Original 1964 – 1965 show
Inspiration
Jonny Quest was designed to evoke two the drama of a spectacular dangerous undertaking radio serial, & the fantasy of a comedian book. Unlike earliest H-B software online, violence was non shied out of, however utilized to add suspense & impact to the indicate.

A show’s virtually all notable inspiration comes from either a classic old-olde worlde radio serial Jack Armstrong. As a matter of fact, Hanna-Barbera got originally designed to develop an alive adaptation of Jack Armstrong,. Hiring noted comic book creative person Doug Wildey, H-B began negotiations by owning ''Jack Armstrong's right of first publication owners, & produced the line 2 text Jack Armstrong pilot around 1962. Negotiations failed across, & a Jack Armstrong plan was retooled into Jonny Quest an original series according to the similar idea. Scenes from either a Jack Armstrong end line text film were incorporated into a Jonny Quest closing credits collage: it is a scenes of a red-haired son & his father throw off the African natives using the hovercraft. More notability inspirations for Jonny Quest came from either Milton Caniff’s adventure comic strip Terry and the Pirates (which was also a popular radio indicate), & the James Bond film Dr. No'', which had inspired Joseph Barbera to develop an action-adventure program.

Characters, voice cast, and premise
Jonny Quest is an eleven-seaboy-old son, a son of Dr. Benton Quest, "one of the three top scientists in the world," & apparently something of the Renaissance man; his scientific and technical indicator understand-how else spans numerous fields. Mrs. Quest is dead, a apparent victim of one of a numerous plots against Dr. Quest, & rarely mentioned. These plots manufactured it necessary for Dr. Quest & his boy to exist as assigned the bodyguard, Roger "Race" Bannon, a previous intelligence agent who guards & tutors Jonny and Dr. Quest's adopted 2nd boy, an Indian boy named Haji, world health organization is rarely seen forswearing his spangled turban and Nehru jacket. A Quests have a compound in the Florida Keys (the particular island is known as Palm Key), however their risky venture choose the two everthing above the world. Jonny's pet occurs as bulldog puppy named Bandit.

Dr. Quest travels a world researching scientific mysteries, which develop him into scrapes by having foes that range from either espionage robots and electrical monsters to Egyptian mummies. Although virtually all menaces were unique to the episode, 1 on occasion recurring foe is referred to as Dr. Zin, an Oriental mastermind. There exists besides Race Bannon's mysterious old flaming, Jezebel Jade, world health organization at times appears.

Tim Matheson performed the voice of Jonny. Mike Road was "Race" Bannon, Danny Bravo was Hadji, & Dr. Benton Quest was voiced by John Stephenson for five episodes, & by Don Messick for the remainder of the shows. Messick too provided Brigand's vocal results, which were combined by owning an archived clip of an actual pooch's barking. A memorable theme music for the 1960s series, the percussion-heavy big band "spy jazz" piece with there are no lyrics, was written by Hoyt Curtin. A character Haji wwhen noted as a foremost major non-colored character to exist as presented as an equal sympathetic participant inside the stories in Western television. The Jonny Quest comedian book (the retelling of the foremost TV episode, Mystery of the Lizard Men) was published by Gold Key around 1964. Comico began publication of a Jonny Quest series inside 1986, by owning the number 1 issue featuring Doug Wildey's superb touch. A series run 31 issues, by using Ii specials & Terzetto classic issues (superbly drawn by Doug Wildey) retelling trio of the TV episodes (Shadow of the Condor, Calcutta Adventure, & Lycanthrope of the Timber). A series attracted Doug_Wildey for several supplementary covers, likewise when Steve Rude and other far-famed creative person. the series besides spun-off a Three-issue series known as Jezebel Jade which told a story of Jade's relationship (& risky venture) by having Race Bannon.

Jonny Quest 1st aired in September 18, 1964 on the ABC network, & was an nearly instant profits, each critically and ratings-caring. It was cancelled when just a single year, non because of unfortunate ratings, however because of the fact that to each one episode of the indicate went across budget using regularity. Notably further naturalistic & elaborated than former Hanna-Barbera prime period computer program like The Flintstones and The Jetsons, Jonny Quest required an attention to detail that ABC was unable to afford. Since its initial do within ABC, it hwhen been shown in re-diarrhea in NBC & CBS likewise as various incarnations in cable.

