Jonny Quest

Youtube served an old documentary on the cartoon TV show: Jonny Quest    It is a fan made film but well done, there were a number things I found out about the show:

1) Doug Wildey was the guiding force of the show not Hanna or Barbera.  He was a comic book guy not a cartoon guy and the art work shows that.

2) The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, like many shows of that era the music was great

3) there were apparently subsequent Jonny Quest iterations but from a brief viewing they don't seem to be as good as the original.

4) Jonny was voiced by Tim Matheson when he was 16.  The other voices were familiar to any old time radio fan, one I recognized was Cathy Lewis who played some of the female characters (there weren't too many).

5) only 1 season of 26 shows (that'd be equivalent to 2.5 seasons of Rick and Morty)

6) rewatching the shows there is a resemblance between Jonny Quest and Clutch Cargo although Jonny Quest was a much better show.  But many of the same techniques were used in both shows to economize on the amount of art required.  And of course the weird "x-ray" lips of Clutch Cargo just makes that show kinda creepy.

7) I was 8 when the show started in fall 1964, apparently that was the target audience age, probably why I remember it fondly.

Internet links:

documentary (long):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuSAiNfJG8 

series episodes: https://archive.org/details/jonny-quest-cartoon-tv-1964 

stop action version of credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rZpZjK2Nco 
 

Action action action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2xEhjMSJrI 

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2mXxBMvfh0 


BTW, I noticed a resemblance between Jonny and one of my classmates in high school:

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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