Jonny Quest: Season One (Repackaged/DVD)

Some of you may remember reruns of the TV show, Jonny Quest on the television machine.Jonny Quest was made in the early 1960s; the greatest years of american civilization. The tailfin years. The world of Jonny Quest is a world filled with super technology; they all have special secret agent gadgets, hovercrafts are how scientists get around land, they fly around in a supersonic jet; everything is tailfinned and jet powered. America had just conquered the atom and beat the stuffings out of the Nazis a mere 19 years before, and had turned the Empire of Japan into the empire of nice cameras and Godzilla movies. It was the time of the first generation of supersonic jet aircraft; every barrier that nature put up seemed breakable. This was the apex of the machine age. The age of optimism that built the Saturn-5 rocket that took americans to the moon. It was the age of chrome grilles and preposterous consumer items like 500 horsepower Plymouth Max Wedge engines.The Johnny Quest adventures happen in the wilds of the world. To the western mind of the early 1960s, there were still wild lands where one could experience high adventure. Places with poisonous snakes, quicksand, animated mummies, villains in submarines, booby-trapped ivy-covered hidden temples, levitating hindus and bone-through-the-nose cannibals. Places like Bali might as well have been the dark side of the moon to an american in those days. This is completely bizarre to modern sensibilities, but it is quite true. Even in the early 1970s, being able to make a few minutes telephone call from Vietnam to America was insanely difficult. Getting to Yemen was still an adventure; people actually wrote adventure travel books which simply involved going some place weird and far away.The animation is shockingly good. Apparently, this wildly popular show had to be canceled because the production quality was too high: it simply couldn't make enough money to justify itself. This is too bad, as amortized over its lifetime, I am sure it more than paid for itself. But people didn't have the concept of using films like high yield bonds the way the studios do now a days. Those were more innocent times, indeed.One of the more interesting things about this show is Hadji. Hadji was the first serious kids show character in america who was from another culture. I remember being very confused why it wasn't called the "Hadji and Race Bannon show" -they were more interesting and sympathetic characters than Johnny Quest (who was the type of oafish kid who would give me noogies when I was younger) and Dr Benton Quest (who was a helpless wimp, really, always getting into trouble). Hadji by contrast was very well educated, and extremely composed. Not only that, but he was simply a lot smarter than Johnny. Plus he could do magic tricks, which was awesome. Since I was young when I watched this show, I identified best with Hadji. I wanted to be a sikh or a hindu or whatever he was supposed to be, so I could levitate, jump around magic jars, and pick bones out of dogs ears. Apparently, Hadji is the american soldier nickname for natives of Afghanistan and Iraq. All things considered, it seems to be a high compliment.Race Bannon was also a great character. Back in those days, a hero could have grey hair. George Clooney aside, that doesn't exist any more. Now the hero has to have striations on their abdomens. While Dr. Quest was supposed to be the smart one, it was generally Race Bannon who knew important stuff, like what the Sargasso sea was all about, how to do judo throws, or how not to get kidnapped. I never quite figured out who Race was supposed to be, but I knew he was bad to the bone. Upon re-watching the show as an adult, I realize he was a CIA man; spies were often considered universal men in the early 1960s. He was an american James Bond sent to look after the hapless Dr. Quest and his high spirited lad.I see this show (recently rereleased) as a sort of last ultimate embodiment of a certain kind of adventure entertainment. Men's adventure magazines died around the time Johnny Quest died; they were cut of the same cloth. Early Dr. Who was something similar, though it was more British; a kids adventure show that teaches a bit of history and geography. It's fortunate such things still exist in video form; they embody something which is really great. Will you be offended by its anachronisms? I suppose many people who calibrate their exquisitely sensitive moral barometers with a protractor made from recycled tofu, a straight edged icon with Germaine Greer's photograph in it, graph paper and a copy of the New York Times Editorial section will be offended. But such people are born to be offended. Those folks miss out on many of the great things in Western culture, like Mr. Moto movies, and the fact that they don't live next door to cannibals. I think modern kids will love it. It's not jaded, or wretched and denatured like modern kids entertainments; just wholesome adventuring.

Just as god as when I used to watch it as a wide-eyed kid. Back when TV was good and you could tell the good guy from the bad guy. The DVD wis in excellent condition and it plays early well.

My husband and I bought our grandson the Complete Series of Johnny Quest for Christmas. JohnnyQuest was our favorite cartoon when we were young. I bought this for us and the grandkids towatch when they were at our home. My grandson loved this cartoon after watching it at our place and ended up putting it on his Christmas list. He was very excited when he opened his gift and saw this blue-ray. It's a classic!

I’m 57 years old now and I grew up watching Johnny quest on reruns as a kid in the 1970s and beyond. Many years ago I bought the only season they ever made on DVD, but the quality just wasn’t there. However, on this Blu-ray DVD set, They have fixed all the problems and it’s a neat blast back in time to watch this very cool TV show. They don’t make them like that anymore and it’s still enjoyable after all these years.

