The showcase of the Top Five Episodes of Jonny Quest by online voting concludes. The entire 2 hour plus documentary is now on Rapidshare for downloading at my blog: chriswebber037....
Holy crap... the Invisible Monster episode scared the shit out of me when I was 4 or 5. The eerie wailing haunted me for years. This cartoon damaged my psyche and made me the bastard I am today. Damn you, Jonny Quest.
The Jonny Quest cartoons are a very fond memory from my childhood. Realistic action, good vs evil, adventure, science; everything a young boy in the sixties could want. Truth be told, I still really enjoy them.
Oh definitely the Energy Monster! Holy crap that scared me as a kid! The sound it made still gives me the creeps. Still the best animated series of all time. Thanks for sharing.
Similar to the monster from Forbidden Planet. I remember watching some old sci-fi movie on TV late one night, and the plot and invisible monster were so much like the Invisible Monster episode that I immediately thought of Johnny Quest. I can't remember if it was Forbidden Planet, or some other movie.
So innovative for 60s cartoon television. Jet packs, lasers, robot spies. Plenty of pure cartoon imagination for boys and girls during that time without mind numbing product placements in the cartoon.
I will say the animation is great. I always like this style because it makes it feel right for grown-ups and kids. All the new stuff is way too kiddy. Sadly anima is going down a bad route and that was the last ground.
eshaw2115 The creators of the Spy Kids franchise is at work on a live action movie version!!! It was said that they’re going “Old School.” We’ll see!!!
@@deacondavis5098 That would be like Toho Studios doing its next Godzilla sequel with a live actor in a latex rubber suit (instead of modern CGI and/or mo-cap). As in; I would like to see that. But, I know--deep down--that particular dog ain't gonna hunt ever again!
I remember sneaking in the house on Saturday chore day, risking real punishment, to see this show. Race Bannon was one of my role models and inspirations to become a pro pilot. The realistic animation and adult story lines made this show a revelation.
I'm glad I grew up with the original Johnny Quest episodes -the ones when the adults smoked cigarettes, drank cocktails and shot guns and people died....And then the sexual tension between Race Bannon and Jade..and at the same time, the kids knew the difference between themselves and the adults. Everyone was happy and well-adjusted -especially after preventing the world from being destroyed. Just another day, another mission. Maybe the best cartoon of all time. Of course, we can't show kids cartoons that show anyone smoking nowadays! God forbid!
Well .. smoking, we can ALL do with-OUT, yeah? I grew up with it JQ, too; many adults from that era that I knew and loved died from lung cancer … Nevertheless -Quest is *still* the BEST!
I agree. Invisible Monster has to be number one. Great to see how many people loved Johnny Quest the way I did. I feel like I'm part of a fraternity here.
I came across it accidentally on Boomerang when I was looking for something for my then 4 y.o. granddaughter (she's now 21) to watch. She quickly became a fan of Bandit, lol. I purchased the DVDs not too long after that. Good memories, recalling how I saw the show when it first aired on ABC on Friday nights in the 60s.
As a mid-Baby Boomer, I grew up with the space program and Jonny Quest. I don't think there were any bad episodes. Invisible Monster, of course, was the most scary and thrilling. It was only later that I saw Forbidden Planet, with its invisible "Id" monster. After years of waiting, I pounced on the first VHS tapes I saw, and later got the DVD set.
I am of the same age and also grew up with the space program and Johnny Quest. Those were great times when everything seemed possible, even having your closest friend being of a different race.
Also the original Outer Limits had an energy creature similar in nature as this in that it feed on energy although it could be seen and it looked like storm clouds: “It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork” 1st season 1963.
Still to this day the sound the Invisible Monster makes sends a chill up my spine. The sound effects team on that episode nailed it. If they ever do a live action version of this they have to use that sound.
For me it was the big spiders in The Robot Spy. In retrospect this show was insanely violent, with the bad guys getting blown up, shot, stabbed, beheaded, gutted and dropped into molten lava. As an 8 year old i was completely enthralled. 👍
As A kid growing up in the mid 60s Jonny Quest was the "coolest" thing on my Dad's 150lb wooden Zenith TV ! ( remember those Giant floor models ! ) Monsters,Sci-Fi,Cold War Villains,Flying machines,Gadgets and Race's Girlfriend Jade !!!!! and Bandit ! Now in my mid 50s it is still fun to watch ! Great Stuff
I bought the series on DVD some years ago, after coming across it accidentally on Boomerang, looking for something for my then 4 y.o. granddaughter to watch. She became a fan of Bandit, lol. Good memories.
Jonny Quest is THE BEST CARTOON OF ALL TIME! The Hoyt Curtain JAZZ is beyond awesome! The stories are fantastic! What kid wouldn't want to be Jonny or Hadji?
