The best cartoon ever made

One of the best theme songs ever written for a TV show!

@LyleFrancisDelp

Ай бұрын

Trombone solos played by the great Frank Rosolino

@user-fz6qv4ve8v

Ай бұрын

I actually have it as my ring tone on my Iphone

This was cant miss TV on Saturday mornings when I was a kid in the early 70's

I remember watching Johnny Quest as a kid . Good memory....

No other HB series matched the quality of Jonny Quest.

I grew up watching Jonny Quest when it first came out on ABC on Friday night and later on Saturday morning as reruns.Remember at this time 90% of households didn't have color TV.This was also the first animated series in which people were killed or inferred dying (off camera of course).

@user-fz6qv4ve8v

Ай бұрын

Space Ghost also had inferred deaths of bad guys.

@ronsmac

Ай бұрын

That’s why I liked Speed Racer. You knew that bad guys and random drivers were going to die.

@user-fz6qv4ve8v

Ай бұрын

@@ronsmac Could not get into Speed Racer but as far a Japanese programs...you could not beat the original Ultraman.

@ronsmac

Ай бұрын

@@user-fz6qv4ve8v I’m glad they were forward thinking and filming in color even though the vast majority of people in 1964 had black and white tvs so that by the time I started watching quest on Saturday and sometimes Sunday mornings in the late 70s, the show looked modern and better than some of the cartoons made in the 70s.

The sound effects from the invisible monster episode creeped me out!

I remember this classic show man great facts and trivia they don't make it like this anymore

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, yeah, this was one of those shows I used to watch on Saturday mornings back in the day.

I hope you all enjoy this look back at goofs and fun facts from Jonny Quest. Hanna Barbera had some great action animated series.

@robertwalton9053

Ай бұрын

Great video. More JQ, please!

Always loved the robot spider, and drew it as a kid!

I was born in 1958 and have watched what was best on TV since. Jonny Quest is one of the best TV shows of all time. Period. It's as electric to watch now as then. That opening. The mummy. Action, sci-fi, espionage, comedy. An exotic and dangerous world with unforeseeable perils, calculating villains with foreign accents and cool vehicles, cooler weapons and deadly animals. Great post.

@tvcrazyman

Ай бұрын

Thanks

The big goof I remember was when Dr Benton called Jonny on a radio Jonny had on his belt. He was tied standing up against a beam by the bad guys and the radio hung down to his knee. I don't know how his capters could have missed it. I watched a couple episodes a few yrs ago and it still holds up.

I was a little girl in the 60s and I loved Jonny Quest! The one about the mummy scared the crap out of me! 😅😅😅

@JimmieCates-d5r

4 күн бұрын

The One That Scared Me , Was The Invisable Electricial Creature They Throwed Paint On It And It Had One Big Eye! The Mummy One Was Good Also .

Thanks, the one that freaked me out was the GARGOYLE....that one creeped me out even after the reveal. 😂

@user-fz6qv4ve8v

Ай бұрын

haha me too! and the mummy episode also gave me nightmares

@oluhamilton2121

Ай бұрын

'....you'll regret this, YOU'LL REGRET THIS'! For some reason that line resonates......

Probably the most violent cartoon of the 60's I LOVE IT. !!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊 it's time for a LIVE ACTION MOVIE !!!!!!!

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

I think that would be awesome, if they followed the same kind of scripts and didn't try to modernize it.

@clementjohnson2666

2 ай бұрын

​@@tvcrazymanMy thoughts exactly 👌 .

Apparently Hanna-Barbera originally wanted to do an animated version of a popular juvenile radio show from the 1930s-1940s "Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy", in which a high schooler went on adventures all over the world with his two friends and their scientist Uncle Jim. It was sponsored by Wheaties, so the character was owned by General Mills, who refused Hanna-Barbara the rights. So they created their own character and made it more creative than Jack Armstrong. You can find surviving episodes of the radio show online to get an idea.

@13thwho

4 күн бұрын

@scottandrews9453 The 15-chapter “Jack Armstrong” movie serial from 1947 is available here on KZread.

