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''The [[Young Indiana Jones]] Chronicles'' was a TV series produced by [[George Lucas]] in the early 1990s. Initially taking the form of hour-long episodes, the show chronicled the adventures of Indy as a young man, principally at the ages of 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, while the Flanery episodes primarily deal with Indy’s service in [[World War OneI]] (in just about every theater!). In each episode, Indy would meet some famous person from the early 20th century, and learn some sort of moral lesson (yes, [[George Lucas|Lucas]] very openly intended the series as edutainment). Notably, the show aired in a very [[Anachronic Order]], with Carrier's and Flanery's episodes often alternating. Each episode was also initially introduced by a 93-year old Indy with an [[Eyepatch of Power]]. One episode however, had a bearded [[Harrison Ford]] introduce the adventure.

[[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 ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Prequel|prequels]]. Also like ''[[Star Wars]]'', the series was subject to subsequent [[Re CutRecut|furious re-editing by Lucas]], the new cuts first showing up during re-airings in the late '90s. This re-cut version, which is the only one currently available on DVD, is known as ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones''. The ''Adventures'' combines the ''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). Notably, none of the Old Indy bookends are featured in the ''Adventures'' (though Harrison Ford's cameo survived the cuts).

The franchise is also fondly remembed for the two [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] adventure games it spawned: an adaptation of ''The Last Crusade'' in 1989, and an original [[Adventure Game|cinematic adventure]] story, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'', in 1992. The latter had the [[Fan Nickname]] of ''Indy 4'' for many years, creating speculation that it would be [[What Could Have Been|made into a film]].

* ''[[Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures]]''

** In the TV series episode ''Palestine, October 1917'', that takes place in the Middle East during [[World War OneI]], Indiana is helped in a mission by a local agent that is very much like Sallah. [[Averted Trope|He is not however]], as [[All There in the Script|revealed]] by being named Kazim in the credits.

* [[Franchise -Driven Retitling]]: You may have noticed above a shift in the names. Once the franchise's popularity was secured, a franchise wide titling pattern of "Indiana Jones and the..." was introduced. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was later renamed to "Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark".

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Marcus Brody. Though in the first movie he lamented that if he was as young as Indy he would have went on his adventure. Though most people who seen Crusade have labeled him a clumsy oaf that got lost in his own museum; he was willing to put his complaint in Raiders aside to help Indy rescue Henry. He even had enough cojones to knock a Nazi out with an Artillery shell.