The New Adventures of Jonny Quest facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The New Adventures of Jonny Quest |
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| Genre | Animation Adventure Action Sci-fi |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson (Supervising) 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(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Berny Wolf |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Worldvision Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndication |
| Original release | September 14, 1986 – March 1, 1987 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Adventures of Jonny Quest |
| Followed by | Jonny's Golden Quest |
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and a continuation of the 1964–65 television series Jonny Quest. Debuting in 1986 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's syndication package (it was the seventh and final Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the four and a half weekday/weekend morning line-up), this new series could be seen as the second season to a program that originally aired from 1964 to 1965 on ABC.
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Plot
This series features Dr. Quest and his group as they go on new adventures while thwarting different bad guys like the mad scientist Dr. Zin. Some episodes had them gaining a stone man named Hardrock as their ally.
Voice cast
Main
- Scott Menville - Jonny Quest
- Don Messick - Dr. Benton Quest, Bandit
- Rob Paulsen - Hadji
- Vic Perrin - Dr. Zin (3 episodes)
- Jeffrey Tambor - Hardrock (7 episodes)
- Granville Van Dusen - Race Bannon
Additional cast
- René Auberjonois - Mr. Peters (in "Vikong Lives")
- Michael Bell - Dr. Phorbus (in "Peril of the Reptilian")
- Candy Brown
- Howard Caine
- Roger C. Carmel
- Peter Cullen - Patch (in "Peril of the Reptilian")
- Jennifer Darling
- Barry Dennen
- Richard Erdman
- Bernard Erhard
- Dick Gautier
- Ernest Harada
- Dorian Harewood
- Darryl Hickman
- Georgi Irene - Jessie Bradshaw (in "Deadly Junket")
- Aron Kincaid
- Ruth Kobart
- Keye Luke
- Allan Lurie
- Scott McGowan
- Soon-Teck Oh
- Andre Stojka - Simon (in "Peril of the Reptilian")
- George Takei - Chin (in "Secret of the Clay Warriors")
- Les Tremayne - Sheik Abu Saddi (in "Nightmare in Steel")
- B.J. Ward - CAP (in "The Scourge of Skyborg")
- Frank Welker - Baksheesh (in "Nightmare in Steel"), Vikong (in "Vikong Lives"), Remy (in "Vikong Lives")
- Stan Wojno
- Keone Young - Fake Elder (in "Secret of the Clay Warriors")
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Peril of the Reptilian" | 14 September 1986 |
| Mysterious attacks on military installations in the South 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 hybrid dinosaurs 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" | 21 September 1986 |
| 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" | 28 September 1986 |
| A matter transportation device invented by Dr. Quest is stolen by apparent aliens. | ||
| 4 | "Deadly Junket" | 5 October 1986 |
| The famous Dr. Bradshaw's daughter asks the Quest party to help her find her father, kidnapped by Dr. Zin to work on an anti-missile system (this episode's storyline was cannibalised as a sub-plot for Jonny's Golden Quest). | ||
| 5 | "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday" | 12 October 1986 |
| 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" | 19 October 1986 |
| 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" | 2 November 1986 |
| Dr. Benton Quest discovers a stone man named Hardrock in the underground ruins who becomes the target of Zartan and Scorpio. Afterwards, Hardrock joins the Quest team. | ||
| 8 | "Secret of the Clay Warriors" | 9 November 1986 |
| The Quests 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" | 16 November 1986 |
| An evil scientist named Maximilian Dreaknought plans to rule the skies with an incredible flying craft called the Dreadnought. | ||
| 10 | "The Scourge of Skyborg" | 23 November 1986 |
| Race tests a new computerized autopilot (CAP) and runs afoul of Skyborg. He was originally Race's old friend Judd Harmon who was turned into a cyborg 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" | 7 December 1986 |
| 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" | 14 December 1986 |
| 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 | "Skullduggery" | 1 March 1987 |
| Dr. Zin is behind a plan to use tokens of power to gain mastery over the world. | ||
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