The YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES has FINALLY shown up in Canada digitally. $40 for the whole shebang on iTunes. It was never on Disney+ here like it was in the States (also be aware that D+ has removed all the Indy movies except DIAL and they were shunted back over to Paramount+; I guess the deal was only for a year?)
And TECHNICALLY it's THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES; which was when Lucas (in 1999) had the show re-edited into 22 Feature Length "films", removed the bookends that featured George Hall as an eye-patched 93 year old Indy "telling the stories"...also could that have been a stronger homage to Spielberg's fanboy director John Ford? Anyways, I recall MUCH preferring the re-edited movie cuts of the show as they flowed so much better and made it more digestible...but I don't care as much for removing Hall's bookends as they felt fun....but IIRC it was in service to the final made for TV movie they made where a bearded 50-year old Harrison Ford played Indy for the Bookends...which I accept the loss of Hall if it meant we got a single outing where Ford played Indy in the 50's.
I feel like I should clearly explain what Indiana Jones meant to me as a kid. I saw RAIDERS on TV when I was probably 7-ish? and I was spellbound, and then I wanted my parents to take me to see TEMPLE in theatres, but they felt it was a bit too much for me that age...but that didn't stop me from watching it in 1986 when it came out on VHS, and then my dad and I went to see THE LAST CRUSADE in theatres in 1989...it's probably the most bonded we ever were about anything. He was sporty and I was bookish, so he wanted me to play baseball and soccer and I wanted to read, or watch movies...Indy gave us common ground. That common ground was so strong that around the release of CRUSADE they did limited firings of decorative plates (one with Indy and his whip in the Grail temple, and the other with Indy and his dad) and my dad ordered us both, he kept the one with Connery and I have the one with just Indy. It's still on my shelf, and so is his at his house 36 years later.
Indy kickstarted my love of history that continued throughout my schooling and into my adult years...in fact if you asked me in my teens what I wanted to be in a career, I alway said archeologist. I had a few obsessions in my youth, but Indy was in the top 3. When they did the first special boxed set of the original trilogy of films on VHS at Blockbuster, there was a deal where if you pre-ordered it, you got a costume fedora with it. I made my mom preorder it for me, and then when we went to the store to get it on release day, I got the set but they didn't have the fedora and they tried to tell me that they would not be getting them...so I kept coming back every few days until they finally go them. I wore the SHIT out of that hat....and I was a 13 year old kid in the 90's. Crazy talk.
Anyways, Young Indy hit right at the right time for me as it gave me that "expanded universe" thing and though the eps with child Indy (Corey Carrier; who has since given up acting) are less solid for me (the guy who plays the dad is PERFECT though), the Sean Patrick Flannery ones were Chefs Kiss. I think my other fave thing is the money they spent on this show. They shot on location for EVERYTHING...Like if the are in Egypt, the actors were in Egypt, china? They were in China. Brazil? They were in Brazil. Lucasiflm's momentary commitment to a show that was essentially the campy TV version of Indy was immense.
Anyways, I'm jazzed as hell to finally be able to re-watch all these. Last re-watch of them was about 2010, so a long time ago now.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 08 May 2025 - 04:13 PM
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