The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

Lore & Background

In Vienna, the nine-year-old Indy meets the young Princess Sophie of Austria-Hungary. In love for the first time, he asks the advice of the psychology professors Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, then runs the gauntlet against her disapproving father, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. In Florence, the composer Giacomo Puccini becomes infatuated with Indy's mother, Anna, and asks her to run away with him, but she chooses to stay with her husband and son. "Florence, May 1908" was one of four episodes left unaired when the show was cancelled.

Reader's Guide

In the original broadcast version of the Florence episode, it is implied that Puccini based his 1910 opera La fanciulla del West on his affair with Anna Jones. The young Indy of these episodes is played by Corey Carrier, who played Indy at ages 8 to 10.

Did You Know?

• The film combines a childhood romance with Princess Sophie and Puccini's pursuit of Indy's mother.
• Young Indy is played by Corey Carrier; Sean Patrick Flanery plays the young adult Indy of the 1916-1920 episodes.