8.0/10258 votes#1 - The Mystery of the Lizard Men
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Doug Wildey, Alex Lovy
7.3/10193 votes#2 - Arctic Splashdown
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1964
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
8.2/10212 votes#3 - The Curse of Anubis
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
7.6/10177 votes#4 - Pursuit of the Po-Ho
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.4/10158 votes#5 - Riddle of the Gold
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Herbert Finn
7.4/10155 votes#6 - Treasure of the Temple
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
7.8/10173 votes#7 - Calcutta Adventure
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Joanna Lee
8.6/10214 votes#8 - The Robot Spy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.7/10153 votes#9 - Double Danger
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Joanna Lee
8.1/10159 votes#10 - Shadow of the Condor
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Charles Hoffman
7.0/10136 votes#11 - Skull and Double Crossbones
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
7.2/10140 votes#12 - The Dreadful Doll
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.2/10145 votes#13 - A Small Matter of Pygmies
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
8.3/10154 votes#14 - Dragons of Ashida
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
8.0/10151 votes#15 - Turu the Terrible
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.5/10132 votes#16 - The Fraudulent Volcano
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1964
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.3/10130 votes#17 - Werewolf of the Timberland
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1965
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.2/10134 votes#18 - Pirates from Below
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1965
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
6.8/10133 votes#19 - Attack of the Tree People
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1965
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: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
8.6/10213 votes#20 - The Invisible Monster
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1965
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.5/10129 votes#21 - The Devil's Tower
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1965
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
7.9/10138 votes#22 - The Quetong Missile Mystery
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1965
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: N/A
Writer: William D. Hamilton
8.0/10140 votes#23 - The House of Seven Gargoyles
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1965
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: N/A
Writer: Charles Hoffman
7.8/10135 votes#24 - Terror Island
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1965
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10132 votes#25 - Monster in the Monastery
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1965
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: N/A
Writer: Charles Hoffman
The Best Episodes of Jonny Quest Season 1
Every episode of Jonny Quest Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Jonny Quest Season 1!
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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 258 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Doug Wildey, Alex Lovy, it aired on 9/18/1964. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Arctic Splashdown".