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The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. It was Hanna-Barbera’s space age counterpart to The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
. Like the former show, it is a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a futuristic
Retro-futurism

Retro-futurism, retrofuturism, retro-future or retrofuture, terms combining "retro" and "Futurology" or "future", can refer to two distinct concepts: A style of design or art or a sociopolitical ideology....
 utopia
Techno-utopianism

Technological utopianism refers to any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal....
 of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.






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The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. It was Hanna-Barbera’s space age counterpart to The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
. Like the former show, it is a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a futuristic
Retro-futurism

Retro-futurism, retrofuturism, retro-future or retrofuture, terms combining "retro" and "Futurology" or "future", can refer to two distinct concepts: A style of design or art or a sociopolitical ideology....
 utopia
Techno-utopianism

Technological utopianism refers to any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal....
 of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. This cartoon was created in association with Japanese animation company Toei Animation
Toei Animation

is a anime studio owned by Toei Company. The studio was originally founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name....
.

The original series, comprising 24 episodes, was produced between 1962 and 1963 and was re-run on Saturday morning for decades. Its continuing popularity led to further episodes being produced for syndication between 1985 and 1987. The series was extensively merchandised and followed by two made for-TV movies and two theatrical feature films.

Plot

George Jetson
George Jetson

George Jetson is a fictional character who appears in the animated series The Jetsons. George is 38 years old and he's the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy Jetson and elementary school aged son Elroy Jetson ....
 works 3 hours a day and 3 days a week for his short, tyrannical boss named Mr. Cosmo Spacely
Mr. Spacely

Cosmo G. Spacely is a fictional character in the animated series The Jetsons. In the original series he was voice actor by Mel Blanc. Frank Welker voiced a teenage version of Mr....
, owner of the company Spacely Space Sprockets. Typical episodes involve Mr. Spacely firing and rehiring or promoting and demoting George Jetson. Mr. Spacely has a competitor, H.G. Cogswell, owner of the rival company Cogswell Cogs
Gear

A gear is a component within a Transmission device that transmits rotational force to another gear or device. A gear is different from a pulley in that a gear is a round wheel that has linkages that mesh with other gear teeth, allowing force to be fully transferred without slippage....
. All homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns, in a style reflective of the architecture of Seattle's
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 Space Needle
Space Needle

The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle....
 and the distinct Theme Building
Theme Building

The Theme Building is a landmark structure at Los Angeles International Airport within the Westchester, Los Angeles, California neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles....
 of the Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California, California, the United States metropolitan area of the United States....
. George commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent top. Daily life is characterized as being comically leisurely because of the incredible sophistication and number of labor saving devices
Appliance

Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow Function :* Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input.** Small appliances...
, which occasionally break down with humorous results. George's work day consists of pressing a single computer button. Despite this, characters often complain of exhausting hard labor and difficulties of living with the remaining inconveniences.

Other Jetson family members include Jane Jetson, the wife and homemaker; teenage daughter Judy
Judy Jetson

Judith "Judy" Angela Jetson is a fictional character in the cartoon series, The Jetsons. She was voiced by Janet Waldo in the original television series, and by Tiffany in Jetsons: The Movie....
 and genius preteen son Elroy. Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie
Rosie the Robot Maid

Rosie the Robot Maid is a humanoid robot fictional character in The Jetsons animated television series. She was the title family's maid and housekeeper....
; she only appears in two episodes of the original 1960s show, excluding her appearance in the closing credits, but makes many appearances on the 1980s show.

The family dog Astro
Astro (The Jetsons)

Astro is a canine character on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons. He was designed by Iwao Takamoto, and originally voiced by Don Messick....
 can mumble and say his words beginning with R's. Astro's catch phrases are "Ruh-roh!" and "Right, Reorge!" or "Rats Rall Right Reorge!" Later Hanna-Barbera cartoon dogs including Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is a long-running Television in the United States animated television series produced for Saturday morning cartoon in several different versions from 1969 to the present....
 and Muttley
Muttley

Muttley is a Hanna-Barbera animated fictional character created by Iwao Takamoto and originally voiced by Don Messick ; he is now voiced by Billy West....
 would use speech as well; voice actor Don Messick
Don Messick

Donald "Don" Messick was one of the most prolific voice actors of the second half of the 20th century.Messick, a native of Buffalo, New York, voiced several classic cartoon characters, including Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith and Boo Boo , Muttley, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Astro , Zorak, Godzooky, Dr....
 played all three. In the first episode of the '80s show, an alien named Orbity joined the family.

