The cover for a VHS collection of episodes from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (also known as Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures) was an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons from 1996 to 1997, and aired on all three major Turner Broadcasting networks (Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT). The program is a spin-off of Hanna-Barbera's classic series Jonny Quest, and features slightly older versions of the same characters and a similar format. Image File history File links The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest This is a video tape cover. ... Image File history File links The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest This is a video tape cover. ... Top view VHS cassette with U.S. Quarter for scale Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed The Video Home System, first released in September 1976, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC (with some... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Stub | Time Warner subsidiaries ... Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. ... TBS Superstation is a popular American cable TV network that shows sports and variety programming. ... The current TNT logo, was used in North America since June 12, 2001 and in Latin America since July 1, 2003 Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is a cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner in 1988. ... Jonny Quest (often referred to as The Adventures of Jonny Quest) was a science fiction animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey, about the adventures of a young boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. ...

Eleven-year old boy hero Jonny Quest is now an adventurous fourteen year old, and more determined to be more active in the adventures his father, noted phenomenologist Dr. Benton Quest, and the family bodyguard, Roger "Race" Bannon, often find themselves involved in. Joining them are Jonny's adopted brother Hadji and Race’s daughter Jessie. As in the original series, the Quest team travels across the globe, encountering strange and unusual adventures, villains, and creatures.

About the show

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest had a notably troubled development process. The program began production in 1992, but faced many setbacks and spent three years in "development hell". The original production team was therefore fired, and two new teams of producers were brought in. John Eng and Cosmo Anzilotti worked with the leftover models from the previous team, which featured an edgier inspiration, so as to get the show on the air by 1996. Meanwhile, Davis Doi and Larry Houston decided to redesign the characters closer to the 1964 Jonny Quest originals. The two versions of the series were originally meant to have been launched separately, but, after the Time Warner-Tuner merger, the Doi/Houston episodes were broadcast as the second season of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest instead of on their own. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Time Warner Inc. ...

The Eng/Anzilotti version of the show (the one present in all merchandising related to the show) is referred to as the "Season One" version, while the Doi/Houston episodes are referred to as the "Season Two" version. However, all fifty-two episodes (twenty-six of each version) were all aired during the 1996-1997 television season, and, while most of the Season One episodes aired first, episodes from the two versions were intermixed as the show went on.

An added element in the "Season One" episodes was the concept of cyberspace. Dr. Quest developed a virtual reality system called "Questworld", which was depicted using three-dimensional computer animation. The rest of the program was created using traditional animation. Cyberspace, a metaphoric abstraction used in philosophy and computing, is a (virtual) reality which represents the Noosphere/World 2 both inside computers and on computer networks. ... Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... Traditional animation, sometimes also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation. ...

Recurring villains in the "Season One" episodes include quadriplegic hacker Jeremiah Surd and prophetic madman Ezekiel Rage. In keeping with the original 1964 feel, the main recurring villains in the "Season Two" episodes are Dr. Zin, the Quest team’s traditional archenemy, and his two daughters. Quadriplegia is caused by damage to the brain or to the spinal cord at a high level (e. ... Hacker is a term used to describe people who create and modify computer software and computer hardware. ...

Fifty-two episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest were eventually produced, and the show is currently in syndication. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ...

References

• The Unnofficial Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures Home Page: FAQ

External links

• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest at the Internet Movie Database
• The Unnofficial Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures Home Page
• Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures at classicjq.com