In the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young pal Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie, who harbors a big secret. Throughout, Team Quest battles the evil schemes of modern-day alchemist Dr. Zin, who has cloned himself and created an army of mutant reptiles in the Peruvian rain forest. The clash there results in a tragedy that changes Jonny's life forever - and later leads to a worldwide pursuit of Zin that includes examining rare Leonardo da Vinci documents in Paris, exploring the Roman catacombs and a final confrontation in the Australian outback.
Jonny Quest made a big splash on the small screen when Hanna-Barbera introduced the classic animated show in 1964, running for 26 episodes. They brought
Jonny Quest (a.k.a. "
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest") back in 1986, adding 13 more episodes to the original package. Then in 1996 there was a third series,
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, featuring stories set in a CGI-rendered cyberspace world and lasting for two seasons and 52 episodes.
In between the second and third programs, some of the voice cast reunited for Hanna Barbera's 1993 production of
Jonny's Golden Quest, an 87-minute telefilm that aired on the USA Network. Besides returning voice actors Don Messick, Rob Paulsen, Granville Van Dusen, Frank Welker and Jeffrey Tambor, you also heard from JoBeth Williams, B.J. Ward and Will Estes (
Blue Bloods, American Dreams) as "Jonny Quest."
The Warner Archive Collection has now announced that
Jonny's Golden Quest will get a DVD release, as a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) title, starting
August 9th. Priced at $19.95 SRP for a single disc, the story is presented in full frame video and English audio. As usual for Warner Archive titles, it will be available only at the studio's WBshop online store at first, but is expected to be available through Amazon's CreateSpace MOD program after a while. Here's a link to pre-order it from Warner, followed by a small, fuzzy look at the package art:
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