Names of locations, events, and devices are often puns or derivatives of contemporary analogs with explicit futuristic or space-age twists. The same technique was used in The Flintstones with archaic or stone-age twists.

Music

The 1962 episode “A Date With Jet Screamer”, in which daughter Judy Jetson wins a date with a rock star, provided the song "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)" written by Hoyt Curtin
Hoyt Curtin

Hoyt Stoddard Curtin was an United States composer and record producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 until his retirement in 1986....
, William Hanna
William Hanna

William Denby "Bill" Hanna was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, television director, television producer, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
 and Joseph Barbara
Joseph Barbara

Joseph Barbara may refer to:*Joseph Barbara , American actor*Joseph Barbara , head of the Bufalino crime family and host of the Apalachin Conference...
. The episode was a surrealistic Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
-in-space affair which prefigured conceptual MTV videos by decades.

A cover of "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)", performed by Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes

The Violent Femmes, formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1980, are an American alternative rock band, noted for laying the groundwork for folk punk....
, is included on the 1995 tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
 Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall
Ralph Sall

Ralph Sall is a record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter, and screenwriter. He is the president of Bulletproof Entertainment, a company involved in several facets of the entertainment industry, including film, television, comic books and graphic novels, music, internet and live theatre....
 for MCA Records
MCA Records

MCA Records was an United States-based record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part....
.

Differences between the 1960s version and the 1980s version

Besides the increased presence of Rosie and the addition of Orbity, further differences between the 1960s version and 1980s version include the following:
  • Although the 1960s episodes were retrofitted with title cards, those episodes are distinguished by 1960s style animation, music, and references (similar to The Flintstones
    The Flintstones

    The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
     and other Hanna-Barbera shows of that period).


  • The cast members have a slightly softer vocal tone in their 1960s era performances since they were about twenty years younger when originally working on the series.
  • Whereas the 1960s stories were basically 1950s sitcom plots in a futuristic setting, the 1980s stories delved into fantastic, sci-fi cartoon territory.
  • The opening credits of the 1980s version featured a rerecorded version of the original Jetsons theme song, which features the use of synthesized drums to create percussion typical of 1980s music.
  • The closing credits are static picture captions (like most of Hanna-Barbera's shows of the time). This format replaced the original credit sequence described above when the 1960s episodes were rebroadcast.
  • The 1980s version has a smoother look and clear sound.
  • While episodes made in the 1960s referenced rockets and other space theme devices, the 1980s episodes leaned more towards how computers would influence life in the future.


Time period

Though no dates are ever specified, The Jetsons was originally supposed to take place in the year 2062. In the movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is an animated TV movie, featuring the first meeting between the characters from two Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows, The Flintstones and The Jetsons ....
, Elroy wanted to time travel
Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period ....
 into the future to visit the 25th century
25th century

The 25th century of the anno Domini era will span the years 2401?2500 of the Gregorian calendar....
, indicating the Jetsons live no later than the 24th century
24th century

The 24th century of the anno Domini era will span the years 2301–2400 of the Gregorian calendar. Unlike most century years, the year 2400 will be a leap year, and the first century leap year since the year 2000....
.

Voice cast

Jetsons
*George Jetson
George Jetson

George Jetson is a fictional character who appears in the animated series The Jetsons. George is 38 years old and he's the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy Jetson and elementary school aged son Elroy Jetson ....
—George O'Hanlon
George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon was an United States screen actor, comedian, and voice actor. He was a native of Brooklyn, New York, New York City.Movie fans know him best as the star of Warner Bros.' live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects from 1942 in film to 1956 in film....
  • Jane Jetson—Penny Singleton
    Penny Singleton

    Penny Singleton was an American film actress.During her sixty year career, Singleton appeared in films and television, most frequently as the comic strip heroine, Blondie in a Blondie , from 1938 until 1950, and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950....
  • Elroy Jetson—Daws Butler
    Daws Butler

    Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
    ; after Butler's death, Patric Zimmerman
    Patric Zimmerman

    Patric Laine Zimmerman is an United States voice actor.He began his career in 1990, providing voices for the animated television series Tale Spin and Tom and Jerry ....
  • Judy Jetson
    Judy Jetson

    Judith "Judy" Angela Jetson is a fictional character in the cartoon series, The Jetsons. She was voiced by Janet Waldo in the original television series, and by Tiffany in Jetsons: The Movie....
    —Janet Waldo
    Janet Waldo

    Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. Some sources say she was born on February 4, 1918 in Grandview, Washington....
     (Tiffany
    Tiffany (singer)

