Original Air Date—18 September 1964 A foreign power uses the Sargasso Sea to conduct laser experiments and employs “lizard men” to scare away potential interlopers. Jonny Quest — often casually referred to as The Adventures of Jonny Quest — is an American science fiction/adventure animated television series about a boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey. Inspired by radio serials and comics in the action-adventure genre, it featured more realistic art, characters, and stories than Hanna-Barbera’s previous cartoon programs. It was the first of several Hanna-Barbera action-based adventure shows — which would later include Space Ghost, The Herculoids, and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio — and ran on ABC in prime time on early Friday nights for one season in 1964–65. Comic book artist Doug Wildey, after having worked on Cambria Productions’ 1962 animated television series Space Angel, found work at the Hanna-Barbera studio, which asked him to design a series starring the radio drama adventure character Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. Wildey wrote and drew a presentation, using such magazines as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Science Digest “to project what would be happening 10 years hence”, and devising or fancifully updating such devices as a “snowskimmer” and hydrofoils. When Hanna-Barbera could not or would not obtain …
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