Jane was voiced by an actress named Penny Singleton. She began her career in the mid-30's under the name Dorothy McNultey which was highlighted by a major role in the 1936 film "After the Thin Man" with William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart. She spent the 1940's as the film version of the comic strip character "Blondie" opposite actor Arthur Lake as her husband Dagwood. In 1961 she was approached by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera for their futuristic new cartoon "The Jetsons" and the rest is history :-) "JANE STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!!!"
Even though this cartoon was produced in color, way back in 1961, most TV sets weren't color tv's, so, I grew up watching these cartoons mostly in black and white. It wasn't until the early 1970's I finally got to see cartoons like this in full color. Imagine my surprise when I watched Jonny Quest for the first time in color, it completely change the feel and intensity of the that cartoon. Kids these day's have no idea what early TV was like, without being in color and maybe 2 or 3 channels to watch.
This was the first program that ABC broadcast in color, despite the fact that NBC had several shows broadcast in color since '54, and CBS broadcast some specials and sporting events in color for about that same time period. ABC never had the budget for anything like that.
+bdh70 only the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit & New York markets were guaranteed to see it in color. The Flintstones (though always produced in color) were broadcast in B&W for the first two seasons.
@@bdh70 Well at least they got the show on in color, but yeah, this was still a transitional period where a lot of programs still did B&W for a few more years and not everyone had a color set to use.
Did you know that when Hanna-Barbera was working on *_Space Stars_* in 1980, that that block was supposed to have been 90 minutes long? The missing last 30 minutes of the show were to include 8-minute fragments of these 1962 _The Jetsons_ episodes (the family pet, Astro, already had his own spinoff series within _Space Stars_ called _Astro & the Space Mutts_) alongside a second new _Herculoids_ segment.
The future was seen with such optimism back then. As a kid, watching this show, I thought the 21st century would be as cool as this cartoon. I didn't find out till much later that this cartoon was set 100 years in the future from this cartoon s conception-2062.
The Jetsons had no internet, texting, twitter, or social media. There was also no vcr/dvd/tivo as there was an episode where George was upset about having to miss a football game on tv. Also in the 1962 episodes they still used the Univac-type computers that filled an entire room and went obsolete during the 1970s
Actually there was an Internet of sorts referenced in the episodes for information, but not as exposed. After all, it was supposed to be about the characters living in the ultra-modern society still having the same problems of the human experience. The gadgets were just props and visual puns, not the focus of the concept.
Add to that, the writers could only "convert" their 1962-63 minds to imagine what life would be like 100 years later, based only on what their minds could comprehend. For exampleI remember George asking Elroy if he did his "homework tapes." No CD, no downloads, etc.
I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but would that "Internet of sorts" have been RUDI (Referential Universal Digital Indexer), at Spacely's office?
+Doug Shoemaker one time on cartoon network she did pushed a button and it stop when a Commercial was coming on or was it the next sponsor for the next cartoon ?
There is a new Scooby Doo comic where The Mystery Inc gang time travel to the future and meet The Jetsons In it you can learn how George stops that crazy thing!
One of Hoyt Curtin's very best arrangements and conducts. // But I always wonder, how did Judy get George's pipe lit? Did she take a few puffs herself first? Jet Swinger would've turned off by the pipe-breath.
All Hanna-Barbera cartoons were produced in color, but not all were broadcast in color until the early '60s. "The Jetsons" was the first ABC network series to be broadcast in color...
Actually, we just viewed this because the same thing almost happened to me today with our treadmill!! The family was cackling and they’re the ones who were saying that it reminded them of the ending credits of the Jetsons!! Life imitating art…😂 And still making ppl laugh and smile some 60 years later - thank you for uploading!
On an instrumental basis, this just might be the best TV theme ever, whether the show was live-action or animated. The energy and diverse elements in the opening made it special.
You don't have to wait that long; it's back in fashion now. I work in an antiques and collectibles shop, and anything mid-century gets bought up quickly.
Kevin Pippin What happened is the sad reality of the 21st century, the future becoming the present. As George Carlin once commented on this subject -The future ain't what it used to be.
Optimism and imagination was discouraged by the "masterminds," that's why. And if you follow American political history up to today, you may also find your answer.
