[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Gotta love the original Jonny Quest (IMDb rating 8.0). The first cartoon series to air during prime time, because of its serious themes. They made an effort to use real places, to depict some realistic animals, and even gave some of the villains realistic motives.

And a LOT of villains got killed, some in pretty awful ways.

Some of the science fiction was realistic, some fantastic, and much of it plausible. Their depiction of ethnic groups was... ethnic.

And don’t forget the superb music and incidental sounds.

Even the opening credits were both scary and incredibly cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhEpjnaNlo

[thecodont]

Longer version of the theme here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TNWSGCiBzg

by Hoyt Curtin.

I want the sheet music. It’s supposed to be near impossible for the trombonists to play.

[Charles Martel]

This Jonny Quest documentary is very good (part 1 of 3). It's a thumbnail history of Hanna-Barbera as well, and really all of television animation of the early 1960s.

[wally_bert]

Old Jonny Quest was some good stuff all around. Plenty of machine guns and other hardware.

The short lived Planet Of The Apes was fairly good for the short run it had.

The 80s GI Joe RAH is a favorite of mine despite the often preposterous physics and some really bizarre plots.