The New Adventures of Jonny Quest

The New Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and a continuation of the 1964–65 television series Jonny Quest. It debuted in 1986 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera syndication package, being the seventh and final Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the four and a half weekday/weekend morning line-up. While it is a continuation, the series can be seen as the second season to the original series.

Plot
This series features Dr. Quest and his group as they go on adventures while thwarting different villains, such as the mad scientist Dr. Zin. Some episodes had a stone man named Hardrock as their ally.

Main

 * Scott Menville as Jonny Quest
 * Don Messick as Dr. Benton Quest, Bandit
 * Rob Paulsen as Hadji
 * Vic Perrin as Dr. Zin (3 episodes)
 * Jeffrey Tambor as Hardrock (7 episodes)
 * Granville Van Dusen as Race Bannon

Additional cast

 * René Auberjonois as Mr. Peters in "Vikong Lives"
 * Michael Bell as Dr. Phorbus in "Peril of the Reptilian"
 * Candy Brown
 * Howard Caine
 * Roger C. Carmel as Baksheesh in "Nightmare in Steel"
 * Peter Cullen as Patch in "Peril of the Reptilian"
 * Jennifer Darling
 * Barry Dennen
 * Richard Erdman
 * Bernard Erhard
 * Dick Gautier
 * Ernest Harada
 * Dorian Harewood
 * Darryl Hickman
 * Georgi Irene as Jessie Bradshaw in "Deadly Junket"
 * Aron Kincaid
 * Ruth Kobart
 * Keye Luke as Fake Elder in "Secret of the Clay Warriors"
 * Allan Lurie
 * Scott McGowan
 * Soon-Tek Oh
 * Andre Stojka as Simon in "Peril of the Reptilian"
 * George Takei as Chin in "Secret of the Clay Warriors"
 * Les Tremayne as Sheik Abu Saddi in "Nightmare in Steel"
 * B.J. Ward as CAP in "The Scourge of Skyborg"
 * Frank Welker as Vikong in "Vikong Lives", Remy in "Vikong Lives"
 * Stan Wojno
 * Keone Young

Production and history
In the late 1970s, Hanna-Barbera produced concept art for a new series entitled Young Dr. Quest: The Adventures of Jon Quest, featuring an older Jonny, Hadji, and an adopted Japanese girl. They would be accompanied by pets Bandit II and Oboe (an unspecified species of monkey), and receive support from Benton Quest and Race Bannon at times (with Race having since married Jade). According to Disney historian Jim Korkis, Doug Wildey later pitched the concept as simply named Young Dr. Quest to Joseph Barbera, featuring Jonny as a 22-year old MIT graduate going on adventure with Race and Hadji.

By the mid-1980s, the edited episodes of the original Jonny Quest series (each episode was missing about five minutes of footage edited for time constraints and content) were part of The Funtastic World's second season lineup, alongside Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Paw Paws and Galtar and the Golden Lance. Thirteen episodes were produced in 1986 to accompany the original in the Funtastic World programming block. These episodes were referred to simply as Jonny Quest on their title cards, and were noticeably less violent and more “kid-friendly” than the 1960s version.

This was followed by two television films, Jonny's Golden Quest in 1993 and Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects in 1995, with Don Messick, Granville Van Dusen and Rob Paulsen voicing Dr. Quest, Race and Hadji. The 1980s Quest series introduced a new character named Hardrock, an ancient man made of stone. He did not return in later versions of the program.

Home media
On April 8, 2014, Warner Archive released Jonny Quest: The Complete Eighties Adventures on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.