"The 1980s Jetsons episodes used the exact same opening as it existed in 1962. To clarify, it may have been color-timed and developed differently in the film lab, but it wasn't repainted at all." Prior to 1985, the show in syndication had the opening/end credits as above (at the time the show was probably aired on the weekends given there was only 24 episodes total). In 1985, a new set of episodes was produced to give the show a daily strip syndication of 5 days a week, so a new opening theme song was created to sync to the original footage, while the end credits was all new, and that's the version that continued to be syndicated into the 90's and such.
There was no need to "color time and develop differently" the opening, Christopher when they had the original negatives. Those were were re-transferred since color reproduction on video had advanced since 1962.
Actually the music was slightly different after 1962. You don't hear the brass and percussion/bass section as prominent. I remember when they changed it.
Thank you for this. I like how the credits were originally episode specific, unlike when they were broadcast in the 80's and even unlike how they created a one-size-fits-all 60's credits when they eventually reused the original end credits. For example, I see that "Other Voices" lists Don Messick and Shepard Menken instead of just Mel Blanc and Don Messick on each episode as they do when shown now.
I believe that the 1963 closing credits here fit that of “Elroy’s Mob”-Carlo Vinci animation, the voice of Don Messick as a cop or law enforcement rep, etc. I believe that this is the only original closing outside of the same 1962 closing that has been plastered on all 1960’s reruns now.
Really? That's probably because you did not see the pre-1980s reruns with the 1962-63 copyright dates on them. When the new episodes were produced for the syndication package, new end credits were made with the still title cards instead of the animated closing of the original.
@@RayPointerChannel I remember seeing the closing for awhile and then I never saw it again. I knew it dated back to the 60s, but I thought the later seasons were also from the 60s.
Hanna-Barbera is in my opinion the best cartoon studio that it has ever been, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were such geniuses! They created such awesome and legendary cartoons and always so affectionatley animated! And the music composed by Hoyt Curtin is always so perfectly harmonized to the animations... that is so awesome!
As a child of the 70s, I remember watching alot of Hanna-Barbera cartoons of that era, but when i look back on them now they are such low quality productions and only worsened by the 80s. In my opinion they were never able to match what they had with the Flintstones and The Jetsons
@@dougshoemaker7733 that's because Hanna-Barbera Productions gotten so big by the early 60's, it became humanly impossible for Bill and Joe to supervised every cartoon show they made while running the company. It's a good thing that their friend and hollywood director George Sidney was the CEO of H-B, otherwise, Bill and Joe would've dropped dead of an heart attack before they moved into new facility in Universal City in 1963.
Jane Jetson was voiced by Penny Singleton. In 1936 she was know as Dorothy McNultey. That year she was a prominent character in the film "After the Thin Man", considered to be one of the first modern Hollywood sequels.
It aired in color, but prints ABC sent out to affiliates who aired the show at a different time were normally in B&W (since many of those smaller stations -- which might have multiple network affiliations and only took a handfull of ABC programming -- still hadn't upgraded to color equipment by 1964). Any promos or other commercials attached to those prints were also going to be in B&W.
The 1960s intro version looks amazing for well the 60s. Could still easily be mistaken for 1970s or 80s as it is already although it was re-coloured in a darker hue for the 80s I think.
That's how I remember first seeing it. I was surprised to learn it originally aired in the 1960s and that it first ran on ABC. It was also the first ABC program broadcast in color. Although the first 2 seasons of The Flintstones (1960-1966) were filmed in color, they had to be aired in black-and-white because some ABC stations couldn't broadcast in color. The first few episodes of The Flintstones' season 3 were also aired first in B&W.
The Jetsons were made in Mid 1962 because they were all produced from Summer 1962-Early 1963, and aired from September 23, 1962-March 3, 1963 with 24 Episodes from the ABC era, before in Syndication between 1985 and 1987.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X It is believed that the dancing sticks logo was used for 1964-1970 repeats on CBS' Saturday Morning lineup. I remember seeing the "S from hell " closing from a 1971 rerun on syndicated channel 2, a then-CBS distributed station in Detroit, Michigan.
AFAIK, Jonny Quest was also in full color on network prime time. They showed clips of "Mystery of the Lizard Men" as such on their fall preview special.
NBC's 1980-1981 Saturday Morning Line-Up 8:00am The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour 9:00am The Flintstone Comedy Show 10:30am Batman and the Super 7 11:30am Jonny Quest 12:00pm The Daffy Duck Show 12:30pm The Jetsons
@@Rlotpir1972 but a new Saturday AM was attempted by H-B in 1974 for CBS (but was reformatted into "Partridge Family 2200 A.D."), If it hadn't be that then we would've got some Jetson spinoffs like "The Jetson Comedy Show" (Orbit City Cops (w/ Casper and Hairy Scarey), Space Ghost (which will eventually move as a segment on "Space Stars"), Judy, Elroy & Astro (solving Scooby-Doo style mysteries) etc...).
