World Famous Comics: Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season
Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season
Directed By: Charles A. Nichols Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 11, 2004 Running Time: 661 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1964
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
Description: Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, "Jonny Quest" drew on science and detective-style logic to solve mysteries and apprehend sophisticated villains. Viewers were transported to exotic locales as Jonny's dad Dr. Benton Quest tackled each new government assignment, aided by ex-agent "Race" Bannon, the Indian boy Hadji, family bulldog Bandit...and of course, his fearless 11-year-old son Jonny (voiced by actor Tim Matheson). Now all 26 classic episodes from Year One charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy Jonathan Quest are available for the first time ever, digitally re-mastered on DVD in a deluxe four-disc collectors set, featuring over 11 hours of classic original TV programming and newly-added enhanced content.
Great collection for fans! My brothers and I watched this show when we were kids and thought it was awesome; I bought this collection for their birthday, and we all loved it! It's a great DVD collection that includes some of the best episodes.
Awesome Memories It was my favorite TV show growing up and couldn't wait to see it every week. This was the best purchase of the year for me. To go back and watch all of them again was awesome. I loved it then and love it now. The Jonny Quest Series provide the same thrill and excitment as before.
Jonny Quest The best television cartoon ever made. A huge inspiration for Brad Bird's "The Incredibles"
Jonny Quest is the best! I remember how I loved watching Jonny Quest, as a boy, and now my two sons enjoy it very much. I am pleased to have remembered and doubly pleased that Amazon had it in stock, just waiting for me. Thank you, Amazon!
All time favorite Jonny Quest and Scooby Doo are my two all time favorite cartoons from the 1960's. I always thought of myself as Jonny when I was 5 and 6 years old when I watched. Truely the fore-runner of today's Ben10 type of cartoons.
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