The Jetsons

The Jetsons is an animated series that was produced from 1962 by the Hanna -Barbera studios.

Content

Main characters are father George, mother Jane, Teen daughter Judy, son Elroy, Domestic Dog Astro, robot - assistant Rosie and the chief of George, Mr. Spacely and Cogswell its competitor. In the later episodes, the space being joined Orbitty added.

While the Jetsons have due to technological progress about robots, a collapsible flying saucer and intelligent computer, but human problems have not changed, only the father of the family, George Jetson, must work only three times three hours a week thanks to technological progress.

People

George Jetson is a caring family man, leader and at the same time breadwinner of the Jetson family. He works as a senior employee in the company of Mister Spacly and is responsible among other things for the administration of the camp. By its very nature is easily clumsy and stupid and therefore tends occasionally to recklessness in action. On the other hand, it is but his family very much at heart and he wants it to both his wife and his children are well.

Jane Jetson is the mother of the Jetson family. It is therefore also very conscious of their nature, very loving to the welfare of her husband and her family. It is mostly busy her husband to the side to stand, and to work on her look since they must so thanks to the many technical achievements also not so bad care of the household. Again and again it turns out that it has therefore not learned many skills at home, cooking it almost can not, for example.

Judy Jetson is the teen daughter of the family and at least according to her own statement of a (or even the ) most popular girl in school. Therefore, it is highly sought after even with the guys and eager to please these.

Elroy Jetson is Judy's younger brother and thus the youngest child of the Jetson family. He is a very intelligent hobbyists and tinkerers, invents new things or constructed with the help of his father or any other person different robots. Otherwise, he is also very alert and interested in many things.

Astro is the family dog, the Jetsons. Except for the fact that he can talk, he is otherwise a normal dog who welcomed his master always happy, cats do not like and do not always stop 's word.

Orbitti is a very rare small extraterrestrial beings with very good-natured and loving character that comes at the beginning of Season 2 Family Jetson after Elroy brings a supposed stone of a school trip back home, but it turns out later than egg from which Orbitti slips. He has legs instead of spirals, with whom he can be very high and fast jumping, he also changes color depending on how his emotional state is. Otherwise, he is a very intelligent being, that is to repair defects in equipment capable of what he is at the very beginning of his existence in the Jetsons proof, as the television and the shaving of George repaired.

Mr. Spacely ' is George's boss and owner of the company, working in the George. He is a very small short-tempered and moody man, George often exploited for his purposes, he even promises Vice - President of the company to be and fires it at regular intervals, but always end up back adjusts.

Henry is the janitor of the apartment house in which the family lives Jetson. It is mainly for solving various technical problems is always available.

Production and publication

The series was produced in 1962 under the direction of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The music was written by Hoyt Curtin. The series was broadcast on 23 September 1962 to March 3, 1963 by ABC. As of February 23, 1970, the consequences of the late 1980s on RTL Television has been shown in the ARD regional programs. After 2000, the series was repeated on the pay - TV channel Boomerang. It has also been translated into Spanish, among others, Dutch and Finnish.

1984-1987 were new episodes of the series, in their production Toei Animation participated. In a TV special the Jetsons meet by time travel to the Stone Age on their " ancestors ", the Flintstones. For the cinema an animated film was produced.

In the years 1971 and 1972 the New Tessloff -Verlag published a print version in 21 folders.

Voice Actors

René Auberjonois, known as Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, had his first voice actor role in the series.