Jonny Quest Origin - This 50-year Old Adventure Cartoon Is So Brilliant That It Still Excites People
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- As children, we all enjoyed watching animations and cartoon shows. Some animated shows have been so successful that they have been popular among adults too. Jonny Quest is one of those animated shows, which have been well-known since the release of its first season. Jonny Quest began as a television show between 1964 and 1965, produced by Hanna-Barbera-Warner Bros. Doug Wildey, who was a cartoonist and comic book artist, was the creative mind behind this cartoon series. Jonny Quest is the account of an 11-year-old American kid who joins his father, who is a scientist, on incredible adventures. The first program of this franchise, 'The Adventures of Jonny Quest,' is where it all began. The franchise expanded to encompass two further television shows, two movies and three video games. Chris McKay, the maker of Jonny Quest, has linked the film to Raiders of the Lost Ark, an Indiana Jones Movie. McKay discussed his thoughts on the Jonny Quest project in an interview with Collider. He emphasized the story's breadth and its capacity to blend into more current day studio blockbusters.
I'm 70 years old and Johnny Quest was my favorite cartoon show.
Me too!!!😀😀😀
Same here. 🥰
Damn skippy!
Jonny Quest was the shizz-nit , it was a more sophisticated and serious cartoon than the other saturday whacky comedic cartoons , it was more like a
Sci-fi , comic book adventure . And those opening and closing credits are by far the best ever . . . hands down 💯💯
62 and my all time favorite! Speed racer being my secondary fav!
I LOVED this show while growing up - the original, that is. A young boy gets to hang out with his best friend/adopted brother, a kick-ass bodyguard and brilliant scientist father, fly around the world and have incredible adventures. What wasn't there to love?
I agree. We grew up watching a show like this and in later life we didn't need safe spaces.
Later generations grew up on shows like the Smurfs and the Care Bears, and then in college they needed safe spaces they can run to if they heard something that offended them. Coincidence?
The 1964 version is the best one to watch
I’m with you. You can’t beat the original. Loved watching it as a kid,and enjoyed the stories as an adult.
@@cnault3244 Nothing wrong with the Smurfs. Still one of the best cartoons to come out of the 80s.
AGREED!!! To a 10-year-old me, this was must see TV... We played Jonny Quest in the back yard... Great show even today watching the DVD. Sad that that cut/edited some of the scenes for the sissy PC world today.
One of the most influential cartoons of all time.
Speed Racer..?
@@skibootdier9488 "One of..."
How true! I gave a nod to the original series in my "Junktown" sketches. The character of Jada Taimada was inspired by Jane, Race Bannon's "girlfriend" (?), and the scene in "Penny the Princess" where the kids encounter a desert scorpion in the Royal Suite was inspired by the scorpion in the episode "The Curse of Enubis". Race kills it with a whip, and Sally and Brian kill theirs with a fireplace shovel and a poker. (Brian: "All of a sudden I'm not hungry, dear sister.")
The artwork and overall tone of Johnny Quest was so serious and action packed it was hard to not watch it. Not many cartoons could compete.
One of the greatest and action packed cartoons of all time
How can you NOT love a show, where the gunfire and explosions in the opening and ending credits almost drown out the soundtrack?
It's nearly sixty years and it's still awesome.
Saturday morning cartoons were a TRUE ritual in the 60s and 70s. There was NO internet...for kids, Saturday morning was wide eyed fascination at what had never been seen before...Johnny Quest was so ahead of its time...
This is my number one cartoon, and I am 65. The first (1964) season was the best. I could not get into the other 2 generations. I bought the 1964 series streaming on RUclips on demand.
Tim Matheson...the actor that voiced Jonny Quest is still around...thanks Tim and all those with HB that make this magnificent piece of Americana possible.
Tim Matheson was Johnny Quest? That is so cool.
@@santos8468 So Jonny grew up to be Otter (Animal House). Hah!
Eric Stratton, chapter president. Damn glad to meet you.
One of the few shows I watched with my mom in 1964. She popped popcorn and we both enjoyed the original broadcast at 7pm. We all watched the flintstones also. At night with popcorn
I'm 61 years old, and I still watch the show on DVD.
