Johnny Quest. One of the best cartoons to ever come from the 60's...way ahead of its time...what is so cool is the soundtrack to this...those dudes were jamming....
This is the kind of red-blooded American cartoon that I remember. For young boys and even older boys, this was the best cartoon. The story lines were awesome.
@@brianroberts2402 I was born in 86 and there was a couple episodes where the Indian natives were friendly and helped the Quest team and a couple episodes where they were hostile
@@marcustrice3246 0:09 and 0:25 I used to love Jonny Quest and I still enjoy it (Big Bowl in Lincolnshire/10,000 years of Monsters/Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed).
@@marcustrice3246 I was born in ;62. I don't remember any episodes where the bad guys were Indian, but that doesn't matter. There were bad guys and good guys in this series that were assorted races. It wasn't about race, it was about right and wrong, and it was terrific.
That's old school animation where each movement was layered on vellum or acitate to get the transition. Today a starting point midway point and end point are only needed then the transition is predictably rendered. It saves time and production cost. Unfortunately the artists talent is replaced with cgi work.
Family counsels of the day also caused them to end the show. They complained the show was way too violent and showed people dying on every episode. People loved it though. My favorite cartoon as a kid.
@@rayflaherty3441 I read that years ago. The show was top notch and had great ratings but family advocacy groups monitoring tv shows complained it was way too violent for children and argued it should not be a part of the Saturday children cartoon rotation. They lobbied the studios to cancel the show or air it during a nighttime slot. Hanna Barbera cancelled it, but the show went on to be hugely popular in syndication. The article was written in the 1990s or early 2000s when the Cartoon Network broadcasted the original show again and as usual was a big hit and lead to a remaking of the cartoon series.
Did not know that. It was my favorite adventure show as a kid till Star Trek came a long the following year. Johnny Quest was the animated cartoon show to have a non-White cast member in Hadji.
As a kid I thought this show was SO COOL. The music is uncredited (although Hoyt Curtin is listed as Music Director). The the music was written and scored by Ted Nichols. In my college years at CSU Los Angeles (where he had been director of bands from 60-63), I had the pleasure of taking a course in film scoring from him. We got to examine the cues he wrote for the show, including the opening and closing theme music. Definite big band jazz influenced by Stan Kenton and other modernists. The short trombone solos were played by Frank Rosolino.
Nichols scored this? Well hang me. All these years it was commonly believed that Curtin wrote all the music for Quest. Come to think, the animation experts interviewed on this topic never said the composer's name in the JQ DVD docummentary. That's interesting. As far as I know Nichols was Curtin's alumnee at this time in H-B, but soon he was promoted to musical director, following Curtin's temporary departure in 1965. Nichols composed every cartoon soundtrack between 65-72 including Space Ghost, Secret Squirrel, Herculoids, Shazzan, Birdman & Galaxy trio, Wacky Races, Penelope Pitstop and of course his most memorable/famous work, Scooby-Doo. Someone should do a full interview with him right now and ask him these questions
I lived for the show every Sat morning. Still think it's the best cartoon opening ever. Only Cowboy Bebop can rival it, but then that's an anime so they're in diff categories.
Notice how crazy the trombones play in this theme? The composer made the sheet music for the instrument *ridiculous* (almost impossible to play right) after his Trombone section was giving him shit about writing music that was too easy to play.
It is awesome but best ever…hmmmm….lots of great opening “superCool” titles came out of this era….mission Impossible and Hawaii Five-O, just to name two. The fact this was composed for a “saturday kids’ show” though was extraordinary.
I was born in 2002, this wasn’t a show of my generation, but my dad introduced it to me when I was little nonetheless. He had watched it as a kid and figured I’d enjoy it. I did! Loved it. I have great memories of watching it with him. They don’t make them like this anymore.
Glad your Dad showed you this marvelous cartoon from 50 years ago . The show was canceled after one season due to high costs . One cool gadget was a ring you would get if you bought a pair of PF Flyers sneakers.
I remember killing this on Boomerang with my dad and little bro on Sunday afternoons back when Boomerang was worth a damn! It was Jonny Quest, Shazam, Scooby Doo, Super Friends, Magilla Gorilla, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones and The Jetsons that would fill up the whole afternoon lol.
Probably a hell of a lot. They quit making it because it was *very* expensive to produce given the ratings it had. There's an hour documentary about that.
Two boys travelling the world. Going to foreign countries, exotic locations Being involved in dangerous (but exciting) adventures. With adult males providing positive role models in courage. And how to "be a man". For me as a boy back then, that was the message this show conveyed. And to millions of other boys that were the show's target audience. The message? Boys were to be brave, resourceful, adventurous, show leadership and initiative.
On Saturday morning I didn't go outside to play until I watched Johnny Quest and don't forget Fat Albert and the Cosby kid's. Best 70's cartoons ever. Most of the cartoons today are senseless.
Tony Beazley • I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s me and my brother and cousin used to watch Johnny quest every Saturday morning too we would watch scooby doo and the groovey ghoulies bugs bunny ISIS and shazam and a few more we had the best cartoons that were ever made. In the 60s and 70s.
Robert Kelly • I did too you got that right we had the very best cartoons that were ever made in the 1970s all the cartoons from the 1980s until now are junk and scenesless
The 60's and 70's were the best time in the world for film and tv. I'm 25 and I'm not into modern media at all. But all of this old stuff is my jam, it was created with such energy and skill. Just getting into Johnny Quest, am now a child in 1964 sitting in front of the television watching this awesome intro.
