World Famous Comics: Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season
Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season
Starring: Mike Road, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo, Henry Corden Directed By: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Feature: TV's first animated action-adventure series is about to take you on a breathless ride. All 26 year-one episodes charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy 11-year-old Jonathan Quest are yours in a deluxe four-disc set featuring exciting new and vintage bonus materials from the Hanna-Barbera vaults. Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, Jonny Quest drew on scien Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 11, 2004 Running Time: 661 minutes Studio: American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1964
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TV's first animated action-adventure series is about to take you on a breathless ride. All 26 year-one episodes charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy 11-year-old Jonathan Quest are yours in a deluxe four-disc set featuring exciting new and vintage bonus materials from the Hanna-Barbera vaults. Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, Jonny Quest drew on scien
Amazon.com: Baby boomers of a certain age, and anyone fond of classic Hanna Barbera cartoons, might find the 40-year-old episodes in Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season an exciting blast from the past. Five years before Hanna Barbera made a comedy about amateur youths solving exotic mysteries in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, the animation giant captured a more serious spirit from a different era in Jonny Quest. The series played on primetime television--a very big deal for animation at the time--in 1964, and was infused with energy from sundry pop trends as well as cold war paranoia and a prevailing belief in limitless technology (largely inspired by America's race to the moon). Part intelligence thriller, part science fiction, Jonny Quest made a child's adventure out of thwarting international espionage and sabotage with super-computers, state-of-the-art transportation to every corner of the planet, an apparently bottomless budget for building fantastic weapons, martial arts, and more. The fact that schoolboy Jonny, as well as his best friend, Hadji, and canine companion Bandit, were having adventures akin to those of James Bond was terribly exciting.
Young Jonny (voiced by actor Tim Matheson, later a co-star of Animal House and The West Wing) is the motherless son of government scientist Dr. Benton Quest. The latter conducts all manner of research from a remote island, where he lives with Jonny, Hadji, Bandit, and chief assistant Race Bannon, a rugged fellow who tutors Jonny but also provides muscle when the group is on assignment anywhere from the Arctic to Calcutta. The original 26 episodes (on four discs) find the team battling conspirators amidst half-sunken pirate ships in the Sargasso Sea (in the pilot, "Mystery of the Lizard Men," sans Hadji), working undercover to stop a Jahilipur manufacturer of fake gold ("Riddle of the Gold"), and foiling an effort to steal an experimental, "mind-numbing" drug (and passing off a Race look-alike as the real McCoy) in "Double Danger." (The last introduces Race's hottie girlfriend, Jezebel Jade.) The slow, deliberate animation (even more stiff than Scooby) can get a little wearing, but the uniqueness of Jonny Quest as a genuine adventure-drama makes this collection a must. --Tom Keogh
Great trip down memory lane with your kids ^ Watched these when I was a kid. Now that I have two boys 7 and 8 years old I now have a chance to introduce them to all the great adventures. When given a choice now whether to watch square bob sponge pants ( yes I know I meant it that way) or to watch Jonny Quest the vote is overwhelming for Jonny Quest. Get this while you can. Also be sure and visit [...]/ for more Jonny Quest information
did not buy ^ after reading that the originals were edited for political correctness, i decided that it's not worth it. maybe when they let a classic remain a classic...
Great collection! ^ This is a great collection of cartoons to have, since tv these days don't show much of the good old cartoons that used to be on. It's well worth getting for years of enjoyment.
Cartoon classic ^ excellant series...I loved this as a kid NOW my 6yrold loves it.....these new cartoons just cant compare to this
A nostalgic animation treasure! ^ Here it is! ...With all the lasers, jets, explosions, machineguns, and Judo intact! A glorious relic of made-for-television animation, ...who in our present "politically-correct" era, would believe that this was once a very popular kid's program?
Each episode is like a comic-book come to life! Johnny treks around the globe with his father, a top U.S. scientist. Accompanied by his Indian friend, Hadji, his dog, Bandit, and the family body-guard, Race Bannon, Johnny finds himself entangled in all manner of bizarre adventures.
Evil foriegn scientists, rival Cold War powers, and the criminal under-world, all meet more than their match from the Quest team! Filled with intrigue, suspense, TOP SECRET weapons, and plenty of action, this was my favorite cartoon in my youth, and remains so to this day!
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