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The Best Episodes of Jonny Quest Season 1

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The adventures of the 10-year-old son of a government scientist.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 1 - The Mystery of the Lizard Men
    8.0/10(285 votes)

    #1 - The Mystery of the Lizard Men

    S1:E1

    While investigating the disappearance of multiple ships in the Sargasso Sea, Dr. Quest discovers a secret laser base (operated by a foreign provocateur and protected by lizard-suited scuba divers) hidden aboard an 18th-century shipwreck.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Alex Lovy, William Hanna, Doug Wildey, Joseph Barbera

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  2. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 2 - Arctic Splashdown
    7.3/10(218 votes)

    #2 - Arctic Splashdown

    S1:E2

    A foreign submarine crew races Dr. Quest and his recovery team (aboard an American icebreaker) to a downed experimental missile in the Arctic ice cap.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Walter Black

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  3. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 3 - The Curse of Anubis
    8.2/10(232 votes)

    #3 - The Curse of Anubis

    S1:E3

    A former archaeologist friend-turned Arab nationalist revolutionary named Ahmed Kareem, who is being stalked by a vengeful mummy, attempts to frame Dr. Quest and Race for the theft of a priceless Egyptian artifact.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  4. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 4 - Pursuit of the Po-Ho
    7.5/10(195 votes)

    #4 - Pursuit of the Po-Ho

    S1:E4

    While going to the aid of a captive fellow scientist in the Amazon jungle, Dr. Quest is abducted (for ritual sacrifice) by a tribe of hostile native warriors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  5. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 5 - Riddle of the Gold
    7.4/10(177 votes)

    #5 - Riddle of the Gold

    S1:E5

    While investigating a bar of fake gold from a supposedly exhausted Indian mine, Dr. Quest discovers an alchemist counterfeit ring (conceived by his nemesis, Dr. Zin, and operated from the palace of an impostor Maharaja) that could bring damage to the global financial market.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Herbert Finn

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  6. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 6 - Treasure of the Temple
    7.4/10(172 votes)

    #6 - Treasure of the Temple

    S1:E6

    While on an archaeological expedition to an ancient Mayan city in the Yucatán jungle, Dr. Quest is threatened by a greedy, ruthless British treasure hunter named Perkins and his native confederates, searching for riches in the same ruins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  7. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 7 - Calcutta Adventure
    7.8/10(193 votes)

    #7 - Calcutta Adventure

    S1:E7

    While investigating a mysterious ailment in India, Dr. Quest discovers an underground nerve-gas factory (operated by a criminal mastermind and protected by hazmat-suited guards) hidden high within a remote mountain range.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  8. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 8 - The Robot Spy
    8.6/10(239 votes)

    #8 - The Robot Spy

    S1:E8

    Dr. Zin sends a large, black, cyclopean, four-legged spider-like robot (by a flying saucer-like craft) to a U.S. government research facility in the American Southwest to steal the secrets of a para-power ray gun on which Dr. Quest is working.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  9. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 9 - Double Danger
    7.6/10(173 votes)

    #9 - Double Danger

    S1:E9

    An impostor disguised as Race is infiltrated into Dr. Quest's expedition to gather a rare pharmaceutical plant by Dr. Zin (who covets the plant's potential mind-control properties) in the jungles of Thailand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  10. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 10 - Shadow of the Condor
    8.1/10(178 votes)

    #10 - Shadow of the Condor

    S1:E10

    After an emergency landing in the Andes Mountains, Race is challenged to an aerial dogfight by Baron Heinrich von Frohleich, an old German fighter ace of World War I fame (who keeps a collection of vintage aircraft at his Bavarian-style castle in South America). The Baron's machine guns, however, are loaded — Race's are not.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Hoffman

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  11. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 11 - Skull and Double Crossbones
    7.0/10(151 votes)

    #11 - Skull and Double Crossbones

    S1:E11

    In the Caribbean Sea, a new cook aboard the Quest research vessel betrays his employer to a gang of Mexican pirates (seeking a sunken treasure chest, discovered by Jonny).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  12. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 12 - The Dreadful Doll
    7.1/10(157 votes)

    #12 - The Dreadful Doll

    S1:E12

    While researching marine biology in the Caribbean, Dr. Quest encounters a phony witch doctor, who is protecting a secret submarine base (under construction by a criminal contractor) with his supposed voodoo powers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  13. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 13 - A Small Matter of Pygmies
    7.1/10(157 votes)

