yes the ones with teenage Indy were better and the majority of them had him in them. I became more interested in World War I because of this show and I think that is good. George Lucas wanted to do that. Yes, it was a bit absurd how he met so many famous people--they should have not done that every episode and the old man Indy at the beginning and end was a bit annoying but it was a great show. It was Ernest Hemmingway who he fought over a girl for--they both lost. One other problem, yes was it would come on and go off, it was off the air for like four months and then came back but I do not think it got bad then. Some episodes were a lot better than others but it sill was great and my all time favorite was in Africa where he and Remmy (I liked Remmi spelling? but many seem not to like him in this voting) got lost trying to catch up with the Belgian army and Indy becomes a hero destroying the Germans secret weapon and then Indy, Remmi and a famous German general get caught together in a balloon, and more! I love that time period in my life when the show was on (early 90s particularly 1993) it was a fun time and I have fond memories of it and Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The fantastic movies worked as a comic book series better than a TV series. Harrison Ford was a big reason that the movies worked so well. Without him, the character was nothing.

This was absolutely one of the best shows on TV for the first nine or ten episodes. It was SO well-made and I had my first serious celebrity crush on Sean Patrick Flanery. But it went off the air for a while, maybe six weeks, and then it became garbage. I would like to take this opportunity to reminisce, though. Every week Indy was caught up in something so HUMAN...he's not a strapping superhero, but just a kid who has to make tough decisions and struggles with life. More often than anything, Indy was our witness to our history. (Bear with me, I'm taking a serious stroll down memory lane here; and if anyone else remembers these episodes, feel free to comment! I'd love to know I'm not the only one out there.) One week I recall, he was acting as a spy for the American army; he found out that the opposition had a terrible weapon called Big Bertha but his commander wanted the battle to go on anyway, even though all the soldiers would have died. So he torches his motorcycle with the commander's message rather than let a massacre happen...it was all really beautiful. Another episode had the littler Indy going on safari with Teddy Roosevelt and stopping him from hunting the game. Realistic? Absolutly not, but true to a child's nature, defending a wild creature that can't defend itself. Of course, you find out later that Roosevelt just told him he wouldn't hunt anymore, but then whispered to an assistant to find better hunting areas. That's an adult thing to do too...keep quiet till the kid is out of the way, and what he doesn't know won't hurt him. The best part was the ending, where the elderly Indy told this story at dinner to ladies who were arguing about eating meat vs. vegetarianism. And when he gets up, they turn to each other and say, "what was that all about? I don't really know." (Another great plot device...the old Indy telling stories of his youth and how they compare to the present. Digressing, sorry.) There was one where teen Indy was captured by the opposition and spent the whole episode trying to figure out how to escape. Finally, he and a comrade faked their deaths, figuring they'd go to a cemetery. Instead, they'd gone to a crematorium and had to figure out how to get out of the truck! It was really wonderful. AND there was the episode where he became some sort of army brigade leader and got a piece of information about the other army, but he couldn't share it with his men because he knew one was a double agent. Which one? That's what he had to figure out. Also, the suffragette one that someone mentioned earlier (I didn't know that was Elizabeth Hurley, but hey, cool), where they talked about what those women had to go through to be allowed to vote. Makes you think twice about what freedom's worth sometimes when you hear stuff like that, especially because it was ALL TRUE (check out the history books if you don't believe me). And when his friend Remy was injured and kept saying that he was in pain, but later told Indy he was just faking because he couldn't go back to the battlefield. It must have happened a lot, but h0ow many times do you hear about that? And then he met the African tribal chief and told him about the war. The chief told him that they had a policy; when one tribe killed men in war, they had to return that number of men from their tribe to the tribe whose men they'd killed. The chief asked Indy, "How many men died? Three?" And Indy said, "More than three." The chief asked, "Ten?" and Indy just couldn't say the truth, so instead, he says, "Yes, ten men." And the chief said, "It must be a terrible war if ten men have died." It was a major commentary about the need for war and the innocence of people who use it for a true last resort. (Are you listening, George Bush?) Then...for whatever reason, they decided to switch the time slot around, which was bad enough. But when it came back from being off the air for a month or so, it was just NEVER the same show. The only episode from that time that sticks out in my mind is when Indy and some buddy of his who's now the black-haired guy on the Drew Carey show were fighting over some girl and did cheesy things like one-up each other's flower bouquets that they sent her. It wasn't the first show back from its hiatus, but I remember because it's the one when I realized the show would never be the same. It was just cliched and awful, and I gave up, my heart broken (sniff). By the way, Indy meeting tons of famous people in this episode was more realistic than the movie where he finds the Holy Grail, but who cares? Most archaeologists spend three weeks digging just to find some broken teacup from three thousand years ago, but you don't want to spend money to watch a movie about that. So give them a break for injecting interesting stuff into the show. I certainly could forgive the idea that he learned a country's language in three days. Pretty damn impossible but still. Incidentally...they DID make a show called Superboy, which got the homicidal time slot of like 2PM Saturday afternoons. So that proves the point of a show's name making or breaking it, I guess.

