The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, which premiered in primetime from September 23, 1962, until March 17, 1963, later in syndication, with a new episode from 1985 to 1987 as part of the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block. It was Hanna Space Age from Hanna-Barbera for The Flintstones .
While the Flintstones live in a world that is a funny version of the "stone age", with engines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a funny version of the future, with intricate robotic tools, aliens, holograms, and strange discoveries. The original series consisted of 24 episodes and aired on Sunday night on ABC starting September 23, 1962, with primetime replays continuing until 22 September 1963. It debuted as the first program aired in color on ABC-TV. (Only a handful of ABC TV stations were able to broadcast colors in the early 1960s.) By contrast, The Flintstones , while always produced in color, was broadcast in black and white for the first two seasons.
After running primetime, the show aired Saturday morning 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 special events or further episodes were produced after 1989 due to the deaths of stars George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc. The 1990 film Jetsons: The Movie is presented as the final series for the television show. 27 years later, new direct-to-video animated film, The Jetsons & amp; WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! , released in 2017.
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Premise
The Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City. The city's architecture is made in Googie style, and all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground in customizable columns. George Jetson lives with his family at Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a housewife, their teenage daughter Judy attended Orbit High School, and their son Elroy attended Little Dipper School. Households are viewed by a robotic maid, Rosie, who handles tasks not otherwise deemed trivial by many of Space's home buttons-imagining comfort. The family has a dog named Astro, who like Scooby-Doo speaks with an initial consonant mutation in which each word begins with "R", as if talking to a growl.
In later production, Jeff Bergman has voiced George, Elroy, and Mr. Spacely. Bergman completed his voice work as George and Spacely for Jetsons: The Movie (1990) after George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc died during production. Controversially, Janet Waldo was replaced - after recording all her dialogue - then famous singer Tiffany for Jetsons: The Movie. Lori Frazier has provided Jane Jetson's voice in a television commercial for Radio Shack.
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Production
The first season for the series was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, When Warner Bros. studio. Cartoons closed in May 1961, some of whose animators, including Gerry Chiniquy and Ken Harris, also joined Hanna-Barbera for the first season.
Contributions Morey Amsterdam and Pat Carroll
In 1963, Morey Amsterdam and Pat Carroll filed suit of $ 12,000 each, against Hanna-Barbera for breach of contract. Both claim they have been casted and signed for the roles of George Jetson and Jane Jetson respectively. Their contract stipulates that they will be paid US $ 500 per episode with 24 working episodes (one full season) guarantee. However, they only recorded one episode, after which it was replaced. Some sources claim the change occurred as a result of the sponsorship conflict between Amsterdam's commitments to The Dick Van Dyke Show and Carroll for Make Room for Daddy . The case was closed in early 1965. In a 2013 interview, Pat Carroll pointed out that the court had ruled in favor of Hanna-Barbera.
Episode
The original series of events consisted of 24 episodes first aired on ABC from September 23, 1962, until March 17, 1963, and, like standard practice at the time, contained laughter songs.
In 1984, Hanna-Barbera began producing a special new episode for syndication; in September 1985, 24 episodes of the first season were combined with 41 new episodes and began airing in morning or afternoon time slots in 80 US media markets, including the 30 largest. 41 new episodes were produced at a cost of $ 300,000 each, and featured all the voice actors from the 1962-1963 show. During 1987, 10 additional episodes of "season 3" were also available for syndication.
Broadcast history
After the primetime cancellation, ABC placed a rerun of The Jetsons on the Saturday morning schedule for the 1963-1964 season. The program will spend the next two decades on Saturday morning, with subsequent operations at CBS (1964-1965 and 1969-71) and NBC (1965-67; ​​1971-76; 1979-81 and 1982-83). Beginning in the late 1960s, The Jetsons also began running simultaneously in syndication. Together with fellow production Hanna-Barbera Jonny Quest and Warner Bros. ' Looney Tunes short, The Jetsons is one of several series that aired on each of the Big Three television networks in the United States.
Theme song
The series' theme song, by composer Hoyt Curtin, became a pop hit in 1986.
Science fiction theme
The animated historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that this series shares his main science fiction theme with Funderful Suburbia (1962), a short Modern Madcaps animation. Both show the people involved in space colonization. But there are key differences in the nature of colonization. In Suburbia Funderful , humans colonize outer space to avoid planet Earth problems. The Jetsons live in a place where space colonization is already formed. Life in space is described as a fact of life, while the reason behind the taking of man from outer space is never explained.
