 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest ( also known as Jonny Quest : The Real Adventures ) is an American animated action @-@ adventure television series produced by Hanna @-@ Barbera and broadcast on Cartoon Network from August 26 , 1996 to April 16 , 1997 . A continuation of the Jonny Quest ( 1964 ) and The New Adventures of Jonny Quest ( 1986 ) series , it features teenage adventurers Jonny Quest , Hadji Singh , and Jessie Bannon as they accompany Dr. Benton Quest and bodyguard Race Bannon to investigate strange phenomena , legends , and mysteries in exotic locales . Action also takes place in the virtual realm of QuestWorld , a three @-@ dimensional cyberspace domain rendered with computer animation . Conceived in the early 1990s , Real Adventures suffered a long and troubled development . 
