Quite simply, the best male adventure drama in ANY MEDIA - books, television, theater, even familial legend. It tells the story of Johnny Quest, a 12-something boy whose father is a government scientist, who lives on a private island off the Miami coast. His father, one of the top scientists for the USA, is assisted by Race Bannon, a sort of Bruce Lee and Clint Eastwood rolled into one, and his half-brother, Hadji, adopted son of Dr. Quest, a former orphan from Calcutta.
The main characters fly all over the world (Race Bannon is a Jet Pilot) completing government research missions and also solving science-fiction based mysteries. The show is laced with the latest gee-whiz stuff from Popular Science of the 1960's, much of which STILL hasn't been invented yet!! Particularly good episodes from season #1 include "The Robot Spy", an invention of the evil Dr. Zinn, created to steal Dr. Quest's Research Results, and "The Invisible Monster" (aka "The Energy Monster", as both my 4 year olds call it in my house), a science experiment in molecular energy gone berserk on a south pacific island.
This is perhaps the ONLY television show in history besides STAR TREK that glorifies both brawn AND brains, as personified by Race Bannon and Dr. Quest. Did it have an effect on me ?? I have a PhD, I have worked for the government, I have worked on space satellites and touched them, and have jetted across America as a consultant to several industries. I have tried to live the dream, now where's MY island?!?!!
The main characters fly all over the world (Race Bannon is a Jet Pilot) completing government research missions and also solving science-fiction based mysteries. The show is laced with the latest gee-whiz stuff from Popular Science of the 1960's, much of which STILL hasn't been invented yet!! Particularly good episodes from season #1 include "The Robot Spy", an invention of the evil Dr. Zinn, created to steal Dr. Quest's Research Results, and "The Invisible Monster" (aka "The Energy Monster", as both my 4 year olds call it in my house), a science experiment in molecular energy gone berserk on a south pacific island.
This is perhaps the ONLY television show in history besides STAR TREK that glorifies both brawn AND brains, as personified by Race Bannon and Dr. Quest. Did it have an effect on me ?? I have a PhD, I have worked for the government, I have worked on space satellites and touched them, and have jetted across America as a consultant to several industries. I have tried to live the dream, now where's MY island?!?!!