First up, let's talk the massive twelve-disc set that is The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Vol. 1, out from Paramount. Now I never watched this series when it first hit television (I don't really watch television, as long-time readers will know), so it was a surprise to me when I learned that this hadn't been originally a series of made for TV movies--because that's certainly what it is now. Apparently, bits with an actor by the name of George Hall playing an older Indy are completely excised, and what were single episodes have been spliced to create the seven TV-movies we now have. I fear I can't comment on whether or not this is detrimental to the content we have here because I'm not familiar with its original version. That being said, I think it's a shame that we don't have both versions available to us so I can make up my own mind on the subject. And with that being said, George Lucas altering his shit and pretending it never existed in any other form? Well, I never!

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