@scottandrews9453

4 күн бұрын

@@13thwho Yes, I've seen it, pretty good for a low budget serial. The radio characters were supposed to be younger than the actors in the serial, but otherwise not too different from the radio show. Incidentally you can find episodes of the radio show also here on KZread. Jonny Quest allowed them to be more imaginative than Jack Armstrong.

I recently purchased the complete series on Blu Ray. I highly recommend it !!!

@Maldoror200

Ай бұрын

@Mike Kelly.., but, dontcha need special equipment 4 "Blu Ray"..?

@MikeKelly9786

Ай бұрын

​@Maldoror200 just a blu ray player.

This was a really great video win I was a little boy Johnny Quest was one of my favorite shows I never missed it.

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it

@Maldoror200

Ай бұрын

@ralphjohnson..Same here !! 😉👌

Miss this cartoon!

All that made you feel you were there actually seeing it happen.

You absolutely couldn’t get away with a cartoon like this today🤣

Johnny Quest - such wonderful memories!

Good Show, Thanks. Love 1964 J.Q. & 1967 Herculoids.

@user-fz6qv4ve8v

Ай бұрын

Space Ghost, Marvel Super Heroes and orginal Spiderman....

Watched it from its prime time premier. Remains one of my favorites.

Today, the Johnny Quest Show would probably be a hard "cel".

I loved Johnny Quest!

More great goofs ftom anothet brilliant show I wish they would bring programmes like this back 😀

Thanks, for "Doing it for Johnny!"

We would not have the Venture Brothers without Johnny Quest.

@Nomed38

Ай бұрын

Go Team Venture!

Such an awesome show. Didn’t realize any of these goofs until you pointed them out

I have the series on DVD and it is funny, as much as I have seen this show I knew about a third of what you showed. Thank you!!

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

Appreciate it.

On the episode Double Danger. On the mountain that you are talking about there is no bandit in Johnnys lap. That I can see. Great video Mr tvcrazyman. Have a good Thursday and ✌️ to you.

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

An awesome series. I watched this series as a kid and some of those episodes scared the heck out of me! Little boys absolutely loved this stuff. My favorites are Invisible Monster, Monster in the Monastery, The Sea Haunt, and The Curse of Anubis. Curse of Anubis gave me nightmares and the mummy monster probably only appeared for less than two minutes.

Thanks for your work on this! My all time favorite cartoon.

You also showed a goof within a goof, Tvcrazyman! When Race and Dr Quest are playing chess, part of Quest's beard changes shape a couple of times! Haha! Tim Matheson was also on Leave it to Beaver a couple of times in its later seasons!

I watched this on a B&W TV so I didn't notice any of this. Still, I loved that this show looked like no other animated series at the time.

Man, I watched this show as a kid and never saw any of these bloopers. Keep up the good work. 👍

At 1:09 - I think it was intentional, they were just showing us what was happening inside the van

I was 7 when Jonny Quest premiered. Watched it on our Black & White TV, either a 12” RCA portable or the huge old Crosley piece of furniture. Thought it was the best cartoon ever back then.

And those ultra excellent sound effects.

Before "Raiders", this show made me talk my grandad into teaching me how to pop a bullwhip (they use one to explode a scorpion that's meanacing Bandit). One episode had a closeup of a mummy looking on in the moonlight that STILL creeps me out.

@oluhamilton2121

Ай бұрын

TURU THE TERRIBLE for me!

Loved it grew up watching,couldn’t wait until Saturdays

Tim Matterson was Otter in Animal House. I think Otter would be like Jonny Quest in college.

@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh

Ай бұрын

Yes Tim voiced Johnny Quest

You were right in regard to the #1 torpedo. The button controls the #1 torpedo tube. In order to fire it a second time, the tube would have to be reloaded, which would take several minutes. The villan should have fired the #2 tube for a second torpedo right away.

I still want to be Race Bannon when I grow up

This was originally a prime-time series when it aired from 1964-65

Valley of the Dinosaurs would be a welcome episode too.

Thanks for all the details.

I always thought this series had a Doc Savage feel to it. Which is fine.

