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Icons Unearthed: Harrison Ford

2026Series

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A film career told through its productions

Icons Unearthed: Harrison Ford explores the making of the films that established Ford as a Hollywood leading man. The series follows his journey from working carpenter to a career associated with several major screen worlds. Star Wars, the Indiana Jones franchise, Blade Runner and Air Force One are among the productions identified in its official platform description.

The focus on individual productions connects an actor’s public identity with the practical circumstances of making a film. Rather than treating familiar roles as inevitable steps in a career, the series’ opening story turns to a casting decision that could have taken a different direction.

How Ford became Indiana Jones

Dr. Jones I Presume?, the opening instalment, examines Ford taking the role of Indiana Jones after Tom Selleck dropped out of the casting for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The episode uses that change as an entry into one of the central roles in Ford’s filmography. Its 42-minute platform listing refers to this specific episode.

The programme catalogue lists six chapters, extending the portrait across different phases of his screen career. Its overarching theme is the transformation of an apparently ordinary figure into an action-film leading man. The series’ concentration on filmmaking gives that biographical change a concrete setting in the productions themselves.

Episodes

S01 · E01

Dr. Jones I Presume?

S01 · E02

On A Knife's Edge

S01 · E03

Doomed Marriage and the Connery Crusade

S01 · E04

Who's The Boss?

S01 · E05

The Runaway Production

S01 · E06

"Get Off My Plane"

Episode descriptions: TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0

Film details

Format
Documentary series
Release year
2026
Premiere date
2026-06-12
Country of production
United States
Language
English
Episode runtime
60 min

Catalogue information: TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0