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Jonny Quest: Season One (Repackaged/DVD)
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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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May 9, 2014 "Please retry" | — | 2 |
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Genre | Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction |
Format | DVD, NTSC |
Contributor | Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo, Joseph Barbera, Mike Rhode, Charles Nichols, William Hanna |
Number Of Discs | 3 |
Runtime | 266 minutes |
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Product Description
Jonny Quest: Season One (Repackaged/DVD) Preteen Jonny Quest, the son of a renowned scientist, is a bold and brainy kid whose life is filled with intrigue, espionage, and nonstop excitement.
Product details
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.16 ounces
- Media Format : DVD, NTSC
- Run time : 266 minutes
- Release date : June 6, 2017
- Actors : Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Mike Rhode, Danny Bravo
- Dubbed: : English
- Producers : Charles Nichols, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B06Y3FNMQV
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,489 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #268 in Fantasy DVDs
- #425 in Science Fiction DVDs
- #1,951 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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There's no extras, commentary, or anything of that sort (which would have been appreciated) but that's fine. I've already watched all 26 episodes twice in the few days I've had the set, and they'll get watched again and again. It really does take me back to the early '70s and some awesome childhood memories.
I am glad they don't seem to have mucked about with the content, there's some stuff that you wouldn't see in today's woke atmosphere (Jonny using a rifle, some stereotypical bad guys of stereotypical ethnicities, and all cast members appear to be cis gendered).
So, yes, I do heartily recommend this set of DVDs. Hours of enjoyment for a few dollars. If you're an original JQ fan, order this today!
Jonny Quest was made in the early 1960s; the greatest years of american civilization. The tailfin years. The world of Jonny Quest is a world filled with super technology; they all have special secret agent gadgets, hovercrafts are how scientists get around land, they fly around in a supersonic jet; everything is tailfinned and jet powered. America had just conquered the atom and beat the stuffings out of the Nazis a mere 19 years before, and had turned the Empire of Japan into the empire of nice cameras and Godzilla movies. It was the time of the first generation of supersonic jet aircraft; every barrier that nature put up seemed breakable. This was the apex of the machine age. The age of optimism that built the Saturn-5 rocket that took americans to the moon. It was the age of chrome grilles and preposterous consumer items like 500 horsepower Plymouth Max Wedge engines.
The Johnny Quest adventures happen in the wilds of the world. To the western mind of the early 1960s, there were still wild lands where one could experience high adventure. Places with poisonous snakes, quicksand, animated mummies, villains in submarines, booby-trapped ivy-covered hidden temples, levitating hindus and bone-through-the-nose cannibals. Places like Bali might as well have been the dark side of the moon to an american in those days. This is completely bizarre to modern sensibilities, but it is quite true. Even in the early 1970s, being able to make a few minutes telephone call from Vietnam to America was insanely difficult. Getting to Yemen was still an adventure; people actually wrote adventure travel books which simply involved going some place weird and far away.
The animation is shockingly good. Apparently, this wildly popular show had to be canceled because the production quality was too high: it simply couldn't make enough money to justify itself. This is too bad, as amortized over its lifetime, I am sure it more than paid for itself. But people didn't have the concept of using films like high yield bonds the way the studios do now a days. Those were more innocent times, indeed.
One of the more interesting things about this show is Hadji. Hadji was the first serious kids show character in america who was from another culture. I remember being very confused why it wasn't called the "Hadji and Race Bannon show" -they were more interesting and sympathetic characters than Johnny Quest (who was the type of oafish kid who would give me noogies when I was younger) and Dr Benton Quest (who was a helpless wimp, really, always getting into trouble). Hadji by contrast was very well educated, and extremely composed. Not only that, but he was simply a lot smarter than Johnny. Plus he could do magic tricks, which was awesome. Since I was young when I watched this show, I identified best with Hadji. I wanted to be a sikh or a hindu or whatever he was supposed to be, so I could levitate, jump around magic jars, and pick bones out of dogs ears. Apparently, Hadji is the american soldier nickname for natives of Afghanistan and Iraq. All things considered, it seems to be a high compliment.
