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  • There was a Johnny Quest episode where a foreign power had put a missile in swamp and the locals were being poisoned by eating the fish which had been contaminated by the rocket fuel. Honestly, I think that with some work it would not be a half bad 007 James Bond.

  • Great show--great animation, great music--it made us feel sophisticated as children to watch it and was easily the high light on Sat. mornings--with a big bowl of Sugar Snaps cereal--couldn't be beat!!

  • they showed SG after johny quest? wow, now they show the HB logo.

  • Some people think the opening is the best but this band is rocking on the closing as well! Cool jazz!

  • What's the episode called at the beginning of this video?

  • @NoPancakeMixxx That wasn't even part of the series. It was a brief pilot film for the show's original concept, an animated version of Jack Armstrong, the classic radio adventure series.

  • @NoPancakeMixxx i wonder too one of the few i have not seen

  • This was a turning point for television cartoon series.

    It was the first true "action-advanture cartoon"; we'd get a bunch of them on Saturday mornings (mainly superheroes, including Hanna-Barbera's own "Space Ghost") over the next few years.

  • "Hadji"in that skin diving scene with"Jonny"was wearing a loin cloth..not a swim suit with diver's mask,scuba tank and swim fins.

  • Great series, too bad it only lasted 1 season. I understand that it wasn't canceled due to ratings, but because it was over budget and HB pulled the plug. I can understand why it was over budget -the backgrounds and animation were of great quality for TV which probably drove the costs up.

  • The "they kill people" on Jonny Quest didn't really start until the campaign against "war toys" began in the late Sixties during the protests against the Indochina War. The entire bacillus infected Hollywood and the entertainment industry. It even affected how we produce war films today. Jonny Quest couldn't be produced today as a cartoon.

    Outside of the anime industry, Jonny Quest was the greatest American television cartoon in history.

  • Tim Matthieson on the credits here (doing the voices of Jonny and Hadji) also is the same person who played Otter in Animal House.

  • The best part of this was the start and the ending.

  • Violence wasn't a factor in this show's cancellation after just one first-run season -- it was about cost and the contractual preoccupation of the studio with other projects. Limited resources, so JQ fell on the floor. The show orig. aired in prime-time, so the demographic aimed at was not (solely) young kids, as it would become in syndication. That, "but they ACTUALLY KILL PEOPLE" crap wouldn't start until the early '70s. Affiliates would butcher some eps until the plots no longer made sense.

  • I liked this cartoon because they weren't afraid to kill people in it!

  • Loved this series. Watching it indeed filled me with a sense of adventure.

  • The sixties, minus the wars, rocked.

  • now this is real quality

  • 0:24 - 0:32 is my favorite part, the sound is just so "intoxicating"

  • The boat jump and landing. The best part.

  • THAT'S the ending I remember, not that H-B or Turner closing credits that's on now.

  • Something I've noticed about the JQ credits is that ever since Turner updated the prints of JQ in the '90s, majority of the time I watch the ending of JQ on Boomerang they tend to use the same staff and voiceover credits from the ep. "Skull and Double Crossbones" (which is the only ep. w/out Doug Wildey's credit) on the majority of the eps. (with the exception of at least "Double Danger") on U.S. Boomerang reruns.

  • The scene with African tribesmen was not from any of the original JQ shows but it was rather a scene from "Terry and the Pirates" which predated JQ. Tand the P was suppose to be and action show but was later changed to JQ. To pitch JQ to the networks they used parts of T and the P for the end credits of JQ.

  • intellectual political science adverture cartoons before the left dumbed down kids with PC crap... Mad Men rule

  • @WindAndTheLion : Lots of us lefties loved this show. I don't know what you mean by PC crap given that Hadji is an equal on the team, Jade could kick anyone's ass, and many of the bad guys were white. What dumbed down the cartoons was selling out children's programming for product placements. This show was great without espousing any political ideology other than helping good people while kicking evildoer butt.