    Tiffany Renee Darwish , known popularly as Tiffany, is an United States singing who had a number of teen pop hits during the late-1980s. Since then she has performed in a variety of genres, from country to dance, both in America and other countries....
     in Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie

    Jetsons: The Movie is a 1990 in film animated film science-fiction feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released to theaters by Universal Pictures on July 6, 1990....
    )
  • Astro the Dog
    Astro (The Jetsons)

    Astro is a canine character on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons. He was designed by Iwao Takamoto, and originally voiced by Don Messick....
    /RUDI/Uniblab/Mac—Don Messick
    Don Messick

    Donald "Don" Messick was one of the most prolific voice actors of the second half of the 20th century.Messick, a native of Buffalo, New York, voiced several classic cartoon characters, including Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith and Boo Boo , Muttley, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Astro , Zorak, Godzooky, Dr....
  • Rosie the Robot Maid
    Rosie the Robot Maid

    Rosie the Robot Maid is a humanoid robot fictional character in The Jetsons animated television series. She was the title family's maid and housekeeper....
    /Mrs. Spacely—Jean Vander Pyl
    Jean Vander Pyl

    Jean Vander Pyl was an actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones....
  • Mr. Spacely
    Mr. Spacely

    Cosmo G. Spacely is a fictional character in the animated series The Jetsons. In the original series he was voice actor by Mel Blanc. Frank Welker voiced a teenage version of Mr....
    —Mel Blanc
    Mel Blanc

    Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an United States voice acting and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio and television commercials, Blanc is best known for his work with Warner Bros....
  • Mr. Cogswell-Daws Butler
  • Henry Orbit—Daws Butler (Howard Morris
    Howard Morris

    Howard "Howie" Morris was a Jewish United States comedian actor and Television director....
     in a few of the original episodes)
  • Orbitty—Frank Welker
    Frank Welker

    Franklin W. Welker is a veteran United States voice acting. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures....


Minor repeating characters

  • Montague Jetson is the kindly but eccentric grandfather of George Jetson.
  • Arthur Spacely—Mr. Spacely's son Dick Beals
    Dick Beals

    Richard "Dick" Beals is an American voice actor. He has performed many voices in his career, which spans from the early 1950s into the 21st century....


The Jetsons media


Episodes


Films

  • The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is an animated TV movie, featuring the first meeting between the characters from two Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows, The Flintstones and The Jetsons ....
     (1987)
  • Rockin' with Judy Jetson
    Rockin' with Judy Jetson

    Rockin' with Judy Jetson is a 1988 The Jetsons telefilm from Hanna-Barbera based on the original cartoon series....
     (1988)
  • Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie

    Jetsons: The Movie is a 1990 in film animated film science-fiction feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released to theaters by Universal Pictures on July 6, 1990....
     (1990)
  • The Jetsons (2012)


Live-action future film
In May 2007, director Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez

Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an United States filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, cinematographer, Film editing#Film_editor and musician. He is perhaps best known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent film and major film studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards....
 entered talks with Universal Studios
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 to film a live action film adaptation of The Jetsons for a potential 2009 theatrical release. He had also met with Universal Studios
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 to direct a film adaptation of Land of the Lost
Land of the Lost

Land of the Lost may refer to:* Land of the Lost , the 1944?1948 radio drama by Isabel Manning Hewson * Land of the Lost , the Sid and Marty Krofft 1974 children's science fiction television series...
. Rodriguez was uncertain which project he would pursue next, though the latest script draft for The Jetsons by assigned writer Adam Goldberg
Adam Goldberg

Adam Charles Goldberg is an United States actor, Film director, and Film producer....
 was further along in development. Denise Di Novi
Denise Di Novi

Denise Di Novi is an American film producer....
 and Donald De Line
Donald De Line

Donald De Line has been a film producer, executive producer, and studio executive at Walt Disney Productions and its Touchstone Pictures division since 1985, eventually serving as Disney's vice-president of production....
 have signed on to produce the film, with Hanna-Barbera Productions financing it. In January 2009, the film was pushed back to 2012.