Me too! I'm 68 and when I saw the DVD box set at the store I bought it!
How are you Mark, where did you buy a copy the DVD from? My name is Melvin and grew up watching the show too! I'm still a Cartoon Nut, Lol.
Have you heard of the Venture Bros?
@@Silver77cyn great parody of this show 🤣
Im 63
I remember watching this every Saturday morning. That’s when we had great cartoons on Saturday morning. Not any more. Nothing but crap now. We went thru great adventures with Jonny Quest.
I was 11 years old when Jonny Quest premiered in September 1964, and I was immediately captivated by the incredible artwork - rendered in the most vivid colors. Those creatures, machines, and diabolical schemes set in far away places were like my favorite comic books brought to life. I am now 69, and whenever I hear that pulse-pounding opening music, I want to run outside and fire a rocket at that giant robot spider. Jonny Quest was the best!
Same here. I'm also 69. Yes, Jonny Quest was the best!
Johnny Quest was my favorite cartoon show when I was 11. Here it is 60 years later and I can still enjoy it at 71. Proves we never really get old.
Quality has no time limit.
Travelling the world with Johnny Quest was the best
My favorite cartoon growing up as a kid. And yes I still love it now that I'm 64! Classic adventures and great music and sound tracks. Peace, Love, Courage from David in Detroit.
Johnny didn't mess around, he was puttin people to DEATH on that show. My personal favorite episodes were 1. Invisible monster 2. eyeball spider robot 3. Fat dude with pet lizards. An awesome show!
Those were Komodo Dragons and they eat people they are very fast runners.
@@moviesgalore9947 But why didn't they eat him, he was plump? 😁 I guess he raised them. Komodo Dragons and other Monitor type lizards are said to be very intelligent, and I hear the smaller ones (not Komodos) are decent pets.
Do you know which episode the spider robot was from?
My dad had all the episodes on tape when I was 6. My mom threw them all out, I got stuck in the trash can for 4 hours trying to get them back.
you a real one
What was Moms problem?
@@michaelhearne3289 maybe the tapes were damaged or got mildew over it 😂
Hey, you knew what was important.
Have you forgiven her yet …?
Really loved the show, exotic locales and monsters and heart thumping theme music
The opening to the show lets you know from the beginning this show is going to be exciting. It has dinosaurs, soldiers shooting at a daddy-longlegs type robot, a flying pods, and angry natives. You know it's not going to let you down, and the series never did.
Opening theme went so hard. Someone should meme it.
It still gives me goosebumps of anticipation every time I hear it
I like that all of the animation in the intro is seen in episodes of the show.
Jonny Quest is unquestionably a much darker and more mature show for kids, as it's one of the first kid cartoons to actually kill characters on screen!
@@casesoutherland4175 a real ballsy move even back then with JFK's assassination still fresh in the news
The BEST cartoon ever made PERIOD!
One of the best. Calling it the best is a stretch
@@ltyler01name the cartoon that's better than Johnny Quest?
@@markmower1746 there’s lots of anime that qualify. Berserk is just one
Jonny Quest was by far the best animated show of its time! The characters, the stories, the creatures were so entertaining. My all time favorite!
I loved this show when I was a kid in the '60s. When It first came out in a box set DVD I bought it!
I also didn't care for the newer version that much, though.
how i wish my grandpa also enjoy cartoon as well
he so serious but isn't soldier at all
I was born in 1985, but I grew up watching the original Johnny quest. I didn’t like the new ones I like the older ones I didn’t even know about the new adventures of Jonny quest. I always watch the original Jonny quest, and when I was a kid I thought it was a new show in the 90s and I thought I was a show that just came out didn’t know it’s sure that’s been out.
They had a werewolf story, mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, yeti, gargoyles, and more!
JQ deserves its feature film series. This would fill theaters up again.
Loved it as a kid, still do. Plus, coolest cartoon theme song EVER.
I freaking love this show. The episode about the invisible monster still sends chills in my body.
Edit: Not to mention the Mummy episode. That one scared me to no end as a child.
Yeah, the scene where the Mummy is looking through the window is a good jump scare.
@@schizoidboy I rewatched that episode and got to say, the way they made the story still got me sitting on the edge of my seat.