Awesome once again 😂🥰 Thanks

We are PAST DUE for a J.Q. live action.....

@oluhamilton2121

Ай бұрын

They'll MUCK IT UP, somehow...

@zengreen7

Ай бұрын

@@oluhamilton2121 They might.

I used to watch this as a kid.

I have the series and soundtrack. My over 25 kids love it too.

@favoritemustard3542

Ай бұрын

I read "over" as _other_ & did a literal double-take lol That's awesome! 👍📺👍

I loved Bandit.

Tim also stared in National Lampoon's Animal House!!!!!!

You wold think the people doing the color would have noticed the fingernails.

@favoritemustard3542

Ай бұрын

...& it's not like they were using a paint bucket tool to do it; it was all by hand.

@jacktribble5253

Ай бұрын

@@favoritemustard3542 Yes. Frames were all over the place.

At 0:20 in they show a couple of jet powered flying machines. Those existed. In the Wright Patterson A.F. Museum in Dayton, Ohio when you're going up the hall between the 1st and 2nd building there is a room to the left that has kids info stuff and it is hanging off the floor. It flew quite well so of course it got scrapped. Had a jet engine and all. As of June 9, 2024, the series is available on blue ray and DVD.

The one thing that set the 60s HB cartoons apart from the later year cartoons was that excellent background theme music,used in Jonny Quest, Space Ghost,the Herculoids, Fantastic Four 1960s, the Flintstones, Frankenstein Jr., Mightor, Moby Dick, The Arabian Knights, Shazzan, especially when there was a huge fight, extreme danger, a chase scene, an investigation being done in extreme peril,a horrifying monster is revealed,one of the heroes are in life threatening danger fighting for their lives, in intense combat, like Space Ghost in The Heat Thing, Jonny Quest The Invisible Monster, Treasure of the Temple, Terror Island, Turu the Terrible, Dragons of Ashida, The Sea Haunt, Werewolf of the Timberland, The Robot Spy, Shadow of the Condor. And such details, you can see skin lines, the puplis of eyes, the sound effects of real gunfire, explosions, crashes, falling objects, impacts, real looking objects being used, the weapons, aircraft were drawn precisely to the last details, very realistic looking.

the biggest goof is when jonny , a 12 year old , judo flips 200 lbs thugs 10 feet in the air

@THE-HammerMan

Ай бұрын

That's not a goof, Johnny was holding back!

Mike Road also was the voice of Zandor on The Herculoids.

The art work, animation, and story lines beatable.

@favoritemustard3542

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean 👍

This is excellent. I missed all of those things. But I picked up on something that other people missed. A documentary on Johnny Quest talked about how details, like the shadow under the plane in “Arctic Splashdown” made the show more realistic. The problem is that the shadow was directly underneath the plane. Up in the arctic, the shadow would not be underneath the plane. The shadow would be very long, like we see in the early morning or late evening, because of the angle of the sun.

This was a can’t miss Saturday morning half hour for me as a kid. The stories more than made up for the crappy animation (the Jonny Quest slide comes to mind) and made Saturday morning magical.

TvCrazyMan is actually Johnny Quest's brother.

Thank you!😊

One error you overlooked: The robot spy was black. The title sequence has it kind of a violet color.

This was on my 'murderer's row' of Saturday morning cartoon shows

Well done! My favorite was "The Invisible Monster". Scared the crap out of me! 2 more goofs there were that the monster stopped leaving tracks after it was painted! Another fan pointed that out to me. I noticed that the flying backpacks they used had a setting for "off", "on", and "reverse"! Why would you need "reverse"? In case you wanted to burrow into the ground?

@tvcrazyman

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm trying to imagine how reverse might work on a jet pack. 😀 That would be funny.

good one !

The low resolution televisions of the 1960's does blur those goofs...and videocassette recorders that can pause those flaws have not yet been invented!

I always loved those old Johnny Quest cartoons and then became a big Star Wars fan. However, I always wondered how Luke Skywalker stole Race Bannon's girlfriend in the novels...

Speaking of the Flintstones, in the episode: Monster in the Monastery, you forgot to mention that the Yetis were drawn as coming out of the Flintstones during the chase.