  • @poetamelie ... fair enough, but I don't see cartoons today where a cool American kid sneaks into "Red China" with dad to fight the good fight (real episode)... if a cartoon came out today where a US scientist dad and his son go after baathist thugs and the taliban and al qaeda and north korea it would show there is still brilliant stuff out there.. .and i wouldn't give a rat's ass if someone on the berkeley city council complained

  • There has never been, nor will there ever be a cartoon junkie as loyal or as passionate as I am about this age (and earlier) of cartoons. And king of them all is Jonny Quest. But, can anyone answer from what episode do the pointing African tribesmen at the end credits come? I can recognize scenes from every other episode in the credits but that. I have been wondering about this riddle for 45 years, so I would appreciate any insight.

    I am so glad to there are others out there like me....

  • Special guest appearence by Barry O at .29 sec

  • oh my God, i use to watch this when i was very young

  • The voice of Jonny Quest was actually that of Tim Matheson (a.k.a. Tim Matthieson) who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House.

  • The music used on Jonny Quest was awesome; that last trumpet note at the end, WOW!

  • i'll always remember hating this opening, because that meant jabberjaw was over. ah, the good old days. now i dread tv period.

  • this was my favorite show when i was little and btw its on tv2 right now i love boomerang XD

  • I think race was hitting the Docs wife. Johnny looks just like Race.

  • @xxdonaldqxx Youre only half right. Race was hitting everyones wife.

  • Its interesting to hear that the first part of this end title was part of a failed project by hanna barbera called Jack Armstrong. I would like to see what would happen if they went through with this project.

  • If they did a live movie version, I think pro-wrestler Hardcore Holly should pay Race.

  • Why can "The Flinstones", The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series, The Magilla Gorrilla Show, and others can be resored the same way within 1963-65?

  • 1964 ¡Amazing!

  • Times were cartoons had quality. Now kids watches doddles.

  • This brings back so many memories....i always had one tape that had this and scooby doo where are you on it and loved watching it.

  • Best. Cartoon. Ever. The music, animation, writing. Stellar.

  • JQ stretched HB cartoons to the limit, The quality took LOTS of recources and they already had many popular toons (Yogi Bear) to occupy them. PLUS the show was very violent for young kids. However it was incredibly sophisticated. and it's like probably won't ever be seen again. Movie version is in the works.

  • First real serious cartoon. Really cool for it's time.

  • I like Jonny quest because hes funny.Bandit has a nasty bark.

  • Dang that music takes me back. Best cartoon ever. People got KILLED on that toon!

  • No.

  • I want one of those jet packs, damnit. If I can't have that, I'll settle for that flying saucer.

  • Lost in Space was a good show too, and although it lasted 3 years, it was cancelled because it was expensive to make.

  • Actually creator Irwin Allen got tired of the series and canceled it.

  • this is so COOL

    the ToDay cartoons are really Bad

  • As per nmsudan: JQ was accurate in many, many ways----------plus, the music used fits for want of a better word :)

  • @TheEdRock77 I HEAR YOU... WHAT I HAVEN'T SEEN POSTED, [YET] WAS THE NEWER SERIES, "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY QUEST"........

  • @TheEdRock77 I AGREE! THE ART IN THIS CARTOON IS OUTSTANDING!! GREAT DETAIL! NOT LIKE TODAY'S JUNK!

  • @mtdinstrumentals I actually tried to sit down and watch the engineered idiocy on the Disney Channel, PBS Kids, and Nicktoons. I couldn't do it. I could only handle just the briefest exposures to this brain-destroying stupidity! And yet, today's cartoons are specifically designed to enable kids to function in the dystopic hell that is being prepared for them.

    To reintroduce the cartoons and TV shows of the '60's would create massive cognitive dissonance in today's kids.

  • I was hooked on the animation, music, and adventure-stories from this series. One of the few animated shows on TV at the time in which people looked like people and not caricatures.