That episode was the best!Twenty three minutes filled with terror, action, surprise, and confirmed the plot! The moment I remember best was when after Dr. Quest & Race threw the paint showing the monster Race shouted "GREAT SCOTT!! Look at that!!!" EPIC!
Yeah, watching that invisible monster episode as an eight year old was absolutely nightmare fuel. Seeing this video makes me want to watch all the original series again.
And the sea monster episode.
Grew up with re-runs of this on TV for a good long time and I loved every episode. It's a classic that I think everyone should watch a few episodes of at least once in their life.
I'm 66 years old still love watching ❤❤❤❤
I’m glad I was just old enough to grow up on Johnny Quest, Scooby doo and Godzilla cartoons, but just young enough to not actually be apart of the generation that had ONLY those. Born in 91.
My great grandpa a ww2 marine veteran would sit with me every weekend and watch Johnny Quest and Godzilla with me for hours.
I had no idea how special that time would end up being for me, even though I barely remember it.
always considered it the ultimate, high brow animated show for kids. It was like an X-Files of the sixties - for kids, no less
I grew up reading newspaper comic installments such as "Steve Canyon." I also remember "Terry and the Pirates." I've always felt that "Jonny Quest" was an amalgam of the aforementioned comics. I've also thought that Race Bannon as a TV derivative of "Doc Savage." My favorite episodes of "Jonny Quest" (from 1964) were the "invisible energy monster," the Loup Gerou and the Pteranodon kept by a wheelchair-bound madman. Whenever each episode aired, my parents and siblings would pop some popcorn, break out the cold sodas and make it a family affair. Thank you, Hanna-Barbera! Thanks for this terrific review of an amazing animated series!
From “The Secret Origins of Jonny Quest”
Nevertheless, there is another, more direct, influence on Jonny Quest that receives less attention. From 1947 to 1968, Grosset & Dunlap published Rick Brant's Electronic Adventures, a series about a young boy, Rick Brant, who uses science and technology to battle his antagonists (a single limited edition volume was also published in 1990). Joining Rick is his father, famous scientist Dr. Hartson Brant; Dismal (or “Diz”), their dog; Chahda, Rick’s Hindu friend from India; and Scotty, his ex-marine pal, and sometimes bodyguard. Together, along with Rick's sister Barby and her best friend Jan, secret agent Steve Ames, and a supporting cast of scientific specialists, they operate from Spindrift Island, their secret base off the East Coast of America.
@@justapasserby6063 - Many thanks!
@@justapasserby6063 Thank you. Never knew that! And it would be just like Hanna-Barbera to do that. They were always borrowing other characters for their cartoons, changing them just enough to avoid copyright problems. For example Fred and Barney from the Flintstones are clearly Jackie Gleason and Art Carney from “The Honeymooners”.
The scariest JQ episode for me was the "Monsters In the Monastery"; I remember figuring out as a child that the plot was for the bad guys to dress up like yeti to scare the townsfolk...and then at the end, a real yeti shows up (and is NOT happy).
@@markkness7990 I remember that episode very well. What a great animated series! Thanks!
I'm 67years old and I grew up watching Jonny quest and space ghost the heculoids I have always enjoyed the cartoons of the 60,s and I will make sure that my great grand children enjoy them too... Arthur Tillman
This show was one of my favorites when I was a kid.
I absolutely love the fact that a cartoon show from the '60s was able to get away with killing characters onscreen!
This show inspired everything from Indiana Jones to Home Alone in my opinion. I am 64 years old and I still remember Saturday mornings with joy watching this show while eating a PBJ sandwich. Every boy identified with Johnny and Bandit was way ahead of things too! Smart dog. Even hus India friend was cool! Sim sim salabim baby!
I' m 66 years old ..also a fan. Johnny Quest was the Best...realistic cartoon story's of the time
I allway's loved that show.I stayed glued to the TV. 😊 one of the best.
It's good that we can watch this today online and DVD. I was about Johnny's age when the cartoon first appeared, so I could relate.
My favorite cartoon series as a youngster and still to this day
I loved this shows i wish that they would air them again please
I’m 62 and just loved (still do) JQ, Birdman & I absolutely loved the Herculoids.
