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The Worst Episodes of Jonny Quest

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The Worst Episodes of Jonny Quest

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

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  1. Background image for Attack of the Tree People
    6.8/10(137 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for Skull and Double Crossbones
    7.0/10(142 votes)

    #2 - 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).

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Dreadful Doll
    7.1/10(145 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. Background image for A Small Matter of Pygmies
    7.2/10(149 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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  5. Background image for Pirates from Below
    7.2/10(137 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  6. Background image for Arctic Splashdown
    7.3/10(205 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for Werewolf of the Timberland
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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  9. Background image for Riddle of the Gold
    7.4/10(165 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for Treasure of the Temple
    7.4/10(163 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Fraudulent Volcano
    7.4/10(135 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. Background image for Pursuit of the Po-Ho
    7.5/10(185 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for The Devil's Tower
    7.5/10(133 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for Double Danger
    7.6/10(160 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joanna Lee
  15. Background image for The Sea Haunt
    7.6/10(131 votes)

    #14 - The Sea Haunt

    S1:E26

    Responding to a maritime distress signal in the Java Sea (east of Indonesia), the Quest group is stranded aboard an abandoned freighter ship with an (amphibious) sea monster.

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for Calcutta Adventure
    7.8/10(180 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joanna Lee
  17. Background image for Terror Island
    7.8/10(142 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Monster in the Monastery
    7.8/10(140 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Mystery of the Lizard Men
    7.9/10(271 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for The Quetong Missile Mystery
    7.9/10(143 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. Background image for Turu the Terrible
    8.0/10(155 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for The House of Seven Gargoyles
    8.0/10(148 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Shadow of the Condor
    8.1/10(169 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Curse of Anubis
    8.2/10(220 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Dragons of Ashida
    8.2/10(157 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Robot Spy
    8.6/10(223 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Attack of the Tree People" is the worst rated episode of "Jonny Quest". It scored 6.8/10 based on 137 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Walter Black, it aired on 1/21/1965. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Skull and Double Crossbones".