  • tha wha im talking bout not bad for 60s technology.

  • In ONE word: ditto!

  • Here's a bit of trivia for you folks... do you know who voiced Jonny Quest? None other than Tim Matheison (Otter for Animal House)

  • I had heard that. That a male was used to do the voice for a young boy was unusual back then. Usually women did the voices for young boy cartoon characters (I guess because women's voices don't change like a young boy's does.)

  • Hey Eddie,

    Thanks for the interesting info. I always loved JQ as a kid.

  • Jonny Quest was only on one year...it was highly rated..but was canceled because it was just to expensive to produce (the animation and music were top notch). It's great that we can watch the show on YouTube!

  • @Eddiesix damn, only 1 year? It was a great show.

  • @CoolasIce2

    its ridiculous that this great show only lasted one year. I treasure those what, 26 episodes and still watch them regularly on DVD.

  • God this must've been so high budget for the sixties.

  • So, does anyone know the actual name of the song? Or is it just "Johnny Quest Closing Credits"?

  • Screen Gems Danceing sticks are so cool

  • I missed the question, but this is WAY before Wayne was in LA. the Lead trumpet is Bud Brisbois

  • Thanks for posting..Good memories...Anyone notice that even closing credits have become unwatchable? Gotta cram it... so you can't see or hear it ..so we can tell you what crappy show is coming up next.

  • who did the music to this show

  • Hoyt Curtin, who did the music to all the H-B shows in the 60's and 70's

  • Now THAT'S what I want to see, the credits with their original logo. they can put new logos with the old logos. That was Awesome!

  • Note that Doug Wildey's logo was on the closing credits (which was rare for an animated series at that time).

  • I like this version of Jonny Quest a lot better than The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

  • A Screen Gems Presentation

  • ABC cut of Hanna Barbera and Replaced it with The Dancing Sticks

  • @poepplein ABC didn't replace Hanna-Barbera's logo with Screen Gems as HB didn't have its own logo until 1967. Screen Gems was the distributor of the HB programs up until then. In the original airings of "Jonny Quest", for example, there were the HB in-credit, the Screen Gems logo and the ABC presentation logo.

  • Ah yes, the closing credits; an adrenaline rush right to the bitter end. I have never seen a show since this one where the end theme was anywhere near this pumped.

  • notice all the vilonce and we as kids never grew up hurting anybody, we knew the difference between fact and fantasy not the little mush brains of today

  • That's because we were exposed to violence on TV but our were taught that it was all just a TV show and that violence had no place in real life, either by our parents or by our own accord. Something kids seem to be unable to do these days.

  • @blackpeppir

    Funny because I did NOT perceive Jonny Quest as being 'vicious'-------------unless it was the bad guys being punished.

    If anything; JQ was both All American as well as being cutting edge 'liberal' portray Hadji..............never mind that E Indians were considered to be 'White' back then.

  • If I were to blame a cartoon for my behavior... it would be Jonny Quest....let's see.. on a payroll since 13 yrs of age...no STD's...no pregnancies...jumped out of airplanes...stiil married (17 yrs)... own my paint bussiness...off dope....no Police record....Yes! I'd say with confidence that I grew up with Jonny Quest!!

    JD Saldivar/Sgt

    82D Abn Div

    82-87

    PS: Not afraid to claim the blood of Jesus!

  • Only senator Paul Simon knew kids weren't stupid and he acknowledged that in his report. May he rest in peace.

  • I think cartoons like Jonny Quest taught us that shooting at people, pushing them off a cliff, or running over them with a car will probably KILL them. They won't just bounce up and move on.

    So, we learned that you shouldn't do that.

  • this was my favorite cartoon when I was about 4 or 5 .The closing theme music was somber back then because it would be another week before Johnny Quest would be on again.......HEY when your 5 a week is a long time right? lol

  • very true a week was like a month or may be more to me now ..hehe

  • Is it just me or did anyone notice Race Bannon looks a lot like Doc Savage?

