"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"
Palestine, October 1917 (1993)

Director:

Simon Wincer

Writer:

Frank Darabont (writer)

TV Series:

"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992)

Original Air Date:

14 August 1993 (Season 2, Episode 21)

Genre:

Action | Adventure

Plot:

T.E. Lawrence suggests his old friend and pen-pal Indiana Jones (aka Henri Defense) for an undercover mission in Gaza...

Plot Keywords:

History | American Abroad | Adventurer | WWI | Child

Cast

Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Maya
Julian Firth	...	Richard Meinertzhagen
Cameron Daddo	...	Jack Anders
Douglas Henshall	...	T.E. Lawrence
Haluk Bilginer	...	Colonel Ismel Bey (archive footage)
Kerem Atabeyoglu	...	Rashid (archive footage)
Colin Baker	...	Harry George Chauvel (archive footage)
Tony Bonner	...	M.W.J. Bourchier (archive footage)
Daniel Craig	...	Schiller (archive footage)
Terrence Hardiman	...	Fitzgerald (archive footage)
Stuart Bennett	...	Kevin (archive footage)
Todd Boyce	...	Dex (archive footage)
Bernard Brown	...	General Hodgson (archive footage)
Vincenzo Nicoli	...	Kazim (archive footage)

Trivia:

Expanded to feature length for video release, as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1992) (V) (Chapter 15 of 22).

Goofs:

Factual errors: Indy and Maya ride across the desert on two-humped camels (Bactrian camels) which are native to the steppes of Eastern Asia. In 1917 Palestine, the available rides would have been one-humped dromedary camels.

Quotes:

Jack Anders: Well Henry, you kept your promise.
Indiana Jones: Yes. I guess we'll be in Jerusalem by Christmas.
Jack Anders: Can't think of a better place I'd rather be at that time.
Indiana Jones: Come on fellas, let's drink this place dry.

Movie Connections:

Edited into The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1992) (V)

To The Gentleman from the U.K.

I am an American. I am an educated, well-read individual and I am sick and tired of Euro-trash slamming Americans for being unintelligent boobs who watch Wife-Swap and collect KKK trading cards while we breed little dirty, ignorant American kids. I understand the gentleman's concern for his heritage as well his anger at it being mishandled in a television series. I do, however, draw the line at his painting all Americans with the Ignorant Brush. What the fellow from the U.K. is insinuating is that all Americans are inherently ignorant and stupid and selfish. That is like me saying all Europeans are cowardly homosexuals with poor hygiene. It's untrue. Just because this mediocre American television series botched an incident in your history, sir, doesn't give the right to mouth off about my culture and heritage.