If, like me, your favorite animated TV show growing up was Jonny Quest, it is no surprise you have found yourself here in Q research. The episode plots read like a Notable listing. It's all there: military, science, corruption, evil, mind control, ritual sacrifice, kidnapping, money laundering, Nazi's. Jonny Quest. Quest. Q…hmm. Have the white hats been planning and preparing us this whole time?
1) "The Mystery of the Lizard Men" - September 18, 1964: While investigating the disappearance of shipping 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 old shipwreck.
2) "Arctic Splashdown" - September 25, 1964: A foreign submarine crew races Dr. Quest and his recovery team (aboard an American icebreaker) to a downed experimental missile on the arctic ice cap.
3) "The Curse of Anubis" - October 2, 1964: 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 artifact in Egypt.
4) "Pursuit of the Po-Ho" - October 9, 1964: 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.
5) "Riddle of the Gold" - October 16, 1964: While investigating a bar of fake gold from a supposedly exhausted mine in India, Dr. Quest uncovers an alchemist counterfeiting ring (conceived by his nemesis, Dr. Zin, and operated from the palace of a maharajah impostor) that could damage the world financial market.
6) "Treasure of the Temple" - October 23, 1964: While on an archaeological expedition to an ancient Mayan city in the Yucatán jungle, Dr. Quest is threatened by a ruthless British treasure hunter (and his native Indian confederates), searching for riches in the same ruins.
7) "Calcutta Adventure" - October 30, 1964: While investigating a mysterious illness in India, Dr. Quest discovers an underground nerve gas factory (operated by a master criminal and protected by hazmat-suited guards) hidden high within a remote mountain range.
8) "The Robot Spy" - November 6, 1964: The Quest nemesis, Dr. Zin, sends a giant, cyclops, robot spider (by flying saucer-like craft) to a U.S. government research facility in the American Southwest to steal the secrets of a ray gun project on which Dr. Quest is working.
9) "Double Danger" - November 13, 1964: An impostor disguised as Quest family bodyguard, Race Bannon, is infiltrated into Dr. Quest's expedition to gather a rare pharmaceutical plant by his nemesis, Dr. Zin (who covets the plant's potential mind-control properties), in the jungles of Thailand.
10) "Shadow of the Condor" - November 20, 1964: After an emergency landing in the Andes mountains, Quest family bodyguard Race Bannon is challenged to an aerial dogfight by Baron Heinrich von Frohleich, an old German fighter ace (who keeps a collection of vintage aircraft at his Bavarian-style castle in South America) of World War I fame. The Baron’s guns are loaded – Race Bannon’s are not.
11) "Skull and Double Crossbones" - November 27, 1964: A new cook aboard the Quest research vessel betrays his employer to a band of Mexican pirates (seeking sunken treasure, discovered by Jonny) in the Caribbean Sea.
12) "The Dreadful Doll" - December 4, 1964: While researching marine biology in the Caribbean, Dr. Quest discovers a phony witch doctor, who is protecting a secret submarine base (under construction by a criminal contractor) with his supposed voodoo powers.