The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Season 2
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The now legendary, almost mythical character of Indiana Jones once had a childhood. Every episode starts out with the elderly man that he is in the 1990's getting into a specific situation where he has to tell a story from his past. The stories go back to when he was ten years old and on a world tour with his father, and to his late-teens when he fought in World War I.
Where to Watch Season 2
25 Episodes
- Germany, Mid-August 1916 (2)
E3Germany, Mid-August 1916 (2)Old man Indy is arrested for assaulting a young man and thrown into a crowded jail cell. He immediately starts plotting his escape, just like he did in 1916 when he was captured by the Germans in De Somme. After taking part in an escape attempt on his first day in a camp, young Indy was sent to the maximum security prison at Dunsterstadt on the Danube. - The Mystery of the Blues, Chicago, April 1920 (1)
E5The Mystery of the Blues, Chicago, April 1920 (1)Indy is at the University of Chicago and working as a part-time waiter in the spring of 1920. He is taught the basics of jazz by Sidney Bechet and then becomes involved in a murder investigation during Prohibition. - Princeton, February 1916
E7Princeton, February 1916Old Indy meets a man driving a monster truck with the biggest set of wheels he ever saw at the gas station. He is reminded of his own teenage dream of driving the hottest car to his junior prom in 1916: a Bugatti owned by his then girlfriends father, Edward Stratemeyer. While trying to get the engine repaired, Indy and Nancy helped solve a robbery case from Thomas Edison's laboratory. It seemed German spies were after Edison's new electric motor. - Petrograd, July 1917
E8Petrograd, July 1917Prof. Indiana Jones points out to a museum curator that a picture of the Russian revolution is labeled wrong. He knows it for sure because he was there. Working as a translator at the French embassy in Petrograd, Indy had befriended a group of young Bolshevik students. On his 18th birthday, they took him to hear Lenin himself giving a speech. Unfortunately, the speech inspires them to a premature revolution attempt. - The Scandal of 1920, New York, June 1920 (1)
E9The Scandal of 1920, New York, June 1920 (1)In New York City, Indy stretches himself thin when he stage-manages a Broadway musical, dates three beatiful women, attends high society parties, reads poetry with Greenwich Village bohemians and trades barbs with the literary wits of the Algonquin Round Table, all accompanied by composer George Gershwin. - The Perils of Cupid, Vienna, November 1908
E11The Perils of Cupid, Vienna, November 1908On a visit to Vienna, young Indy and his family stay with the American Ambassador in Austria where Indy meets Princess Sophie, the daughter of the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and is given some advice on the meaning of love from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. - Northern Italy, June 1918
E12Northern Italy, June 1918Old Indy snatches a parking place from under the noses of two squabbling commuters, then begins to lecture them about something he learned while in the Italian Alps during the Great War. While working as a spy to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side, Indy was wooing an Italian beauty named Giulietta in his spare time. However, another man was competing with him for the girl's affections. So, together with ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, Indy planned to crush the competition by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. - The Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916 (1)
E13The Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916 (1)November, 1916. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin have managed to get a transfer from the European trenches to the plains of Africa. On arrival they both receive a promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the Belgian Army. When they take the wrong train they end up in Moshi. Desprerate to join their unit in Lake Victoria, the two men bump into the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a unit of cranky old men led by Indy's old acquaintance Frederick Selous. Indy's passing knowledge of trains and fluent German comes in handy for the Fusiliers, who are about to go on a mission to find and destroy a Phantom Train that carries an enormous German artillery gun. After accomplishing their goal, Selous tricks Indy and Remy into joining his unit for another caper involving the capture of the German military strategist Colonel Von Lettow-Vorbeck. - Ireland, April 1916
E15Ireland, April 1916Although his daughter tells him that it's time to go to the Grandparents' Tea at Lucy's school, Old Indy would rather watch his soap and tell her about his stay in Ireland around the time of the Easter Rising of 1916. He and Remy had just arrived from Mexico and were waiting tables and washing dishes in order to get the fare to go to London. Indy tried to impress a girl called Maggie who assumed he must be rich, what with him being American. - Paris, September 1908
E16Paris, September 1908Professor Indiana Jones attends the auction of a Degas painting 'The Woman at her Toilet' which he claims to mean the world to him. He explains how he got involved in a quarrel between Degas and young Pablo Picasso in Paris, 1908. While there, Indy befriended a young American boy named Norman Rockwell and together they learned to appreciate the nuances of modern art. - Journey of Radiance, Peking, March 1910 (1)
E17Journey of Radiance, Peking, March 1910 (1)During a Thanksgiving dinner, professor Indiana Jones entertains his great-grandchildren by recalling a visit to China he made as a boy. While his father was working with the Chinese translator Yen Fu, young Indy, his mother and his tutor went sightseeing with their guide, Mr Li. After visiting the Great Wall of China, Indy fell ill during a rain storm and the travelers were taken in by a poor Chinese family. Dispite his mother's misgivings, she consented to have a local doctor treat her boy using acupuncture. - Paris, October 1916
E19Paris, October 1916While flipping through a gossip magazine at the supermarket, 93 year old Indiana Jones recounts his love affair with Mata Hari while visiting Paris on leave from the front in 1916. Unaware of Mata's involvement as a spy, 16 year old Indy became jealous when seeing her with other men, even though he admitted at the time that his feelings for Mata were not as strong as they had been for Vicky Prentiss in London five months earlier. - Istanbul, September 1918
E20Istanbul, September 1918Posing as neutral Swedish journalist 'Nils Anderson', Indiana Jones is trying to convince Turkish general Mustafa Kemal to form a separate piece with the allies instead of the Germans. His mission becomes jeopardized when he learns there is a traitor codenamed 'The Wolf' in his spy network. To complicate matters, Indy himself has fallen for Molly, a young American working at a Turkish orphanage, despite lying to her about his identity. - Prague, August 1917
E22Prague, August 1917Working as a Belgian spy during World War One, young Indiana Jones is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call. Unfortunately his hotel room turns out to be unequipped with a phone. Indy heads for the Ministry of Telephones, where he learns that having to confront Czech bureaucracy can be quite a trial. - Florence, May 1908
E23Florence, May 1908Old Indy is challenged to a game of pool in a bar and recounts the time he first studied the laws of physics while visiting Florence, Italy in 1908. With her husband away in Rome, Anna Jones found herself enchanted by the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Stricken by love, the impulsive Italian went as far as to ask her to leave her husband for him. - Transylvania, January 1918
E25Transylvania, January 1918On Halloween, old Indy tells a ghost story to three trick or treaters concerning a mission he undertook near the end of the Great War. As part of a small team of special agents, young Indy was sent to Transylvania to find out why General Targo has raided a German P.O.W. camp. They soon found out the mysterious General had taken up impaling his enemies, just like Vlad Tepes used to in the 15th century