Hanna and Barbara both said Johnny Quest was a Masterpiece that can not be duplicated. The original ink art to the beautiful music and sound effects is nothing less then a full fledge movie. The music and sound really set it apart from any other cartoon. Not to metion the awesome stories. Invisible Monster and its shreiking howl definitely got me and my brothers as kids that we still remember today.
They were ALL great episodes My top 5 favorites were 1 sea haunt 2 monsters in the monestary 3 robot spy 4 invisible monster 5 house of seven gargoyles. But really loved them all. As a kid Saturday morning revolved around Jonny Quest.
YES! JQ was my FAVORITE cartoon growing up...and the top two episodes for me have always been "Robot Spy" (and the para-power ray!") and THE INVISIBLE MONSTER! My favorite episode and STILL the scariest half-hour of television I've ever seen! When Hadji's jetpack failed to work....eeek! and those footprints just appearing in the ground out of nowhere...yipe!
Right on! The Invisible Monster was my favorite too. The first time I saw it I must have been 5 or 6 years old around (1969 or 70). Scared the hell out of me! But I so loved it! The sound it made always sent shivers up and down my spine. This animated series was way ahead of its time and its essence will never be duplicated again.
Gotta add my 2 cents. By far, the scariest was Invisible Monster. Me & my mom watched that one & even she was horrified when they put paint on it. I remember her saying, "Good Lord" when you finally got a look at it. I was already scared but when she said that, had me Terrified! Had nightmares for almost a year. Didn't dare get close to utility poles for awhile either. Robot Spy was next because for a while, you didn't know if the Quest clan had actually met their match with aliens.
Perfect. My wife and I fully agree. Energy monster with the same horrifying sound as the Id monster in Forbidden Planet several years before. Lizard men was James Bond for kids, and bond movies would even borrow r he speed boat storyboard years later. Best animation of the series was the dogfight in Condor. That was so clean it almost looked like live action. Do those gel animations and cheater techniques over great mat paintings and you have great images. Do them over rushed and cheap backgrounds and reuse the background 5 times a minute and you have Scooby Doo.
Yep! Look how many predictions came true. Jonny and Hadji's view-com devices? Cellular videophones! The para-power gun from "The Robot Spy? Weaponized EMP! And the kaiju of "Terror Island"? Genetically engineered mutations!
First of all, thank you for the amazing job you did in compiling these episodes. Secondly, thank you for bringing back our cherished childhood memories. I am 48 years old and used to LOVE this show and stil remember these images vividly. So cool.
My List: 1. Invisible Monster 2. Turu The Terrible 3. Dragons of Ashida 4. Robot Spy 5. The Sea Haunt Honorable Mentions: Mystery of the Lizard Men Shadow of the Condor Monster in the Monastery
The Invisible Monster was one of the scariest shows ever produced. Animation or otherwise. I remember seeing this in the 70's on Sunday mornings as a kid and it scared the daylights out of me. this more than deserves to be choosen as the best.
That episode titled the invisible monster on the johnny quest series has to be considered one of the scariest, creepiest and franksteinish of them all , but it makes one have to think if such a creature could really exist created by some rouge mad scientist that has escaped and run amok talk about spooky like Lugosi. much like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein a terror in the night.
Did y'all know that the guy that does Race Bannon's voice, also did Optimus Prime in the Transformers? Just finished binge watching the 4 DVD set. Best cartoon on prime time ever!
My favorite was always The Sea Haunt!! That thing roaring up in the ships rigging still gives me chills! But these 5...absolutely the greatest. Sorry to see Monster in the Monastery get squeezed out. Got the entire series on DVD...favorites for kids AND grandkids!
God i loved the robot spy.. It had such an authentic 60's/50's sci fi feel to it a giant mechanical terror rampaging through a remote military laboratory soldiers with M1's and old green m48 walker tanks trying to blow it to bits! Jonny Quest is probably one of the most well done animated series of the 20th century and will always have a special place in my heart.
I am 35, I used to watch this show with my Dad as a kid. Now I watch it with my kids (7yrs&8yrs old) and we love this show. It's honestly the greatest cartoon show of all time, that includes anime.
Would have bet on my absolute favorite,,TURU THE TERRIBLE,,, Prehistoric Pteranodon ,flying Jet Packs, and Bazookas,,,that was just Awesome to a Boy on Saturday Morning,,,👍👌👆☝️💪🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲💯💥🤠
NO FREE JOHNNY QUEST! They want you to pay to watch. They can go to hell, I just bought season 1 for 7 dollars. On my next day off, I'm going to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and a mountain dew and watch all 26 episodes. YEA FOR ME!
Good choices! I'm in full agreement with the Energy Monster being top episode. It really scared the crap out of me as a kid; and it's creepy even to this day. Can you imagine a Jonny Quest movie made with the '60s storylines and today's special effects?
