While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. After solving the mystery, with help from Lawrence of Arabia, Indy is kidnapped by slave traders and taken across the Sahara to the slave market at Marrakech, where all his newly-honed wits are needed to escape.
Production
Genuine Egyptian locations, 1990s TV budget be damned
Writing
Historical cameos that actually teach something
Director
Jim O'Brien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was stitched together from two episodes of the canceled ABC series 'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,' with new bookend segments shot years later.
The real T.E. Lawrence was indeed in Egypt during 1908, though there's zero evidence he befriended random American children.
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