  • If you go to imdb (dot) com, and look up Jeff Chandler, he was the actor who the design of Race Bannon was based on.

  • it's not you. he does.

  • OK, music trivia: The trumpet player that takes the high screaming note on the end is Bob O'Donnell.

  • Researched it and I dont think it was Bob O'Donnell. Bob has big credits like the theme from CHIPS but his career didnt start till the 70s

    Wayne Bergeron though, a respected studio player/jazz player/music instructor at CSU is credited with playing it on the staff website. Bob never did any work for Mr. Curtian who wrote it, but Wayne did lots

    Gotta say, a thousand trumpet players can scream that note but the trombone riffs are some of the most difficult in TV music history; uber-pros only.

  • I don't think so. Bud Brisbois played on these sessions. It is very likely him

  • I only have seen that logo on this show in her on the internet. I used to see with no logo on tv. It must have been lopped off.

  • i want to now wich chapter is the one at 0:43???i always wanted to know :(

  • It's the episode "Turu the Terrible". For some reason, the background colors are different?

  • damn...they just dont make em like they used to....cartoons suck nowadays....instant classic this one is....wish i had grown up in the 50's and 60's i loved the time period...x]

  • Cartoons of the '50's through the early '70's were designed to stimulate scientific fantasy, cohesive socialization, and creative thought because of the Apollo program and the challenge of the Soviet Union. Back then, the U.S. needed a skilled and motivated workforce and kids had a lot to look forward to.

    Today, kids have only tyranny and the rotting detritus of a once great nation to look forward to. Cartoons over the last 20 years have been designed to mold kids into passive serfs.

  • Plus, we need a generation of super space kids..

  • @InfiniteMushroom Absolutely, positively WELL STATED and sadly, true.

  • @InfiniteMushroom I sadly agree. Present day cartoons are pied pipers to the merchandising juggernaut whether it be poptarts, my little ponies or playdoh. Back when I watch Johnny Quest I looked forward to a Fisher Scientific chemistry set for Christmas, not skater shoes and an iPod.

  • I agree with you 100 percent....I also miss those screen gems endings....they scared the heck out of me, but I miss them..especially the flying s

  • Epic. I remember watching the series back in the '80s and taping the movie in the '90s. I agree with what everyone else has said about the music score. There's a strong tie between music and memory.

  • Still love Jonny Quest!

  • Nothing cooler than Race tossing his smoke to put a lip-lock on a hottie. You don't get that in animation, these days.

  • Agreed castle...the cost society must pay for "Political Correctness"!

  • "Mine's bigger than yours..." (Tim Matheson to the college dean's wife at the supermarket vegetable scene from Animal House. THAT Tim Matheson???..lol. Tim also played in a Leave It To Beaver episode, about 1962, as one of Wally's rivals for a girlfriend.

  • Everybody loves the music score, but few understand what a complicated and complex time chart it is. Complicated and almost melodic tom-tom lines, insane trombone harmonies and lip-trills, and who doesn't love the jazz flute solo. No way do the boring and synthesized scores from today's cartoons compare. Serious attention went into the this score.

  • No money in the budget for that these days

  • I agree that they don't budget enough money for good music scores in today's cartoons. Which is strange, really. Think about it, most of us love this cartoon BECAUSE of the music. Studios today don't understand that a great score practically hands you a cartoon classic on a silver platter.

  • They don't budget for music scores because the studios don't want to pay royalties to the musicians any more. And that's why we no longer have any real TV series music themes these days. It's certainly not for lack of talent.

  • I agree, amazing studio stuff. Drums are awesome!!!!!

  • Agreed, Star. You and I are living in a deep trough of cultural dreck.

  • It sounds that Hanna-Barbera hired only top-notch musicians to perform its music scores.