Seriously. One of the greatest monsters of all time, and it's in a cartoon from 50 years ago. I wonder how many of us had nightmares after watching that! :D
If those clowns in Hollywood didn't over think things,it would be a great entertaining movie. But,look at the track record, 2 attempts at King Kong,2 attempts at Godzilla,a wack attempt at the British TV show The Avengers,and, a really weak attempt at the TV show,Lost in Space. If J.J. Abrams could just reign in the temptation to get too fancy,he might be a good choice,and,Steven Spielberg would really be a better choice ,because he's a Baby Boomer,and would have a better understanding of Jonny Quest.
I grew up watching this show...The Invisible Monster scared the ever-living hell out of me as a kid. While the animation was sort of limited for its time, the colors, the voice acting....and especially the music, made up for a lot.
Holy SHIT yes, the bubble gum horror cyclops which somehow only got SCARIER once we could see him was one of the scariest things from my entire childhood. And I was no shit chased by a mentally disturbed man with a HAND AX once. That didn't scare me as much as The Invisible Monster did.
I introduced my Millennials and Gen Z kids to this back in the late 90’s early 2000’s, they still enjoy it, and now my grandkids are enjoying Johnny Quest as well.
Invisible Monster, great one! Probably my all time favorite too, they could never get away with a kids show like that today! Great stories and the villians always met some kind of grisly demise
The invisible monster episode is my fave, too. It scared the hell out of me when I was little. Not sure if this is accurate, but years ago I heard his voice had been done with a theremin!
Quite honestly, while I think The Robot Spy hada considerable amount of creepiness to it, I have to say that The Invisible Monster was the creepiest for me. It's the sense of mystery it holds, it's ominous and monstrous nature, and if it's still out there that gets me. I recall watching the episode when I was five-seven years old; scared the living shit out of me! Had nightmares about it for a good few days, and I was even afraid of stepping on the floor normally. Not to mention the thing looks creepy as fuck.
Boy does this bring back memories .This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid. And It always had me shakin . And Race Bannon was my hero. Great cartoon !
This show is awesome. I may only be 22, but my dad got me into it when I was about 10 or 11. Even though we don’t watch it hardly ever now, Jonny Quest has become one of my favorite old cartoon shows.
HP Lovecraft influenced that energy being episode and it scared the hell out of me as a kid. It is still creepy and makes me wonder if scifi concepts and story lines from the fifties are foreboding and prescient. Johnny Quest from the sixties created an alternate universe that really hasnt dated that much which makes it classic.
I used to watch this when I was 7 years old on Cartoon Network reruns, it was my dad’s favorite and he got me into it. I thought it was the most awesome cartoon I have ever seen and I thought it was unlike anything I have ever see. The first episode I saw was The Invisible Monster, and what a great start that was. My favorite episode is still The Robot Spy.
Like so many others on here, I spent a good deal of my childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons. Johnny Quest was on Sundays though where I lived (Pennsylvania, all over!). And I ALWAYS remembered this episode! I could hardly tell you the others (yeah, the spider robot and the huge pterodactyl are a few!). I too was totally creeped out by this monster! One other cartoon that I always thought was WAY TOO MORBID for kids was the Tom and Jerry episode where there is a banquet that Tom has to protect from the mice. He fails so his punishment is the GUILLOTINE!! OMG! Its amazing I am not more effed up!!
Invisible monster is a fantastic episode! Easily #1! Personally I love Turu the Terrible, Terror Island and Sea Haunt! Really ALL Johnny Quest episodes are GOLD!
I think The Robot Spy was the best for me. The creep factor in that one is very high, largely due to a lot of night scenes and just the spiderlike characteristics of the robot. I also had a UFO of sorts in which it traveled in. The opening sequences of the episode had to be one of the best as well, when it first starts doing it's dirty work. It would had made things creepier if they would had decided that it's legs wouldn't had looked like sticks.
Charles 22: To me The Robot Spy reminds me exactly like a horribly large,indestructible Black Widow spider spy sent from outer space in a UFO by Red Chinese🇨🇳rogue scientist Dr.Zin total cold war era enemy intrigue I'm certain then with Soviet involvement with Red China for Dr.Quest's labs secrets.📁
I remember ALL these episodes from when I was a kid. I kind of agree with the ranking. I particularly found the episodes The Spirit of Anubis and The Invisible Monster very scary and pretty disturbing for kids.
This was awesome🤩👍 I have never seen the original Jonny Quest cartoon but my first introduction to the series was when I was 7 years old in Nigeria in 2002 and would watch Real Adventures of Jonny Quest on CN. The theme song always stuck with me and today I just ordered the DVD of the original series. I love retro shows like this, especially from Hannah Barbera😍👍 My dad loved them and we would watch them when I was a kid in the 2000s.
What a great show, I was just rewatching it. My favorites are still the Robot Spy, Turu 'the terrible' (I feel bad for that pterodactyl), the Invisible Monster, and the Sea Haunt. The Invisible Monster and Sea Haunt scared the everloving shit out of me as a kid and the concepts of those episodes still creep me out today.
