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RE “That’s about right when I remember it...I would have been 6 or 7 when I first became aware of that show (Jonny Quest) , Saturday mornings.
LOVED the robot spy episode with the giant walking robot “spider” - and “The Curse of Anubis” with the mummy.
The Invisible monster was a good one too - where they slammed it with paint to make it visible - and the jet packs. Wild stuff for a little boy - absolutely loved it.”

I have seen them all more than 100 times in the past ~ 48 years since they were first shown on prime time TV, and a about a year ago I watched them all again on Boomerang, I set the DVR to capture the series.

That 1960s adventure cartoon has the most exciting and fun TV show theme opening (sound and scenes) that I have ever seen. It has the most exciting opening theme music with the best looking scenes of the show all clipped together.

And if you recall the show closing with the same music includes a scene or two that is not part of any of the actual shows(I first noticed this as a kid), where they escape a bunch of African looking (Tarzan type) natives in the jungle by running to and flying off in the famous Quest Jet.

I read someplace that that one scene was made to pilot the series to the TV network.

Jonny Quest show intro/theme opening

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If you watch that original show opening at the link I posted at the end of it they introduce the cartoon show’s characters exactly as if they were introducing a (non-cartoon’s) TV’s shows character's actors.

As I said at about 5 or 6 I actually thought it was real TV show with actors until my mother told me it was just a cartoon. That did not happen with any other cartoon.

If you recall on Saturdays + Sundays late 60s there was a H-B show called the Banana Splits (also replayed on Boomerang) that featured some of the HB adventure cartoon episodes.

I loved (HB cartoons)Space Ghost at the time, and the Herculoids

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