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Not your typical Indiana Jones, 13 May 2008

Author: proffate from Texas

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No Nazis, snakes or bugs in this one, just a new take on the backstage Broadway musical genre that was so popular a few generations ago.

Indy finds himself in New York City looking for a job. He makes friends with a young George Gershwin and winds up as a gofer for the production of George White's Scandals. Along the way, he becomes romantically involved with three girls, all wonderfully stereotyped. There's the Midwest farm girl hoping to make it on Broadway, the Greenwich Village intellectual and the beautiful heiress.

Besides Indy's juggling three romances, the show itself is beset with problems, many of which involve sabotage by White's rival, Flo Ziegfeld. As always in this series, he meets many influential personalities of the era, including the composers of Tin Pan Alley and sitting in on the famed Algonquin Round Table.

But the show must go on with Indy's help, so he invents the fan dance (after Ziegfeld has the costumes stolen) and helps the farm girl go on to belt out a Gershwin classic to Save the Show.

Fun from start to finish. It's good to finally see it available on DVD.

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Fantastic, 4 February 2010

Author: meastinger from staten island, new york

I haven't enjoyed an episode of this series as much as this one. This was fun from start to finish and I didn't want it to end. This chapter was better than much of what is being shown on the big screen today! Casting was flawless and the depiction of the eras famous people flowed as if Indiana was too a real icon of the time. If Mr. Lucas could've made more episodes like this one this show would still be running on cable today! I can't say enough nice things about this showing and as my rating is the max you get my point!! Now its on to volume 3 disc 9--- Hollywood Follies and I hope it is 1/2 as good as the Scandal of 1920! A must see!!

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Nice to the ladies give womanising Indy a come-uppance of sorts in this fun episode, 14 November 2009

Author: Alain English from London, England

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It's 1920, and Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) leaves Chicago and heads to New York to find work to fund his studies. Almost immediately he connects with an aspiring actress Peggy (Jennifer Stevens), and then a poet, Kate (Anne Heche) offers him a place to stay. Finding himself working backstage on the set of a new Broadway show, he falls in love again, this time with a wealthy socialite Gloria (Alexandra Powers), whose father then becomes the show's backer...

The idea of Indiana Jones wooing three women at once and eventually suffering a humiliation for it is a good payoff at this point, having seen the budding archaeologist go through many women and break many hearts. The whole episode well-played and very witty, as fitting the environment it's set in.

As is the custom in this series, Indy meets many prominent individuals who made a mark in their history. As well as working on Broadway, where the backstage frolics are hilariously captured, Indy also enjoys a Park Avenue party, and sits in with the Vicious Circle, a group of writers and wits of the day who met at the Algonquin Hotel.

The episode bolstered by the usual top-notch acting. Of the ladies, Anne Heche is the most successful, and she reads poetry beautifully. Tom Beckett is good as George Gershwin, and works well in scenes tinkering the ivories and shooting pool with Indy. Christopher John Fields is also great fun as the dynamo show directer George White.

Another good episode that leads into what would be the last in the series, "Hollywood Follies".

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