The Invisible Monster show is by far the best episode. Backpacks that help you fly. I always wanted one of those.
I must agree. Second best was Robot Spy.
@@testodude Loved Robot Spy - just fantastic. I also loved Dragons of Ashida - that was just Race at his best!
Even as a young boy I was able to tell that this modern jazz music was something special and years later I could still remember how some of the tunes went. Those horns! And those drums!
Oh my the best cartoon ever I learned stuff , the adventuress around the world I sat at 6 in the mornings b4 getting up for school & EXPERENCE awesome stuff i watch it now at 65 I'm a 8 year old again I love J QUEST always wanted to live THAT life
As a yoing girl I loved this show. I loved the adventures. As an adult I still watch it when I can. One of the best! ❤
I think I love you....
(Heh. Just playing...☝️😁👍)
@@nottomykidsyouwont8062 😅😅
My favorite cartoon ever!
My favorite cartoon 😍as a kid !! Good animation for its time!! The story lines were good 👍👌!!
Loved Johnny Quest!! Never missed it. Do not remember the TV movies or the 1980's version my memories are of the 1960's. I was maybe 7 maybe 8 y/o.
It was very big in BRASil in 1964! I was about 5 years old! Great memories! Space Goast and others! Great memories!
I love the uniqueness of the original show in its comic book aesthetic. The line work on the characters and the textual detail exactly what you would find in a comic book of that era. The heavy shadows and static lines feel very Reminiscent of silver age art by Ditko and Kirby and Lieber and Sinnott.
Johnny Quest was so damn cool growing up!!!
Why hasn’t WB used this property more in the modern day? And I’m not talking about as a cameo or anything, but I mean as a full-on series!
Probably because the racial stereotypes in the show are a little problematic for the year 2022
TV?
A while back (in the last MELLENIA !) there was talk of a live action movie!
I heard on a podcast there WAS supposed to be a reboot in the 2010s, but it was cancelled.
Because nothing is fun any more. Everything is offensive to someone. Why do you think there is so much nostalgia? Everything is so bland and sterile now.
I was wondering the same thing
I'm 66 and have always loved the cartoon. Not until I was grown up did I find out that my cousin was the voice of Race Bannon. He's the one that got me started reading comic books as a kid, by giving me a big stack of them. Was originally going into basketball, till asked to play a part in a school play, and loved it so much that he changed career plans. He was always cool in my books, grew up right across the highway from us. Great family. And my favorite thing to do is collect gadgets that are unusual and handy, my nickname is gadgetman!
This show was so smart for the time it came out, when everything else was slapstick and silly.
True. The next big budget HB cartoon series was Scooby Doo and it leaned hard on the comedy.
Jonny Quest's opening and ending music might be the best of any cartoon in history. It is also one of the few cartoons that was on in primetime. A cartoon for both adults and children. I have to admit that I watched it as a kid and also have as an old man. Still get a thrill watching each episode.
The musical score is fantastic.
Tim Matheson is one of my favorite actors of all time. It's great to know that he's done his share of Hanna Barbera classics as a cartoon voice.😊❤❤
I'm 64 and I still watch Jonny Quest. The show influenced me so much that my 63 model planes of WWI, scale 1/72 begun when I was 13 y.o. based on the attractive chapter "The Shadow of the Condor". The variety of situations, devlish situations and bad guys are wonderful. As far as I know nobody is capable to precisely mention all places happened the 26 episodes. From Egypt ("The Curse of Anubis"), to Java Sea ("The Sea Haunt") the show goes on hypnotizing generations.
It was like James Bond for kids. Lot's of entertaining fun. I did watch the Sean Connery James Bond movies too as my father was the projectionist and as a young pre teen we got to watch the James Bond movies for free up in the unoccupied balcony along with my brothers. However Jonny Quest was just as fun
With Doug Wildey and Alex Toth designing the characters,
you can't go wrong.
The original, classic comic-book like art style of the Hanna Barbera animated series is still the best IMO. And still the best of the franchise. They should match the original art work with any future series.
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid ❤️
I think my favorite episode was the invisible electrical creature.
The original Jonny Quest became a storyboard for action sequences in the Return of the Jedi, several Bond movies, all the Indiana Jones movies, many later TV action shows.
