Jonny Quest was the ultimate experience for me as an 8 year old boy. Race Bannon and Mr. Quest were excellent role models providing both intellectual and physical goals for a young boy. Jonnny's adventures around the globe were perfect ways to capture the attention of a young man growing up in an unfolding and interesting world.I remember my mother being part of a coalition to get rid of JQ and other cartoons on the TV at the time. How misguided! These are the same people who want to get rid of the early Disney movies because they think they are too realistic for children.Now I see the "new" version of Jonny Quest. The global adventures have been TRADED for time tsaken up with a girl who wastes time by being insulting to Jonny and taking up the time that could have been spent on an adventure. The original series DID NOT have gay overtones. The only people who saw gayness had gayness on the brain. The real casualty of the "new and improved" Jonny Quest is the loss of male role models for young boys in favor of being tied to women.

I hadn't watched a Johnny Quest cartoon for years until I watched the first season on DVD. The animation coloring was really well done. I especially enjoyed watching the cartoon from an adult perspective. Its no wonder that the show didn't last that long because at the time the Vietnam war was starting up and violence in cartoons was being watched pretty closely. JQ was one of the only cartoons where anyone ever died.If the action had been toned down a bit (fewer dead folks) the series might have lasted another year or so. Meanwhile, adult shows were getting more and more violent (Hawaii Five O and Mannix for instance) but the censures did their best to keep violence out of cartoons.

Hanna Barbera made some awful cartoons with awful production values, especially when compared with the stuff from Fleischer, Disney, Ising, RKO, etc. Aside from Fleischer and the Warner Bros. guys back then, these guys made cartoons for kids, and no matter how awesome the animation, I had a hard time getting into their work. But one HB exception was the original Jonny Quest. As a kid of 10 in 1964, the escapades of Jonny, Hadji, Race, Dr. Quest and Bandit were enthralling. The production quality was mostly above the average HB product, the voices were tops, and the scripting was written for adults and kids alike. For me, these original 1964-65 episodes really stand up to the test of time and in fact, smoke the latter JQ episodes and movies, no matter how hip and contemporary they may be. That show was something special!

That's right. That's what the title says. I had the Jonny Questrecord. What? You ask. I had the Jonny Quest record! Really, I did. It was called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was about Jonny, Race, Dr. Quest, and Bandit, sorry, Hadji, you weren't in it, trying to locate a lost submarine. One line always stuck in my mind: "Yousee, Jonny," Dr. Quest said. "The ocean floor isn't all flat. There arehigh mountains and deep canyons on the bottom of the ocean.Man has explored the heavens and is ready to rocket to Mars. But he still knows nothing about the deep, dark, mysterious world atthe bottom of the sea." Prophetic. Ain't it? Now to the cartoon.Jonny Quest, in the '60s cartoon, anyway, is a prepubescent boy of about 10 or 11. He lives in the Florida Keys with his father, Dr.Benton C. Quest, who was voiced by both Don Messick, SpaceGhost, Shazzan, Dino Boy, and Herculoids, and John Stephenson. Hadji's an Indian orphan. (No, NOT NATIVE AMERICAN!) I'mreferring to the country. He could be a Pakastani. The show's not clear. Anyway, Jonny, Hadji, Race, Dr. Quest, and Bandit, go onseveral adventures. Race Bannon is Jonny's bodyguard. His father does work for a top secret government organization. In the '60sseries, we don't know what happened to Jonny's mother or if Race Bannon had a family. That's not resolved until later. See JonnyQuest and Golden Mask for the resolution of those plot lines. The Quests and Race take on Dr. Zin, mentioned by another reviewer, Hardin, and smugglers disguised as lumberjacks. Later in theseries, they met Hard Rock, who was from an underground city of stone, and he was with them until the end of series. One morething, the '90s series was good, but the original's better.