The Jetsons - The Complete First Season (1962)

Where are the other seasons???

This is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. I could say I liked it more than the Flintstones. But what frustrates me is that why is it that only season 1 has been released so far. It has been over 2 years I've been waiting for the other seasons. Common WB get the rest of the Jetsons seasons out already!!! October 9, 2008

Phony Jetson cartoons

This entire set has not one cartoon from the original series. These cartoons are all pathetic remakes of the original, hilarious series. It is a travesty that they can be sold as "The First Complete Season". They must be the first complete season of remakes. I saw the original Jetsons as a kid and when I started watching what is contained in this set---forget about it!!! I would have asked for my money back but the kid I bought it for wanted to keep it--since he didn't know the REAL JETSONS. August 23, 2008

Stephen Weakley's review is not accurate

The episodes on this set DO NOT have the laugh tracks removed, they are included on every episode just as they were originally broadcast in 1962-63. August 6, 2008

The Jetsons - The Complete First Season

Bought this for my 7 year old daughter. She loves it as much as I did when it originally aired on tv. I do not like the fold-out cardboard packaging, but at least it's sturdy. We're also fans of "The Flintstones", "Alvin & The Chipmunks" and "The Smurfs". July 28, 2008

"Help! Jane, stop this crazy thing!"

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!" July 3, 2008

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