The excellent TH-cam documentary on the Making of Jonny Quest says that the studio musicians responsible for performing the intro were goofing around, slacking off, figuring that since they'd been asked for "cartoon" music it would be an easy day's pay -- UNTIL Hoyt Curtin presented them with the actual score. He had those pros puffing and sweating until they were exhausted, trying to keep up with the complicated arrangement and fast tempo. A very wearing day for them, but classic results.
The trombonists had been bitching about how they so little to do, and most of it was simple stuff. This shut them up. NEVER get your composer mad at you!
That was my favorite cartoon ever when I was a kid. I still remember waiting with my brother until after Johnny Quest was over before we would go out and play because we didn't want to miss the show!
It was on reruns despite not fitting the criteria for that to happen. It only ran one season. Best animated cartoon series ever. Every week a new adventure. And then came Scooby Doo. Aw mannn. ; (
This show had everything that young boys loved -- kids that traveled all over the world -- jungles, mountains, the bottom of the sea -- fighting, shooting, robot spiders, giant Komodo dragons, giant spiders, pirates, judo, secret agents, lost cities, invisible monsters, mummies, man-eating crocodiles, ray guns! Did I mention fighting and shooting? And super cool Music! Everything! Jonny Quest was the greatest show ever made -- for ten-year old boys. Which I was, when it first came out.
And young girls…this was my favorite show growing up, and I dressed like Johnny Quest as often as I was allowed in the 60’s and early 70’s… I am 63 and it is still my favorite look for me…black shirt, blue jeans, perfect white sneakers…still love the science, the forward thinking, the fact that Hadji was an equal. Bring this back!!!!!
Um, I LOVED this show. But I was/am a girl. I don't care what you said about the show being for boys because I thought all of the episodes were so very cool, too. The artwork, the music, the stories -- all cool!
Screaming Brass!!! The switch into the jazz section is incredible. This was one of the few shows where the content actually kept up with the theme song.
I loved the intro as much as the episodes. I used to be SO SCARED of the giant spider eyeball, and that invisible jungle ghost energy thing, that they dropped paint on to make it visible. Sitting on the floor in front of the RCA TV, with my bowl of Rice Crispies. Watching the intro still gets me galvanized for action! Thanks for the upload!
@@simoncondron6056 In the 12-part documentary here on TH-cam, they do an entire ep. on the music, and point out that there's one part where the trombone slide moves so fast that 9 out of 10 musicians _cant_ play it properly. Amazing!
Race Bannon! A US special forces veteran, 3rd degree black belt, licensed to drive a motorcycle, a car, a truck, a tractor trailer, a boat, a small plane, a jet plane, and a helicopter! Race wasn't just Dr Quest's bodyguard, he was also MISTER ALL-DRIVER MAN!
I'm 50 years old, and my high school freshman English teacher said she learned what a "gargoyle" was from that show. Most of us in the class had as well.
what is fascinating to me is how many of the innovations that were introduced on Jonny Quest ultimately did come to pass--cell phones/harrier jump jets/hovercraft/rocket packs etc-the show's creator Doug Wiley spent long hours reviewing science magazines to come up with the ideas/inspiration for all of these things
@David Graham for the most part of my 60 years I have noticed how the government always takes things from our old cartoons and not giving credit to any of the first engineers to actually design those wild machines, but watching them work on some things from Divergent and far out recent sci-fi movies are getting scary. Ai is seriously moving fast.
@@TommygunNG I didn't mean for my comment to invalidate anything you said, Lee. It's just a creative liberty that the show took. An actual gargoyle usually sticks out from a structure and always acts as a decorative gutter spout.
I remember Saturday mornings, it was Johnny Quest and Star Blazers back to back. Both shows that dealt with some pretty mature themes and events. Looking back it really felt like a good part of growing up.
Action , Adventure , Danger , Sci-fi Jonny Quest was a cartoon ahead of it's time . The intro is one the best ever gotta love the Jazzy music and Jonny had one of the best character names ever " Race Bannon "👍🏻
Wow, what memories. I was six and my brother was seven when this show came out. We never missed an episode, ha-ha. It had everything a kid could ask for - two tough guys, Bandit, Hadjii, dinosaurs, mummies, mecha-monsters, jungles and headhunter natives, clandestine para-military groups, and international adventures. The creators must have polled dozens of kids to see what fascinated us back in 1964. Thanks for sharing!
As a kid, I loved this show in the late 1970s on re-runs...I haven't seen this intro in forever but it brought back memories! My favorite three episodes in no particular order: - Race Bannon has to fight the Red Baron guy in an airplane duel - The spider thing that invades a USA Army base - The Creature from the Black Lagoon-type monster that the Johnny Quest team has to avoid on the abandoned ship Thanks for the upload!
Jonny Quest is memorable for many reasons, not the least of which is that awesome theme song. As a child in the 60s, I can honestly say this was the very first cartoon that didn’t treat us like babies! I never understood why they haven’t tried a big screen, live action adaptation .
As j am about to turn 65, ina couple of weeks, this stories, stay on my mind. I remember when the first episode of Jonny Quest came on. I even can remember, when they were promoting the show, before the first season. Sometimes, i look back, on the very early sixty's, and find myself, damn proud, i grew during that era. Wouldn't trade it.
