Jonny Quest

1986 revival and telefilms

By the mid-1980s, the edited episodes of Jonny Quest (each episode was missing about five minutes of footage edited for time constraints and content) were part of the syndication package The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. Thirteen new Jonny Quest episodes were produced in 1986 to accompany the originals in the Funtastic World programming block. These episodes (sometimes referred to as The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, but referred to simply as Jonny Quest on their title cards) were noticeably less violent and more ?kid-friendly? than the 1960s originals, and introduced the new characters Hardrock, an ancient man made of stone, and a young girl named Jessie Bradshaw, the daughter of a family friend, as a counterpart for Jonny. Hardrock did not return in any later versions of the program.

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A feature length animated tv-movie, Jonny's Golden Quest, was produced by Hanna-Barbera for the USA Network in 1993, which again pitted the Quest team against Dr. Zin, who murders Jonny?s mother in the film. Jonny?s Golden Quest also retconned Jessie as Race?s young daughter, and she would appear as a character in all subsequent versions of the Jonny Quest property. A second telefilm, Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects, was produced for TNT in 1996, and was promoted as being the final iteration of the ?Classic Jonny Quest?. The original series, which had begun regularly on the Cartoon Network in 1993, was taken off the air in 1996 after a heavily promoted marathon, to make way for a new, revised Quest series.

Related Topics:
USA Network - 1993 - TNT - Cartoon Network

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