The Jetsons - The Complete First Season

It's too bad The Jetsons only lasted one season back in 1962, but they fared better in Saturday morning reruns. It was the future's answer to The Flintstones (also produced by Hanna Barbera), with space-age gadgets and references to the future (think Las Venus, which was known as Rock Vegas on the other show and Ed Solarvan, which was known as Ed Sullystone, etc). George O'Hanlon was the voice of George Jetson, Penny Singleton played his wife Jane, Janet Waldo was daughter Judy, and Daws Butler played their boy, Elroy. Also, Mel Blanc played Mr. Spacely, George's boss (before Trump said "You're fired!" to one unlucky person each week, Spacely said it almost every week, but with more passion: "Jetsoooooooooon, yoooooooooooou're fiiiiiiiired!") and Don Messick played Rastro, I mean Astro, the family dog. There's not a whole to write about with the extras, except that there are a few commentaries by Janet Waldo.

Highlights include the openning episode where Judy wins a date with Jet Screamer ("Baby, baby, baby! Ah-ah-ah!" Jet performs "The Swivel" and "Eep Opp Ork, Ah-ah!"), George loses his job at Spacely Sprockets (as he did several times) to a scheming robot called Uniblab ("Spacely's a stoop! Spacely's a stoop!"), Astro swallows Elroy's spaceship and the family thinks they have a flying dog (when Mr. Spacely hears about this, he uses it as a weapon against his competitor, Cogswell Cogs), Elroy meets his hero Nimbus the Great ("It's spaaaaaaaaaace magic!"), George shrinks down to size and in order to get him back to size, he needs to aquire a cog from Mr. Spacely's rival, Cogswell Cogs (the best part is when George is trapped in a glass, so he uses a safety pin on Cogswell to escape), Mr Spacely is the judge in a Miss Universe beauty contest, much to the chagrin and jealousy of Mrs. Spacely (George takes over Spacely's spot when the angry missus dethrones him and is enthralled by Miss Western Hemisphere, whom you can guess really turns out to be), Astro is introduced and at first is not well-received by George and in another episode the Jestons find out his original owners want him back and that Astro's real name is Tralfaz ("Rich roruddy ran rery!"), Mr. Spacely and George ditch a PTA meeting for a computerized football game ("Good evening, honey, I have to work much later than I... much later than I... much later than I...."), Rosie the Robot is introduced (Jean Vanderpyl supplies Rosie's voice) and in another episode is set up with male robot Mac, thanks to the apartment janitor Henry ("Mac is the most-ut!", "Rosie, beep! beep!"), Elroy and Astro get their own TV series "Spaceboy, ZOOM!") and in another episode, Elroy's parents think he's brought home a poor report tape which really belongs to another schoolmate and punish him so Elroy and Astro run away (watch for the "15 billionth rerun of The Flintstones").

That's a lot of episodes to enjoy. Like The Flintstones inspired The Jetsons, there would be a reunion of the 2 in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones and both series did a spinoff on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. So just relax and enjoy some bona fide "spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace magic!"

We are careful what we let our kids watch. We are not into using the TV as a babysitter exposing our kids to hours of TV or mindless commercials. Almost everything they watch is recorded on Tivo or from a DVD. Having access to good TV on demand is the first reason; the second is because we very much dislike commercials. Anyway...I was remembering how much I liked The Jetsons when I was a kid and I thought my sons would get a kick out of it. Well, I was right. They loved it and wanted to keep watching it. I never realized this show ran for one season only and started in 1962. One of the hints about when it was written and produced...it's a little sexist. It's a sign of the times...beyond that, they don't say anything inappropriate and it is not a violent show. When I was kid, I thought at this point we would be driving those flying cars!

This is so fun to watch. I loved the Jetsons as a child and wanted to relive some of the younger days. This was great to see some clasic cartoons again...to bad they are not on the air anymore..

If you liked the Jetsons when you were younger, you'll still like them today. Plus with all the crappy cartoons out there today - The Jetsons are great to introduce to your own youngins. The classics are timeless!

The Jetsons is great for when you don't want to think.
Watching this , it just floats into the mind and sweeps you away, way into outer space. The night sky scenes are wonderful to watch.
My nieces have watched this over and over and I have too. Especially when I just want to relax.
Completely relaxing and entertaining at the same time.
Classic episodes in this collection will have you feeling like a youngster again.