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Closing Credit Question

posted 12 years ago by cowgoesmoo
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In the closing credits we see a flying platform moving left to right, a shot of what appears to be angry Zulus, and then the platform (now moving right to left) flies into an airplane and as the door closes behind them, spears bounce off the side of the plane.

What episode is this scene from? The other scenes in the closing credits (frogmen crushed under a boat, the boys diving down to the underwater lab) are from shows that I easily remember/recognize, but not this one.

Thanks!

[–] Lenny9682 12 years ago

From what I remember, the Zulu footage is not from a JQ episode. It had been done for another proposed Hanna Barbera series. It is pretty cool!

[–] Lenny9682 12 years ago

I did a little searching. Here is a great Jonny Quest site.

http://classicjonnyquest.com/

Under the FAQ I found this.

What about that scene in the closing credits showing African tribesman chucking spears at some people in a hovercraft as they enter their jet plane?
This question is frequently accompanied by a statement such as "I'm sure I saw the episode with that scene in it a long time ago, but haven't seen it in any of the recent re-runs." As unsatisfying as the following may be, it is, as far as I am able to determine, correct. The scenes were NOT part of any released Jonny Quest episode. They were definitely (mentioned by several rather unimpeachable sources including Joe Barbera and Doug Wildey) from the short film produced as part of the proposal of a "Jack Armstrong" animated series. When this project fell through because Hanna-Barbera were unable to come to terms with the Jack Armstrong people, the concept of a boy and his world-wide adventures was changed and grew into what would become Jonny Quest.

[–] cowgoesmoo 12 years ago

Thanks for the answer and the pointer to the website. For 40+ years I've been thinking that there was an episode of JQ that I missed!

[–] grendelkhan 12 years ago

If you look closely at the sequence, you can see that "Jonny" has darker hair, and I've seen a close-up of the logo on the aircraft tailsection that is a J and an A joined together, for Jack Armstrong, though I'm not sure if it was altered or not in the broadcast version.

I used to think I had missed something, too. The hovercraft model was used later for The Werewolf of the Timberlands.

"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"

[–] In_Correct 7 years ago

I just read about this. It isn't from any episode but it is early footage made before any episodes of Jonny Quest. The footage was test footage when Jonny Quest premise was still in development and was later turned into part of the closing.

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