Just watching the pilot episode you'll see several well used live action sequences copied nearly frame for frame.
Probably the most violent opening of any kids show! Geez, I loved it! Kick ass music, too!
Complete series is like $30 on Amazon. Scooped it up for half off a few years back. Def a recommended buy. The second series (real) had some legit terrifying episodes, especially the one that's basically The Thing.
I grew up with show
Was totally awesome as a kid
And truly light years ahead of all other cartoons. And remains fresh looking still 50 years later .
You've got the fact right, but you miss so much of the context. It's like the difference of a history report and interviewing someone who was there.
Jonny Quest is part of a long line youth adventures stretching back centuries. Including earlier entries like Tarzan and John Carter from Mars in its Pulp Fiction days, Little Orphan Annie and Terry and the Pirates in its newspaper comic strip phase, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon when radio plays filled the airwaves continuing today in the issues Shonen Jump and accompanying anime streaming on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
HB found success pouring old wine into a new animated bottle. (See adapting the Flintstones from the Honeymooners format or Yogi Bear and Top Cat from Sgt. Bilko) HB struck gold again adapting the global spanning adventures of radio serials into an animated show called Jonny Quest. Current events also helped shape the show. As the space race at the time heated up politically, culturally is spurred an interest in space, space travel and the wider scientific world.
HB revived the cartoon in the 80's in part as a response to other syndication blocks like the Disney Afternoon. You can see a kind of standoff between Jonny Quest and Talespin. And many of the elements seeing in the TV movies and the Real Adventures pop up in other series like Mighty Max, Ben10, Generator Rex, The Mummy animated series and the Jackie Chan Adventures.
I'm grateful you took the time and effort to research the series so thoroughly. I just wanted to interject that context can bring added meaning to the effort.
From “The Secret Origins of Jonny Quest”
Nevertheless, there is another, more direct, influence on Jonny Quest that receives less attention. From 1947 to 1968, Grosset & Dunlap published Rick Brant's Electronic Adventures, a series about a young boy, Rick Brant, who uses science and technology to battle his antagonists (a single limited edition volume was also published in 1990). Joining Rick is his father, famous scientist Dr. Hartson Brant; Dismal (or “Diz”), their dog; Chahda, Rick’s Hindu friend from India; and Scotty, his ex-marine pal, and sometimes bodyguard. Together, along with Rick's sister Barby and her best friend Jan, secret agent Steve Ames, and a supporting cast of scientific specialists, they operate from Spindrift Island, their secret base off the East Coast of America.
Don’t forget Jonny Quest was a huge inspiration to the Venture Bros. Who due to adult swim having the rights to the characters even treated the events of Jonny Quest as canon within the Venture Bros. With Race, Jonny and Hadji having multiple appearances with Jonny even going through an arc showcasing how having such a hyper violent childhood left Jonny with PTSD, and drug issues. His arc shows first his dependence and later recovery from his addiction with him even reconnecting with an old villain from the Jonny quest show while in rehab who tries to be almost a surrogate father to him.
@@phantomkrieger2744 Honestly? The Venture Bros. while a fun show takes a very cynical and mean spirited approach to the old teen adventurer trope. To the point of being obnoxiously preachy at times.
I'm 41 years old and I still think about this show from time to time. Was outstanding.
I never saw the original Johnny Quest but i do remember seeing the 'Real Adventures of Johnny Quest' cartoon from the 90s. Great theme song. :)
You definitely need to dig up episodes of the original series from 1964. You'd be surprised how good they are and how well they hold up after almost 60 years.
Same here
Check out the music for Johnny Quest 👍🎵
The series from the 60's was the absolute best.
As a schoolboy in the '60s, this was my favorite show.
Bigotry.
OH HELL YES! This was a supreme favorite when I was growing up. I rarely see the first animated feature that helped revive the series anymore because of its TOO adult themes and violence. But no matter the incarnation I have rarely been disappointed... much. Still, nothing beats the original show, which I appreciate almost as much as my true favorite, "The Twilight Zone".
I used to get hyped every time I saw the opening credits.
I'm still amazed this show ever got off the ground.
This show regained popularity because of the show Venture Brothers.
