Of course, you have to put your common sense on hold in these films because Indy seems to encounter every famous person from the era in his adventures and witnesses every historical event. Those expecting an Indiana Jones film,full of action and adventure, will be disappointed with some of these episodes but the Young Indy does do some fancy stunt work in a few of them.
The breakdown of the discs are as follows:


Tales of Innocence
Indy befriends Ernest Hemingway while romancing a French girl and escorts Edith Wharton across the desert. For a time, he also works for the foreign legion in North Africa.

• Unhealed Wounds - The Life of Ernest Hemingway
• The Secret Life of Edith Wharton
• Lowell Thomas - American Storyteller
• The French Foreign Legion - The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force

Masks of Evil
Working in Turkey Indy tries to negotiate a treaty and encounters a Romanian general who is possessed by the soul of Vlad The Impaler. This Vlad episode is the most absurb of the series as Indy escapes from Dracula's castle.

• For the People Despite the People - The Ataturk Revolution
• The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib
• Dracula - Fact and Fiction
• The Ottoman Empire - A World of Difference

Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Indy and his old friend from the Belgium Army meet up for one final adventure in New Guinea.

• Bronisaw Malinowski - God Professor
• Anthropology - Looking at the Human Condition
• New Guinea - Paradise in Peril

Winds of Change
Indy is a recorder at the Peace Conference ending World War I ,tries to help a young HoChi Minh win freedom for the Vietnamese, and witnesses the dividing up of the oil lands in the Mid-East by England and France. Upon his return home, he falls in love (again), confronts his father and supports Paul Robeson in his fight against discrimination.

• Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist
• Gertrude Bell - Iraq's Uncrowned Queen
• Ho Chi Minh - The Price of Freedom
• Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name
• Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science
• The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles

Mystery of the Blues
Indy goes to Chicago to study Archeology, while working in a diner and learns about American Jazz. He also meets Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, and investigates crime with his roomate Eliot Ness and his old buddy Ernest Hemingway. This episode has an introductory beginning with Harrison Ford in 1950 Wyoming.

• Al "Scarface" Capone - The Original Gangster
• Ben Hecht - Shakespeare of Hollywood
• On the Trail of Eliot Ness
• Louis Armstrong - Ambassador of Jazz
• Jazz - Rhythms of Freedom
• Prohibition - America on the Rocks
• Hellfighters - Harlem's Heroes of World War One

The Scandal of 1920
Indy travels to New York on summer break and meets up with three girls, all fascinating. This episode plays it for laughs as Indy tries to juggle relationships with the three woman at once. He also befriends George Gershwin, who introduces him to other Tin Pan Alley songwriters and takes part in a Broadway production. A very weak episode.

• Tin Pan Alley - Soundtrack of America
• Broadway - America Center Stage
• Wonderful Nonsense - The Algonquin Roundtable

Hollywood Follies
Indy heads to Hollywoodland  to deal with eccentric silent film director Eric Von Stroheim, fallsl in love (again) and works on a movie with John Ford. This episode was a strong one; Indy actually does some stunts and was a great way to end the series.

• Erich von Stroheim - The Profligate Genius
• The World of John Ford
• Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder
• The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood
  

Picture and sound are like the other two sets; a bit disappointing as color is not spot on in close up scenes, and sound is only Dolby 2.0. The documentaries are all fascinating to watch if you are a history buff, if not you still might find some of them interesting. They are all very well made, with interviews with experts from the various subject matter of the documentaries. Stock footage is also cleaned up but sometimes a bit repetitive.

Much has been said about the format of these disc sets and also the price of them. While purists would love each episode separate, as when they were first broadcast , I liked the format in this series and Volume 2. I think hour long shows would have been too short and many of the adventures tie together well. As for price, it is 10 discs of quality stuff. The weakest part of these sets has been the packaging, which has been roundly criticized. If you wait for the entire set to come out as one huge set, you'll be paying less and hopefully have better packaging. However, you'll probably be waiting a while for that to happen.

I can highly recommend any of these Young Indy sets as they are a kick to watch the character evolve, and the history rich documentaries make them even better.