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The Worst Episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Every episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles!

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Journey of Radiance, Benares, January 1910 (2)" is the worst rated episode of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". It scored 6.8/10 based on 146 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/3/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "British East Africa, September 1909".

  • Journey of Radiance, Benares, January 1910 (2)
    6.8/10146 votes
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    #1 - Journey of Radiance, Benares, January 1910 (2)

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/3/1993

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • British East Africa, September 1909
    6.9/10215 votes
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    #2 - British East Africa, September 1909

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/1992

    Indy is at the Metropolitan Foundation for Educational Quality's Annual Celebrity Tennis Shoe Auction & Dinner, at the City Hotel & Conference Center. Two women sit at his table; one is an animal rights activist and vegetarian while the other holds opposing views. The two begin to fight, with Indy in the middle. He tells them that it reminds him of when he and his family were on his father's world lecture tour, and were invited to a coffee plantation in British East Africa that was owned by a friend of his father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Journey of Radiance, Peking, March 1910 (1)
    7.0/10138 votes
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    #3 - Journey of Radiance, Peking, March 1910 (1)

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/26/1993

    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. English Deutsch Italiano Français

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal
    7.1/10344 votes
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    #4 - Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/1992

    Indiana Jones describes to two truant boys his early life with his family and his dog. In Oxford 1908, Indy meets Helen Seymour, whom Henry requests to teach him on their voyage to Egypt. After an expedition to the pyramids, T. E. Lawrence invites Indy to the excavation of Ka's tomb, where he meets his friend Rashid, assistant to archeologist Howard Carter. The next day, Rashid is found murdered and the jackal headpiece stolen. Dimitrius, the chief blaster of the excavation, is revealed to be behind this, but he flees. In Mexico 1916, Indy is captured by Mexican revolutionaries, but is rescued by a Belgian called Remy. As Indy gets involved in the war, he recognises Dimitrius, who is collaborating with the US. After hearing how hypocritically the revolutionaries act, Indy and Remy decide to leave but not before Indy fights and defeats Dimitrius, to recover the jackal.

    Director: Carl Schultz, Jim O'Brien

    Writer: Jonathan Hales, George Lucas

  • The Perils of Cupid, Vienna, November 1908
    7.1/10171 votes
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    #5 - The Perils of Cupid, Vienna, November 1908

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/1993

    On 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.

    Director: Mike Newell

    Writer: Matthew Jacobs

  • Paris, October 1916
    7.1/10145 votes
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    #6 - Paris, October 1916

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/10/1993

    When Indy goes on leave in Paris and engages in a torrid affair with infamous spy Mata Hari and she shows him that love isn't always grand.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Princeton, February 1916
    7.2/10175 votes
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    #7 - Princeton, February 1916

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/1993

    Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer (whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series) visit the fascinating laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison and they must contend with dangerous German spies, as they try to keep Edison's top-secret invention safe.

    Director: Joe Johnston

    Writer: Matthew Jacobs

  • Paris, September 1908
    7.2/10168 votes
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    #8 - Paris, September 1908

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/19/1993

    Young Indy meets the iconic artists Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Edgar Degas and Henri Rousseau in Paris.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Istanbul, September 1918
    7.3/10137 votes
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    #9 - Istanbul, September 1918

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/17/1993

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues
    7.4/10472 votes
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    #10 - Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/13/1993

    While going to college and working in a speakeasy, Indy meets up jazz great Sidney Bechet who teaches him how to play the blues. Unfortunately, Indy also crosses paths with Al Capone and it's only with the assistance of his dorm roommate, Eliot Ness, that Indy is able to solve a vicious murder and prevent himself from ending up dead.

    Director: Carl Schultz

    Writer: Jule Selbo

  • Petrograd, July 1917
    7.4/10132 votes
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    #11 - Petrograd, July 1917

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/27/1993

    In Russia, Indy's espionage work threatens more lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to sympathize with their plight, and causes Indy to question his loyalty.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920
    7.4/10318 votes
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    #12 - Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/1993

    In New York City, Indy stretches himself thin when he stage-manages a Broadway musical, dates three beautiful 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.

    Director: Sydney Macartney

    Writer: Jonathan Hales

  • Ireland, April 1916
    7.4/10150 votes
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    #13 - Ireland, April 1916

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/12/1993

    In Ireland right before the Easter Rebellion, Indy falls for a beautiful young Colleen, whose brother is mixed up in the Irish resistance movement.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Austria, March 1927
    7.5/10143 votes
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    #14 - Austria, March 1927

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1992

    Indy, in an attempt to end the war, enlists the aid of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of the Emperor of Austria.

    Director: Vic Armstrong

    Writer: Frank Darabont

  • Barcelona, May 1917
    7.5/10155 votes
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    #15 - Barcelona, May 1917

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1992

    Indy goes undercover as a dancer for the Ballet Russes in Spain, where he runs into an old friend, Pablo Picasso.

    Director: Terry Jones

    Writer: Gavin Scott

  • Congo, January 1917
    7.7/10163 votes
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    #16 - Congo, January 1917

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/1992

    Being treated for a bee-sting to his toe, old man Indy recounts the time he spent in Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital in Africa during the Great War. Schweitzer and his orderlies had picked up Indy and companions near death while attempting to bring a shipment of guns across the Congo. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon began to realize that Schweitzer was not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • German East Africa, December 1916
    7.8/10168 votes
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    #17 - German East Africa, December 1916

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/1992

    Indy (as Lieutenant Henri Defense) leads his Askari African soldiers to victory in an attack on an enemy stronghold and is promoted to Captain. His unit is sent across the Belgian Congo on an important mission, but most die of disease and exhaustion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Germany, Mid-August 1916 (2)
    7.9/10152 votes
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    #18 - Germany, Mid-August 1916 (2)

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1992

    Indy is captured by the Germans and confined to a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to escape.

    Director: Simon Wincer

    Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh

  • Northern Italy, June 1918
    7.9/10123 votes
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    #19 - Northern Italy, June 1918

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/1993

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    Director: Bille August, Michael Schultz

    Writer: Jonathan Hales

  • Verdun, September 1916
    8.0/10178 votes
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    #20 - Verdun, September 1916

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/1992

    Indiana Jones (as Corporal Henri Defense) is working as a motorcycle courier for the French army. He has numerous close calls delivering orders to officers on the front line. When General Joseph Joffre gives Indy orders that will send men to certain death, Indy makes a courageous decision.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • London, May 1916
    8.1/10329 votes
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    #21 - London, May 1916

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/1992

    While having a meeting with his financier, Dr. Indiana Jones is reminded of the great love of his life, Vicky Prentiss. He met her in London in 1916 when she was working as a bus conductor and he was trying to pick up another woman (a war widow to be precise). Indy and Remy had just arrived to enlist in the Belgian army and were waiting to be send to La Havre for training.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Somme, Early August 1916 (1)
    8.1/10164 votes
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    #22 - Somme, Early August 1916 (1)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1992

    As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme and amongst all the turmoil, Indy wonders if he won't live to see the war end.

    Director: Simon Wincer

    Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh

  • Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom
    8.1/10206 votes
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    #23 - Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/5/1993

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Paris, May 1919
    8.2/10129 votes
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    #24 - Paris, May 1919

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 7/24/1993

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A