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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 7
Runtime: 90 min.
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Premiered: 1992

Format:

Series

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Family

Created By:

George Lucas

Actors:

Corey Carrier, George Hall, Lloyd Owen, Margaret Tyzack, Ronny Coutteure, Ruth De Sosa, Sean Patrick Flanery

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

ABC

If you are any­thing like me, you are fans of the Indi­ana Jones movies. And with this series, you will go back to your child­hood when you first saw them and even with­out so much action, mys­tery and adven­ture from the movies, you will be charmed by this lit­tle boy. George Lucas (with some help from Steven Spiel­berg) is cre­ator of this series con­tin­u­ing the great suc­cess of three orig­i­nal Indy movies from the eighties.

Even though idea of cash­ing on the suc­cess of the movies in the dif­fer­ent for­mat, this is not sim­ply a sell-​out series, but really thought out his­tory of famous Indy, help­ing us under­stand how the great archae­ol­o­gist and adven­turer came to be.

Story and Characters

When Junior was a young boy he ven­tured with his par­ents into the world. Great influ­ence on his devel­op­ment had his tutor Helen Sey­mor (played by Mar­garet Tyzack). She was a tutor to his father too. From movies you know that Indy had only some rela­tions with his father how was more inter­ested in phi­los­o­phy and lit­er­a­ture. And he was absent a lot, away from home, or locked in the study, reading.

Lloyd Owen is in the role of Henry Jones and he played the part well. I was always a great fan of Sean Con­nery and his per­for­mance in the movies in the role of Henry was amaz­ing. But Lloyd Owen did a decent job fol­low­ing in Connery’s foot­steps. Corey Car­rier is in the role of young Indy (at age of 10 — 13) proved to be a great choice for the role. Same goes for Sean Patrick Flan­ery play­ing the older teenage Indy.

On his adven­tures, young Indy will meet many famous peo­ple includ­ing Freud, Tol­stoy, Roo­sevelt, Al Capone and may oth­ers. And from he early age he man­ages to get him­self into trou­ble. But, you will not see much of buried trea­sures or ancient traps and tombs.

Pro­duc­tion

Series pre­miered in 1992 on ABC. With no extra spe­cial effects but filmed all over the world, this series is no match to movies visu­ally, but it’s still great enter­tain­ment. It’s tar­geted for kids and teenagers, and all fans of Indi­ana Jones. But, Lucas being Lucas, years later he order that all episodes be reed­ited and from total of 22 ini­tial full fea­ture episodes, 45 were made with dif­fer­ent, chrono­log­i­cal order of events.

Series episodes were directed by many direc­tors includ­ing some very big names like Frank Darabont and Terry Jones. Also, many great guest stars were part of the series includ­ing Cather­ine Zeta-​Jones, Daniel Craig, Christo­pher Lee, Elizabeth Hur­ley and many others.

Con­clu­sion

I really love this type of chil­dren series, they are nice, sim­ple, you can watch them with­out fear, every­thing is good. And this is one for the col­lec­tion, so you can watch them with your kids.