This show had so much testosterone that the science nerd still punched and shot bad guys, the Hindu kid ate cheeseburgers, and the 11 year old boys blasted away at crocodiles with semiauto rifles. And even the hippies were okay with it!
When Curtin showed the music charts to the musicians that had to play this music they all thought he was kidding. The music was extremely complicated especially the trombone parts. Would have love to have been in the studio during rehearsals. Probably a lot of cursing going on. Hats off to the crack musicians that pulled it off.
One of my all time favorite Cartoons, and so far ahead in that time. Lazers, Hover crafts, jets with the small front wing, cant spell canards, and Race Bannon would always save the day. These good times will never return. Sad for kids today the crap they watch
One episode Race is in a gunfight with the bad guys. The bad guys hide behind a bulldozer with the blade down. Race Bannon puts two shots in off the blade hitting the bad guys. Call your bank shots...
@@rileyoreilly9353 I swear Riley I remember that one ! I was watching this show when it was just being produced not reruns so we're talking like at least 50 years ago!
I'm 28; my paternal grandmother would show me Johnny Quest VHS tapes whenever I visited. The Robot Spy (the giant spider thing with one eye) and Turu the Terrible were always my two favorites.
I remember spending hours glued to Boomerang as a kid, watching shows that were before even my parents' time. This was always one of my favorites. And here I am again as an adult, bingeing the whole show while home sick, just like I did as a kid. Never gets old.
Hanna Barbera (William Hanna and Joe Barbera) are well known for cartoons like The Jetsons, Flinstones, Yogi Bear and, of course, Scooby Doo. But surprisingly few people know about the gem called Jonny Quest. The original show ran in 1964-65 and was as incredible for Americans as The Thunderbirds was for British audiences. I wasn't old enough to watch it when it first aired, but saw the reruns beginning in 1970 on my local broadcast stations (this was pre-cable.) I was fascinated. Unlike every other show on Saturday morning, this one was amazing and dead serious. I remember being frightened by the energy monster (that bone-chilling howl it had) and the sense of dread of the alien spider robot. No other show could illicit such emotions from me. To this day I think of Jonny Quest as being one of the best shows I ever watched as a kid.
That may be a matter of 1. taste 2. nostalgia and 3. you probably haven't watched children's cartoons. understandably. depends on what they watch but they DO go hardcore
@@kimmyyy1164 Lies, I was born in 2003 and Johnny Quest is one of the best cartoon shows of all time, and I can point out shows from my childhood that were terrible which was basically everything on the Disney Channel
This was THE cartoon that I looked forward to on Saturday mornings. The animation, the great musical soundtrack, would keep me glued to the 19" black & white t.v. What a great cartoon!
I remember this show, it started about 64 or 65 , it originally came on ,on Saturday afternoons. My friends and I just loved the show. Always an exciting adventure.
Best Cartoon I remember this cartoon was different from the others, a level above, change my mind and my brothers, I wanted to have a Bandit puppy. Cheers from Monterrey México
A great Saturday morning cartoon show. "Johnnie Quest" was my 2nd favorite cartoon show behind "Underdog." Greatings from Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Loved all these mystery cartoons of Starday mornings. THIS Inspired me and my friends to start our first band (the quality of which is no reflection on the great show)
I remember in 64 or 65 going to the mall and going grocery shopping. Every Saturday. As soon as we got back wild Kingdom was on then Johnny quest. I always looked forward to it coming home in the taxi. It was the perfect show to come home to especially in the winter.
I guess it was the mid 70s when I first started watching JQ. Yes these are fond child hood memories and that little bandit I would have cloned him. Thanks for the memories!!
The greatest adventure show of all time a d it just happened to be a cartoon. I was 10 y/ o when it premiered. Laser beams, net packs,anti gravity platforms and a hold over pterodactyl from another time. Did it get any cooler than this? In the immortal words of Dr. Zin " get them they must not escape"
The era in which the series was made had some real-world "whiz-bang stuff" for its day: manned spaceflight (even before you count the Space Race) and a big honkin' aircraft carrier powered by uranium come to mind.
I'm 60 years old I will still rock me some Jonny Quest with a bowl of Frosted Flakes I'm going back to my childhood 😋
I'm 34 and feel this!
You're still a child at heart pal. 😁
I'm 60 also & the gkiddos love this shit! best cartoon ever.
This is the kind of red-blooded American cartoon that I remember. For young boys and even older boys, this was the best cartoon. The story lines were awesome.
Why not some Cap'n Crunch?
Snakes, dragons, lasers, ufos, mummys, airplanes, how could it not be a hit show. They didn't treat us like dumb kids.
I loved it!
Don't forget Hoodlums, Mad Scientists, evil Ace Pilots, Murderous killers, Hostil Jungle Pygmies and hostil Indians.
@@marcustrice3246 Maybe the Indians could be given a better role? What do ya think?
It was cool as is though.
I was born in 55
@@brianroberts2402 I was born in 86 and there was a couple episodes where the Indian natives were friendly and helped the Quest team and a couple episodes where they were hostile
@@marcustrice3246 0:09 and 0:25 I used to love Jonny Quest and I still enjoy it (Big Bowl in Lincolnshire/10,000 years of Monsters/Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed).
