| The New Adventures of Jonny Quest | |
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| Genre | Animation Adventure Action Sci-fi |
| Based on | Characters byDoug Wildey |
| Directed by | Oscar Dufau Don Lusk Rudy Zamora |
| Starring | Scott Menville Granville Van Dusen Rob Paulsen Vic Perrin Don Messick Jeffrey Tambor |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer | Berny Wolf |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions[a] |
| Original release | |
| Network | Syndication |
| Release | September 14, 1986 (1986-09-14) – March 1, 1987 (1987-03-01) |
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The New Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated series produced byHanna-Barbera Productions, and a continuation of the 1964–65 television seriesJonny Quest. It debuted in 1986 as part ofThe Funtastic World of Hanna-Barberasyndication package, being the seventh and final Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the four and a half weekday/weekend morning line-up. While it is a continuation, the series can be seen as the second season to the original series.
This series features Dr. Quest and his group as they go on adventures while thwarting different villains, such as themad scientist Dr. Zin. Some episodes had a stone man named Hardrock as the Quest family's ally.
| No. | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Peril of the Reptilian" | Alan Burnett | September 14, 1986 (1986-09-14) | |
Mysterious attacks on military installations in theSouth Pacific leads Dr. Quest to the evil biochemist Dr. Phorbus and his henchmen Simon and Patch on an uncharted island. Dr. Phorbus has engineered prehistoric hybriddinosaurs from the DNA harvested from dinosaur bones as well creating as mutant dinosaur-like "reptile-men" with help from the DNA harvested from human bones so that he can sell them to foreign powers. | ||||
| 2 | "Nightmares of Steel" | Mark Zaslove | September 21, 1986 (1986-09-21) | |
Sheik Abu Saddi asks Dr. Quest for help in dealing with a group of vicious marauders called the Night Raiders. They alongside their leader Baksheesh have developed robot horses stolen from the sheik so that they can use them in their plot to kill the sheik. | ||||
| 3 | "Aliens Among Us" | John Loy | September 28, 1986 (1986-09-28) | |
A matter transportation device invented by Dr. Quest is stolen by apparent aliens. Though this was all part of a plan by Dr. Zin to steal the matter transportation device. | ||||
| 4 | "Deadly Junket" | David Schwartz | October 5, 1986 (1986-10-05) | |
The famous Dr. Bradshaw's daughter Jessie asks the Quest party to help her find her father, kidnapped by Dr. Zin to work on an anti-missile system. Note: This episode's storyline was cannibalized as a subplot forJonny's Golden Quest. | ||||
| 5 | "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday" | Glenn Leopold | October 12, 1986 (1986-10-12) | |
After being thrown back into the year 1944, the Quests discover that a time machine discovered aboard a submarine is being used by a German scientist named Dr. Wolfgang Kruger. He and his henchman Hans plan to change the course of history. | ||||
| 6 | "Vikong Lives" | Charles M. Howell, IV | October 19, 1986 (1986-10-19) | |
While in the arctic, the Quests discover an ape-like creature frozen in the ice. Their financial backer Mr. Peters wants the creature for his own plans. | ||||
| 7 | "The Monolith Man" | Mark Edens | November 2, 1986 (1986-11-02) | |
Dr. Benton Quest discovers a stone man named Hardrock in the underground ruins who becomes the target of Zartan and Scorpio. After the villains are defeated, Hardrock joins the Quest team. | ||||
| 8 | "Secret of the Clay Warriors" | Steve DeKorte | November 9, 1986 (1986-11-09) | |
The Quests and Hardrock receive a plea for help from an archaeologist friend named Dr. Yang. They arrive to help end the reign of terror by ghostly clay warriors led by Chin. | ||||
| 9 | "Warlord of the Sky" | Mark Zaslove | November 16, 1986 (1986-11-16) | |
An evil scientist named Maximilian Dragna plans to rule the skies with an incredible flying craft called the Dreadnought. | ||||
| 10 | "The Scourge of Skyborg" | Donald F. Glut | November 23, 1986 (1986-11-23) | |
Race tests a new computerized autopilot called CAP and runs afoul of Skyborg. He was originally Race's old friend Judd Harmon who was turned into acyborg following an accident. Now corrupted by his cybernetic implants, Skyborg pits Race against CAP in a battle to win the Quests freedom. | ||||
| 11 | "Temple of Gloom" | Eric Lewald | December 7, 1986 (1986-12-07) | |
Hadji's old teacher Rijiv is being forced by the evil Dibrana and her henchman Mook to disrupt a peace conference between India and another country. | ||||
| 12 | "Creeping Unknown" | David Schwartz | December 14, 1986 (1986-12-14) | |
A monster made of plants terrorizes an area near a swamp. It is abducting people so that it and the scientist Mr. Trudge can turn people into plants with Mr. Trudge being an earlier experiment. The Quests learn of the plant monster and work to find a way to defeat it while rescuing the captives. | ||||
| 13 | "Skulduggery" | Gary Warne | March 1, 1987 (1987-03-01) | |
Dr. Zin is behind a plan to use tokens of power to gain mastery over the world. | ||||
In the late 1970s, Hanna-Barbera produced concept art for a new series entitledYoung Dr. Quest: The Adventures of Jon Quest, featuring an older Jonny, Hadji, and an adopted Japanese girl.[1] They would be accompanied by pets Bandit II and Oboe (an unspecified species of monkey), and receive support from Benton Quest and Race Bannon at times (with Race having since married Jade).[1] According to Disney historian Jim Korkis, Doug Wildey later pitched the concept as simply namedYoung Dr. Quest toJoseph Barbera, featuring Jonny as a 22-year oldMIT graduate going on adventure with Race and Hadji.[2]
By mid-1983, the edited episodes of the originalJonny Quest series (each episode was missing about five minutes of footage edited for time constraints and content) were part ofThe Funtastic World's second season lineup, alongsideYogi's Treasure Hunt,Paw Paws andGaltar and the Golden Lance. Thirteen episodes were produced in1986[3] to accompany the original in theFuntastic World programming block. These episodes were referred to simply asJonny Quest on their title cards, and were noticeably less violent and more “kid-friendly” than the 1960s version.
This was followed by two television films,Jonny's Golden Quest in 1993 andJonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects in 1995, withDon Messick,Granville Van Dusen andRob Paulsen voicing Dr. Quest, Race and Hadji. The 1980sQuest series introduced a new character named Hardrock, an ancient man made of stone. He did not return in later versions of the program.
On April 8, 2014,Warner Archive releasedJonny Quest: The Complete Eighties Adventures on DVD in region 1 as part of theirHanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.[4]
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