  • wow that takes me back. I remember every single camera shot and edit.. I watched that show all the time.

  • The dancing sticks background is black with the dancing sticks in gold tone with SCREEN GEMS in gold tone with the announcer who's intoning A SCREEN GEMS PRESENTATION. frank devol composed and conducted the jingle in color. then AN ABC PRESENTATION ID. at the end. then the announcer this is ABC.

  • hey hey, thats awesome !!!!

    me dio mucha nostalgiaa, hace como mas de 15 años ke no veia esto Y_Y

  • Most people probably don't realize this. But, that first shot in the closing credits? The natives with the shaking shields? _They never appeared in any episode of the original series, whatsoever!_ They were actually left over from a promo developed for Doug Wildey's original concept: an animated cartoon about old-time radio character "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy."

  • No, Matrix you're the frigging idiot! Because, those natives appeared ONLY at the start of the ending credits. Never (repeat: NEVER) in any of the episodes, themselves!

  • Thanks for this factoid. I've been looking for a long time at the JQ episodes on Boomerang and have been waiting for the 'episode' to see the shaking natives. Now I know not to look.

  • Have you ever wondered what Quest and company did to piss off the natives? In the clip they seem really outraged, to the point that they attack Quest's airplane. With spears.

  • I would if anyone would uncover the two minute pilot. Which is where that clip is from. That scene was from a proposed series called Jack Armstrong The All-American Boy.Based on a classic radio play But Hanna-Barbara and Doug Wildey decided to create on original character.There's a self-made documentary elsewhere that explains this.

  • Acholl980 said it best. But, I have no doubt that--if H-B had renewed JONNY QUEST for a second season--the writers would eventually have created a story around those angry natives. As they did for the pteranodon, the giant condor, the robot spider, et al.

  • Good point there.

    It is as if JQ was ahead of its time---------much like the original Star Trek.

  • Race Bannon has the sorts of adventures that would make James Bond crap his pants. The nature of Dr. Quest's crazy inexplicable science work takes him to the edges of civilization, deep into uncharted territory, and to all manner of hostile environments. Through it all, Race is ready and able to take on whatever challenges come up, to pilot anything that moves, to get it on with hot babes and to serve up a nice warm knuckle sandwich to anything that's capable of feeling pain.

  • I have to tell you carnivalofsouls2047, your comments are so right on the money! I thought I was the only one who ever noticed Race's "pumping" the oriental babe for info! There'll never be another serious cartoon as cool as the original Jonny Quest, that's for sure!

  • Awesome stuff.

  • By far, one of the best musical scores anytime any where.

  • NO DOUBT! That boat comes over the top and it DONE SON!

  • I remember reading someplace that the Hydrofoil and other pieces of high-tech depicted in the original series were actually just theoretical, back in 1964.  Concept art taken from either "Popular Mechanics" or "Popular Science" magazines.

  • I always enjoyed watching those frogmen get fucked up by the speedboat.

  • The best cartoon theme song ever

  • "A Screen Germs presentation" - just kidding

  • I love this show too. Especially the dancing sticks.

  • hermosa creación de Hanna Barbera, no me perdía ningún episodio cuando era niño, hoy en día, siendo abogado cuando tengo algo de tiempo libre la veo de tiempo en tiempo en Boomerang. Gracias por el recuerdo!

  • Ah the days when the used to put effort into American animation. Half the crap now looks so cheap and random.

  • sony/columbia is no longer owns hanna-barbera.warner bros/turner is over hanna-barbera cartoons now.what brought cartoon network/boomerang.columbia used to be with H-B in the 1960's now ted turner/warner bros.got hanna-barbera cartoons.