The Robot Spy was the very first Jonny Quest episode I ever saw, and I was hooked! I loved it! It's too bad the cartoons of yesteryear are no longer around
The Robot Spy is my personal favorite. I LOVED this show as a kid. It was always on really early in the morning. I guess cause it had some adult themes.
I'd put Mystery of the Lizard Men and Robot Spy as 1 & 2. Also really liked Terror Island and The Sea Haunt. The 60s to early 70s was the best time for animated kid's shows.
"The Invisible Monster" plays with suspense like a Hitchcock movie, hiding the true form of evil as much as possible. That's what is really scary, you know there's a threat outside, ravaging the place, but you don't know who, what it is and how it's look like. The final sequence of "Monster in the Monastery" is truly amazing... the entire place ravaged for some (until then) unseen force, every single villain smashed like a tomato and, out of nothing, the Yeti screaming like "I run this place, m*f*ckers!"
The one with the crazy WWI German flying ace, Tooru, the first episode with the Sargasso Sea frogmen, the one with the ersatz Race ("There's only Race Bannon!"), all have to be in my top 5! But I don't think there's an episode of the original run that rates lower than "pretty damned good".
Man, those were great cartoons! Johnny Quest was my favorite.
The original was really ahead of its time! You can't go wrong. Robot Spy, Shadow of Condor, House of Seven Gargoyles, Devil's Tower, etc.
I remember watching those episodes in the 1960s and early 1970s. They are still exciting today.
It was in 64 65. I think that was it.
@@shawnyoung8752 Yeah, but they were hugely syndicated in the 70s as well. Good times! 😁
As a Zoomer, I will always be thankful that my Dad showed Johnny Quest to me when I was but a little kid. I can't wait to show it to my future kids!
Holy crap... the Invisible Monster episode scared the shit out of me when I was 4 or 5. The eerie wailing haunted me for years. This cartoon damaged my psyche and made me the bastard I am today. Damn you, Jonny Quest.
Especially when you consider that Dr. Norman might've been trying to invent cold fusion even before anybody had even _coined the term_ !
To be fair, you may have always been damaged - Jonny Quest just heightened the sensation….
I know right. 😂😂😂
The Jonny Quest cartoons are a very fond memory from my childhood. Realistic action, good vs evil, adventure, science; everything a young boy in the sixties could want. Truth be told, I still really enjoy them.
Oh definitely the Energy Monster! Holy crap that scared me as a kid! The sound it made still gives me the creeps. Still the best animated series of all time. Thanks for sharing.
The Invisible Monster was a thrilling episode.The monster reminded me of the ID monster from Forbidden Planet.
Precisely
I was 5 when I saw this.
My thoughts exactly! Wonder if that's where the got the idea for that particular episode?
Similar to the monster from Forbidden Planet. I remember watching some old sci-fi movie on TV late one night, and the plot and invisible monster were so much like the Invisible Monster episode that I immediately thought of Johnny Quest. I can't remember if it was Forbidden Planet, or some other movie.
I remember watchintg this as a young boy and being completely thrilled.
Couldn't wait till Saturday morning when I was 6 or 7
The robot spy, the invisible monster and the mummy really left an impression on me when I first saw Johnny Quest back then.
So innovative for 60s cartoon television. Jet packs, lasers, robot spies. Plenty of pure cartoon imagination for boys and girls during that time without mind numbing product placements in the cartoon.
WAAAY better than MOST animated shjt that came after it even to this DAY.
I will say the animation is great.
I always like this style because it makes it feel right for grown-ups and kids. All the new stuff is way too kiddy.
Sadly anima is going down a bad route and that was the last ground.
Batman the Animated Series in the 90s was great too.
This show was way ahead of it's time.
eshaw2115 The creators of the Spy Kids franchise is at work on a live action movie version!!! It was said that they’re going “Old School.” We’ll see!!!
@@deacondavis5098 That would be like Toho Studios doing its next Godzilla sequel with a live actor in a latex rubber suit (instead of modern CGI and/or mo-cap). As in; I would like to see that. But, I know--deep down--that particular dog ain't gonna hunt ever again!
Flat out THE BEST CARTOON SHOW EVER! It had everything a 10 year old kid could want and it challenged the imagination.
The only cartoon that can beat it parodies it. Venture Brothers is everything Jonny Quest was and more.
I remember sneaking in the house on Saturday chore day, risking real punishment, to see this show. Race Bannon was one of my role models and inspirations to become a pro pilot. The realistic animation and adult story lines made this show a revelation.
What a classic as a kid I couldn't wait for Saturday to watch. One of the top, 5 greatest cartoons.
Yeah.
Jonny Quest is my favorite cartoon of all time followed by speed racer and the original spider man cartoon.
the music from this show deserves props
Hoyt Curtin was the best.
