Benares, January 1910 (3 Jul. 1993)

Old Indy attempts to enlighten a down on his luck trucker by telling him about the most extraordinary person he ever met: Krishnamurti. In 1910 The Jones family was attending a meeting of ... See full summary »

Directors:

Deepa Mehta, Carl Schultz

Writers:

Jonathan Hensleigh, George Lucas (story)

Stars:

Corey Carrier, Margaret Tyzack, Ruth de Sosa

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Corey Carrier	...	Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr.
Margaret Tyzack	...	Miss Seymour
Ruth de Sosa	...	Anna Jones
Lloyd Owen	...	Professor Henry Jones, Sr.
George Hall	...	Old Indy
John Wood	...	Charles Leadbeater
Dorothy Tutin	...	Annie Besant
Hemanth Rao	...	Jiddu Krishnamurthi
Anatol Yusef	...	Hurbert Van Hook
Kari Masengale	...	Mrs. Van Hook
Naved Aslam	...	Theosophy Attendant
Vijoy Krishna	...	Indian thief
Chris Jose Matthew	...	Nitya
Udayan Nair	...	Sanjeeva Sharistap
Lou Criscuolo	...	Al

Storyline

Old Indy attempts to enlighten a down on his luck trucker by telling him about the most extraordinary person he ever met: Krishnamurti. In 1910 The Jones family was attending a meeting of the Theosophy movement in Benares, India. Society leaders Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater pronounced a young boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti to be the next world teacher and possible messiah. Traveling the holy city, Krishnamurti explained to Indy about the similarities between all different religions. However, Miss Seymour was less easily convinced and became determined to expose Leadbeater as a fraud.

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Plot Keywords:

theosophy | title directed by female

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Family | Mystery

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Details

Language:

English Hindi

Release Date:

3 July 1993 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Benares, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

"Benares, January 1910" was slated to be screened as the 9th installment of the first season, and was shown as such in Europe and other continents. In the United States, it was pushed back to 15th of the second series.

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Quotes

Professor Henry Jones, Sr.: Miss Seymour is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. And the Royal Victorian order. There are many Oxford students in her debt. Myself included.

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Connections

Edited into The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance (2007)

User Reviews

Tedious Polemic on Religion

The script was a superb example of a tedious polemic on the universality of all religions. It would have been fine if the idea that all religions are one (universalism) was mentioned once in the exposition, since the idea is part of the storyline about the thinker, Krishnamurti (sp?), an exponent of universalism. But the scriptwriter has more than one character go on-and-on about universalism for scene after scene. This is a 45 minute show and at least ten minutes are devoted to praising Krishnamurti, universalism, Annie Besant, and Theosophy. It's a kid's show, remember--and it's supposed to be an action adventure series. It was deadly boring.

Be warned: this episode is a thinly-veiled apologetic for Theosophy. If you like that particular philosophy, then you'll love this episode. But if you have problems with it, then you'll find the content of the episode--its message--hard to stomach.

I turned it off after 15 or 20 minutes because it felt like my kids were being brainwashed.