Calcutta Adventure
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Distributor
- Columbia/Screen Gems
Synopsis
In India to demonstrate a new sonic beam device, Dr. Quest is asked to investigate reports of local citizens becoming sick from what appears to be nerve gas poisoning. (This episode details how Hadji became part of the Quest clan.)
Characters
Roger T. "Race" Bannon, Jonny Quest, Bandit, Hadji, Kronick, Pasha Peddler, Dying Lab Man
Credits
Directing
- Director
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Producing
- Producer
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Writing
- Writer
- Joanna Lee
- Story Direction
- Alex Lovy
- Story Supervision
- Arthur Pierson
Voices
- Voice
- Mike Road (Roger T. "Race" Bannon), Tim Matheson (as Tim Matthieson) (Jonny Quest), Don Messick (Bandit), Danny Bravo (Hadji), Vic Perrin (Kronick), Jesse White (Pasha Peddler), Doug Young (Dying Lab Man), Tol Avery, Daws Butler, Henry Corden, Sam Edwards, Will Kuluva, Cathy Lewis, Keye Luke, Marvin Miller, Pat O'Malley, Nestor Paiva, Everett Sloane, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, Sandy Wormser
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin (Music Director)
Animation
- Animator
- Carlo Vinci, Don Petterson, Anatole Kirsanoff, Jerry Hathcock
- Animation Direction
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Editing
- Editor
- Warner Leighton, Donald A. Douglas, Ken Spears, Ed Warschilka, Larry Cowan
- Supervising Film Editor
- Tony Milch
Crew
- Supervising Art Director
- Doug Wildey
- Based On An Idea By
- Doug Wildey
- Character Design
- Alex Toth
- Layouts
- Bill Perez, Tony Sgroi
- Backgrounds
- F. Montealegre, Richard H. Thomas
- Production Supervision
- Howard Hanson
- Technical Supervisor
- Frank Paiker
- Ink And Paint Supervisor
- Roberta Greutert
- Continuity
- Marceil Ferguson, Evelyn Sherwood, Annie Lee Holm, Jane Phillippi, Joyce Gard, Woody Chatwood, Jan Gusdavidson, Myke Nelson, Elizabeth MacGowan, Christine Decker, Natalie Yates, Joan Orbison, Ted C. Bemiller
- Camera
- Charles Flekal, Norman Stainback, Bob Collis, Roy Wade, Eugene Borghi
- Sound Direction
- Buddy Myers
Companies and other credits
- © MCMLXIV Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
- A
- HANNA-BARBERA
- PRODUCTION
Production notes
First scheduled to air on ABC October 16, 1964.
Repeated on ABC July 1, 1965.
Jonny Quest is one of the longest running Saturday morning cartoon shows of all time, alongside such mainstays as Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert. Unlike Scoob and Al, however, only a mere 26 episodes were produced of the original Jonny Quest.
The show was an adventure series about pre-teen Jonny Quest, who, along with mystical Indian friend Hadji, pet dog Bandit, Jonny's super-scientist father Dr. Benton Quest, and government intelligence agent/bodyguard/pilot Race Bannon, investigated strange goings-on all over the world. Episodes of Jonny Quest blended mystery, adventure, action, intrigue, scientific marvels, and humor as the group traveled everywhere from the Sargasso Sea to equatorial Africa.
Jonny Quest originally ran in primetime on ABC during the 1964-65 season, but much like Hanna-Barbera predecessor The Jetsons, the program didn't find success until it moved to Saturday morning. When it hit, it hit big. Jonny Quest ran on CBS from 1967-1970, then back to ABC through 1972. In 1978, the program became part of The Godzilla Power Hour, and in 1979, Jonny Quest moved to NBC, where it stayed until 1981. All that milage on twenty-six original episodes- pretty impressive.
Hanna-Barbera rebooted the character in 1986 in The New Jonny Quest, a segment on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. This lasted thirteen episodes.
In 1996, the Turner Company released an updated, all-new series entitled Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures. This new series featured an additional character in Jessie Bannon, the daughter of Race, and made extensive use of computer animation.
Repeated on ABC July 1, 1965.
Jonny Quest is one of the longest running Saturday morning cartoon shows of all time, alongside such mainstays as Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert. Unlike Scoob and Al, however, only a mere 26 episodes were produced of the original Jonny Quest.
The show was an adventure series about pre-teen Jonny Quest, who, along with mystical Indian friend Hadji, pet dog Bandit, Jonny's super-scientist father Dr. Benton Quest, and government intelligence agent/bodyguard/pilot Race Bannon, investigated strange goings-on all over the world. Episodes of Jonny Quest blended mystery, adventure, action, intrigue, scientific marvels, and humor as the group traveled everywhere from the Sargasso Sea to equatorial Africa.
Jonny Quest originally ran in primetime on ABC during the 1964-65 season, but much like Hanna-Barbera predecessor The Jetsons, the program didn't find success until it moved to Saturday morning. When it hit, it hit big. Jonny Quest ran on CBS from 1967-1970, then back to ABC through 1972. In 1978, the program became part of The Godzilla Power Hour, and in 1979, Jonny Quest moved to NBC, where it stayed until 1981. All that milage on twenty-six original episodes- pretty impressive.
Hanna-Barbera rebooted the character in 1986 in The New Jonny Quest, a segment on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. This lasted thirteen episodes.
In 1996, the Turner Company released an updated, all-new series entitled Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures. This new series featured an additional character in Jessie Bannon, the daughter of Race, and made extensive use of computer animation.
Reviews
Calcutta Adventure
One of my faveorite episodes as a kid. "The One Where They Get Hadji" as we called it. Fun locales, Simple and tight story line, bombastic characters (Jesse White as Pasha Peddler is great)and just plain "cool" uniforms on the bad-guys. Recommended viewing.