Saturday morning reruns and controversy
Reruns of the indicate were broadcast in various networks’ Saturday morning lineups beginning in 1967. In Saturday morning, Jonny Quest became one of a independent targets of parental watchdog groups like Action for Youngsters's Television (Work). Sustaining its multiple in-screen deaths, slaying tries, utilizes of piece & fatal weapons, & tense moments, Jonny Quest wwhen decried as a epitome of what was wrongly sustaining Saturday morning cartoons, disregardless of that fact that it indeed was non an original Saturday morning cartoon. A reruns were taken off a air around 1972, but returned to Saturday morning, around emended form, sporadically afterwards

1986 revival and telefilms
Per mid-1980s, a emended episodes of Jonny Quest (to each one episode was missing astir 5 transactions of footage edited for period constraints & content) were a portion of the syndication pack The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. Thirteen freshly Jonny Quest episodes were produced within 1986 to accompany a originals in the Funtastic Globe programming prevent. These episodes (another time known as The Just released Adventures of Jonny Quest, however referred to only when Jonny Quest on their title cards) were perceptibly less violent & other “kid-friendly� than the Sixties originals, & introduced a freshly characters Hardrock, an ancient human mass produced of stone, & a jeune fille known as Jessie Bradshaw, the girl of a personal friend, as a counterpart for Jonny. Hardrock did non link to in any late versions of the program.

The feature length alive tv-movie, ''Jonny's Golden Quest, was by Hanna-Barbera for the USA Network in 1993, which again pitted a Quest team against Dr. Zin, world health organization murders Jonny’s mother in the film. Jonny’s Golden Quest likewise retconned Jessie when Race’s immature girl, & she would pop up as a character altogether subsequent versions of the Jonny Quest property. Another telefilm, Jonny Quest vs. a Cyber Insects, was produced for TNT in 1996, and wwhen promoted as existence a final iteration of the “Classic Jonny Quest�. A original series, which experienced begun regularly on the Cartoon Network in 1993, was taken off the air around 1996 when the heavy promoted marathon, to produce way for the fresh, revised Quest series.

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Main entry: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

A fresh Quest series, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, premiered on everthing 3 3 major Turner Broadcasting networks (Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT), & met by having mixed ratings and reviews. A characters were aged, by having Jonny, Haji, & Jessie becoming stripling, & Dr. Quest & Race typing middle age.

Production on the series experienced been condition-laden since 1992, and once it was eventually broadcast, it featured 2 different versions of the Jonny Quest universe: a foremost load of episodes (known as a “Season One� episodes) gave a Quest team a futurist look, when the 2nd load (known as “Season Two�) harkened back to the original Sixties episodes. Many of the “Season One� risky venture inside that series took place in the net realm called "Questworld", depicted applying Three-D computer animation. Irrespective of their labeling, two a “Season One� & “Season Two� batches of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest airy when you took a 1996 – 1997 television year, & a indicate was canceled fallowing 52 episodes (Xxvi of both nature and severity).

Re-diarrhea of the "classic-era" Jonny Quest may however exist as seen at times in Cartoon Network’s Boomerang channel, while the Real Adventures episodes air within syndication (courtesy of The Program Exchange). A original Sixties do of the series was freed to DVD as Jonny Quest: The Complete Foremost Year within 2004.

Cultural impact
Many elements of Jonny Quest keep close at hand turn into area of Western popular culture. A original Sixties series is notable when existence representative of the Cold War, with virtually all of the villains existence of Eastern European or Chinese origin. While said villains come defeated, it, other typically than does'nt, scream the heavy accented "aiieee!" when it fall to their deaths, the scream that has been heavy parodied since.

The notable total of speculation is when to the actual relationship of Dr. Benton Quest & "Race" Bannon, using numbers of purporting a pair to exist as gay lovers (despite the being of Jezebel Jade). Dr. Quest & Race's alleged gayness was a basis of the "Bannon Custody Battle" episode of Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. An additional Adult Swim indicate, The Venture Bros., is a camp pastiche of Jonny Quest.

More notability Jonny Quest parodies include a "Toby Danger" episode of Freakazoid and the "Channel Chasers" episode of Fairly Odd Parents. Additionally, many elements of Pixar’s The Incredibles show inspiration from Jonny Quest, particularly a of these-eyed golem world health organization terrorizes a public the equivalent way Dr. Zin’s 1-eyed automaton waste the 1964 epside “The Robot Spy�

Episode guide
1964 – 1965