@@marcustrice3246 I was born in ;62. I don't remember any episodes where the bad guys were Indian, but that doesn't matter. There were bad guys and good guys in this series that were assorted races. It wasn't about race, it was about right and wrong, and it was terrific.
JONNY QUEST is easily one of the greatest American Cartoons ever created.
Like in Incredibles 2
Why did it only last one season?
@Queen Glamazona But the Flintstones lasted several years. Thanks for the feedback !
The BEST of ALL TIME...AND intro music!
Well yeah. Animals don't talk. Human evil is shown to have consequences. No one has super abilities. Bullets kill. And you don't have an extra life.
Man, those were the days.
Saturday mornings rocked.
If you were a kid in the 70s, yes, it was great times watching cartoons on Saturday mornings. 😊
FUN FACT: When the show premiered in the 60's, it actually had good ratings. The only reason it was cut short was because of the production costs.
That's old school animation where each movement was layered on vellum or acitate to get the transition. Today a starting point midway point and end point are only needed then the transition is predictably rendered. It saves time and production cost. Unfortunately the artists talent is replaced with cgi work.
Family counsels of the day also caused them to end the show. They complained the show was way too violent and showed people dying on every episode. People loved it though. My favorite cartoon as a kid.
@@richardlangdon712 Can you cite that? Wikipedia says it was due to production costs.
@@rayflaherty3441 I read that years ago. The show was top notch and had great ratings but family advocacy groups monitoring tv shows complained it was way too violent for children and argued it should not be a part of the Saturday children cartoon rotation. They lobbied the studios to cancel the show or air it during a nighttime slot. Hanna Barbera cancelled it, but the show went on to be hugely popular in syndication. The article was written in the 1990s or early 2000s when the Cartoon Network broadcasted the original show again and as usual was a big hit and lead to a remaking of the cartoon series.
Did not know that. It was my favorite adventure show as a kid till Star Trek came a long the following year. Johnny Quest was the animated cartoon show to have a non-White cast member in Hadji.
This was James Bond for kids. I was 7 when this came out. My younger brother and I couldn’t get enough of Johnny Quest.
No "h" in Jonny...😊
@@alanhumphrey4198 Oh no! You mean I spelled it wrong?!
Same same
I don't know which one was the biggest JQ fan my brother or me. But I could've cloned that little guy bandit I loved him so much.😅
Yes it was
When an half-century-old cartoon intro is more Epic than a multi million-dollar current movie.
True .
SO True....well said!
im surprised they haven't made a movie yet. it would be lit AND based
And the animation still holds its own, even being hand drawn.
@@KazeMunashii I dunno about that. I'd love a JQ live action movie but Hollywood could easily ruined it if given to the wrong people.
I’m 65 my daughter bought me a dvd of all the original episodes I still watch it
same here. i have the whole set
You have a good kid there.
Any chance your dvd is for sale?
I'm 66 and watched this as a young boy and simply loved it!
Same here!
One of the best cartoons ever!
@trha2222 I wants me one of those hover crafts that they were flying in at the 0:30 second mark.
One of the best.
The Absolute Best Theme Song!
Truth.
A GREAT cartoon,got all the episodes on my computer.
I am 70 years old and I STILL love Jonny Quest!! What a great show! I miss it tremendously!
and close to 30 and still loving it the same!
@@tklrrbccar3906 Treat yourself to the complete series on DVD!
As a kid I thought this show was SO COOL.
The music is uncredited (although Hoyt Curtin is listed as Music Director). The the music was written and scored by Ted Nichols. In my college years at CSU Los Angeles (where he had been director of bands from 60-63), I had the pleasure of taking a course in film scoring from him. We got to examine the cues he wrote for the show, including the opening and closing theme music. Definite big band jazz influenced by Stan Kenton and other modernists. The short trombone solos were played by Frank Rosolino.
Nichols scored this? Well hang me. All these years it was commonly believed that Curtin wrote all the music for Quest. Come to think, the animation experts interviewed on this topic never said the composer's name in the JQ DVD docummentary. That's interesting. As far as I know Nichols was Curtin's alumnee at this time in H-B, but soon he was promoted to musical director, following Curtin's temporary departure in 1965. Nichols composed every cartoon soundtrack between 65-72 including Space Ghost, Secret Squirrel, Herculoids, Shazzan, Birdman & Galaxy trio, Wacky Races, Penelope Pitstop and of course his most memorable/famous work, Scooby-Doo. Someone should do a full interview with him right now and ask him these questions
Hell yes!!
Agree completely
I lived for the show every Sat morning. Still think it's the best cartoon opening ever. Only Cowboy Bebop can rival it, but then that's an anime so they're in diff categories.
Hands down my all-time favorite TV theme.
Race Bannon was a great male role model for a cartoon character back in the day
He's still a pretty good role model imo ^^
@@kimmyyy1164 Agreed
Not great the best ever
We all wanted to grow up to be that suave MFer. LOL
You mean Mike Pence?
Best theme music of any show period! Opening and closing
Notice how crazy the trombones play in this theme? The composer made the sheet music for the instrument *ridiculous* (almost impossible to play right) after his Trombone section was giving him shit about writing music that was too easy to play.
It is awesome but best ever…hmmmm….lots of great opening “superCool” titles came out of this era….mission Impossible and Hawaii Five-O, just to name two. The fact this was composed for a “saturday kids’ show” though was extraordinary.