    #13 - A Small Matter of Pygmies

    S1:E13

    When the members of his team descend in a plane crash over uncharted jungle territory, Dr. Quest must rescue them (with the help of local authorities) from a tribe of hostile Pygmy warriors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  14. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 14 - Dragons of Ashida
    8.3/10(168 votes)

    #14 - Dragons of Ashida

    S1:E14

    On a visit to Japan, Dr. Quest finds that an old biologist friend (having gone insane) is breeding over-sized carnivorous lizards for the purpose of hunting human prey.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  15. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 15 - Turu the Terrible
    8.0/10(165 votes)

    #15 - Turu the Terrible

    S1:E15

    While searching for a rare strategic mineral in the Amazon jungle, Dr. Quest and Race discover a prehistoric Pteranodon, trained by a wheelchair-bound slave driver to capture and guard native workers needed for his mining operation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  16. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 16 - The Fraudulent Volcano
    7.4/10(143 votes)

    #16 - The Fraudulent Volcano

    S1:E16

    While investigating unusual tremors on a tropical island in the South Pacific, Dr. Quest and Race uncover a secret ray gun base (operated by Dr. Zin and protected by hovercraft-mounted guards) hidden deep within a local volcano.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  17. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 17 - Werewolf of the Timberland
    7.3/10(144 votes)

    #17 - Werewolf of the Timberland

    S1:E17

    While hunting for samples of petrified wood in the Canadian Rockies, Dr. Quest is threatened by a gang of lumberjacks (one of whom disguises himself as a werewolf) intent on protecting their gold-smuggling operation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  18. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 18 - Pirates from Below
    7.2/10(146 votes)

    #18 - Pirates from Below

    S1:E18

    The Quest home compound in Florida is attacked by foreign (submarine-borne) agents, intent on stealing a new undersea crawling vehicle that Dr. Quest is developing for the United States Navy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  19. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 19 - Attack of the Tree People
    6.8/10(144 votes)

    #19 - Attack of the Tree People

    S1:E19

    Jonny and Hadji are marooned (by shipwreck) on the jungle coast of the African continent, where they are adopted by a tribe of friendly brown gorilla-like apes who protect them from a pair of Australian poachers, intent on kidnapping them for ransom. When the poachers managed to abduct Dr. Quest and Race, Jonny and Hadji must persuade to the apes to help rescue them and defeat the poachers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  20. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 20 - The Invisible Monster
    8.6/10(238 votes)

    #20 - The Invisible Monster

    S1:E20

    Dr. Quest responds to the distress signal from a fellow scientist, who has accidentally unleashed an (invisible) energy monster on a South Pacific island.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  21. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 21 - The Devil's Tower
    7.5/10(141 votes)

    #21 - The Devil's Tower

    S1:E21

    While doing atmospheric research in the African savanna, Dr. Quest uncovers an inaccessibly high plateau, populated by prehistoric cavemen, who have been trained as slave laborers for diamond mining by Klaus Heinrich von Dueffel, a Nazi war criminal in hiding.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  22. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 22 - The Quetong Missile Mystery
    8.0/10(151 votes)

    #22 - The Quetong Missile Mystery

    S1:E22

    While investigating the contamination and mutation of marine life in China, Dr. Quest discovers a secret missile base (operated by a rogue general and protected by treetop-posted guards) hidden deep within a local swamp.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William D. Hamilton

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  23. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 23 - The House of Seven Gargoyles
    8.0/10(157 votes)

    #23 - The House of Seven Gargoyles

    S1:E23

    On a visit to the castle residence of a fellow Norwegian scientist, Dr. Quest must help protect his colleague's latest invention (the anti-gravity generator) from a cat-burglar, disguised as one of a row of seven gargoyles on the roof, who regularly breaks into the estate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Hoffman

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  24. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 24 - Terror Island
    7.7/10(150 votes)

    #24 - Terror Island

    S1:E24

    Dr. Quest is kidnapped by a rival scientist who needs help with his experiments to develop gigantic (crab, spider, lizard) creatures at a secret Hong Kong-based laboratory compound.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 25 - Monster in the Monastery
    7.8/10(150 votes)

    #25 - Monster in the Monastery

    S1:E25

    During a trip to Nepal, a band of terrorists disguised as yetis attempt to overthrow the local spiritual/government leader (a Dalai Lama-style figure) who is an old friend of Dr. Quest's.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Hoffman

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Mystery of the Lizard Men" is the best rated episode of "Jonny Quest" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 285 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Alex Lovy, William Hanna, Doug Wildey, Joseph Barbera, it aired on 9/18/1964. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Arctic Splashdown".