In 1990, just weeks after leaving my career as a TV
journalist, I was fortunate enough to be taken on by George
Lucas as one of the writers for his series "The Young
Indiana Jones Chronicles." This involved spending weeks at
a time at Skywalker Ranch, where the picture below was
taken,with writers like Jonathan Hensleigh, Rosemary Anne
Sissons,Matthew Jacobs, Jules Selbo and Frank Darabont,
creating, under George Lucas' guidance, the plots for each
episode of the series, which we would then go home and
write, reassembling to jointly story edit the scripts. It
was a marvelous experience, and among the many brilliant
directors George recruited to shoot the series was Terry
Jones of Monty Python, who performed in and directed my
story of young Indy's adventures as a spy in Barcelona,
from which these photos are taken. Terry and I became
friends and have continued to write together since.