Further appearances

  • The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride)
    The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride)

    The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera was a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida, and one of the park's original attractions. The story line was that Dick Dastardly has kidnapped Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear gives chase and the audience is in for the ride of their lives....
     Elroy Jetson is kidnapped by Dick Dastardly and Muttley and it is up to ride guests to save him. (1990)
  • Space Stars
    Space Stars

    Space Stars was a 1981 in television NBC Saturday morning cartoon created by Hanna-Barbera which ran from 1981-1982....
    , Astro appeared in the segment Astro and the Space Mutts
  • The Jetsons: Father & Son Day
    The Jetsons: Father & Son Day

    Father & Son Day is a 2000 short cartoon starring The Jetsons. It was made by Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi and his company Sp?mc? using Macromedia Flash....
     (Spümcø
    Spümcø

    Sp?mc? International was a North American cartoon animation studio. It was founded in 1988 by Canada animator John Kricfalusi and his partners Jim Smith , Bob Camp, and Lynne Naylor....
    , Macromedia Flash)
  • The Jetsons: The Best Son
    The Jetsons: The Best Son

    The Best Son is a 2001 short cartoon starring The Jetsons. It was made by Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi and his company Sp?mc? using Macromedia Flash....
     (Spümcø, Macromedia Flash)
  • Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a United States animated television series comedy created by Williams Street that aired on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block....
     episode "Shaggy Busted
    List of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episodes

    This is a list of episodes of the animated television series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. The list is in showing order, that is, the order of their first television appearance....
    " (2002)
  • Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Back to the Present
    List of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episodes

    This is a list of episodes of the animated television series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. The list is in showing order, that is, the order of their first television appearance....
    " (2004)
  • Some characters appear in commercials for Electrasol
    Reckitt Benckiser

    Reckitt Benckiser plc is a leading United Kingdom-based manufacturer of cleaning products. It is headquartered in the town of Slough to the west of London....
     and Tums
    Tums

    TUMS is an antacid made of calcium carbonate manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. It is a non-prescription drug and available at many retail stores, including drug stores, grocery stores and mass merchandisers....
    .
  • In the late 1990s, George, Jane, and Astro appeared in Christmas
    Christmas

    Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
     Radio Shack
    Radio shack

    Radio shack is a slang term for a room or structure for housing radio equipment....
     commercials. Judy, Elroy and Rosie were mentioned.
  • The Jetsons have appeared twice in Family Guy
    Family Guy

    Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
     in the episodes Brian in Love
    Brian in Love

    Brian in Love is an episode from the second season of the Fox Broadcasting Company, list of animated television series Family Guy. It is the 11th episode of Family Guy to be aired....
     and Meet the Quagmires
    Meet the Quagmires

    "Meet the Quagmires" is the eighteenth and final episode of the fifth season of the Fox Broadcasting Company List of animated television series Family Guy....
    .
  • Rosie appears in the Futurama movie Benders Game having been sent to the Hal institute for criminally insane robots for murdering Elroy and Astro.
  • Each member of The Jetsons family appears on the wall in the apartment scene of the animated video for the Kanye West
    Kanye West

    Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
     song Heartless
    Heartless (Kanye West song)

    "Heartless" is a pop music song by United States Hip hop music artist Kanye West. It was released on November 4, 2008 onto iTunes as the second single for his fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak....
    .
  • The Jetsons family were seen in a Cartoon Network Rap in 1995.


Comics

  • The Jetsons #1-36 (Gold Key Comics
    Gold Key Comics

    Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands....
    , January 1963 – October 1970)
  • March of Comics #276 (1965), #330 (1969), #348
  • The Jetsons #1-20 (Charlton Comics
    Charlton Comics

    Charlton Comics was an United States comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1986, having begun under a different name in 1944....
    , November 1970 – December 1973); 100-page no-number issue
  • Spotlight #3 (Marvel Comics
    Marvel Comics

    Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
    , 197x)
  • The Jetsons #1-5 (Harvey Comics
    Harvey Comics

    Harvey Comics was an United States comic book publisher, founded by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out small publisher Brookwood Publications....
    , September 1992 – November 1993); Big Book #1-3, Giant Size #1-3
  • The Jetsons #1-17 (Archie Comics
    Archie Comics

    Archie Comics is an United States of America comic book publisher, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenager Archie Andrews , Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones characters by publisher/editor John L....
    , September 1995 – August 1996)
  • The Flintstones and the Jetsons #1-21 (DC Comics
    DC Comics

    DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros....
    , August 1997 – April 1999)


Games

  • The Jetsons' Ways With Words (Intellivision
    Intellivision

    The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600....
    ) (1984)
  • The Jetsons and the Legend of Robotopia (Amiga
    Amiga

    The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
    , 1990)
  • The Jetsons: By George, in Trouble Again (DOS
    DOS

    DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
    , 1990)
  • The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper (NES
    Nintendo Entertainment System

    The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....
    , 1992)
  • The Jetsons: Robot Panic (Game Boy
    Game Boy

