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 I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" is "Florence, May 1908", rated 5/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Florence, May 1908" aired on 8/6/1993 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Palestine, October 1917 - Part 1".
5.0/10 1 votes#1 - Florence, May 1908
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 8/6/1993
Young Indy travels to Florence, Italy with his parents and Helen Seymour, his tutor, where Helen gives him lessons in physics, with examples from Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci. Meanwhile, when Indy's father is temporarily away, the family, notably Indy's mother is charmed by the Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/10 1 votes
#2 - Palestine, October 1917 - Part 1
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 8/15/1993
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/10 1 votes
#3 - Transylvania, January 1918
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 8/22/1993
No description available
Director: Dick Maas
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh
- 6.8/10 142 votes
#4 - Ireland, April 1916
Season 2 Episode 15 - 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
- 6.8/10 144 votes
#5 - Paris, October 1916
Season 2 Episode 19 - 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
6.9/10 207 votes#6 - 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
- 7.0/10 134 votes
#7 - The Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916 (2)
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/5/1993
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 337 votes#8 - 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
7.1/10 166 votes#9 - The Scandal of 1920, New York, June 1920 (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - 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
- 7.1/10 141 votes
#10 - Paris, September 1908
Season 2 Episode 16 - 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
- 7.1/10 143 votes
#11 - Prague, August 1917
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 7/31/1993
Indy is shipped off to Prague for another mission, this time a very mysterious mission, where Indy is thwarted continuously and Franz Kafka offers him assistance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 173 votes#12 - The Mystery of the Blues, Chicago, May 1920 (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 163 votes
#13 - The Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916 (1)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/5/1993
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 133 votes
#14 - Journey of Radiance, Peking, March 1910 - Part 1
Season 2 Episode 17 - 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
- 7.3/10 135 votes
#15 - Istanbul, September 1918
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 7/17/1993
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 468 votes#16 - The Mystery of the Blues, Chicago, April 1920 (1)
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
7.4/10 129 votes#17 - Princeton, February 1916
Season 2 Episode 7 - 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
7.4/10 316 votes#18 - Petrograd, July 1917
Season 2 Episode 8 - 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
- 7.4/10 147 votes
#19 - Northern Italy, June 1918
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/17/1993
No description available
Director: Bille August, Michael Schultz
Writer: Jonathan Hales
7.5/10 139 votes#20 - 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
7.5/10 152 votes#21 - 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
7.7/10 158 votes#22 - 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
- 7.7/10 160 votes
#23 - Paris, May 1919
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 7/24/1993
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 164 votes#24 - 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
7.9/10 149 votes#25 - Germany, Mid-August 1916 - Part 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