The final scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had our heroes riding off into the sunset. Many thought this would be the last adventure for our hero. Luckily ABC took the Spielberg/Lucas franchise on a journey into the past with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. This series ran from 1992 to 1994 and added a new dimensions to the Indiana Jones mythology, tracing the adventurer's travels and encounters with countless historical figures.

Originally aired as 44 one-hour episodes, the series has been edited into 22 movies and divided into three DVD sets. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Three: The Years of Change depicts Indy's life at the end of the first World War and the time immediately following it.

These episodes begin with a 19-year-old Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) serving as a Belgian spy at the end of World War I. Even at this young age, Indy has a boldness that only a teenager, arrogant and ignorant of his own mortality, could have. That makes him both brash and reckless — but he pulls it off with style. Indy has 28 languages at his command, and adeptly bounces through these historical adventures that help explain how Indiana Jones came to be the archaeologist hero of big-screen legend.

Indy's travels take him from Venice to Turkey to the South Seas and he mingles with the likes of Ernest Hemingway (with whom he battles for an Italian woman's affections), Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, John Ford, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, Lawrence of Arabia, Eliot Ness, George Gershwin, Woodrow Wilson, and Wyatt Earp.

There are two adventures of note in this set. The first is "Masks of Evil," in which Indy runs across Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula); the episode contains mystical/supernatural elements similar to those seen in Raiders of The Lost Ark. The second adventure, "Mystery of the Blues," is the only Young Indiana Jones episode to have the original Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford - make an appearance. Having him at the beginning and end of the episode was quite a coup for the series, since Ford turned down anything to do with the series because he felt television didn't have anything to offer.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Three: The Years of Change is packed with special features. Each DVD has one movie that runs about an hour and a half, and three or four in-depth documentaries on each disc (that's over 30 documentaries in total). The idea with the documentaries is to teach you something about the historical time, place, and/or people that young Indy comes across in his adventures, which is accomplished quite well by featuring scholars, historians, and luminaries from many backgrounds.

Overall, there are more than 15 hours of special features, with discs five and seven devoted solely to companion historical documentaries. The tenth disc is an interactive companion that offers a host of special features, including an interactive timeline that details the history and locations of Indy's adventures, previews, footage of the companion documentaries, and a game.

I enjoyed The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when they first aired and am happy that they have finally made their way to DVD. This final set is not only being released in time to coincide with the latest Indiana Jones movie Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Crystal Skull, but whets the appetite for more adventures.