Some of the incidental music in the episodes was still getting used years later in other animated series.
It is some fantastic music and leaves 99+% of the others in the dust but TANK! by The Seatbelts for Cowboy Bebop is simply unreal.
The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest had better music.
I was born in 2002, this wasn’t a show of my generation, but my dad introduced it to me when I was little nonetheless. He had watched it as a kid and figured I’d enjoy it. I did! Loved it. I have great memories of watching it with him. They don’t make them like this anymore.
I was born in 1999 and same for me. I remember watching this in the car on roadtrips as a kid and on bommerang
Glad your Dad showed you this marvelous cartoon from 50 years ago . The show was canceled after one season due to high costs . One cool gadget was a ring you would get if you bought a pair of PF Flyers sneakers.
I remember killing this on Boomerang with my dad and little bro on Sunday afternoons back when Boomerang was worth a damn! It was Jonny Quest, Shazam, Scooby Doo, Super Friends, Magilla Gorilla, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones and The Jetsons that would fill up the whole afternoon lol.
Similar story, I was born in 2005 and my dad also showed me this show. I feel like this is a show that a lot of dads show their kids.
same
If we only knew, how many kids became pilots, scientist or engineers because of this show.
Probably a hell of a lot. They quit making it because it was *very* expensive to produce given the ratings it had. There's an hour documentary about that.
Larry Stimely Really? I loved Jonny Quest growing up and the music. Nothing like it since. I would love to see this documentary- is it on TH-cam?
and wizards. sim sim salabim.
None, likely. Show not oriented toward gay types.
err... girls watched it too
Man, I loved the Johnny Quest cartoons. I miss the 60s.
I was 9 years old when this came out, still love it at 69!
That was my favorite cartoon.
I watched this when I was ten year's old back in 1968 . When cartoons were cartoons.
Probably the best cartoon theme ever recorded.
SWAT KATS: *hold my root beer*
One of the best TV themes ever recorded, period.
Musicians understand.
I picked up the double CD a while back. Surprisingly good recording !
@@tabthecabbit3354 Uh, sorry...not even close. That root beer gets dropped.
There's actually a double CD? Nice.
The _Swat_ _Kats_ theme is nice, but nowhere close to this.
Two boys travelling the world. Going to foreign countries, exotic locations Being involved in dangerous (but exciting) adventures. With adult males providing positive role models in courage. And how to "be a man". For me as a boy back then, that was the message this show conveyed. And to millions of other boys that were the show's target audience. The message? Boys were to be brave, resourceful, adventurous, show leadership and initiative.
EVERY SINGLE gay friend that I have ADORED this show!!!
@Sentiental56 Indeed.
It wasn't till way later I noticed Johnny looks more like Race than Dr Quest. No wonder his mom "disappeared."
@@toddbennett7157I know (February 6th,2024 plus April 3rd,2024 and April 4th,2024/🙂).
@@toddbennett7157I know (March 14th,2024 plus April 3rd,2024 and April 4th,2024/🙂).
My mom's favorite cartoon. I MYSELF loved it everyweekend in the late 80s and early 90s.
Have to listen to this 2 more times.
Back when shows were great.
Those horns are the best!
Best Saturday cartoon show ever!!!!!!!
I'm 30 years old my dad got me watching this as a child and still love this show today.
On Saturday morning I didn't go outside to play until I watched Johnny Quest and don't forget Fat Albert and the Cosby kid's. Best 70's cartoons ever. Most of the cartoons today are senseless.
Tony Beazley • I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s me and my brother and cousin used to watch Johnny quest every Saturday morning too we would watch scooby doo and the groovey ghoulies bugs bunny ISIS and shazam and a few more we had the best cartoons that were ever made. In the 60s and 70s.
Robert Kelly • I did too you got that right we had the very best cartoons that were ever made in the 1970s all the cartoons from the 1980s until now are junk and scenesless
I agree...they are senseless.
Agreed 100 percent yo
Thank you for remembering Sir.
This intro music is just amazing….the band performing it REALLY killed it!!👍
The 60's and 70's were the best time in the world for film and tv. I'm 25 and I'm not into modern media at all. But all of this old stuff is my jam, it was created with such energy and skill. Just getting into Johnny Quest, am now a child in 1964 sitting in front of the television watching this awesome intro.
The excellent TH-cam documentary on the Making of Jonny Quest says that the studio musicians responsible for performing the intro were goofing around, slacking off, figuring that since they'd been asked for "cartoon" music it would be an easy day's pay -- UNTIL Hoyt Curtin presented them with the actual score. He had those pros puffing and sweating until they were exhausted, trying to keep up with the complicated arrangement and fast tempo. A very wearing day for them, but classic results.
Hoyt would write lines for trombone that were impossible to play and break the trombonist balls for not being able to keep up...:)...
The trombonists had been bitching about how they so little to do, and most of it was simple stuff. This shut them up. NEVER get your composer mad at you!
+Commander Straker Yeah. Hoyt Curtin, the composer, was supposedly laughing his head off in the booth watching the trombonists try to play it.
So interesting!
Robert Haworth I'd heard the same story. The musicians worked their tails off, just to keep up.
