The episode that became Daredevils of the Desert is dramatically different from anything fans have seen. Season finale of The Young Indy Chroniclers out now on YouTube & all podcast apps 👇
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Ben Burtt showed us his first cut of Beersheba, Palestine 1917. No romance. No well scene. No kiss. Daniel Craig is killed by a horse. Catherine Zeta-Jones is tracked through the city by her own blood trail. The entire ending was reshot on a completely different set.
And the toilet tank lid used to make the sound of the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark, sitting on the floor. Peter almost stepped on it. Season finale of The Young Indy Chroniclers out now on YouTube & all podcast apps 👇
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Ben Burtt’s office at Skywalker Ranch: Ben's original Star Wars working script with his notes. The landing gear of the Pol Giant triplane from Attack of the Hawkman — all that survived after they destroyed the model to film the climax.
We took a detour into darkness…
Next time on The Young Indy Chroniclers — Skywalker Ranch. Ben Burtt's director's cut of Attack of the Hawkman. His never-before-seen first cut of Beersheba, Palestine 1917. Season finale Thursday.
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That quote appears in the Young Indiana Jones screenplay for Benares, January 1910. Full episode out now on YouTube & all podcast apps. Back our documentary: www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
In 1929 Jiddu Krishnamurti stood before thousands of followers and told them to stop following him. They were expecting salvation. He gave them doubt, skepticism, and the tools for looking within. "Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever."
George Lucas had a nuanced relationship with nostalgia. Young Indiana Jones shows a world before the wars, before the empire, before everything broke. Obi-Wan doesn't miss the Republic because it was fun. He misses it because under the Republic, you couldn't blow up planets. Full episode out now.
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Lucasfilm Historian Lucas Seastrom joins us for Benares, January 1910. A Young Indiana Jones episode so philosophically ambitious it might have inspired The Phantom Menace.
"This is only something George Lucas would put on primetime television."
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Carrie Fisher wrote the Mata Hari episode of Young Indiana Jones and made Indy the jealous one waiting at home. A complete gender reversal — and one of the most subversive things in the whole series.
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Was Sylvia Cristel almost cast as Mata Hari in Young Indiana Jones? A Dutch actress was hired and replaced — and nobody knows who she was. Full episode out now on YouTube & all podcast apps. Back our documentary George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age 👇
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George Lucas superimposed pillars over the nudity Nicolas Roeg wanted to include in Young Indiana Jones so it could air on TV.
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Coming Thursday — Nicolas Roeg directed it. #CarrieFisher wrote it. The on-set tension between Indy and Mata Hari was apparently very real.
Sound editor Laird Malamed joins us for a full commentary on Demons of Deception. Dropping March 19 on YouTube + all podcast apps.
“It’s not a Pollock… it’s a Rembrandt.”
In this clip, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles script supervisor Hilary Momberger-Powers reflects on how George Lucas and Rick McCallum carefully built the team behind the series.
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Even on a huge production like The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the crew still found ways to have fun.
In this clip, Hilary Momberger-Powers remembers Rick McCallum shining a laser pen at director Michael Schultz during a take — completely breaking Lloyd Owen.
A powerful story from the making of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
In this clip, script supervisor Hilary Momberger-Powers shares the moment she left for the show’s European shoots while saying goodbye to her brother.
A deeply moving memory from our full interview, available now.
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Last month we had the privilege to sit down with legendary director Michael Schultz.
Before collaborating with George on Young Indy, Schultz had already made his mark with Cooley High (1975) — now preserved in the National Film Registry.
Sounds like George was impressed too. 🎬
Hilary Momberger-Powers, script supervisor on Young Indiana Jones.
From voicing Sally Brown in the classic Peanuts television specials to working behind the scenes on a globe-spanning Lucasfilm production, her journey is incredible.
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Is a Young Indiana Jones Special Edition actually possible?
If the DVD cuts were rebuilt in Avid, the timelines likely still exist. With modern tools like Resolve and After Effects, many of the digital composites could be recreated today.
So… should it happen?
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“It feels like it was stripped right out of Raiders.”
Our commentary on Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal (lost broadcast version).
The whip. The bar sequence energy. The marketing hook.
And then… Tolstoy.
Full episode available now.
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From our commentary on Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal (the lost broadcast version):
Dan Madsen reflects on the original “Old Indy” concept — and how unexpected it was when that framing device disappeared in later cuts.
Full commentary available now.
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The lost version of the Young Indy pilot.
Full audio commentary.
With:
🎙️ Anthony King (Force Ghost Conversations)
📰 Dan Madsen, founder of Star Wars Insider
🎧 Coming Thursday.
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