@@BronzeGiantHoyt Curtin, and Ted Nichols.
I'm glad I grew up with the original Johnny Quest episodes -the ones when the adults smoked cigarettes, drank cocktails and shot guns and people died....And then the sexual tension between Race Bannon and Jade..and at the same time, the kids knew the difference between themselves and the adults. Everyone was happy and well-adjusted -especially after preventing the world from being destroyed. Just another day, another mission. Maybe the best cartoon of all time. Of course, we can't show kids cartoons that show anyone smoking nowadays! God forbid!
Well .. smoking, we can ALL do with-OUT, yeah? I grew up with it JQ, too; many adults from that era that I knew and loved died from lung cancer …
Nevertheless -Quest is *still* the BEST!
Concordo com você. Hoje em dia somos reféns do politicamente correto. Bons tempos aqueles.
Ever heard of Venture Bros?
I thought the Race Bannon and Dr Quest were an item
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No.
I agree. Invisible Monster has to be number one. Great to see how many people loved Johnny Quest the way I did. I feel like I'm part of a fraternity here.
I came across it accidentally on Boomerang when I was looking for something for my then 4 y.o. granddaughter (she's now 21) to watch. She quickly became a fan of Bandit, lol. I purchased the DVDs not too long after that. Good memories, recalling how I saw the show when it first aired on ABC on Friday nights in the 60s.
Ima Nalien well not only is it a popular episode it’s also a scary at the end and beginning.
Hear-Here!
We had a black and white TV set in the 1960s. I was a kid back then. I would pretend to be sick so I could stay home from school and watch Jonny quest
People in the comments keep referring to Saturday morning, but I remember watching it with my folks in prime time. Hanna Barbera's best cartoon ever.
I too remember that. On during the week. 😊
Saturday morning came about when it was later syndicated.
As a mid-Baby Boomer, I grew up with the space program and Jonny Quest. I don't think there were any bad episodes. Invisible Monster, of course, was the most scary and thrilling. It was only later that I saw Forbidden Planet, with its invisible "Id" monster.
After years of waiting, I pounced on the first VHS tapes I saw, and later got the DVD set.
I am of the same age and also grew up with the space program and Johnny Quest. Those were great times when everything seemed possible, even having your closest friend being of a different race.
Also the original Outer Limits had an energy creature similar in nature as this in that it feed on energy although it could be seen and it looked like storm clouds: “It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork” 1st season 1963.
This spured a million scientists and technology for two generations
"The Shadow of the Condor", my favourite.
"Monsters of the Monastery" here..a bunch of fake Yeti's wiped out by the real one
I still have that invisible monster nightmare where my jetpack doesn’t work from time to time
Still to this day the sound the Invisible Monster makes sends a chill up my spine. The sound effects team on that episode nailed it. If they ever do a live action version of this they have to use that sound.
Invisible Monster scared the hell out of me as a child back when it first aired.
For me it was the big spiders in The Robot Spy. In retrospect this show was insanely violent, with the bad guys getting blown up, shot, stabbed, beheaded, gutted and dropped into molten lava. As an 8 year old i was completely enthralled. 👍
There were consequences for evil actions.
Bad guys got what they deserved that the best way
Quest was the best.
As A kid growing up in the mid 60s Jonny Quest was the "coolest" thing on my Dad's 150lb wooden Zenith TV ! ( remember those Giant floor models ! ) Monsters,Sci-Fi,Cold War Villains,Flying machines,Gadgets and Race's Girlfriend Jade !!!!! and Bandit ! Now in my mid 50s it is still fun to watch ! Great Stuff
I bought the series on DVD some years ago, after coming across it accidentally on Boomerang, looking for something for my then 4 y.o. granddaughter to watch. She became a fan of Bandit, lol. Good memories.
Wow, I loved this show! I agree with The Invisible Monster at #1. My heart stops every time I see the scene where Hadji's jet pack malfunctions!!
Jonny Quest is THE BEST CARTOON OF ALL TIME! The Hoyt Curtain JAZZ is beyond awesome! The stories are fantastic! What kid wouldn't want to be Jonny or Hadji?
Right? Learn judo from an expert, get to fly in exotic aircraft, fight bad guys w/o adult supervision, LOL
I grew up with these Johnny Quest Cartoons and these episodes were my favorite. Thank you very much for sharing these with us.
Hanna and Barbara both said Johnny Quest was a Masterpiece that can not be duplicated. The original ink art to the beautiful music and sound effects is nothing less then a full fledge movie. The music and sound really set it apart from any other cartoon. Not to metion the awesome stories. Invisible Monster and its shreiking howl definitely got me and my brothers as kids that we still remember today.
Barbara?
Of course I did, just a typo, something I guess The Guardian probably has never done!
Haaa. I'm well into my 50's and I still love these. There was another episode with a monster lizard man on a ship that was scary as well.
