Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season

This collection took me to a more simple time in my life, my childhood. As I started to watch the DVD's I remembered most of the individual story lines. I am very glad to have run across this collection here and I would highly recommend it to anyone, adult and child alike!

It was my favorite show when I was a kid and now my youngest have a chance to enjoy the world of Johnny Quest ......before Hollywood does a feature film with a CA digital Bandit and Vin Diesel playing Race Bannon. The shows are great and the quality is what you would expect from a DVD of a show made in the 60's. It is true viewing as if it were that time. If you were a JQ fan as a youngester get this box set. If your kids don't watch it....you might. Enjoy

Ok, I've read conflicting reviews about this set, so now that I've bought and watched it, here's my 2 cents worth. Except for the censored Race Bannon "ignorant savages/heathen monkeys" line in PURSUIT OF THE PO-HO, I haven't seen any other censoring, to the best of my knowledge. And to tell you the truth, I first watched JQ on Saturday mornings in the '70's, so Race's line was probably censored anyway. I remember the episode but not the dialog, still... otherwise, other 'censorable items' are still intact: the boys praying, people getting shot/blown up (not graphically, more like a war movie from that era but probably graphic for it's time),creepy monsters, exactly as I remember it. All the classics plus a few I either haven't seen before or don't remember watching are all here. On four one-sided discs, the transfer is great (except for a few minor scratches, but I'm not complaining!). This is one I'll be watching several times over!

When I was a boy, Saturday was a day of heady delights: Dad made us pancackes for breakfast, there was no school, cartoons all morning, and playing with friends all afternoon. There were only three cartoons that REALLY mattered: Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes (the original program), and the best of all: Jonny Quest.

Jonny Quest was/is an ingenious show. It didn't speak down to the kids. It was not science fiction, but it was certainly science "possible". Each week, there was a new adventure for the cast to take on and each week, it was unique and exciting in the same way that many of the low budget serials from the 50's were: they spoke to kids...they were intriguing.

Each week the cast was called upon to investigate strange scientific investigations. Each week they rose to the challenge and thrilled the audience.

The characters are: Dr. Quest (a scientist of unique distinction, often called upon to investigate strange goings on around the world), Race Bannon (ostensibly Dr. Quest's right hand man, body guard, and tutor for his son), Jonny (Dr. Bannon's 8-10 year old son who has a penchant for getting in and out of trouble and who is more than capable of assisting when called upon), Hadji (added in the first episode, Hadji is an orphaned Indian boy with the ability to perform certain feats of real magic), and Bandit (the Quest family dog).

What made the show all the more exciting was the fact that it wasn't the boys who got called on exciting missions, it was Dr. Quest. The boys either finagled their way along on the missions or they smuggled themselves along. The boys were never the primary characters, though they were more than on the periphery. It made the show very "real" to me. All of us boys used to talk excitedly Saturday afternoons about the Jonny Quest episode we'd watched that morning and how we would have done this or that instead of what happened. Or we'd go on and on about how cool things the stuff in the episode had been.

There are many episodes that are exciting and I won't go into them all. However, suffice it to say, that this series was too short-lived. It should have continued. It was one of the very few Hanna Barbera productions that was really well done.

When that theme song started up each Saturday morning, I would fairly quiver with excitement - even if I'd seen the episode half a dozen times before.

For those of you around my age, who fondly remember seeing Animal House when it came out in the late 1970's, you'll be interested to know that Tim Matheson voices Jonny. He was probably around 10 himself when he did the voice work.

If you have a young boy or if you can remember your youth - GET THIS DVD set! It is awesome!

I was really excited that this was available, but after reading reviews that this has been edited, I'll wait....probably for a long time. I buy tons of WB dvd's but for some reason when it comes to cartoons, they just don't get it. Why not just print a disclaimer on the box about how it was a different time and blah blah blah?