As of July 2026, Jonny Quest Season 1 aired in 1964 with 26 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Jonny Quest Season 1

1964 26 Episodes Action & Adventure · Animation ⭐ 8/10

Jonny Quest Season 1 has built a real following among viewers who do not usually seek out animation. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. A harder one to justify skipping than to start. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Jonny Quest Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Jonny Quest Season 1 treats animation as a medium, not a limitation. Season 1 of Jonny Quest includes 26 episodes. It aired from September 1964 to March 1965. This season stars Tim Matheson, Mike Road and Danny Bravo. Tim Matheson and Mike Road lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1964. The visual gags in Jonny Quest Season 1 reward close attention without ever depending on it. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Jonny Quest Season 1 belongs on any best-of list regardless of format. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Tim Matheson's voice work is a big part of what makes it distinctive. If you have been sleeping on it because of the format, the format is not the thing here.

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🎬 Jonny Quest Season 1 — Episode Guide

The Mystery of the Lizard Men

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.

Arctic Splashdown

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.

The Curse of Anubis

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.

Pursuit of the Po-Ho

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.

Riddle of the Gold

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.

Treasure of the Temple

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.

Calcutta Adventure

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.

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.

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.

Shadow of the Condor

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, ar...

Skull and Double Crossbones

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).

The Dreadful Doll

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.

A Small Matter of Pygmies

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.

Dragons of Ashida

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.

Turu the Terrible

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.

The Fraudulent Volcano

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.

Werewolf of the Timberland

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.

Pirates from Below

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.

Attack of the Tree People

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...

The Invisible Monster

Dr. Quest responds to the distress signal from a fellow scientist, who has accidentally unleashed an (invisible) energy monster on a South Pacific island.

🎭 Cast of Jonny Quest Season 1

Tim Matheson

Jonny Quest (voice)

Mike Road

Race Bannon (voice)

Danny Bravo

Don Messick

Dr. Quest / Bandit (voice)

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