They were ALL great episodes
My top 5 favorites were 1 sea haunt 2 monsters in the monestary 3 robot spy 4 invisible monster 5 house of seven gargoyles. But really loved them all. As a kid Saturday morning revolved around Jonny Quest.
My favorite cartoon as a kid Saturday morning always made sure I was up early to watch
YES! JQ was my FAVORITE cartoon growing up...and the top two episodes for me have always been "Robot Spy" (and the para-power ray!") and THE INVISIBLE MONSTER! My favorite episode and STILL the scariest half-hour of television I've ever seen! When Hadji's jetpack failed to work....eeek! and those footprints just appearing in the ground out of nowhere...yipe!
Just a top notch show. It was fantastic.
Once my brothers and I discovered it, we NEVER missed an episode of Jonny Quest.
It's STILL cool.
"Invisible Monster" was always my favorite, even then. That said, Jonny Quest was loaded with great episodes.
I think I love the Invisible Monster so much just because it scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Right on! The Invisible Monster was my favorite too. The first time I saw it I must have been 5 or 6 years old around (1969 or 70). Scared the hell out of me! But I so loved it! The sound it made always sent shivers up and down my spine. This animated series was way ahead of its time and its essence will never be duplicated again.
Gotta add my 2 cents. By far, the scariest was Invisible Monster. Me & my mom watched that one & even she was horrified when they put paint on it. I remember her saying, "Good Lord" when you finally got a look at it. I was already scared but when she said that, had me Terrified! Had nightmares for almost a year. Didn't dare get close to utility poles for awhile either. Robot Spy was next because for a while, you didn't know if the Quest clan had actually met their match with aliens.
Perfect. My wife and I fully agree. Energy monster with the same horrifying sound as the Id monster in Forbidden Planet several years before.
Lizard men was James Bond for kids, and bond movies would even borrow r he speed boat storyboard years later.
Best animation of the series was the dogfight in Condor. That was so clean it almost looked like live action. Do those gel animations and cheater techniques over great mat paintings and you have great images. Do them over rushed and cheap backgrounds and reuse the background 5 times a minute and you have Scooby Doo.
The storylines were amazing and on point:)
Yep! Look how many predictions came true. Jonny and Hadji's view-com devices? Cellular videophones! The para-power gun from "The Robot Spy? Weaponized EMP! And the kaiju of "Terror Island"? Genetically engineered mutations!
Oh how I miss Saturday morning 60s & 70s cartoons! Jonny Quest was the best & *The Invisible Monster* was my absolute favorite!❤️👍💯
In addition to the animation, voice work, music (on and on and on), look at those fantastic painted backgrounds! Talk about setting a mood!
Wish they had all the full episodes on utube..I've seen most of the episodes but not all..still my favorite to this day
First of all, thank you for the amazing job you did in compiling these episodes. Secondly, thank you for bringing back our cherished childhood memories. I am 48 years old and used to LOVE this show and stil remember these images vividly. So cool.
My List:
1. Invisible Monster
2. Turu The Terrible
3. Dragons of Ashida
4. Robot Spy
5. The Sea Haunt
Honorable Mentions:
Mystery of the Lizard Men
Shadow of the Condor
Monster in the Monastery
1. Invisible Monster
2. Turu the Terrible
3. Robot Spy
4. Pursuit of the Poho
5. Quetong Missile Mystery
The Invisible Monster was one of the scariest shows ever produced. Animation or otherwise. I remember seeing this in the 70's on Sunday mornings as a kid and it scared the daylights out of me. this more than deserves to be choosen as the best.
robot spy still gives me the shivers !!
best cartoon ever , very realistic,
i loved the robot spy episode, anubis episode. I thought the energy monster was scary when I first saw these episodes back in the late 60s on TV
I totally love, love the music!!
That episode titled the invisible monster on the johnny quest series has to be considered one of the scariest, creepiest and franksteinish of them all , but it makes one have to think if such a creature could really exist created by some rouge mad scientist that has escaped and run amok talk about spooky like Lugosi. much like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein a terror in the night.
Roget Jay invisible monster is a tad below condor..the theremin was great.
Roget Jay 1st invisible monster.lizard men,robot spy
Did y'all know that the guy that does Race Bannon's voice, also did Optimus Prime in the Transformers? Just finished binge watching the 4 DVD set. Best cartoon on prime time ever!
Odee Dillon sorry but wrong.. Mike Road did the voice of Race Bannon in the original Quest cartoons.
@@kenhutchings4790 He also voiced Zandor leader of The Herculoids.
Robot spy was the best. When I was a kid I remember praying it would be that episode when the show was starting.
My favorite was always The Sea Haunt!! That thing roaring up in the ships rigging still gives me chills! But these 5...absolutely the greatest. Sorry to see Monster in the Monastery get squeezed out. Got the entire series on DVD...favorites for kids AND grandkids!
"Robot Spy" is my No. 1. Classic.
