The Devil's Tower
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| Network | ABC |
| Premiere date | February 4, 1965 |
| Starring | Tim Matthieson Danny Bravo Don Messick Mike Road |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Writer(s) | William D. Hamilton |
| Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Animation director(s) | Charles A. Nichols |
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"The Devil's Tower" is the twenty-first episode of Jonny Quest season one. It aired on February 4, 1965 on ABC. It was written by William D. Hamilton, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.
In the African savanna, Doctor Quest and his crew uncover a high plateau populated by prehistoric cavemen, who have been laboriously trained as diamond mine slaves by Klaus Heinrich von Dueffel; a Nazi war criminal in hiding.
Detailed summary
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Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 4, 1965 on ABC
- United Kingdom and Ireland: June 16, 1965 at 5:30 pm on BBC One
Behind the scenes
Errors
Legacy
Marketing and promotion
- In 1996, Illustrated Communications Corporation published an adaptation of this episode in Classic Jonny Quest #1: "The Devil's Tower", as an exclusive mini-comic sold with Cartoon Network Video's Classic Jonny Quest: Race Bannon in Army of One.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
- August 15, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season on DVD.
- June 6, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
- June 11, 2019: Warner Archive Collection releases Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series on Blu-ray Disc.
