Doug Wildey created this 1964 animated
Adventure Series, the first produced by
Hanna Barbera and the first to use realistically drawn human characters in
Science Fiction or adventure settings. The series aired in prime time on
ABC.
The young hero Jonny Quest (voiced by future
Animal House star Tim Matheson) traveled the world with his father, Dr. Benton Quest; Roger "Race" Bannon, a friend and bodyguard of Dr. Quest; Hadji, Jonny's adopted brother from India, and Bandit, the family dog. (The first episode establishes that Jonny's mother, Rachel, died before the series began.)
A second
Jonny Quest series was syndicated in 1986-87 as part of the second season of
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, with two new characters: Jessie Bradshaw, whose father was a colleague of Dr. Quest, and Hard Rock, a man made of living stone. This series culminated in two
made-for-TV movies -
Jonny's Golden Quest and
Jonny Quest Versus The Cyber Insects - which introduced Race Bannon's daughter, Jessie (not the same character as Jessie Bradshaw).
Cartoon Network made some changes to the format when it debuted
Jonny Quest The Real Adventures (also known as "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest") in 1996. New characters included Race's daughter
Jessie (not the same as the non-canon Jessie above), the recurring villains Jeremiah Surd and Ezekiel Rage, and
the twin daughters of Dr. Zin (who, of course, was from the original series). Also, the characters had access to Questworld, a
virtual reality realm represented in most episodes by 3-D computer animation. According to this
Wikipedia article
, development began in 1992, but the series went through three production teams over the next four years.
A
Live-Action Adaptation of
Jonny Quest was announced in August 2007, with recent news placing
Zac Efron as Jonny and
The Rock as Race Bannon. As of this writing however, nothing has come of it since then.
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