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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1964 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Children's Video |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 4 |
| UPC: | 014764234120 |
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Customer Reviews of Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season
Inadequate packaging Twice I've had to return this title because of defective packaging. The first time the corner was heavily bent. The second time the outer plastic shell was so bowed out of shape that the box would not stand upright on it's own. I also noticed on the discs themselves that at least a couple of episodes had been censored for some stupid reason. I've decided to give up on this title. Great memories of the tv show though so it's too bad. Maybe some day in the future I'll take a chance once again... but not for a long while.
Blast from the past
-I absolutely love this collection. I introduced my son and daughter to a little taste of dads youth and they loved it as well. We watched the whole thing from start to finish. Man, were those some quality cartoons and storylines. It still makes me want to take up Judo. Subliminal message methinks.
Good vs Evil traditional values
Four or five years ago I stumbled across some VHS classic Jonny Quest episodes released by Turner Home Entertainment. My kids loved them, and I loved them too. I will now be able to expand that small collection with all 26 episodes. I can't watch most modern day cartoons with my kids without being thoroughly disgusted with the values and content. These classic episodes portray good vs evil kind of values. Interestingly enough these cartoons have many interesting similarities with the Scooby Doo cartoons. In one episode the bad guys dress up in frog-man costumes to scare the too curious. The inclusion of bandit into the plot is another similarity. One can see where ideas from this series influenced the original Scooby Doo cartoons. Unfortunately these Jonny Quest episodes are one of a kind, and nothing with similar content is likely to come along. The things that make them great like real bad guys and real explosions and real bullets just won't happen in the politically correct world we now live in. If you are a liberal and trying to raise complete passifist kids, run like hell and turn on the latest episode of Dragon Tales. If you want to influence your kids values without them knowing it (which is the best way, since they never question it) then sit down and watch some of these cartoons with them.