Race Bannon was also a great character. Back in those days, a hero could have grey hair. George Clooney aside, that doesn't exist any more. Now the hero has to have striations on their abdomens. While Dr. Quest was supposed to be the smart one, it was generally Race Bannon who knew important stuff, like what the Sargasso sea was all about, how to do judo throws, or how not to get kidnapped. I never quite figured out who Race was supposed to be, but I knew he was bad to the bone. Upon re-watching the show as an adult, I realize he was a CIA man; spies were often considered universal men in the early 1960s. He was an american James Bond sent to look after the hapless Dr. Quest and his high spirited lad.
I see this show (recently rereleased) as a sort of last ultimate embodiment of a certain kind of adventure entertainment. Men's adventure magazines died around the time Johnny Quest died; they were cut of the same cloth. Early Dr. Who was something similar, though it was more British; a kids adventure show that teaches a bit of history and geography. It's fortunate such things still exist in video form; they embody something which is really great. Will you be offended by its anachronisms? I suppose many people who calibrate their exquisitely sensitive moral barometers with a protractor made from recycled tofu, a straight edged icon with Germaine Greer's photograph in it, graph paper and a copy of the New York Times Editorial section will be offended. But such people are born to be offended. Those folks miss out on many of the great things in Western culture, like Mr. Moto movies, and the fact that they don't live next door to cannibals. I think modern kids will love it. It's not jaded, or wretched and denatured like modern kids entertainments; just wholesome adventuring.
I received this today and quickly spot-checked in a bunch of places, and I'm happy to report that, as far as I can tell, this set fixed all of the major issues from the older DVD release.
* It has the commercial bumpers.
* It has the "Jonny Quest, brought to you by:" outro before the title card.
* Doug Wildey is represented in the credits; I don't have a way to verify the credits are 100% accurate now, but they seem better. I leave the task of stringently verifying this to someone else.
* Full progressive-frame image quality, stored on-disk as 1080p (not stored as the 480i 'SD Blu-ray' format a lot of older animation blurays use, because these disks actually have HD content). That also means no interlacing-effect (aka "combing", "mice teeth", or "saw teeth") to be seen!
* No random, silent title cards (I'm looking at you, Pursuit of the Po-Ho).
And, last but certainly not least:
* "Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series is presented as originally aired. It is intended for the adult collector and may not be suitable for children." Meaning: this set has your ignorant savages, my heathen monkeys, and everyone's Oriental Express!
Additionally, I don't see any evidence of this simply being upscaled DVD content; there are none of the tell-tale signs of the video having been run through a sharpening filter or anything like that. It seems to have been scanned from the source material in high-def, which means that if you chose to have your player apply any sharpening, it should work beautifully (seriously, you should try it). There is subtle a film-grain effect, which *could* have been added artificially, but I doubt it; I think it's actually from the source material.
In short, the video quality looks great, especially when you consider that we're talking about a cartoon from 55 years ago (1964)!
Nitpicky stuff that you might notice, but isn't all that important:
* The missing splash sound effect before "ignorant savages" is still, well, missing. Sorry if you wouldn't have noticed that otherwise.
* The artwork on the disks themselves is all the same image instead of being unique-per-disk like the DVD set had. Not a big deal, especially considering they only had 3 disks to work with, which makes it hard to come up with an appropriate disk art theme.
* The extra features seem to be the same as from the DVD set, if my memory serves me correctly.
* In Monster in the Monastery, the "Quiet, boy!" line to Bandit that got strangely inserted in the DVD release (forcing a de-sync between Hadji's animation and spoken lines) is still present. This one is just weird, as I can't imagine why they would add this line when the original broadcast didn't have it.
In summary, this set is definitely worth it if you're a fan of the series. The content itself looks great, full stop. Physically, this set is less of a "presentation piece" than the DVDs were: the box, the disks, and the insert are very run-of-the-mill. A little less love went into the physical aspects, but a lot less "tampering" happened to the actual content. I'm more than OK with that trade-off, and I think you will be, too.
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Pongo 5 estrellas porque el vendedor se portó muy bien y el envío fue rápido.