Jonny Quest was my favorite cartoon while I was growing up. I watched every Saturday morning in the late 60's/early 70's
Definitely, The Invisible Monster. It haunts my dreams to this day. That sound....
God i loved the robot spy.. It had such an authentic 60's/50's sci fi feel to it a giant mechanical terror rampaging through a remote military laboratory soldiers with M1's and old green m48 walker tanks trying to blow it to bits! Jonny Quest is probably one of the most well done animated series of the 20th century and will always have a special place in my heart.
I am 35, I used to watch this show with my Dad as a kid. Now I watch it with my kids (7yrs&8yrs old) and we love this show. It's honestly the greatest cartoon show of all time, that includes anime.
I think you nailed it. This show was always the highlight of Saturday morning when I was in grade school
Would have bet on my absolute favorite,,TURU THE TERRIBLE,,, Prehistoric Pteranodon ,flying Jet Packs, and Bazookas,,,that was just Awesome to a Boy on Saturday Morning,,,👍👌👆☝️💪🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲💯💥🤠
Yeah I love the cartoon Jonny quest
NO FREE JOHNNY QUEST! They want you to pay to watch. They can go to hell, I just bought season 1 for 7 dollars. On my next day off, I'm going to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and a mountain dew and watch all 26 episodes. YEA FOR ME!
I loved watching Jonny Quest as a kid.
Good choices! I'm in full agreement with the Energy Monster being top episode. It really scared the crap out of me as a kid; and it's creepy even to this day. Can you imagine a Jonny Quest movie made with the '60s storylines and today's special effects?
Dude, that sound the monster makes comes up in my dreams all the time. ALL. THE. TIME.
Seriously. One of the greatest monsters of all time, and it's in a cartoon from 50 years ago. I wonder how many of us had nightmares after watching that! :D
kirk1968 LOL, I'd say that monster gave PLENTY of us nightmares!
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If those clowns in Hollywood didn't over think things,it would be a great entertaining movie. But,look at the track record, 2 attempts at King Kong,2 attempts at Godzilla,a wack attempt at the British TV show The Avengers,and, a really weak attempt at the TV show,Lost in Space. If J.J. Abrams could just reign in the temptation to get too fancy,he might be a good choice,and,Steven Spielberg would really be a better choice ,because he's a Baby Boomer,and would have a better understanding of Jonny Quest.
Some of 1964 Jonny Quest Episodes are Great to Watch in the Dark at Night Time.
Fantastic! I felt like I was a child again. The emotions just came back to me like I felt back in the sixties. Cool!
I grew up watching this show...The Invisible Monster scared the ever-living hell out of me as a kid. While the animation was sort of limited for its time, the colors, the voice acting....and especially the music, made up for a lot.
Jesse Frankel scared me too as a 5 year old when they came out
The mummy was always the scariest for me as a kid...
That one was scary to you are right
lol!
Holy SHIT yes, the bubble gum horror cyclops which somehow only got SCARIER once we could see him was one of the scariest things from my entire childhood. And I was no shit chased by a mentally disturbed man with a HAND AX once. That didn't scare me as much as The Invisible Monster did.
I introduced my Millennials and Gen Z kids to this back in the late 90’s early 2000’s, they still enjoy it, and now my grandkids are enjoying Johnny Quest as well.
My two favorite shows growing up Johnny quest and lost in space
Invisible Monster, great one! Probably my all time favorite too, they could never get away with a kids show like that today! Great stories and the villians always met some kind of grisly demise
The invisible monster episode is my fave, too. It scared the hell out of me when I was little. Not sure if this is accurate, but years ago I heard his voice had been done with a theremin!
Quite honestly, while I think The Robot Spy hada considerable amount of creepiness to it, I have to say that The Invisible Monster was the creepiest for me. It's the sense of mystery it holds, it's ominous and monstrous nature, and if it's still out there that gets me. I recall watching the episode when I was five-seven years old; scared the living shit out of me! Had nightmares about it for a good few days, and I was even afraid of stepping on the floor normally. Not to mention the thing looks creepy as fuck.
nothing.....Nothing was as truly creepy as the puppet shows [XL5]...the women my age are still affected by it
....it seems.
I totally agree, the invisible monster was my favorite, it was like the monster on forbidden planet
The Invisible Spy scared the crap out of me at 5.
I love this show. I remember watching these episodes. Ah, memories.
Boy does this bring back memories .This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid. And It always had me shakin . And Race Bannon was my hero. Great cartoon !
This show is awesome. I may only be 22, but my dad got me into it when I was about 10 or 11. Even though we don’t watch it hardly ever now, Jonny Quest has become one of my favorite old cartoon shows.
THE INVISBLE MONSTER
HP Lovecraft influenced that energy being episode and it scared the hell out of me as a kid. It is still creepy and makes me wonder if scifi concepts and story lines from the fifties are foreboding and prescient. Johnny Quest from the sixties created an alternate universe that really hasnt dated that much which makes it classic.
