Indiana Jones
Year Began: 1981
Number of Entries: 4
The very common mistake people make when talking about this series has to do with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Though it was released after the first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom takes place one year earlier, which technically makes it a prequel. No one was using that word in 1984, though, so everyone considers it a sequel. (Ideally, those sentences should be narrated by a voice in your head that sounds like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.) Despite a successful trilogy of films, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg couldn’t leave well enough alone and added a fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, to the franchise that had arrived at a great conclusion (in both story and title) with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Rumors of a fifth film are frightening.
