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List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $20.49 You Save: $19.49 Features • Animated • Box set • Closed-captioned • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 18 September, 1964 DVD Release : 11 May, 2004 |
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Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season description Baby boomers of a certain age, and anyone fond of classic Hanna Barbera cartoons, might find the 40-year-old episodes in Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season an exciting blast from the past. Five years before Hanna Barbera made a comedy about amateur youths solving exotic mysteries in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, the animation giant captured a more serious spirit from a different era in Jonny Quest. The series played on primetime television--a very big deal for animation at the time--in 1964, and was infused with energy from sundry pop trends as well as cold war paranoia and a prevailing belief in limitless technology (largely inspired by America's race to the moon). Part intelligence thriller, part science fiction, Jonny Quest made a child's adventure out of thwarting international espionage and sabotage with super-computers, state-of-the-art transportation to every corner of the planet, an apparently bottomless budget for building fantastic weapons, martial arts, and more. The fact that schoolboy Jonny, as well as his best friend, Hadji, and canine companion Bandit, were having adventures akin to those of James Bond was terribly exciting. 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 |
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| I consider this to be one of, if not the, greatest animated series of all time. It's definitely on the list of the top five best cartoon series ever assuming you like action and adventure.
I am not alone in this opinion as is indicated by the interviews on disk four with people who work in the animation business. And this is still true after 40 years of advances in technology which you would think would cause cartoons to be better than back then. Why is it so great ? Many reasons. It starts with the entire concept of two kids travelling around the world to exotic (and real) places on adventures with their father. The art. The writing / stories. The voices. The music. All of these are exceptional. Here's some of my favorite episodes although I like them all: 3. The Curse Of Anubis (probably my all time favorite and my lucky number) 8. The Robot Spy 14. Dragons Of Ashida 20. The Invisible Monster 23. The House Of Seven Gargoyles This is a great dvd collection at a great price. Disk four has some extra features where you can find out a lot of interesting facts about Jonny and company. I like this series so much that I got a Jonny Quest tattoo. The Hanna Barbera studios came out with some great animated series back then although not all of them have been released on dvd yet. That's bad. They need to release the rest of them including 'The Fantastic Four'. Space Ghost and Birdman are available now. Jeff Marzano [[ASIN:B0001I55O2 Spider-Man - The '67 Collection (6 Volume Animated Set)]] [[ASIN:B000OY9V7A Space Ghost and Dino Boy: The Complete Series]] [[ASIN:B000OY9V7K Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series]] [[ASIN:B000JU8H6K Voltron - Defender of the Universe - Collection Three]] |
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