VB is the greatest animated show, imo
This show is years ahead of its time
I LOVED watching this series growing up! Thank you for covering it!
My favorite is (The Robot Spy). Next the (Invisible Monster).
Never get old.
Next to the Flintstones this is Hannah- Barbera's true Master work.
I loved watching Jonny Quest back in the day . and as a 62 yr old male it just brought back a bunch of great memories .
It was my favorite Saturday morning Cartoon, Space Ghost and the Herculoids were also my Favs. Best theme song of ANY TV show
Hoyt Curtin’s scores and big jazz band was instrumental 🎷🪘🎺🥁🎻🪈in making Jonny Quest the best adventure cartoon ever! (1964/65 only)
Jonny Quest premiered when I was 8 in 1964 and I couldn't wait to reach 10 so I could be Like Jonny Quest. I would even have settled for being part of his inner circle like Hadji. Nevertheless, when I watched the episodes, I felt like I was part of the adventure [without the danger]. And what Jonny Quest devotee doesn't have the opening Jonny Quest theme music committed to memory. Definitely one of my favorite childhood memories.
Absolutely loved this show as a kid!
I was ready every Saturday morning to watch Johnny Quest
I LOVED the original as a kid, and still watch both it and "The Real Adventures" today. And the Thunderbirds! 😊
Obviously the main inspiration for “The Venture Brothers”
Venture bros is my favorite show and I love seeing the homage and spoofs they do.
Go Team Venture!
Rewatching the venture bros now,
And I'll follow that with Archer.😅
Love venture bros and Johnny quest, one of my favorite episodes of venture was the Bannon episode
@@ag_ronin4934 homage nothing, they straight up put the characters in the show. Race dies, Johnny is a junkie with hardcore daddy issues, and Hadji works at an IT call center. Lol
People don't remember that Jonny Quest aired prime time in the evening, lasted one season at $1 million dollars per episode in 1964 yet is still some of the best animation ever made 😎
Watching this on Saturday mornings was awesome.
This show first aired when I was like 4 years old & I absolutely loved it. Jonny Quest started my love for Hanna-Barbara cartoons, including Space Ghost & the Herculoids & The Super Friends. Hanna -Barbera absolutely dominated my Saturday mornings for over a half decade. The opening theme music to JQ still gives me goosebumps of excitement. What a great show! Sorry, but I couldn't get into the animation style of the 90s reboot. Alot of the cartoons started looking too anime-Disney fusion around then, I preferred the look of the original & own it on DVD ✈👁
yensid Well said. It's so sad that now hardly anyone knows Hanna Barbera and their characters. What a shame and WB is to blame for this. Hanna Barbera cartoons and their characters are my favorite. Disney comes a very very very far second place for me.
It was beautifully drawn and colored. It wasn't dumbed down, it had complex story lines. It spoke to the young and old alike. That is why it is still in syndication.
I Loved Johnny Quest,. It was GREAT !!!!
SCOOBY DOO AND MYSTERY INC.
NEXT ANIMATED FILM SHOULD
TEAM UP WITH JOHNNY QUEST.
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby.
Johnny, Race, Dr. Quest, Haji and Bandit.
The content of this video was fantastic. The cold script reading, weird segmentation from multiple takes wasn’t edited for a consistent cohesive narrative. Say Barbary Lion, now say Joseph Roland Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera.
Hanna-Barbera produced plenty of classics at bargain prices, but this one was amazing. Excellent series.
Facts
These scared the crap out of me back then! 60s kids shows were FANTASTIC!
I thought everyone wanted to be Johnny Quest when they grew up. And don't sleep on that mad horn intro music from the band, iconic.
Of all the TV shows ever made, this was one of them.
The original was fantastic. The rest were flaming garbage.
Couldn’t agree more. The new ones sucked, graphics sucked..all new cartoons totally sucked.
NO LIES DETECTED HERE!!! I agree wholeheartedly....
@@terrysmitherman4116the 1964 jonny quest will always be the realest classic cartoon of all time.
100% right!
Absolutely correct!
I was in 7th grade when this prime time series aired. A new standard was set with the animation and stories. AND what an incredible theme song by Hoyt Curtin!!!
Aaaaaannnnnnd not one word on the INCREDIBLE dramatic music that was used?????