Indiana Jones Movies, TV Series, Cartoons and Games: The Complete Guide

Harrison Ford played Indiana Jones for forty-two years, and the fifth film that closed his run cost a reported $352.3 million net to make and earned $384 million worldwide. That is the awkward math behind the modern franchise. The movies have gone quiet, while a 2024 video game pulled in more than 4 million players and Marvel has a new comic on the way.

Indiana Jones is a Lucasfilm franchise built on five films, one prequel TV series, a small pile of animation and more than four decades of video games. This guide takes each format in order, notes which titles are official and which are parodies, and finishes on the question that matters most: where does Indy go from here?

1st: The films

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) started everything. Set in 1936, it sends Indy up against Nazi forces racing to recover the Ark of the Covenant, a relic said to make an army invincible. George Lucas created the character, Steven Spielberg directed, and John Williams wrote the score that still defines the series.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) is a prequel, not a sequel, which is why it plays out before the events of Raiders. It introduced Short Round, Indy's 11-year-old sidekick.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) paired Ford with Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr. in a Holy Grail hunt against the Nazis. Its opening flashback cast River Phoenix as a 13-year-old Indy, and that decision is what pushed Lucas toward the idea of a television series about the character's youth.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) arrived 19 years later. It jumped the series into the 1950s, swapped the Nazis for Soviet villains and introduced Mutt Williams, presented as Indy's son with Marion Ravenwood.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) was directed by James Mangold, the first film in the series without Spielberg in the director's chair. Phoebe Waller-Bridge joined as Helena, and Mads Mikkelsen played a former Nazi working for NASA who wants a dial that can change history. The film also revealed that Mutt died in the Vietnam War. Wikipedia lists its budget at $419 million gross and $352.3 million net, against that $384 million box office. The film underperformed, and reports link that result to Lucasfilm's later shelving of Indy television projects.

2nd: The television series

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is not, strictly speaking, a miniseries. It was a full television show: two seasons, 28 episodes and four follow-up TV movies. It debuted on ABC on March 4, 1992, and Lucas created it as educational adventure aimed at younger viewers, using Indy's youth as a doorway into early twentieth-century history.

Three actors carried the role across the run. Corey Carrier played Indy at ages 8 to 10, Sean Patrick Flanery played him from 16 to 21, and George Hall played a 93-year-old Indy in bookend scenes set in 1992 New York. Harrison Ford himself appeared in one bookend, in the 1993 episode Mystery of the Blues.

Nearly every episode drops Indy into a real historical moment. Over the run he meets T. E. Lawrence, Pancho Villa, Theodore Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Al Capone, among dozens of others. The show was shot on location around the world on 16mm film, with each episode costing about $1.7 million.

The numbers tell an uneven story. The series earned 18 Emmy nominations and won 6, yet ABC cancelled it in 1993 because of its large budget and low ratings. The out-of-order airing, which alternated between Carrier's and Flanery's storylines, is one factor fans point to for why it never found a steady audience.

Then came the TV movies. The Family Channel produced four two-hour films between 1994 and 1996: Hollywood Follies, Treasure of the Peacock's Eye, Attack of the Hawkmen and Travels with Father. In 1999 the whole series was re-edited into 22 chronological TV films under the title The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, released on VHS, and the DVD sets followed between October 2007 and April 2008.

The series also feeds the films. Treasure of the Peacock's Eye continues into the opening of Temple of Doom, and an unproduced third-season episode about crystal skulls eventually grew into the 2008 film.

3rd: The cartoons

Indiana Jones has never had a long-running cartoon series. What exists is smaller: one official Lego mini-movie, some parody animation and a series that Lucasfilm reportedly shelved.

The best-known title is LEGO Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick, made by M2 Film and first broadcast on Cartoon Network on May 10, 2008, then on Disney XD. It plays as one mini-movie in four chapters, mixing scenes from all four films that existed at the time, and it is non-canon. In the final chapter, Indy keeps the artifacts at home: the idol becomes a candle, the Ark a grill and the Holy Grail a drinking cup.

Two unofficial projects round out the list. Animator Patrick Schoenmaker released a fan short, The Adventures of Indiana Jones, in 2016. Spain's Tad Stones franchise, known as Tadeo Jones in Spanish, began with parody shorts: the 2004 film spoofs Raiders and the 2006 film spoofs Temple of Doom, and both won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film.

The bigger story is what never got made. In January 2026, reports said Lucasfilm had cancelled two Indiana Jones TV projects that were never publicly announced: an animated series reportedly codenamed Reggie, set between the earlier films, and a show about Abner Ravenwood, Marion's father and Indy's mentor. No official reason was given, though the timing points to the box office of Dial of Destiny.

4th: The video games

Games are where Indiana Jones has stayed most consistently alive. The earliest titles date to Atari's Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari 2600 in 1982, followed by Mindscape's Lost Kingdom on the Commodore 64 in 1984 and Revenge of the Ancients for PC in 1987. LucasArts then released two versions of Last Crusade in 1989, an action game and a graphic adventure.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) is the one fans still name first. It is an original story built on LucasArts' SCUMM adventure system, and its release was delayed so the team could add three playstyles. With no fourth film in sight, many fans nicknamed it Indiana Jones 4. A planned follow-up, Iron Phoenix, was cancelled in 1995.

LucasArts returned to Indy in 3D with Infernal Machine (1999), Emperor's Tomb (2003) and Staff of Kings (2009). Infernal Machine was the first 3D outing and set Indy against Soviet forces alongside the CIA. Staff of Kings, which sends him after the staff of Moses, drew mixed reviews, though its Wii version included Fate of Atlantis as an unlockable extra.

The Lego games made Indy family-friendly. LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures arrived on June 3, 2008, covering the original trilogy with 84 playable characters and two-player local co-op. The sequel followed in November 2009 and added Crystal Skull levels and a level editor. Lego stopped making Indiana Jones sets at the end of 2024.

Then came Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (2024), and the franchise had a hit again. MachineGames developed it, Bethesda published it, and Troy Baker voices and motion-captures Indy in a single-player action-adventure with stealth. It launched on December 9, 2024 for Windows and Xbox Series X/S, reached PlayStation 5 on April 17, 2025 and arrived on Nintendo Switch 2 on May 12, 2026. A story expansion, The Order of Giants, followed in September 2025. Critics praised the level design, story and faithfulness to the films, and the game earned a Game of the Year nomination at the D.I.C.E. Awards and a Best Game nomination at the 22nd British Academy Games Awards.

5th: What comes next

The newest announced project is a comic. Marvel revealed Indiana Jones and the Sword of Pandemonium at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2026: a five-issue limited series by Jason Aaron and Aaron Kuder, arriving in December 2026. It is set right after Raiders, with Indy's old enemies chasing a new source of power that has fallen into Marion Ravenwood's hands, sending Indy after a biblical weapon. It is the first new Indiana Jones comic in roughly 17 years, and Marvel is also releasing two deluxe hardcovers in September 2026 that collect its 1980s Indy stories.

On screen, the picture is quieter. All five films are now streaming on Disney+, according to Disney's own viewing guide from August 2026. Kathleen Kennedy, who left her role as Lucasfilm president in early 2026 and handed the company to Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan, said in an exit interview that she does not see Indy as finished, but that nobody is interested in exploring it right now. Reports say there are no plans to recast Ford.

That leaves Indiana Jones split across formats. The games and comics are moving, the films are parked and the TV plans are shelved. What is at stake now is whether Lucasfilm's new leadership decides the next Indy story deserves a screen again, and who, if anyone, wears the hat after Ford.