The REAL Reason Why Hanna-Barbera Killed Their BEST Cartoon...On Purpose!

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In 1964, Hanna-Barbera accidentally made the most beautiful, most expensive, and most violent cartoon in the history of American television. The music was recorded by a 22-piece jazz ensemble in a "killer key" — E-flat minor. The characters used real guns, people died on screen, and Race Bannon fired bazookas at pterodactyls. It cost $64,000 per episode against a $60,000 license fee — bleeding $4,000 every single week before it even aired. ABC wanted a second season. Bill Hanna said no. The name "Quest" came out of the Los Angeles phone book. Bandit the dog was never supposed to exist — creator Doug Wildey wanted a white cheetah and a monkey. And forty years later, Hollywood is still trying to turn 26 episodes into a franchise.
This is the story of Jonny Quest (1964) — the Porsche that Hanna-Barbera built by accident, the show that was too good to sustain and too good to forget, and the reason The Venture Bros. exists.

⏱ TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - Intro
• 00:21 - Jonny Quest Fact 1: The Hanna-Barbera Model
• 01:09 - Jonny Quest Fact 2: The Phone call
• 02:00 - Jonny Quest Fact 3: The Widley Idea
• 03:30 - Jonny Quest Fact 4: The Jonny Problem
• 04:09 - Jonny Quest Fact 5: Budget Problem
• 04:40 - Jonny Quest Fact 6: Real...too real
• 06:00 - Jonny Quest Fact 7: The Flintstones Sacrifice
• 06:40 - Jonny Quest Fact 8: The REAL PROBLEM and Why it Failed
• 08:30 - Jonny Quest Fact 9: Forty Years of Failed Revivals
• 09:50 - Jonny Quest Fact 10: The Venture Bros. Connection