Ace Goodheart
08-27-2006, 12:50 AM
After 4 years in the making and plenty of promotion and preparation during the summer of '96 (such as marathons of the original '60s series and teasers throughout TNT, TBS & Cartoon Network), the heavily-hyped "Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures" debuted on the week of August 26, 1996 on all 3 Turner networks and was re-ran often that same week.
On the day of its premiere, Cartoon Network had a "countdown" bug on the corner of its screen counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until the premiere of the show that night at 8:00PM. Something else you don't see on CN anymore.
The series appeared to be a success, but it was troubled by many problems behind-the-scenes (the show had been in the works since the early '90's and went through many changes, personnel among one of them) and was canceled after its two seasons were finished (each of the two seasons being quite different and originally meant to be two separate JQ shows). The last episode incidentally aired one day before "Toonami" premiered, and the show would go on from the next day forward to be a staple on the then-young Toonami for the following two years, having its 52 episodes re-ran back to back. Many had grown annoyed and tired of the show and its re-runs which was one of the main factors behinf the famous "Reruns" speech by Toonami's then-host Moltar and the show being banished from Toonami on September 25, 1999. I believe it languished in CN for awhile before it was too banished from there.
I've read that the show had (or is) airing in syndication via "The Program Exchange" company (the same company that has brought us "Rocky & Bullwinkle" to both Cartoon Network & Boomerang and will soon bring "Garfield" to Boomerang next month. :) ), but I haven't seen the show since it got banished from Toonami, or outside of Turner's networks for that matter. Is it indeed in syndication somewhere out there?
With that said, the time is ripe for the show to come to Boomerang if it hadn't made an apperance on it yet. Every other piece of Jonny Quest programming has aired on Boomerang to date, and the show (as if it matters, seeing as we've got BABY LOONEY TUNES) is a decade old now and would fit nicely in the "Boomeraction" block (or what's left of it).
This show also has the distinction of probably being the last show to really be produced by the Hanna-Barbera of the '50's-'early '90's, before they mutated and became a part of the current "Cartoon Network Studios", and the last cartoon targeted to more than one Turner network (TBS, TNT & Cartoon Network), as the former two ceased airing cartoons in 1998 and CN became the exclusive home to Turner's library of cartoons.
Happy 10th Birthday! (Especially to you, Jesse Bannon. ;) )
On the day of its premiere, Cartoon Network had a "countdown" bug on the corner of its screen counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until the premiere of the show that night at 8:00PM. Something else you don't see on CN anymore.
The series appeared to be a success, but it was troubled by many problems behind-the-scenes (the show had been in the works since the early '90's and went through many changes, personnel among one of them) and was canceled after its two seasons were finished (each of the two seasons being quite different and originally meant to be two separate JQ shows). The last episode incidentally aired one day before "Toonami" premiered, and the show would go on from the next day forward to be a staple on the then-young Toonami for the following two years, having its 52 episodes re-ran back to back. Many had grown annoyed and tired of the show and its re-runs which was one of the main factors behinf the famous "Reruns" speech by Toonami's then-host Moltar and the show being banished from Toonami on September 25, 1999. I believe it languished in CN for awhile before it was too banished from there.
I've read that the show had (or is) airing in syndication via "The Program Exchange" company (the same company that has brought us "Rocky & Bullwinkle" to both Cartoon Network & Boomerang and will soon bring "Garfield" to Boomerang next month. :) ), but I haven't seen the show since it got banished from Toonami, or outside of Turner's networks for that matter. Is it indeed in syndication somewhere out there?
With that said, the time is ripe for the show to come to Boomerang if it hadn't made an apperance on it yet. Every other piece of Jonny Quest programming has aired on Boomerang to date, and the show (as if it matters, seeing as we've got BABY LOONEY TUNES) is a decade old now and would fit nicely in the "Boomeraction" block (or what's left of it).
This show also has the distinction of probably being the last show to really be produced by the Hanna-Barbera of the '50's-'early '90's, before they mutated and became a part of the current "Cartoon Network Studios", and the last cartoon targeted to more than one Turner network (TBS, TNT & Cartoon Network), as the former two ceased airing cartoons in 1998 and CN became the exclusive home to Turner's library of cartoons.
Happy 10th Birthday! (Especially to you, Jesse Bannon. ;) )