Young Indy hits DVD October 23!

[Prime Clone]

At least, Volume 1 of 3. TV Shows on DVD has the scoop. The perfect appetizer for Indy IV!

 

[tomandshell]

I might be tempted to break my non-HD home video prohibition and pick this up.

 

[dekadentdave]

More like Young Cindy.

 

[galactiboy]

I remember liking this show when it was first on... but then seeing it years later and it being really bad.

I'll have to Netflix this to see which memory was more accurate

 

[Darklord Dave]

I'm betting BOTH memories are accurate.

The 20 something Indy is very cool, with some great history lessons built in. The kid Indy is an obnoxious brat and his parents are boring.

I'm definitely picking it up though - Lucas tried something truly revolutionary with this show - trying to make learning fun. And I think he partially succeeded.

 

[Jair]

Always though it was a very underated TV show, have a few episodes on VHS I bought a long time back, it had some really good guest stars with the older Indy episodes.

Glad to see it coming to DVD, heck almost every other TV show is these days.


Evan

 

[galactiboy]

Crap I didn't even remember their being two Indys! Was it the same series, just different ages dependent on the story?

 

[Murderofcrows71]

I'll at least get it for the Mystery of the Blues episode Harrison Ford was actually in

 

[IrishJedi]

I'll at least get it for the Mystery of the Blues episode Harrison Ford was actually in

(Trivia) Which was shot on his property in Jackson Hole, Wyoming during the dead of winter. Also, Spielberg was originally supposed to direct that episode but had to back out due to schedule conflicts. Lucas directed the Harrison Ford scenes.

As far as the show, I am with the consensus here that it was hit or miss. Some of the 20-ish Indy episodes with Sean Patrick Flannery were good... most of the child Indy ones were awful.

I specifically remember the "Verdun" episode being pretty great, though. It's the one where Indy is a motorbike messenger for the allies during the battle of Verdun in World War I.

 

[Darthrazz]

The WWI epsiode is the one that I really remember the most. The young Indy was annoying.

I heard a rumor that the old Indy with the eyepatch was removed entirely from the DVD set and some episodes were going to be re-edited and re-named. Did anyone else read this?


Here's what I had read, I found it, it's from Wikipedia:

The revised and updated edition of the book George Lucas The Creative Impulse, by Charles Champlin, explains how The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series would be re-edited into the new structure of twenty-two Chapter TV films. New footage was shot in 1996 to be incorporated with the newly re-edited and re-titled "chapters" to better help it chronologically and filmicly. Two Indy segments shot, which were Tangiers, 1908 and Morocco, 1917 is explained that, Morocco, 1917 is joined with Northern Italy, 1918 (now re-dated as 1917) to form Tales of Innocence. As Rick McCallum indicated, the new Corey Carrier segment, Tangiers, goes with the Egypt segment of the original Curse of The Jackal, but the title is now My First Adventure.
The original pilot, Young Indiana Jones and The Curse of The Jackal is no more. As stated Egypt is now a part of My First Adventure, and Mexico has been hooked up with Princeton, 1916 to form Spring Break Adventure. The 93-year-old Indy bookends for the original series are gone. Also gone is Sean Patrick Flanery's bookend for Travels With Father. It would seem that bookend was dropped, so that it could be expanded into the second half of Winds Of Change. Even with all these bookends cut, Harrison Ford is still in The Mystery of The Blues.
The new collection also includes the four episodes that were made for the ABC network that never aired. Including Florence, May 1908, Prague, Aug. 1917, Transylvania, Jan. 1918, and Palestine, 1917 (note that the dates of these episodes have changed to be a part of the collection). Palestine may end up as the most interesting as it has been made into a film of its own, versus the one-hour version that aired in Europe. As stated above Tangiers, 1908 and Morocco, 1917 were filmed just for this collection. Finally, the little bit of Princeton, 1919 that was shown in the Family Channel's airing of Young Indiana Jones Travels With Father, was actually a part of its own one-hour story now combined with Paris, May 1919.

 

[Darklord Dave]

93 year old Indy is gone? Could that mean they plan to kill him off in Indy 4?

I'm all for improvements, so I don't really care about changes, as long as it's not cut for stupid reasons.

 

[IrishJedi]

93 year old Indy is gone? Could that mean they plan to kill him off in Indy 4?

Well, I'll save Dekadent Dave the time and answer...

...No, it's because Harrison Ford is playing the 93 year old Indy in INDY 4.

 

[Prime Clone]

More info on the DVD release (along with some interesting SW stuff)

 

[hairlesswookiee]

am i the only person that doesn't remember watching this show???