Even the cartoons were better 55 years ago! Jonny Quest, that was a show. I just read on IMDB that Tim Matheson (Animal House) was the voice for Jonny. Danny Bravo (Johnny’s brother) was the voice of Hadji. Mike Road, who later did Fireman Fund insurance commmercials was the voice of ‘Race’ Bannon, the security for the team. When Race wasn’t doing security, he was doing Jade, the secret agent spy tramp who had a taste for tall, blonde and handsome (interestingly Jade’s voice was provided by Cathy Lewis who did a ton of episodic television in the 50s and 60s and who died at the much too young age of 51).

Hanna-Barbera created the show, which is rather unusual. HB had the clunkiest cartoons which were often really cringe worthy. Jonny Quest on the other hand, was the ultimate in cool. The music, the animation, the voice actors, the writing, there wasn’t a weak spot in the entire production. More than anything I suppose is how different the values of society were back then. 2 pictures down there’s a scene where the boys were trying to play a trick on Race when he catches them. He good naturedly rough houses with them when he catches them.

Boys were boys and men were men back then. None of this crap were boys pretended they were girls so they could run on their track team. They had strong emphasis on country, family, education, physical fitness, courage, toughness. A different world than today. It goes along with a previous observation I’d made about TV westerns up through the 60’s. They embodied the American spirit; rugged individualism. That had to die for the revolution the Left wanted. One of the tools they used to destroy American culture was feminism.

In an honest movement you didn’t have to destroy men to elevate women, but theirs wasn’t an honest movement. They weren’t really about empowering women so much as destroying men. That’s why shows like westerns and cartoons like Jonny Quest had to make room for Saturday morning fare like My Little Pony and The Smurfs.

                                                                     “Ai-yeeeee!”