  • They Should Bring Back The Dancing Sticks Logo With The Sunburst Combined They Should Have Sony/Columbia-Screen Gems Television The Jingle Would Be A Combination Of The Dancing Sticks Fanfare And The Sunburst Fanfare The Dancing Sticks Jingle Sounds Like The Beginning Of My Three Sons That Was Composed By Frank Devol As Well As The Dancing Sticks Jingle

  • I loved this show! When my friends would watch Superman or Spiderman, I always preferred Jonny Quest. It was a much more imaginative and interesting show, that took kids to exotic, misterious, and dangerous places.

  • Ever notice Doug Wildey's name is omitted from the credits when Boomerang airs it lately? Anyone know why they did that?

  • Wow, I can't imagine why!! He was the lead artist and the inspiration for it.  I don't get Boomerang. btw - He was also lead designer for the 'Planet of the Apes' cartoon series. You can clearly see his trademark animation throughout.

  • Actually, Doug Wildey was not an animator, he was a comic book artist and illustrator, as was the other primary H-B designer back in the day, Alex Toth, who also did character designs on Jonny Quest.

  • Doug Wildey was the man!

  • On 16mm network prints (distributed to those affiliates who couldn't schedule the series on its national Friday or Thursday night time period), you'd see "An ABC Presentation" graphic after the Screen Gems logo, 'GOOSEY'. When it was telecast on the network, an ABC logo slide would usually appear at the end, with a live announcer saying, "This is ABC".

  • To me the best scene was the jet(later called the dragonfly) taking off from the desert on a skids...i always loved that part as a kid.

  • what episode are the first clips from?

  • It was from the demo that Screen Gems used to sell the show when they offered it to the networks. There was no episode shot with those scenes.

  • Exactly, like regular live action TV shows, many cartoons had demo reels made by the studios to pitch to the networks. I only wish that Hanna-Barbera had included the demo reel on the JQ DVD release.  I met Bill Hanna back in '91 and when I asked him what his favorite cartoon was, he replied (not surprisingly) Jonny Quest.

  • "Jonny Quest" was Hanna-Barbera's first venture into "serious' animation.

  • It was bad enough when the good scences were cut from all the Looney Tunes cartoons,Jonny Quest would only be shown on,"Adult Swim" on late night,Cartoon Network

  • Great action cartoon series. It came out in 1964 when I was 10. And no one complained when the bad guys got theirs which sometimes meant death. Ah for the days before political correctness. In the same cartoon today you would probably see Dr. Benton Quest attempt to rehabilitate the villains and Race Bannon would be sent to sensitivity training.

  • Good observation.

  • Yeah, and then Hanna Barbera gave us more cerebral and sophisticated shows, like Scooby Doo and Jabber Jaw! I miss the classic Jonny Quest.

  • consequences, baby.  that's what is mssing in the world today.

  • "Hi, I'm Jonny Quest and I'm damn glad to meet ya!"

  • This cartoon couldnt air today, imagine the liberal uproar if teens like jonny and hadji were shown shooting guns! Its way too violent!

  • Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

  • nice screeching trumpet at the end there....very cool music YEAH BABY!!!

  • A SCREEN GEMS PRESENTATION PRODUCED BY HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS Was The Black Background With The Dancing Sticks In Gold And Words Screen Gems In Gold

  • Ah, the dancing sticks from Screen Gems! Tim Matheson (Animal House) did the voice of Jonny. The pilot episode (with the green pirate frogmen in the Sargasso-like sea) was done in multi-hue colors (different shading) as opposed to the later episodes which were solid fill.

  • Thanks' to "Johnny Quest", we now have "The Venture Brothers"!

  • This is a Screen Gems Presentation from Columbia Pictures.

  • I always loved the speedboat flying through the air and landing on the green bad guys. And that's probably the first time I've seen that Screen Gems tag in 30 years.

  • screen gems is back is recently back in business!!

  • Was This Really Taken In Color With The Dancing Sticks And The ABC Camera ID In Color With AN ABC Presentation

  • cool, somebody else actually remembers the "dancing sticks"...of course, the "SFH" would have made even cooler!!

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