The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 4, 1992
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
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Critic Reviews

  1. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Zoglin
    Jul 2, 2013
    60
    The show is more lushly pictorial than anything this side of the National Geographic Specials, and its seat-of-the-pants approach to history is peppy and playful. ... [But] Indy's adventures in the first episode are often unimaginative (the old mummy's-tomb-with-a-curse routine), and the flip dialogue is too forced.
  2. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    May 14, 2014
    50
    O'Brien and second-half director Carl Schultz both bring some visual dazzle to the episode, but they cannot bring wooden actors to life. And although Flanery does bear some resemblance to how Harrison Ford may have looked as a youth, he is plainly well beyond 16. So far, George Lucas' great idea for a TV series built on Indiana Jones remains just that -- an idea. [3 Mar 1992, p.C-1]
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: John J. O'Connor
    May 14, 2014
    50
    Initial verdict: clunky.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    May 14, 2014
    50
    What it all adds up to tonight, unfortunately, is something akin to a very slow camel or burro ride across long stretches of arid desert. There's dialogue galore, but comparatively little action and virtually no suspense.