Jonny Quest is a boy, the son of Dr. Benton Quest, "one of the three top scientists in the world," and apparently something of a Renaissance man; his scientific and technical know-how spans many fields. Mrs. Quest is dead, the apparent victim of one of the many plots against Dr. Quest, and seldom mentioned. These plots made it necessary for Dr. Quest to hire a bodyguard, Roger "Race" Bannon, who guards Jonny and Dr. Quest's apparently adopted second son, an Indian boy named Hadji, who is seldom seen without his jewelled turban and Nehru jacket. The Quests apparently have a compound in the Florida keys, but their adventures can happen anywhere in the world. Jonny's pet is a bulldog named Bandit.
Dr. Quest travels the globe studying scientific mysteries, which get him into scrapes with foes that range from espionage robots and electrical monsters to Egyptian mummies. One occasionally recurring foe is known as Dr. Zin, apparently an Oriental mastermind.
The series aired in prime time through 1965, with Saturday morning reruns from 1967 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter in syndication. A feature length cartoon, Jonny's Golden Quest, was shown on USA Network in 1993. In 1998 a second series was produced for Cartoon Network under the title The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, which featured computer animation and added Race Bannon's daughter, Jessie, who stole much of the limelight from Hadji.
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