Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2227 in DVD
• Brand: HANNA BARBERA
• Released on: 2004-05-11
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 661 minutes

Features

• 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

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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

Customer Reviews

REMASTERED means REVISED Jonny Quest DVD Box Set
When the JONNY QUEST DVD Box Set was finally released I was one of the first to buy it. The wait for these fantastic episodes was finally over. And what a long wait its been! What a shame it is then that the "politically correct" people at Warner Brothers found it their duty to EDIT, that's right, EDIT these classic cartoons! A typical EDIT from DISC ONE "Pursuit of the Po-Ho" A purple Race Bannon confronts the Po-Hos who have Dr. Quest held hostage with,"All right you ignorant savages, get a load of Aquizio you heathen monkeys!" The "REMASTERED" version is a watered down, "Get a load of Aquizio!" All the while Race's mouth is moving but no words come out! At least no words that some idiots at Warners find offensive. Who are they and how dare they think they can just EDIT someone elses work! What's even more outrageous is that for some reason they don't have a problem showing the UN-EDITED versions on their own CARTOON NETWORK! Get it together guys and RE-ISSUE the Jonny Quest Box Set UNTOUCHED, UN-EDITED, and truly REMASTERED as your packaging states! And the next time you think its "your job" to EDIT a classic cartoon, DON"T! Thank GOD your EDIT MONKEY kept his stinking paws off the LOONEY TUNES Box Set!

A Hacked, quicky transfer
When I found out that all 26 episodes of the classic Jonny Quest were released on DVD I was stunned. I felt that finally the HB execs are getting it together and recognizing the good stuff. After watching the first two episodes I realized I had been DUPED! Editing dialogue to be PC, using the same ending credits for all episodes and no credit for Doug Wildey. A (...)release of the best classic prime-time animation of the 1960's.

After I finish watching all the episodes, I'm donating the DVD's to my local public library. I know better now to read the reviews before buying. I think Warner Brothers and Hana-Barbera owe all of us an explanation for this hack-job. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DICK WITH IT?

When I pay for DVD's, I expect the real deal without edits and deception. I can only hope that they fix it with another release with everything intact except the insert commercials. And you can bet they know that we will buy it again. Greedy, corporate pigs!

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DESERVES MORE THAN FIVE STARS!!!
Just found out that this SUPER series is finally coming to DVD, ...Santa got my letter. This show along with "The Flintstones" is truly a favorite of mine. It's better than the new Jonny. It only lasted one season, but was a great adventure show for the whole family. I like that phrase "For the whole family", you don't have too many shows like these anymore. This is a must for any DVD collection. Here are the air dates and the rerun dates for the season.
{SEASON ONE}
9/18/1964 "Mystery of the lizard men"
9/25/1964 "Arctic splahdown" 4/8/1965
10/2/1964 "The curse of the Anibis" 6/3/1965
10/9/1964 "Pursuit of Po Ho" 4/1/1965
10/16/1964 "Riddle of gold" 4/22/1965
10/23/1964 "Treasure of the temple" 3/25/1965
10/30/1964 "Calcutta Adventure" 7/1/1965
11/6/1964 "Robot spy" 5/6/1965
11/13/1964 "Double danger" 5/27/1965
11/20/1964 "Shadow of the condor" 4/29/1965
11/27/1964 "Skull & double crossbones" 7/8/1965
12/4/1964 "The dreadful doll" 6/24/1965
12/11/1964 "A small matter of pygmies"
12/18/1964 "Dragons of ashiba" 3/18/1965
and 4/15/1965
12/25/1964 "Turu the terrible" 5/20/1965
12/31/1964 "The fraudulent valcano" 8/12/1965
1/7/1965 "Werewolf of the timberland" 7/22/1965
1/14/1965 "Pirates from below" 5/13/1965
1/21/1965 "Attack of the tree people" 6/10/1965
1/28/1965 "The invisible monster" 8/5/1965
2/4/1965 "The devil's tower" 8/19/1965
2/11/1965 "The Quetone missle mystery" 9/9/1965
2/18/1965 "The house of 7 gargoles"
2/25/1965 "Terror Island" 7/15/1965
and 7/29/1965
3/4/1965 "Monsters of the monastery" 8/26/1965
3/11/1965 "The sea hunt" 9/2/1965