Metv is supposed to be having their own cartoon channel on June 25. Im hopeing they have more than just funny animals on there and dip into superhero and adventure cartoons. But i guess it depends on how expensive it is for Metv ti acquire them.

The mistakes in continuity can be understood when you consider how many productions were going on at Hanna-Barbera at the same time back then. They had to have farmed out a lot of work to meet schedules.

Mike Road and Don Messick did multiple voices in numerous episodes maybe one of them wasn't' there when a certain line had to be recorded or they got mixed up when recording.

How about a body count episode. This a different show where there were a lot of people killed. Best animated show ever

So sad we only got one season of this amazing fantastic show we were robbed of so many great episodes it should have been kept on the air for 5 years we lost 100 great episodes.

Kid version of James Bond

The best cartoon next to Scooby doo

What an awesome cartoon. Jonny Quest was the first of many action cartoons done by Hanna-Barbera. And speaking of which, you should do more of Quest in the future, such as the 80s revival, the 2 made-for-TV movies and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. BTW, I know it sounds silly but, every time I look at Duke from G.I. Joe, I think of Race Bannon, cause Race inspired Duke's existence, believe it or not. Other than that, keep up the good work and to quote Race himself: Nice work, TVcrazyman! Three with one blow! 😉

I noticed when it came out, that The Incredibles had blatant influence from the Robot Spy episode. Brad Bird said in an interview that he was a big Jonny Quest fan. As a JQ fan when I was a kid, that was too obvious.

Additionally when it was broadcast there was static and other transmission issues so people didn't see the poor details.

The opening of Mike Tyson Mysteries seems to be inspired by Jonny Quest's opening.

If you liked Johnny Quest, make sure to check out its sequel The Venture Brothers 😂

Maybe there was a washing machine in the area

Well drawn, shabbily animated. Wildey' s art carried the series as HB cut corners. As good as it was, it could have been so much BETTER.😊

I watch this show.

@lisazampino2131

2 ай бұрын

I watched it.

Batman Beyond

Mike road did the voice of Zandor in the herculoids.

Kane's Parents and Kane remember them 😊 Saturday morning Cartoon

1:02 I think that was purposely done.

💀✨️..Really excellent vid, man.., Great job.., and I LOOVED Jonny Quest when I was a kid.., Did you ?? ..(..& I "subbed"..!! 😉👌✨️..~Peace, K🥀)

I’ve got the DVD episode collection

Plz put my show back on

@edwardbright9434

Ай бұрын

we here in Columbia SC like tht

Tvcrazyman, was Jonny Quest originally aired as an adult cartoon or a Saturday morning cartoon?

@tvcrazyman

2 ай бұрын

It first ran in prime time before going to Saturday mornings so I would say it wasn't just for kids, and I heard that the creator didn't want it to be considered just a cartoon. I think the goal was for it to feel like a animated action movie every week.

@wb3381

2 ай бұрын

@tvcrazyman Thank you, sir

Also not many people had color TV's in 1964 and 1965 at least half the viewers still had black and white sets it wasn't until 1966 that all shows had to be broadcast in color which is why shows like Adams Family and Munsters ended in 1966 the color film they would have been forced to use was considered to be too expensive by the studio and the network.

It seems like Jonny Quest's sink is darker in these clips than I remember it back in the 60s. Os this an artfact of the transfer process used?

How I loved this show as a kid. From the incredible Hoyt Curtain theme song (he also did the stellar theme song to "The Jetsons") to the stylized art direction to the unabashed presentation of violence, I thought it was one of the best animated television series of all time. Too bad it wasn't sustainable ... the later iterations of JQ were terrible (Jonny's voice, for example, sounded like a girl!). I also thought it might do well as a live-action remake, given the tone of the Indiana Jones franchise. But it would need to be in the right hands....

too petty

If people were hung up on little things like this, no one would've had any fun in the past. Sometimes we just need to .....chill.

@tvcrazyman

Ай бұрын

I'm totally in agreement over being chill. Finding goofs is just for fun. 😀