The Jetsons
| The Jetsons | |
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| Genre |
Animated Comic science fiction Sitcom |
| Directed by |
William Hanna (1962–63) Joseph Barbera (1962–63) Ray Patterson (Supervising, 1985–87) Arthur Davis (1985–87) Oscar Dufau (1985–87) Carl Urbano (1985) Rudy Zamora (1985) Alan Zaslove (1985) Paul Sommer (1987) Charlie Downs (1987) |
| Voices of |
George O'Hanlon Penny Singleton Janet Waldo Daws Butler Mel Blanc Don Messick Jean Vander Pyl Howard Morris |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 75 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna (1985–87) Joseph Barbera (1985–87) William L. Hendricks (1962-87) Herbert Klynn (1985–87) |
| Producer(s) |
William Hanna (1962–63) Joseph Barbera (1962–63) Bob Hathcock (1985) Berny Wolf (1987) Jeff Hall (1987) |
| Running time | 22–30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Hanna-Barbera Productions Screen Gems (1962-63) (Season 1) |
| Distributor |
Screen Gems (1962-63) (Season 1) Worldvision Enterprises (1985-87) (Seasons 2-3) Columbia Pictures Television (former) Taft Broadcasting (former) Turner Program Services (former) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ABC (first season, 1962–1963) Syndication (second and third seasons, 1985–1987) |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release |
Original series: September 23, 1962 – March 17, 1963 Revival series: September 16, 1985 – November 12, 1987 |
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes in 1985 to 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block. It was Hanna-Barbera's Space Age counterpart to The Flintstones.
While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions; The original series comprised 24 episodes and aired on Sunday nights on ABC beginning September 23, 1962, with primetime reruns continuing through September 22, 1963. It debuted as the first program broadcast in color on ABC-TV. (Only a handful of ABC-TV stations were capable of broadcasting in color in the early 1960s.) In contrast, The Flintstones, while always produced in color, was broadcast in black-and-white for its first two seasons.
Following its primetime run, the show aired on Saturday mornings for decades, starting on ABC for the 1963–64 season and then on CBS and NBC. New episodes were produced for syndication from 1985 to 1987. No further specials or episodes of the show were produced after 1989 due to the deaths of stars George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc. The 1990 film Jetsons: The Movie served as the series finale to the television show until 27 years later, when the new direct-to-video animated movie, The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! will be released in 2017.
The Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City. The city's architecture is rendered in the Googie style, and all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns. George Jetson lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a homemaker, their teenage daughter Judy attends Orbit High School, and their early-childhood son Elroy attends Little Dipper School. Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie, which handles chores not otherwise rendered trivial by the home's numerous push-button Space Age-envisioned conveniences. The family has a dog named Astro, that like Scooby Doo talks with an initial consonant mutation in which every word begins with an "R", as if speaking with a growl.
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