That was my favorite cartoon ever when I was a kid. I still remember waiting with my brother until after Johnny Quest was over before we would go out and play because we didn't want to miss the show!
dashed home from school in the 60s to watch this....very very happy days for me
week days ? this was Saturday morning for me back in the day .
I'm old...Friday nights for me.
It was on reruns despite not fitting the criteria for that to happen. It only ran one season. Best animated cartoon series ever.
Every week a new adventure.
And then came Scooby Doo. Aw mannn. ; (
EXACTLY ... me too ... Johnny Question and Gilligan's Island.
mal334455 It was a Saturday morning show.
This show had everything that young boys loved -- kids that traveled all over the world -- jungles, mountains, the bottom of the sea -- fighting, shooting, robot spiders, giant Komodo dragons, giant spiders, pirates, judo, secret agents, lost cities, invisible monsters, mummies, man-eating crocodiles, ray guns! Did I mention fighting and shooting? And super cool Music! Everything!
Jonny Quest was the greatest show ever made -- for ten-year old boys. Which I was, when it first came out.
Girls too. I loved this as a kid, would never miss it.
Girls loved it too ! I was a big fan - never missed it
@@domainofthesun4400 Bucky Barnes as
Dr. Quest and Sam Wilson as Race Bannon.
And young girls…this was my favorite show growing up, and I dressed like Johnny Quest as often as I was allowed in the 60’s and early 70’s… I am 63 and it is still my favorite look for me…black shirt, blue jeans, perfect white sneakers…still love the science, the forward thinking, the fact that Hadji was an equal. Bring this back!!!!!
Um, I LOVED this show. But I was/am a girl. I don't care what you said about the show being for boys because I thought all of the episodes were so very cool, too. The artwork, the music, the stories -- all cool!
Now this is music for a great cartoon series. Jonny Quest still rocks.
67 years old. This was my favorite cartoon of all
I am 68 and l remember this show it was one of my favourite at the time.
The BEST theme for any TV cartoon ever. No question about it!
Hoyt Curtin was prolific with Hanna Barbera. Love his brass sound from Jonny Quest to The Jetsons..
Absolutely 💯 The ❤ Best TV cartoon Theme song ! ! 🔸
Johnny quest and space ghost are my two favorite opening theme ever.
I'm 66 and remember my brother and I finding this show. It was like Christmas...
I grew up on this.
Loved this cartoon as a child. The intro itself got my blood pumping and still remembered the beat of the music after all these years.
Screaming Brass!!! The switch into the jazz section is incredible. This was one of the few shows where the content actually kept up with the theme song.
I had one of the most nostalgic moments of my life just now. This is a forgotten masterpiece. They need shows like this today.
I loved the intro as much as the episodes. I used to be SO SCARED of the giant spider eyeball, and that invisible jungle ghost energy thing, that they dropped paint on to make it visible. Sitting on the floor in front of the RCA TV, with my bowl of Rice Crispies.
Watching the intro still gets me galvanized for action!
Thanks for the upload!
One of the best cartoons of My Childhood!
agreed
Nobody ever mentions at how good the trombones were in this theme. The trumpet section wasn't too shabby either
I know. I keep waiting to find a marching band playing this… I was good on trombone, but I wasn’t good enough to play this
@@simoncondron6056 In the 12-part documentary here on TH-cam, they do an entire ep. on the music, and point out that there's one part where the trombone slide moves so fast that 9 out of 10 musicians _cant_ play it properly. Amazing!
Hard to hear them over the gunfire that starts with each horn sequence but maybe that helps.
@@simoncondron6056 the brass section was awesome 👍🏼
@@dphalanx7465What is the documentary called? I would love to see that?
Incredible History
Beautiful Artstyle
It was so dramatic to watch as a Child
I can always Vibe to this
Overwhelming cartoon
Race Bannon! A US special forces veteran, 3rd degree black belt, licensed to drive a motorcycle, a car, a truck, a tractor trailer, a boat, a small plane, a jet plane, and a helicopter! Race wasn't just Dr Quest's bodyguard, he was also MISTER ALL-DRIVER MAN!
And he Shagged all the pretty girl he was introduced too
I'm 66 and this was my favorite cartoon of them all.
This is what we used to watch Sat morn carttoons....
Yep, Sat up at 630 am for Superman, then cartoons till 11:00 am. Then cowboy and horse shows to 1:00. Then Tarzan till 3:00 pm. All winter long
I'm 50 years old, and my high school freshman English teacher said she learned what a "gargoyle" was from that show. Most of us in the class had as well.
what is fascinating to me is how many of the innovations that were introduced on Jonny Quest ultimately did come to pass--cell phones/harrier jump jets/hovercraft/rocket packs etc-the show's creator Doug Wiley spent long hours reviewing science magazines to come up with the ideas/inspiration for all of these things
Funny, because the gargoyles in that episode weren't gargoyles. They were grotesques, not meant to divert rain water from the building.
@David Graham for the most part of my 60 years I have noticed how the government always takes things from our old cartoons and not giving credit to any of the first engineers to actually design those wild machines, but watching them work on some things from Divergent and far out recent sci-fi movies are getting scary. Ai is seriously moving fast.
@@ryanhogge8 Hey, that's what they were called, and that's how my junior high English teacher said she learned what they were.
@@TommygunNG I didn't mean for my comment to invalidate anything you said, Lee. It's just a creative liberty that the show took. An actual gargoyle usually sticks out from a structure and always acts as a decorative gutter spout.
