Rewatch Adventures of Indiana Jones, Part V

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In today's set of episodes Young Indy discovers a variety of religions and gets deathly ill in the Chinese countryside, and I fall asleep while watching.

India, 1910
Young Indy travels to Benares, India (also called Varanasi) and meets a very young Krishnamurti, who takes him on a tour around all of the sacred sites in the city, representing all of the major world religions. In addition, a B plotline explores the Theosophical society through the lens of Indy's tutor, Miss Seymour. I actually found the B plot far more interesting in this part of the episode and actually fell asleep during Indy's grand tour of religions. I suppose the episode was a success in the sense that it got me to do some research on what exactly the Theosophical Society was.

China, 1910
In the second half of the episode Indy, his mother, and his tutor explore the Chinese countryside with a local guide, and Indy comes down with a really terrible case of typhoid. There were a few interesting bits about Western and Chinese medicine, but otherwise this episode was fairly bland. My only real memory of this episode was something to do with collecting trading cards or promotional material, and I either had a bunch of the China episode cards or needed one to finish my collection. 

I cannot say that I am sad to move on from the stories with the youngest version of Indy. There were a couple episodes that I really connected with and found entertaining, but I think the creators of the show had the right idea to alternate young and younger Indy episodes throughout its TV run. The upcoming six year time jump is where the show really starts hitting its stride, and I did not plan it, but the time jump came just in time for the end of the school year and more time in the summer for watching Indiana Jones! Since I have the time to watch more TV during the summer break now, I will be covering more episodes in each post.

Next up: We meet Sean Patrick Flanery as 17-year-old Indy in Spring Break Adventure!