I used to watch this when I was 7 years old on Cartoon Network reruns, it was my dad’s favorite and he got me into it. I thought it was the most awesome cartoon I have ever seen and I thought it was unlike anything I have ever see. The first episode I saw was The Invisible Monster, and what a great start that was. My favorite episode is still The Robot Spy.
Like so many others on here, I spent a good deal of my childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons. Johnny Quest was on Sundays though where I lived (Pennsylvania, all over!). And I ALWAYS remembered this episode! I could hardly tell you the others (yeah, the spider robot and the huge pterodactyl are a few!). I too was totally creeped out by this monster! One other cartoon that I always thought was WAY TOO MORBID for kids was the Tom and Jerry episode where there is a banquet that Tom has to protect from the mice. He fails so his punishment is the GUILLOTINE!! OMG! Its amazing I am not more effed up!!
Invisible monster is a fantastic episode! Easily #1! Personally I love Turu the Terrible, Terror Island and Sea Haunt! Really ALL Johnny Quest episodes are GOLD!
Probably my favorite show when I was quite young. Watched on an old B&W TV set. 7 PM, IIRC
Johnny Quest was always my favorite adventure cartoon. I have to agree with the selection of all- time favorites. What memories.
...Jonny Quest & "8th-Man"........& "The Roadrunner"....The only "3" cartoons I needed!!!...(...1/11/54,my birth-date...)...Peace...
I think The Robot Spy was the best for me. The creep factor in that one is very high, largely due to a lot of night scenes and just the spiderlike characteristics of the robot. I also had a UFO of sorts in which it traveled in. The opening sequences of the episode had to be one of the best as well, when it first starts doing it's dirty work. It would had made things creepier if they would had decided that it's legs wouldn't had looked like sticks.
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Charles 22: To me The Robot Spy reminds me exactly like a horribly large,indestructible Black Widow spider spy sent from outer space in a UFO by Red Chinese🇨🇳rogue scientist Dr.Zin total cold war era enemy intrigue I'm certain then with Soviet involvement with Red China for Dr.Quest's labs secrets.📁
I remember ALL these episodes from when I was a kid. I kind of agree with the ranking. I particularly found the episodes The Spirit of Anubis and The Invisible Monster very scary and pretty disturbing for kids.
My favorite episodes, the curse of anubis,the robot spy, and of course, the house of the seven gargoyles!
This was awesome🤩👍 I have never seen the original Jonny Quest cartoon but my first introduction to the series was when I was 7 years old in Nigeria in 2002 and would watch Real Adventures of Jonny Quest on CN. The theme song always stuck with me and today I just ordered the DVD of the original series. I love retro shows like this, especially from Hannah Barbera😍👍 My dad loved them and we would watch them when I was a kid in the 2000s.
@orboakin8074 Have you seen the original series now? I think the original is by far the best.
What a great show, I was just rewatching it. My favorites are still the Robot Spy, Turu 'the terrible' (I feel bad for that pterodactyl), the Invisible Monster, and the Sea Haunt. The Invisible Monster and Sea Haunt scared the everloving shit out of me as a kid and the concepts of those episodes still creep me out today.
This stuff scared the crap out of me in the sixties. Thanks for posting.
The Robot Spy was the very first Jonny Quest episode I ever saw, and I was hooked! I loved it! It's too bad the cartoons of yesteryear are no longer around
The Robot Spy is my personal favorite. I LOVED this show as a kid. It was always on really early in the morning. I guess cause it had some adult themes.
I'd put Mystery of the Lizard Men and Robot Spy as 1 & 2. Also really liked Terror Island and The Sea Haunt. The 60s to early 70s was the best time for animated kid's shows.
The best animation especially the first season before they changed the animators.
"The Invisible Monster" plays with suspense like a Hitchcock movie, hiding the true form of evil as much as possible.
That's what is really scary, you know there's a threat outside, ravaging the place, but you don't know who, what it is and how it's look like.
The final sequence of "Monster in the Monastery" is truly amazing... the entire place ravaged for some (until then) unseen force, every single villain smashed like a tomato and, out of nothing, the Yeti screaming like "I run this place, m*f*ckers!"
Yeah, the #1 pick gave me the creeps for weeks, when it first aired!
Always liked The House of the Seven Gargoyles too. VERY creepy.
I'd have voted for Tooru the Terrible, myself. Hunting a Pteranodon with jetpacks and an antitank weapon? Fun stuff!
That was a great episode!
My personal favorite.
The one with the crazy WWI German flying ace, Tooru, the first episode with the Sargasso Sea frogmen, the one with the ersatz Race ("There's only Race Bannon!"), all have to be in my top 5! But I don't think there's an episode of the original run that rates lower than "pretty damned good".
Invisble Monster freaked me out when I saw it in 1964 at 5 years old.