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The disc are easy to use. The quality of the images is superb. I never thought I would ever be able to see all the episodes. The music makes the show. I am 59 years old and this transports me back to much younger days. I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This has always been my favorite cartoon and to me, possibly the best ever made. If you've seen even one episode you might already know how good this cartoon was. There were only 26 episodes, after which ABC cancelled the series due to the high cost of producing each one. The art quality, writing, and stories were always top-notch, probably because the veteran 1950's - '60's comic book artist Doug Wildey was on board to design the characters. The animation was a compromise between realism and economy, since every episode was expensive enough to begin with. But the art was uncompromising and always stunning. The villains in the story were always not only evil evil evil but sometimes borderline bizarre, featuring former Nazi war criminals, mad scientists, bizarre creatures, amazing technology even a killer Pteranadon in "Turu the Terrible". and for a TV show produced waaay back in 1964 there was still plenty of foreshadowing of the tech we now take for granted - everything from ridiculously large cell-phones, to personal computers and VTOL aircraft (still waiting on them jet-packs) . Good and evil are sharply defined using the standards of the day; bad guys are way bad and won't think twice about tossing a defiant henchman to be devoured by komodo dragons; and the good guys always did the right thing, even if they had to use gun-play and karate to do it. And in those days before real TV censorship, the violence was would be considered extreme by modern censorship standards: in other words the characters literally pulled no punches and the violence was at an adult level. Anyway, now i can see all episodes transferred from the original film to DVD - unfortunately some scratching of the film is evident but that probably couldn't be helped. And if you like this classic cartoon as much as I do, there's nothing like owning the DVD, so you can enjoy them all over again.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Revisiting this series, which I hadn't seen since the mid-1960s, has been great. In senior years, I am better able to appreciate the artistry, the storytelling, and the overall quality of the animation. Outstanding, for that decade and the present. There is substance, solid values. The uses of line and color are excellent. The voices, superb. Confined to audio, the performance of veteran actors like Nestor Paiva comes across in stark contrast to the way I reacted to his on-screen appearances, years ago. I took scant notice then, although I found his characters believable. Now, I am awed by the versatility. All of the cast, impressive. Indeed, the series is far superior to other Hanna-Barbera products of the period. "Scooby Do" was past silly. Zero intellectual content. In that regard, "Jonny Quest" was ahead of its time. All I can say is, welcome back!Read full review
My wife and I like to try and watch TV with our son as much as possible. There is only so much Disney channel one can stand. So when we found out that Jonny Quest was available on DVD, it was a must have. It is important to note, for collectors, that these episodes are edited both in content (to make them more politically correct) and in titles (the original opening and ending titles are not used due to their action [read: violent] content). They are still very entertaining.
It's great to own a TV program I grew up watching as a boy. Eager to show it to my boys (35 and 39) and to the grandkids. The only thing that prevented that fifth star was the censoring done by the political correctness police. Our generation produced a pretty good crop of adults. Sorry to see busy-bodies fussing around like that, thinking we were so bad. Service was top-notch. Quality product otherwise.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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