The Essential JONNY QUEST

[beamjockey]

In discussing Roger Evans's brilliant, if somewhat obsessive, stop-motion recreation of the opening credit sequence from Jonny Quest, it was learned that there are individuals who have never seen Jonny Quest at all.

Your challenge: Which, let's say two, episodes of the show would you recommend to someone who had never seen it?

To assist with your homework, some references:

Jonny Quest episode guide.

Wikipedia entry on the series.

IMDB episode guide

The original cel-animated opening which inspired Mr. Evans:

Comments

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you for both. Answer: any two, because, regardless, the person will then want to watch them all.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

First, I'd only recommend episodes from the original run. While some of the '86 episode were interesting, I wouldn't start someone with them

It'd Pic:

"Mystery of the Lizard Men" - Cause it's the first episode and is a good story.

"The Robot Spy" - An quintessential Dr. Zin episode.

[seawasp]

"The Invisible Monster" and "The Robot Spy". I never saw any of the 1986 seasons, though I did see the later reboot, which had some really bad and really good points (first season bad, second season good, mostly).

[seawasp]

I should add that Mr. Evans has no life.

His version of the giant killer lizards somehow made them cute!

[vnend.livejournal.com]

Season 1, Episode 8: The Robot Spy
Original Air Date—6 November 1964
As Dr. Quest works on an revolutionary new weapon, Dr. Zin sends an advanced and unstoppable spider-like robot to examine it.

Season 1, Episode 15: Turu the Terrible

Though "Season 1, Episode 1: The Mystery of the Lizard Men" could replace Turu.

But, yeah, The Robot Spy is the episode that I bought the collection for. :-)

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

For plane buffs I would say "Shadow of the Condor."

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I saw any Quest on it's 1st run, I think I had much better things to do on Friday nights.

[seawasp]

I was too young to remember watching it on first run. I ate it up on reruns, though. Bought the box set when it came out.

[grey-lensman.livejournal.com]

I'd also go with "Invisible Monster" and "Robot Spy". It's tough to find 2 episodes that catch all the themes of the first series, but those two are my favorites...

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

"Testicular Torsion"

Oh wait, wrong cartoon.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

"The Robot Spy"

"The Invisible Monster"

[bad2goodgal.livejournal.com]

It only ran one season??? Wow - I remember them as being long running. I must've just really liked them.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

They were re-run over and over and over again for decades.

[mrs-sweetpeach.livejournal.com]

That's for sure. When I was in college one of the stations began showing them at 1:00 p.m. and I'd rush home (probably from work, because I think this was Saturday) to watch it with my boyfriend.

I still LOVE that theme music.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

When Mr. Barbera died in 2006, the pallbearers took his casket past the same rocks and trees, over and over and over again.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

One of my brothers (who you've never met) really loved that show. But I must confess that my recollection was that none of the episodes lived up to those wonderful openning credits.