Lehman argues that this series offers no explanation for the premise of science fiction and does not directly insinuate social problems from any era. This setting is combined with standard sitcom elements, which serve as the main focus of the series.
Reception
After the announcement of the fall of 1962 the network television schedule of the magazine Time was marked The Jetsons as one of several new sitcoms (along with The Beverly Hillbillies , < i> Dickens... He Fenster , and Our Human Higgins ) that "extends farther than ever for their situation"; after all the new events this season aired - the season "responded to Minow's insistence" - the magazine called this series "silly and understated, cliche and clever, sometimes pretty funny."
Thirty years later, Time says: "In the days of working moms, single parents and gay marriages, George Jetson and his clan have seemed strange even to baby boomers who grew up with them." In contrast, economist Jeffrey A. Tucker wrote in 2011 that The Jetsons "is distinguished in science fiction by the fact that this is a rare endeavor in this genre that is really successful in predicting the future." Apart from the flying cars of the animated series that, yet, are not feasible in the real world, The Jetsons technology has become commonplace: people in the early 21st century communicate via video-chat on a flat screen , robots have taken over a lot of work, push-button food provides fast and high quality products (eg, Keurig coffee), a variety of high-tech devices are used for leisure, and so on. Tucker further notes that The Jetsons does not describe the gloomy dystopia or the beautiful utopia, but a world where capitalism and entrepreneurship still exist and technology has not changed the basic elements of human nature.
Difference between versions
Added characters:
- In the first episode of the 1980s episode, an alien named Orbitty joins the family after Elroy finds her on a field trip to an asteroid. Orbitty speaks in his own chaotic dialect, has a spring coil for his feet, and changes color according to his mood.
- Various equipment appeared in episodes of the 1980s such as Memo-Minder and Di-Di, Judy's diary, shaped like a pair of giant wax lips.
Other differences include the following:
- The original 1960s episode was distinguished from 1960s design, music and reference motifs (similar to The Flintstones and other Hanna-Barbera performances of that period). The 1980s version has a custom soundtrack with new sound effects created by synthesizers.
- Given the story of the 1960s is basically a 1950s sitcom plot in a setting, the 1980s tales move into a fantastic area of ​​science fiction cartoons.
- The 1960s version is more adult-oriented than the 1980s version, aimed at younger audiences.
- The opening credits of the 1980s contain a re-recorded version of the original Jetsons theme song, featuring the use of synthesized drums and synth lead tracks typical of 1980s music.
- The 1960s credit closure resembles the closing credit scene of The Flintstones , featuring families preparing for sleep and disasters with their pets. In The Jetsons , George walks Astro on the treadmill, Astro chases the cat, and then the two animals jump off after the treadmill malfunction leaves Jetson running for his life. The 1980s version had to accommodate larger production staff, including dozens of voice actors, and this closing credit segment was replaced with a colorful static background with pictures of The Jetsons set alongside many credits. The 1960 episode was relaunched with a redesigned cover segment (containing fewer production staff credits than the 1980s episode but more names than the original closing scene that made some people unaccredited) but usually seen a re-broadcast with their original credit segment.
- The 1960s episode contains no title cards. When the 1980s episodes were made, the title cards were also made for episodes of the 1960s, which explains Orbitty's appearance on the title card of the 1960s episode. (Orbitty also appeared on the cover credits of the 1980s, which were also used for episodes of the 1960s.)
- Many episodes of the 1980s were colored and incorporated using computer animation technology including digital ink and paint, rather than the more traditional inks and paints on cels.
- The background in the 1980s version contains bright colors, and more detail than the 1960s version.
- While the 1960 episode referenced rockets and theme "age space" devices, reflecting the real-life American space program that fascinates the United States, the 1980 episode is more leaning towards how computers will affect life in outer space.
- In the 1980s, Rosie the Robot appeared more often than in the 1960s (when she only appeared in two episodes). Astro is also shown more clearly.
- The original spelling of Rosie's name is "Rosey", as shown in the 1962 premiere of "Rosey the Robot". His spelling was changed to "Rosie", as shown in the 1985 episode "Rosie Come Home".