    The is an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in August , and in Europe in ....
    , 1992)
  • The Jetsons: Invasion of the Planet Pirates (Super NES, 1994)
  • Jetsons the Computer Game (Amiga
    Amiga

    The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
    ) (1992)
  • The Jetsons: Mealtime Malfunction (Apple
    Apple Computer

    Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
    )
  • The Jetsons: Space Race
    Space Race

    File:Space race1.jpgThe Space Race was a competition of space exploration between the Soviet Union and the United States, which lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975....
  • Flintstones Jetsons Time Warp (CD-i
    CD-i

    CD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Philips CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book , which was co-developed by Philips and Sony in 1986 ....
    ) (1994)


DVD Releases

Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980....
 released season 1 of The Jetsons on DVD in Region 1 on May 11, 2004. Season 1 was also released on DVD Region 4 on July 6, 2006. Season 2, Vol. 1 will be released on June 2, 2009 in Region 1..

DVD Name Ep # Region 1 Additional Information
The Complete First Season24 May 11, 2004
  • Commentary on 2 episodes by Janet Waldo
    Janet Waldo

    Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. Some sources say she was born on February 4, 1918 in Grandview, Washington....
  • The Jetsons: The Family of the Future
  • Space Age Gadgets
  • Rosie the Robotic Maid
  • Nuclear Family Album
Season 2, Volume 121 June 2, 2009
  • The Jetsons: Return to the Future


    • The Jetsons today

    • A live-action film adaptation, produced by Denise Di Novi
      Denise Di Novi

      Denise Di Novi is an American film producer....
       alongside Donald De Line
      Donald De Line

      Donald De Line has been a film producer, executive producer, and studio executive at Walt Disney Productions and its Touchstone Pictures division since 1985, eventually serving as Disney's vice-president of production....
       with Hanna-Barbera Productions, Universal Studios
      Universal Studios

      Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
       & Warner Bros.
      Warner Bros.

      Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
       is set for a 2012 release.
    • Boomerang
      Boomerang (TV channel)

      Boomerang is a 24-hour United States cable television television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000....
       is currently airing only the 1960s episodes regularly, while some of the 1980s episodes are available for viewing on In2TV
      In2TV

      In2TV is a joint-service offered by AOL and Warner Bros. that enables people in the United States of America only to download television shows over the internet, free of charge....
      . However, Boomerang does air the 1980s episodes occasionally in Boomeroyalty marathons. Also the first 2 seasons of the Jetsons are available to download on Apple's iTunes Store
      ITunes Store

      The iTunes Store is a software-based online shopping digital media store operated by Apple Inc. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, it proved the viability of online music store and is now the number-one music vendor in the United States....
       and at the Xbox Live Marketplace
      Xbox Live Marketplace

      The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content....
      .
    • Forbes
      Forbes

      Forbes is an United States publishing and mass media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune , which is also published bi-weekly, and Business Week....
       magazine valued Spacely Sprockets at $1.3 billion, on their "The 25 Largest Fictional Companies" list.
    • In January 2009, IGN
      IGN

      IGN is a multimedia news and reviews website that focuses heavily on video games. Its corporate parent is IGN Entertainment, which owns and controls separate sites such as GameSpy, GameStats, Rotten Tomatoes and AskMen....
       listed Jetsons as the 46th best animated television series.


    See also

    • Theatrically-released films based on Hanna-Barbera animations
      Theatrically-released films based on Hanna-Barbera animations

      Since 1964, various animated and live-action theatrically-released films based on Hanna-Barbera animations have been created. While alive, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were involved with each production in some capacity....
    • The Flintstones
      The Flintstones

      The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
    • Futurama
      Futurama

      Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
    • The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride)
      The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride)

      The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera was a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida, and one of the park's original attractions. The story line was that Dick Dastardly has kidnapped Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear gives chase and the audience is in for the ride of their lives....
    • Design for Dreaming
      Design for Dreaming

      Design for Dreaming is a musical sponsored film about a woman who dreams about a masked man taking her to the 1956 General Motors Motorama and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future." The entirety of the dialogue is sung, though the actors do not move their lips to their characters' prerecorded voices....


    Further reading

    • Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, by Michael Mallory
      Michael Mallory

      Michael Mallory is a recognized authority on the subjects of animation and post-war pop culture, and the author of the books Hanna-Barbera Cartoons , Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe and X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe....
      , 1998, published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., distributed by Publishers Group West. ISBN 0-88363-108-3


    External links

    • at the Big Cartoon DataBase
      Big Cartoon DataBase

      The Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, Feature film, Animated television series and cartoon Short film....