Years ago I bought this on DVD, now I've got the blu-ray, picture quality superb, sound quality superb. I'm a happy chappie.

Premiering in ABC's primetime time slot (eventually to be picked up by ALL THREE major networks and revamped and retreaded time and again over the years), the Quest team is back in their original series run! Scientist Dr. Benton Quest, armed and dangerous, ex-government bodyguard man Roger "Race" Bannon, impulsive Jonny, streetwise Hadji, and endearing to few, annoying to most Bandit, traveled the world in search of adventure. From the Arctic to Calcutta, India, the Quests tangled with pirates, aborigines, monsters, assorted evil genuises, and, on repeat ocassions, the notorious Dr. Zin. The set does, of course, have its pros and cons.PROS+It's the original Jonny Quest in extended episode format (roughly 26 minutes per episode). I'm young for the initial series run but my personal favorites "Skull and Double Crossbones," "Calcutta Adventure" (Hadji's premier), "Double Danger", and "The Robot Spy" (perhaps the most famous appearance of Dr. Zin) are all here plus twenty-two more to experience for the first time.+ For all of the cheap, underhanded edits that the execs decided it was their duty to do (if you haven't read about it yet, then I'll explain later). every gunshot, foreign-born enemy, and utterance of "sim sim salbim!" are still intact. Considering everyone who the Warner's execs could have pandered to, fans and newcomers are lucky to see this gem again at all.+ Enough special features to effectively takedown a small army of "lizard" men, particularly the "Video Handbook" of heroes, villains, and destinations, "Fun facts/Trivia" version of "Double Danger," and vintage PF Flyers ad.CONS-Quest encounters and succeeds against many an antagonist situated in his own time and in many parts of the world. However, when up against a more "politically correct" (red flag, red flag!) America, the HEATHEN MON--I mean, "suits" at Warner Home Video won a few battles of their own. Having experienced "Pursuit of the PoHo" for the first time, it is obvious that Race's dialogue has been tampered with as his lips continue to flap against silence (thanks to numerous other reviewers that I read AFTER I had ordered, I know what the original dialogue was). To which I call "MOO!" (a little political correctness can get real annoying real fast, can't it)? It's been asked at least once and it bears repeating: these episodes (untampered with) were good enough for air in their own time and even untampered with in reruns to this day. Why not for the commercial DVD market?-The title cards didn't make it off of the cutting room floor either, instead jumping straight from the jet flight to the episode title.-Remastering? I don't know how often the occurence is repeated throughout these volumes but, for all of the dirt and debris over the first few frames of the infamous "Pursuit of the Poho," it looks like it was "remastered" by a landfill (what is with Warner Home Video and their problem with finding suitable film material)!-The fight sequences (to my knowledge) were left thankfully untouched but, unfortunately, so was every last sometimes painful "Bandit-stealing" scene ("Double Danger," for example, was a great episode but was filled with probably the most "Bandit" cuteness of them all). I guess we know who the Warners were pandering to but (gasp, call the ASPCA!) it wasn't to me.-Okay, the HEATHEN MONK-- "stuffed shirts" had their reasons to toy with the content; I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for a moment. But to not properly credit Doug Wildey for his work in helping to bring this gem to the small screen (credit that the "TRIVIA AND FUN FACTS" version of Double Danger tries to give)? For shame, Warner Home Video!For this extensive list of "cons," is this set still worth four stars? It is from me. I repeat: this was a different time and JQ '65 was made for PRIME TIME television (the adults and older kids). Hadji was an Indian who performed magic, the fight scenes were at times graphic, and practically every villain was foreign-born. It was good enough for audiences back then and audiences today are lucky to be able to experience such art ever again. But is it still "art" when the artist's finished product has been noticably tampered with and airbrushed over? In a way, I am glad to be able to experience the Quest team's original escapades; so Kudos to Warner Home Video for that. But with Jonny Quest, if you're going to give us some, give us all! And if not being "remastered" meant that the original film would have stayed untouched (dialogue intact and proper crediting applied), maybe fans would have been more better off.I was born in the 80s and, therefore, grew up experiencing Jonny Quest for the first time as part of the "Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera" and, additionally, am waiting patiently for Warner Archive to release JQ '86. Does that make me a nonpurist? Perhaps; but JQ '86 was MY first experience with the Quests, just as the original was the first experience for many fans.

The Johnny Quest episodes are great adventures to share with grandchildren. Super music and an all age storyline makes for exciting TV viewing. Too bad there aren't more episodes. Highly recommend

Me llegó a tiempo y bien, solo que esta en ingles, pero vale la pena.

No trae el idioma español aunque así viene impreso en la carátula. Solo audio inglés. Tuve que pedir reembolso.Pongo 5 estrellas porque el vendedor se portó muy bien y el envío fue rápido.

"Johnny Quest" was way ahead of its time in format and storyline. This was a NEVER MISS show when it aired on TV and having the collection is a great feeling. Item is as described and am very happy with it.

Awesome box!! The picture is just beautiful and, it's one of the most classic cartoon TV shows!!