- Instead of buttons, knobs, rotary buttons, and switches in the 1960s version, the 1980s version uses flat buttons and brightly lit consoles.
- Episode 1960 comes with a laughter song (as well as The Flintstones ); the 1980s episode does not.
Movie specials and adaptations
Movies of television
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
- Rockin 'with Judy Jetson (1988)
Television specials
- Hanna-Barbera 50th: Celebration of Do'a Dabba Yabba (1989)
Theatrical release
- Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
Direct-to-video movie
- The Jetsons & amp; WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! (2017)
Planned live action and reboot animated movie
Paramount Pictures first attempted to film the live-action version of The Jetsons in 1985, which would be an executive produced by Gary Nardino, but failed to do so. In the late 1980s, Universal Studios purchased the film rights for The Flintstones and The Jetsons from Hanna-Barbera Productions. The result was Jetsons: The Movie , released in 1990. In November 2001, scriptwriting duo Paul Foley and Dan Forman were brought onboard to revise the scenario, with Rob Minkoff sworn in as director and Denise Di Novi as producer.
On March 18, 2003, it was announced that the manuscript was being reworked, with Adam Shankman entering into negotiations to direct and write alongside the film. In June 2004, with Shankman still working as a director, Di Novi confirmed that the latest draft was written by Sam Harper. In May 2006, the project was relaunched with Adam F. Goldberg confirmed as a new screenwriter, and Donald De Line added as a joint producer Di Novi.
In May 2007, director Robert Rodriguez entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film CGI adaptations from The Jetsons for a potential 2009 theatrical release, after which at the time discussed directing the film adaptation of The Jetsons. > Lost Land with Universal. Rodriguez is not sure which project he will seek next, although Goldberg's latest draft script for The Jetsons is further in development.
In January 2012, recording artist Kanye West was mistakenly reported as the creative director of the project, although the West clarified on social media that "I was just discussing being a creative director for the Jetson movie and one on a shouting call.. You have to do the Jetsons tour! "Old producer Denise Di Novi denied any confirmed involvement stating negotiations with the West through a conference call were just" start and exploration and introduction ". In February 2012, Warner Bros. hired Van Robichaux and Evan Susser to rewrite the script.
On January 23, 2015, it was announced that Warner Bros. is planning a new animated film Jetsons with Matt Lieberman to provide scenarios. On May 25, 2017, Conrad Vernon will direct the movie.
Plan live-action TV broadcast
On August 17, 2017, ABC ordered a pilot for a live sitcom version of The Jetsons written by Gary Janetti and executives produced by Janetti, Jack Rapke and Robert Zemeckis.
More appearance
- The Funtastic Hanna-Barbera (horseback) world , Elroy Jetson was kidnapped by Dick Dastardly (from Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machine ) and it's up to take guests to save it. (1991)
- Star of Stars , Astro appears in the segment "Astro and the Space Mutts".
- The 1974 proposal will make a sequel series for The Jetsons, set about ten years after the original series. CBS rejected the proposal and it was retooled to Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
More projects
- The Jetsons: Dad & amp; Son Day (SpÃÆ'¼mcÃÆ'¸, Macromedia Flash)
- The Jetsons: The Best Son (SpÃÆ'¼mcÃÆ'¸, Macromedia Flash)
- Some characters appear in ads for Electrasol and Tums.
- In the late 1990s, George, Jane, and Astro appeared on Christmas Radio Shack ads.
- In 2003, New Zealand's Xtra ISP used The Jetsons as part of an ad campaign with George Jetson promoting the benefits of broadband Internet. The ad ended with George saying, "Broadband is the way, but some people will never get used to the progress", and the picture Fred Flintstone uses a stone-shaped computer with the original mouse.
- The Jetsons have appeared three times in Family Guy .
- The Jetsons were seen on Cartoon Network Rap in 1995.
- The Jetsons character is in a I, Robot parody of Robot Chicken where Rosie is accused of killing George.
- The Jetsons can be seen in the background in the "MetLife" "Everyone" ad in 2012.
- The Jetsons appear on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law , in the episode "Return to Present."
