Turu the Terrible
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| Network | ABC |
| Premiere date | December 25, 1964 |
| Starring | Tim Matthieson Danny Bravo Don Messick Mike Road Everett Sloane Henry Corden |
| 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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"Turu the Terrible" is the fifteenth episode of Jonny Quest season one. It aired on December 25, 1964 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.
While searching for a rare mineral in the Amazon jungle, Doctor Quest and Race discover a Pteranodon trained by a wheelchair-bound slave driver, who uses it to capture and guard native workers needed for his mining operation.
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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: December 25, 1964 on ABC
- United Kingdom and Ireland: May 12, 1965 at 5:30 pm on BBC One
Behind the scenes
Errors
Legacy
In popular culture
- In The Venture Bros. episode "Venture Libre," the pteradon is named Turu.
Marketing and promotion
- In 1996, Illustrated Communications Corporation published an adaptation of this episode in Classic Jonny Quest #1: "Turu the Terrible", as an exclusive mini-comic sold with Cartoon Network Video's Classic Jonny Quest: Dr Zin in Master of Evil.
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.