I remember Saturday mornings, it was Johnny Quest and Star Blazers back to back. Both shows that dealt with some pretty mature themes and events. Looking back it really felt like a good part of growing up.
This was my favorite Saturday morning show when I was a kid back in the 60s.
Classic Johnny Quest is the best and always will be the best.
One of the few cartoon shows that were on prime time. Geared for adults as much as children. It still rocks along with the opening and closing music.
That's Jonny, not Johnny.
@@filipe.estima OK thanks.
Action , Adventure , Danger , Sci-fi Jonny Quest was a cartoon ahead of it's time . The intro is one the best ever gotta love the Jazzy music and Jonny had one of the best character names ever " Race Bannon "👍🏻
This used to be my favorite cartoon. The adventure, the cool music... I couldn’t wait for every episode.
Wow, what memories. I was six and my brother was seven when this show came out. We never missed an episode, ha-ha. It had everything a kid could ask for - two tough guys, Bandit, Hadjii, dinosaurs, mummies, mecha-monsters, jungles and headhunter natives, clandestine para-military groups, and international adventures. The creators must have polled dozens of kids to see what fascinated us back in 1964. Thanks for sharing!
Don't forget that quintessential villain "Dr. Zinn"!!!
As a kid, I loved this show in the late 1970s on re-runs...I haven't seen this intro in forever but it brought back memories! My favorite three episodes in no particular order:
- Race Bannon has to fight the Red Baron guy in an airplane duel
- The spider thing that invades a USA Army base
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon-type monster that the Johnny Quest team has to avoid on the abandoned ship
Thanks for the upload!
The Jonny Quest theme songs is still my all-time fave instrumental piece. Love that jazzy rocking tune!
Jonny Quest is memorable for many reasons, not the least of which is that awesome theme song. As a child in the 60s, I can honestly say this was the very first cartoon that didn’t treat us like babies! I never understood why they haven’t tried a big screen, live action adaptation .
In today's Hollywood, they would only ruin it, in a pile of wokeness.
What they did to The Green Hornet film a few year back was preposterous.
I, for one, don’ t think I’ d work live action. The fact it was animated is a big part of what made it cool 😎
It would never live up to the cartoon version.
Yup
Hollywood keep your hands off of Jonny Quest.
The spider-esque thing and the invisible creature still haunt me!
Oh, Race’s lady friend, Jade, was a nice distraction! 😊 😍
As j am about to turn 65, ina couple of weeks, this stories, stay on my mind. I remember when the first episode of Jonny Quest came on. I even can remember, when they were promoting the show, before the first season. Sometimes, i look back, on the very early sixty's, and find myself, damn proud, i grew during that era. Wouldn't trade it.
Back when American cartoons still had some testosterone!
Back when, TV SHOWS, had more testosterone.
Back when Americans...Still had testosterone.
and automatic weapons & light tanks & explosions....
Thank the "Politically Correct" crowd for the change. Liberal-ass pussies who get scared and afraid when offended
This show had so much testosterone that the science nerd still punched and shot bad guys, the Hindu kid ate cheeseburgers, and the 11 year old boys blasted away at crocodiles with semiauto rifles. And even the hippies were okay with it!
This was my cartoon in the late 70s and mid-80s .
oh my gosh i watch this show every Saturday morning back in the mid 60's , i'am 67 now so many memories
Hoyt Curtain out did himself with this theme. Best ever for an action series!
Hoyt was awesome. danger Island music. Hanna Barbera world of super adventure music , he was the best. also Barry Grey had some good stuff too.
I wonder if, during the first draft of "Tank!" for "Cowboy Bebop", Yoko Kanno looked to this Hoyt Curtin track for ideas.
When Curtin showed the music charts to the musicians that had to play this music they all thought he was kidding. The music was extremely complicated especially the trombone parts. Would have love to have been in the studio during rehearsals. Probably a lot of cursing going on. Hats off to the crack musicians that pulled it off.
This jazz SLAPS!
yes
I LOVED this show as a kid! Watching it now as an old fart, I still love it.
I also loved the other Hanna-Barbera action/adventure cartoons.
One of my all time favorite Cartoons, and so far ahead in that time. Lazers, Hover crafts, jets with the small front wing, cant spell canards, and Race Bannon would always save the day. These good times will never return. Sad for kids today the crap they watch
One episode Race is in a gunfight with the bad guys. The bad guys hide behind a bulldozer with the blade down.
Race Bannon puts two shots in off the blade hitting the bad guys.
Call your bank shots...
Jonathan Van Winkle...WTF IS A CANARD ? Seriously man I don't know what that is and I would like to know .
@@rileyoreilly9353 I swear Riley I remember that one ! I was watching this show when it was just being produced not reruns so we're talking like at least 50 years ago!
@@MrCretemaniam Google is your friend. You don't even have to haul out a dictionary. Just type "canard define" without the quotes...
yep agreed
Hey - even girls liked this a ton!! It was my favorite on Saturday mornings!
Beth Heinecamp I remember watching it with my dad
Ashlynn Parenteau this was my childhood and I wasn't even born in the 60s 😂😂😂
Yep!!
Same here! Grew up watching this, in the 90s.
Yeah right.... I'm so sure ! Just kidding !
