Episode
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Somme, Early August 1916
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1992-09-28
Episode context
Somme, Early August 1916 is Episode 2 in Season 2 of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. It aired on 1992-09-28.
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Episode 1: Austria, March 1917
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.
Episode 3: Germany, Mid-August 1916
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.
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Episode 4: Barcelona, May 1917
Indy goes undercover as a dancer for the Ballet Russes in Spain, where he runs into an old friend, Pablo Picasso.
Episode 5: Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues
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.
Episode 6: Princeton, February 1916
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.
Episode 7: Petrograd, July 1917
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.
Episode 8: Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920
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.
Episode 9: Vienna, November 1908
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.
Episode 10: Northern Italy, June 1918
Episode 11: Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom
Episode 12: Ireland, April 1916
In Ireland right before the Easter Rebellion, Indy falls for a beautiful young Colleen, whose brother is mixed up in the Irish resistance movement.
Episode 13: Paris, September 1908
Young Indy meets the iconic artists Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Edgar Degas and Henri Rousseau in Paris.