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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: DVD sets don’t come more generous or well-intended than The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One. George Lucas’ 1990s television series, inspired by his feature film collaborations with Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford, used a childhood version of Jones as a catalyst for involving young viewers in the dynamics of 20th century history and thought. As much a scamp as Ford’s swaggering hero-with-a-bullwhip, little Henry "Indy" Jones (Corey Carrier) gets into a great deal of mischief in his travels around the world with his disciplined father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. (Lloyd Owen, doing a credible version of Sean Connery’s voice from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). Also accompanied by his mother (Ruth de Sosa) and imperious tutor, Miss Seymour (Margaret Tyzack), Indy ends up in various unanticipated adventures with some of the most noteworthy individuals of his age. A trip to Paris finds him cavorting with young Norman Rockwell and an ultra-arrogant Pablo Picasso (who is out to prove that the style of aging Impressionist Edgar Degas is easy to forge). A stay in India lands Indy in the company of the great guru, Krishnamurti. In Russia, he feuds with Tolstoy as if the two were in a buddy movie. In Italy, Puccini puts romantic moves on Mrs. Jones, while Indy listens carefully in Vienna to definitions of love by none other than Freud, Jung and Adler. The overall effect of these handsome, feature-length stories, all shot on glorious location, is of a certain audacity--Lucas having the nerve to name-drop all over the place and situate Jones with some of the greatest achievers in world culture. But each episode is nothing less than spectacularly educational as well as entertaining. Scripts are carefully written to reflect what these famous individuals actually contributed to mankind, and to give a sense of what their personalities were like. The last three shows in Volume One find Jones at age 20 (played by Sean Patrick Flanery), now more or less on his own as he gets into various scrapes in Mexico (where he rides with Pancho Villa) and Ireland (where he meets William Butler Yeats). There is so much to glean from these stories, but even more to bask in on the set’s many special features, which include multiple, exquisitely produced documentaries about the historical figures, political and artistic movements, and crucial events that play into this series. This is a great set for kids (probably beginning at the 6th grade level) and adults as well, preferably to watch together. --Tom Keogh Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-23
A tour de force! Bravo!
In a nutshell, these dvds are a treasure.
I have watched all three volumes with my third-grader son, and we both enjoyed every episode tremendously. This is the most enjoyable movie series I've ever watched. Some adventures are on the campy side, some very historical, some filled with eye-candy females, some non-stop action, all with the common denominator of either exotic foreign locales or lovely recreations of main-street America, and all undergirded by very inventive storylines.
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Date: 2008-05-20
First Of The Great Trilogy Set Of Young Indy
I found it very entertaining seeing Indy growing up and going around the world with his parents and teacher. I did like the older Indy though with his adventures more not that I want to sound like I'm disliking the younger Indy but it was obvious that Sean Patrick Flannery was the better Indy in my view. I felt it was nice being able to see how Indy's mother was like as well as his father before her death. As stated the set has mostly the 10 year old Indy adventures for the most part you only get two episodes of the older Indy after he leaves the U.S. and starts his adventures. I also like how the sets give such a detail information on what started the first world war and the events during and after it ended. I feel to many people mostly in the schools seem to disregard teaching about this war or ignoring talking about and mostly focus on the second world war it seems. The video is excellent as with all three sets as well as the audio the extras again or incredible as well. The one thing though if anyone saw this series when it was shown on ABC is that you won't get the Old Indy narrating during the episode as those parts were cut out and while that is somewhat disappointing it doesn't really take anything away to much from this set. So I say again to all Indiana Jones fans complete your collection today and get these incredible sets while you can... Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-09
I think what we are seeing here is the VHS versions
I think what we have here is VHS versions. Not the TV episodes.
Heres a copy from wikipedia of what I found.
[edit] Home video re-edits
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, for the 1999 VHS release. New footage was shot in 1996 to be incorporated with the newly re-edited and re-titled "chapters" to better help it chronologically and provide smooth transitions. The newly shot Tangiers, 1908 was joined with Egypt, 1908 from the Curse of the Jackal to form My First Adventure, and Morocco, 1917 was joined with Northern Italy, 1918 (now re-dated as 1917) to form Tales of Innocence. Also included in the home video release were four unaired episodes made for the ABC network, Florence, May 1908, Prague, 1917, Transylvania, 1918, and Palestine, 1917.
The 93-year-old Indy bookends for the original series were removed, as well as Sean Patrick Flanery's bookend for Travels With Father. However, the Harrison Ford bookend, set in '50s, from The Mystery of The Blues was not cut.[5]
However George Lucas needs to start putting version numbers on his films so we can tell them apart.
I feel that this is a inferior version of this series. I will not buy any more of the volumes until they release the TV versions.
On top of that I hate Paramount DVD cases. I have to remove a disk to get to another. That really bites, and causes accidental scratches. Some of the Star Trek movies have theses cases.
Paramount when will you ever learn.
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I would not mind paying the high prices if this set contained the TV versions.
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Date: 2008-05-08
subtitles
I never saw "Young Indy" on broadcast, so I really can't compare it to the original. Like others, I wish the sets weren't so expensive, but I find TONS of quality in the shows. Even as an adult I have a hard time "getting" history, but Indy makes it easy! I have thoroughly enjoyed both the shows and the accompanying historical documentaries, and all parts, including the extras, have been subtitled. Thanks Mr. Lucas!! Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-26
We all know where it goes from here!!!!
First of all let me say that I personally feel that this whole series is phenomenal, but like many others have said "The Price Is Outrageous" especially when you think of how cheap the packaging is. Secondly I have a theory that I think many, if not all of you will agree upon: There is no doubt in my mind that Lucas will re-release the complete series minus the Bonus Features for a considerably lower price. I must say that I would recommend waiting to see if this series will be re-packaged without the Bonus Features much like the Star Wars Trilogy was re-released, but hey, It's your money do what you like with it. |