Comics
- The Jetsons # 1-36 (Golden Key Comics, January 1963 - October 1970)
- March of Comics # 276 (1965), # 330 (1969), # 348
- The Jetsons # 1-20 (Charlton Comics, November 1970 - December 1973); 100-page no-number issue
- Highlights # 3 (Marvel Comics, 197x)
- The Jetsons # 1-5 (Harvey Comics, September 1992 - November 1993); Ledger # 1-3, Giant Size # 1-3
- The Jetsons # 1-17 (Archie Comics, September 1995 - August 1996)
- The Flintstones and the Jetsons # 1-21 (DC Comics, August 1997 - April 1999)
- Scooby Doo Team-Up # 8 (DC Comics, January 2015)
- Annual Booster/Flintstones # 1 (DC Comics, March 2017)
Video games
- How to Jetsons with Words (Intellivision - 1984)
- The Jetsons: George Jetson and Legend of Robotopia (Amiga - 1990)
- The Jetsons: By George, in Trouble Again (DOS - 1990)
- Jetsons: Computer Games (Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC - 1991, Amiga - 1992)
- The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper! (NES - 1992)
- The Jetsons: Robot Panic (Game Boy - 1992)
- The Jetsons: Mealtime Malfunction (Apple - 1993)
- The Jetsons Space Competition (part of the Cartoon Carnival Hanna-Barbera ) (CD-i-1993, Macintosh - 1995, Windows 3.x - 1995)
- The Jetsons: Invasion of Planet Pirates (Super NES - 1994)
- Flintstones/Jetsons: Time Warp (CD-i - 1994)
Release home video
On June 28, 1990, Hanna-Barbera Home Video released six episodes of the show on videocassette. Warner Home Video releases season 1 on DVD in Region 1 on May 11, 2004; after its release, James Poniewozik wrote it "as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future Slapstick is ditzy like a pea-and-jelly Goober Grape peanut butter - if you do not like it as a kid, you will not get a taste as adults - and pop-culture jokes... are not old enough, but the animation is still a classic from the atomism-modern-atomic gee-whiz. "
A DVD release review of Entertainment Weekly said the show "ran through a staggering comedy plot dated about a windy boss, bad lady driver, and teenage idol Elvis Presleyesque, all greeted with a laugh track" but pointed out "it is the attraction of a retro-prescient gadget (chair massager, wide-screen TV, two-way monitor) that still brings the show. "Season 1 was released on DVD in Region 4 on July 5, 2006. Season Two, Volume 1 was released on DVD almost three years later, on 2 June 2009 for Region 1.
On November 8, 2011, Warner Archive released The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 2 on DVD in Region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner and Amazon.com online stores. Warner Archive went on to release Season 3 in the same way on May 13, 2014.
Legacy
- Boomerang aired shows from April 1, 2000 to April 6, 2014, and the series returned to Boomerang from 2 July 2016 to 6 March 2017. Cartoon Network aired shows from 1992 to 2004 and returned the series in October 2012. Also, some the 1980s episode is available for viewing in In2TV before its shutdown; this episode was later transferred to the online version of WB Kids. Also the first two seasons of The Jetsons are available for download on the Sony PlayStation Network, Apple iTunes Store and on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The Children's WB site finally closes in 2015, however, the WB Kids episode can still be streamed, thanks to most websites preserved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The
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magazine rewarded Spacet Sprocket for $ 1.3 billion, on the "25 Biggest Fiction Companies List" list. - The original cartoon series had several devices that did not exist at the time but then not only have been found but in general usage: flat screen televisions, newspapers on screen like computers, computer viruses, video chats, tanning beds, home treadmills, and much more.
- In January 2009, IGN enrolled The Jetsons as the 46th best animated television series. The
See also
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
- List of Hanna-Barbera characters
- Design for Dreaming
- Googie architecture
References
Source
Lehman, Christopher P. (2007), "The Cartoons of 1961-1962", American Animation Cartoons from the Vietnam Era: The Study of Social Commentary in the Program © InfoSUM.net All rights reserved. Film and Television, 1961-1973, McFarland & amp; Company, ISBN 978-0786451425
Further reading
- Michael Mallory (1998). Hanna-Barbera Cartoons . published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.; distributed by Western Group Publishers. ISBNÃ, 0-88363-108-3.
External links
- The Jetsons on IMDb
- The Jetsons on TV.com
- The Jetsons in Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Jetsons at Don Markstein Toonopedia
- Jetson Movies
- The Cartoon Scrapbook - Profile at The Jetsons .
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