I'm 28; my paternal grandmother would show me Johnny Quest VHS tapes whenever I visited. The Robot Spy (the giant spider thing with one eye) and Turu the Terrible were always my two favorites.
What is funny is that the voice of Jonny Quest was done by Tim Matheson, later Eric "damn glad to meet you" Otter Stratton in Animal House!
I remember spending hours glued to Boomerang as a kid, watching shows that were before even my parents' time. This was always one of my favorites. And here I am again as an adult, bingeing the whole show while home sick, just like I did as a kid. Never gets old.
That brings back the memories!
Hanna Barbera (William Hanna and Joe Barbera) are well known for cartoons like The Jetsons, Flinstones, Yogi Bear and, of course, Scooby Doo. But surprisingly few people know about the gem called Jonny Quest. The original show ran in 1964-65 and was as incredible for Americans as The Thunderbirds was for British audiences. I wasn't old enough to watch it when it first aired, but saw the reruns beginning in 1970 on my local broadcast stations (this was pre-cable.) I was fascinated. Unlike every other show on Saturday morning, this one was amazing and dead serious. I remember being frightened by the energy monster (that bone-chilling howl it had) and the sense of dread of the alien spider robot. No other show could illicit such emotions from me. To this day I think of Jonny Quest as being one of the best shows I ever watched as a kid.
I remember watching reruns in like 1968. It was definitely before 1970.
I was 4 or 5 when this was on and I remember being terrified of the mummy!! When it appeared it was behind the sofa time for me!
I remember The "Thunderbirds" as well. I can still hear "Thunderbirds are GO"!
Oh man! That Energy monster still gives me the creeps and I'm 66!
That shriek still gets me to this day!
Old school cartoons was the best. This stuff these kids have now is a joke.
That may be a matter of 1. taste 2. nostalgia and 3. you probably haven't watched children's cartoons. understandably. depends on what they watch but they DO go hardcore
@@kimmyyy1164 Lies, I was born in 2003 and Johnny Quest is one of the best cartoon shows of all time, and I can point out shows from my childhood that were terrible which was basically everything on the Disney Channel
you said it.
So true
What we have now isn't a joke
It's a meme
Dr. Quest was a role model for me.
This was THE cartoon that I looked forward to on Saturday mornings. The animation, the great musical soundtrack, would keep me glued to the 19" black & white t.v.
What a great cartoon!
I think we just had black and white and got 3 stations ....but Jonny Quest we were glued to it while sipping Nestle QUICK !
In my house it was Ovaltine.
Good times!! Good memories!!!
Applejacks or Fruitloops here!
or eating Cap'n Crunch
I remember this show, it started about 64 or 65 , it originally came on ,on Saturday afternoons. My friends and I just loved the show. Always an exciting adventure.
Great music background great cartoon.nothing but the best.
this and Hawaii 50 the two best TV theme songs ever
Race bannon was the original Chuck Norris
Yep I do think he was Ralph. :)
Philip Whitten It is based on Doc Savage Magazine
+Philip Whitten Yeah, good ol' Race taught Chuck how to fight. ;-D
+Odee “Oz” Dillon 1q
You mean the original Mike Pence
I grew up watching. Every Saturday morning.
Loved it ❤
These are studio musicians the best of the best.they had fun
Best Cartoon I remember this cartoon was different from the others, a level above, change my mind and my brothers, I wanted to have a Bandit puppy. Cheers from Monterrey México
A great Saturday morning cartoon show. "Johnnie Quest" was my 2nd favorite cartoon show behind "Underdog." Greatings from Charleston, West Virginia, USA
My favorite show when I was a kid. Wow! In color here! We had an ancient B&W set.
Loved all these mystery cartoons of Starday mornings. THIS Inspired me and my friends to start our first band (the quality of which is no reflection on the great show)
way ahead of its time!
I remember in 64 or 65 going to the mall and going grocery shopping. Every Saturday. As soon as we got back wild Kingdom was on then Johnny quest. I always looked forward to it coming home in the taxi. It was the perfect show to come home to especially in the winter.
I miss this show. They should make a movie.
I guess it was the mid 70s when I first started watching JQ. Yes these are fond child hood memories and that little bandit I would have cloned him. Thanks for the memories!!
"RACE" Bannon was the coolest character under pressure👌!
What a great show.
Growing up Johnny Quest the coolest. At 62 I'm still a fan. Best part it's real animation. Bring it back
Jonny, not Johnny. Not a real Quest fan.
This cartoon was so good 90s kids didn't care it was made in the 60s 💯
Facts I'm 40 and found this on cartoon network and was instantly hooked, the reboot was really good too
The greatest cartoon EVER!!!
this theme song gives me goose bumps.
Me too!
This theme song forever change the way I hear and perceive music!
@@ATLienForLife it was greatly appreciated the older I have gotten and became a professional bass player for 30 years.
same here
The greatest adventure show of all time a d it just happened to be a cartoon. I was 10 y/ o when it premiered. Laser beams, net packs,anti gravity platforms and a hold over pterodactyl from another time. Did it get any cooler than this? In the immortal words of Dr. Zin " get them they must not escape"
The era in which the series was made had some real-world "whiz-bang stuff" for its day: manned spaceflight (even before you count the Space Race) and a big honkin' aircraft carrier powered by uranium come to mind.
Best Saturday morning entertainment ever …👍🏻