I liked the show, honestly. But I was looking for whip-crackin', bad-guy-beatin', artifact findin' fun in every episode - but with a kid in a fadora. But in my younger, A.D.D.-inspired lust for action, I found myself not only bored to tears by the history and geography lessons, but I also started to wonder how in the HELL one kid managed to run into every person with ANY historical significance from 1912 through the show's conclusion. Indiana Jones is the coolest action hero-esque character of all time, but to think he ran into Elliot Ness, Vlad the Impaler,the Red Baron, and Ernest Hemingway (among others) is completely insane! Even I knew that!

You know, I really liked this show. But they jumped at the get-go. "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" is quite possibly the worst name for a show, ever. You're alienating part of your potential audience when you call can a show the young anything. Plus, televised prequels of sucessful movies are suspect enough, so you have to be sly about it. Would "The Young Superman (-boy?) Adventures" make it past the episode three? No, that's why you call it "Smallville."

Right....pleeease bare with me (i do ramble- but i really do guarantee that i will get to the point)- I would also like to say that i know ALOT OF PEOPLE LOVE THIS SHOW- this is only MY opinion- and im sorry...i just dont like it...so here goes! The movie 'Jaws'.....you have seen it, right? Its a FANTASTIC MOVIE...now not everyones cup of tea- but almost universally heralded as a great and classic move- acted, scripted and directed wonderfully.... speilbergs best (some might say) fantastic characterisations- Guilt ridden, frail, bad, mad, misguided, complicated people- who MAY or MAYNOT DIE.....nothing is obvious the first time u saw this film.... shocking and scary (OH MY GOD THE LITTLE KITCHINER BOY GETS EATEN)- and despite the rubber shark.........the film is very very good- Speilberg oviously is a natural entertainer- his writing and ideas shine on his masterpeice....roll on INDIANNA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK!- combine the talents of (at the time) GOD-LIKE LUCUS (seriously- he was good then....not now though) to make another masterpeice- INDY 1!!!!! (or 2 if u put em in chronilogical order.....hmmmmmmm ,must look up spelling of chronilogical) Now this film rules- INDY IS FANTASTIC - anti hero (always good) - rough - rugged - good - but also bad when confronted with evil/money - childish - arrogant- - petty - brave - brilliant....etcetcetc- you get that he rules!! another 'jaws-alike' character- her isnt straight forward- he cant be 'put in a box'- we love him. and the film is scary violent fun bright brilliant breathtaking suprising and sexy...... it was also quite dark and morally all over the place- NICE!!! we loved it..... TEMPLE (which i hated when i first saw it- but now love it dearly) was good....but a bit lighter- yes it was gory and violent...but all very comic book...we were never as scared or on edge as in raiders. lets not discuss LAST CRUISADE...but it is still a good film.... the thing is.......Speilberg has gone nuts....so has Lucus........money and power...and thousands of people worshiping them as god like storytellers- naturally they begin to love us as children! THIS IS WHERE IT GOES WRONG!!!! we are not their children- we are their friends- but the treat us as children...and as you know- good parents shield their children from the wrong things in the world........ which is WRONG (but im no parent) we dont need sheilding- we need to KNOW! we need to experience- enjoy- fear and debate the morals- we dont need someone to make the rules for us or to protect us...but thats what they do......NONONONONONOOOOO MY CHILDREN WILL NOT SEE MEN WITH GUNS- MY CHILDREN WILL NOT SEE THE BAD IN GOOD PEOPLE- THE BAD WILL WEAR BLACK- THE GOOD WILL WEAR WHITE- NO GUNS- NO SHOOTING- NO KNIFE EDGE DANGER...NO REAL THREATS- ALL GOOD! (i point out E.T. remastered- mmmmmmmmmm) (i point out...JURSSIC PARK TRILOGY....not one person shoots a dino....now this isnt real)...they are over protective, naive and wrong...and i dont like it..... Now dont get me wrong...i hate guns- i am all for it being made illegal for the public to own guns- but that doesnt mean i dont think they are COOOOOOL (coz they are) they look good and are fantastic fantasy on film....i also love real people- not saturday morning TV cut outs- ooooh villian is all in black- he smokes- he takes drugs- he is sexist and hates kids- the hero dresses in white- he is pure- blond- blue eyed (oh my god im not even going there) he is generous- a bit comically faulted (hilarious sexisim or joky meanness etc) etc....... NOW YOUNG INDY IS ALL THIS PREDICTABLE BALL-LESS DRIVEL- occasional brilliance- but poor poor poor unenspired stories AND OH MY GOD ARE YOU EDUCATING WHILE U ENTERTAIN or are you just taking the p*ss with the "HEY LOOK ITS CHARLIE CHAPLIN" or this week " HEY ITS YOUNG AL CAPONE" (alcapone being a lovely cheeky fellow who certainly didnt kill anyone- coz he is Indys zany chum".....blah blah blah im getting angry now writing this...but to sum it up- SPEILBERG AND LUCUS TREAT US LIKE KIDS AND MAKE CRUDDY FILMS FOR FAMILIES- get some balls boys- give us entertainment for adults- we will love u again young indiana Jones SUCKED!

This show never jumped. Every show was movie quality, which is the reason George Lucas cited for giving up on it (too expensive). The special effects were above and beyond anything on tv then or since. One can only imagine Jones, as we eventually see him, was influenced greatly by the historic characters he encountered. Furthermore he had really good hair.

From the beginning. I love the Raiders movies and Harrison Ford. That's the problem. It's not fair or logical, but I can't help how I feel. The kid is NOT Indiana Jones to me. He's not Harrison Ford. Here I thought every week would be a great adventure and instead all I got was a boring history lesson. And what are the chances that young Indy would meet a legend *every* time he left the house? I did like the one where he falls for Vicky, the suffragette. Wow...Elizabeth Hurley. Who knew? And the end where they meet again 50 years later was sweet. I did see Harrison Ford in YIJ and the Mystery of the Blues (ugh...awful title...sounds like a Nancy Drew book). Very disappointed that HF only appeared at the beginning and the end. And I did check the unofficial website and found out that Indy had a grandson named Spike! Who'd he marry? Wish he and Marion Ravenwood had gotten together.

I watched it religiously, but it was never on the same night. For me, the pre-Monday Night Football time slot was perfect, but I remember it debuted on Sunday, then was moved to Thursday. Then I recall seeing it on Saturday. One of my closet friends said, "I loved that show, but it was never on the same night every week. I could never find it." I don't know who wanted that show to die, but someone did. If it would have been on the same night every week, it would have lasted longer than a handful of episodes. I think you should consider making "Time Slot Change" as a category because a lot of shows have "jumped" because of it but YIJC is the poster child for time slot changes ruining a show.

I don't think it ever jumped the shark. It was a good, action packed, historical show. I enjoyed watching every show (until it was cancelled).

The Pilot was fun, where Indy met Lawrence of Arabia and George Patton before Either one was famous, but it began to wear thin awfully fast.