- 7.9/1054 votes
#1 - The Darkest Fathoms
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1996
Centuries ago, ruthless pirate Black Jack Lee rode The Ivory Web to the Bermuda sea floor. When oil explorers are assaulted by a ghost ship under his apparent captaincy, Dr. Quest prepares the Questor for an investigation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence, Harv Zimmel
- 7.9/1045 votes
#2 - Escape to Questworld
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/1996
Race is hired to contain a nerve gas leak in Chicago, the legacy of a botched raid on Dr. Jeremiah Surd years earlier. When he and Dr. Quest are trapped, it's up to Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji to find the renegade scientist.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Richard Merwin
- 7.1/1036 votes
#3 - In the Realm of the Condor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/28/1996
The Quest team follows Estella Scheele to find her missing ornithologist grandfather, and ends up finding the lost golden city of El Dorado.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence
- 7.4/1033 votes
#4 - Rage's Burning Wheel
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/29/1996
When Ezekiel Rage hijacks a space shuttle commanded by Dr. Quest and Hadji, Jonny and Jessie must stop Rage's minions who have taken over Mission Control.
Director: N/A
Writer: Glenn Leopold, Michael Ryan
- 7.0/1035 votes
#5 - Ndovu's Last Journey
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/30/1996
Jonny, Jessie and Hadji track an elephant, Ndovu, as it returns to the elephants' graveyard. They bump into poachers on the way there, who are determined to kill Ndovu right away.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence
- 6.7/1032 votes
#6 - Manhattan Maneater
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/1996
A tiger is loose in the Big Apple, and the Quest team must track it down, through subway tunnels, located underground.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Richard T. Murphy
- 7.2/1031 votes
#7 - East of Zanzibar
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/1996
The Quest Team enjoy a trip to the Indian Ocean to discover if there are really sea monsters roaming the seas, leading to multiple mysterious ship disappearances in the Seychelles.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence
- 7.6/1036 votes
#8 - Assault on Questworld
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/4/1996
With Benton Quest and Race Bannon attending a phenomenology conference in the Himalayas, Jonny and Jessie are forced to impersonate their fathers in Questworld when Jeremiah Surd launches a two-pronged attack on the Quest compound - and Hadji's mind.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham
- 7.6/1032 votes
#9 - Ezekiel Rage
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/5/1996
A man named Ezekiel Rage seeks vengeance because of the tragic loss of his family in a covert operation when he was a government agent. And the Quest Team gets in his way...
Director: N/A
Writer: Glenn Leopold, Matthew Malach
- 7.2/1029 votes
#10 - Alien in Washington
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/6/1996
Extraterrestrial transmissions turn out to be warnings to stop a series of space experiments, and the Vice President turns out to be an alien.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence, Matthew Malach
- 8.0/1028 votes
#11 - Return of the Anasazi
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/9/1996
Holding an Anasazi beacon capable of calling the alien fathers of current technology, Alice Starseer is pursued by men in black and asks Dr. Quest for help, whose capture provokes a cross-country rescue by Jonny and Jessie.
Director: N/A
Writer: Glenn Leopold, Matthew Malach
- 7.7/1031 votes
#12 - The Alchemist
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/10/1996
Dr. Quest is commissioned to find the Philosopher's Stone, which is reputed to turn dross to gold. When he succeeds in capturing the object, he donates it to the museum. It is stolen by Quest's partner, who wants to try it out for himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence, Kip Konwiser
- 7.0/1028 votes
#13 - Trouble on the Colorado
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/11/1996
Alice Starseer returns to Earth to lay her grandfather to rest. But Jeremiah Surd is determined to find out what she's learned.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham
- 7.2/1023 votes
#14 - In the Wake of Mary Celeste
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/12/1996
A century ago, the cargo ship Mary Celeste sank under mysterious circumstances. While on an expedition to find the Mary Celeste's remains, Dr Quest discovers what look like crop circles at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea--and a graveyard of ships in an area barren of marine life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Trengove
- 6.9/1029 votes
#15 - AMOK
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/13/1996
On an archaeological expedition in Borneo, the Quest team run into a giant creature, reputed to savagely attack from all directions at the same time.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham
- 6.8/1025 votes
#16 - Besieged in Paradise
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/16/1996
Jeremiah Surd taps into and gains control of the cetacean communications internet, prodding cetaceans worldwide into savage attacks; the Quest team enlists the help of Captain Havell to stop his plan.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham
- 7.2/1025 votes
#17 - The Spectre of the Pine Barrens
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/17/1996
Dr. Quest, Jonny and Hadji head to New Jersey to investigate the Jersey Devil. Then they run into a two-hundred-year-old feud between descendants of the Redcoats and the Minutemen over the original copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Malach
- 7.8/1032 votes
#18 - Heroes
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/18/1996
Surd lures Jonny into a labyrinth of horrors, after stealing the Apollo statue, which was reassembled by Dr. Quest.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence, Matthew Malach
- 7.9/1024 votes
#19 - The Ballad of Belle Bonnet
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/19/1996
In the Old West, the thief Belle Bonnet stole a wagonload of gold to help an Indian school stay open, but both thief and gold were lost in vast caverns under the American desert—until the Quests took the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Will Jarvis
- 7.1/1025 votes
#20 - In the Darkness of the Moon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/23/1996
A werewolf attack in the Yukon brings a Quest team investigation to the home of a humanitarian doctor; the light of the moon illuminates both danger and mystery as the hunt begins.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Michael Maurer
- 8.4/1035 votes
#21 - The Secret of the MOAI
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/24/1996
A missing link is found in an alien spaceship that landed on Easter Island. But when Dr. Quest and Race enter Questworld to investigate what they've found, they run into Jeremiah Surd - who wants to experiment with human de-evolution.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, John Pelinski
- 8.7/1029 votes
#22 - Expedition to Khumbu
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/25/1996
Dr. Quest is missing while on an expedition to find the Yeti. Jonny and his friends head to the Himalayas to find him, but run into another scientist who's determined to bring back the Yeti.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Harv Zimmel
- 7.5/1022 votes
#23 - Ice Will Burn
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/26/1996
While trying to reach Northern Siberia to backup the Quest Team, her plane crashes and she discovers a colony of ancient Russians underground.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ryan, Peter Lawrence, Ben Schwartz
- 7.5/1021 votes
#24 - Future Rage
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/29/1996
Ezekiel Rage steals a compact nuclear device and plans to blow up the polar ice caps. The Aurora Borealis holds the key to stopping him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Glenn Leopold, Michael Ryan, Dean Caccomo
- 7.4/1021 votes
#25 - Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/1/1996
The Quest Team discovers that criminals were using Alligators to break into a drilling factory in the Florida Everglades when they were investigating the case using an ornate Viking Sword that the Alligators left behind.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lawrence, Ben Schwartz
The Best Episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Season 1
Every episode of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Season 1!
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimation
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Darkest Fathoms" is the best rated episode of "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 54 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Peter Lawrence, Harv Zimmel, it aired on 8/26/1996. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Escape to Questworld".