Sunday 10 January 2016

CLASSIC INDY: THE 'FIRST' INDIANA JONES...

It belongs in a museum! Tom Selleck as Indy? Images: UNIVERSAL.

No, this isn't unseen footage of Tom Selleck- the original first choice by Spielberg and Lucas for Indiana Jones- from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Instead, its Selleck's playful homage to the character in an 1988 episode of MAGNUM- Legend of the Lost Art - the hit Universal TV series whose contract stopped him from playing the role back in 1980, with Harrison Ford ultimately replacing him and proving to be Indy's one-and-only inhabitor.

These images are, nonetheless, an intriguing look at what might have been...

Magnum wields the whip!
With Margaret Colin and John Hillerman in Legemd of the Lost Art

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