The 1980s Jetsons episodes used the exact same opening as it existed in 1962. To clarify, it may have been color-timed and developed differently in the film lab, but it wasn't repainted at all.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X But I heard that most people saw the Screen Gems "S from Hell/Filmstrip S" on syndicated reruns of The Jetsons in the early 1970s. but I'm not sure what the NBC Saturday Morning airings from 1965-67 had? even the CBS repeats from 1964? (maybe the "Dancing Sticks" logo, although it wasn't on there when it originally aired.)
ABC also had season 7 of Wagon Train and The Greatest Show on Earth in 1963-64, and reruns of Empire, which were aired in the previous season of 1962-63 on NBC. I have several TV Guides from that season for proof.
nope Screen Gems owned a 25% stake of Hanna-Barbera in exchange of distribution. They had an option to buy the rest, but decided not to because their parent company, Columbia Pictures, was losing money and was fighting a hostile takeover. MCA/Universal at the time, expressed interest in buying H-B, but the company decided to sell it to Taft Broadcasting in 1966
Hanna-Barbera had a six-year deal with MCA/Universal during the 1990's. Then in 1996, Warner Bros. bought the entire Turner Entertainment including Hanna-Barbera and half of MGM movies and TV shows.
At the ending credits what is it with the wives not hearing their husbands scream for help George and the treadmill screaming Jane and Fred Flintstone screaming Wilma to open the door XD
Just so you know... This show ran for only one season, 1962-1963. It got a second life in the 1980s, and Hanna-Barbara produced a slew of new episodes for the five-a-day-week weekday morning/afternoon time slot. Which proves...?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, no, no! I took this one out for you! You take this one! I keep this! You're not taking my whole wallet so you can go shopping!
I don't think I ever saw this version. The ones I saw in reruns were mostly the 80s reboot. I think people know that version more. I don't think I ever saw these credits.
just on about at least 2 1960s episodes such as Rosie the Robot and a Date w/ Jet Screamer have the 1980s closing credits. Otherwise most of the closing credits for the 1960s Jetsons have been restored.
Wasn't there an episode where they were on the Moon and Astro dug up this black rectangle, and later Gorge was in this fancy room on his deathbed now really old trying to touch another one? I think the rectangle consumed him and he was reborn.
Great to see this in its original form. Turner/H-B has plastered over the Screen Gems logo on present versions just by repeating the portion of the "cycle" of George on the treadmill.
I believe that in addition to The Jetsons & The Flintstones, one other ABC series in color (although not in prime time) was "Beany & Cecil." I could be wrong on that---but I believe I read that somewhere. Possibly "The Bugs Bunny Show" as well.
I was ten years old when this first aired, and thought that it was one of the greatest cartoons ever! Guess what? I still do!
How the dog and cat got off and George was left on?
"Help! Help! Jane, stop this crazy thing! Jane! Help! Jane!"
I came here because of Steven Universe for Greg the Babysitter.
Jane was voiced by an actress named Penny Singleton. She began her career in the mid-30's under the name Dorothy McNultey which was highlighted by a major role in the 1936 film "After the Thin Man" with William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart. She spent the 1940's as the film version of the comic strip character "Blondie" opposite actor Arthur Lake as her husband Dagwood. In 1961 she was approached by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera for their futuristic new cartoon "The Jetsons" and the rest is history :-) "JANE STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!!!"
Thanks. Now I can sleep tonight...
For 45 minutes I was out there screaming, I know that cause my damn watch is broken!
And this is why we walked our dog on the park not on the treadmill
Rest In Peace Judy Jetson! Thank you for always entertaining the world!
We will miss her.
Janet Waldo 1920-2016
Janet Waldo can rest in peace- her successor, Kath Soucie can carry on as Judy Jetson!!!
Janet was born in 1930
George Jetson arriving at work and putting his feet up on the desk is a pre-cursor of Homer Simpson!
Someone had to start it.
Rick Langley
Check Out The Simpsons from 2015 based on the Jetsons episode .
Even though this cartoon was produced in color, way back in 1961, most TV sets weren't color tv's, so, I grew up watching these cartoons mostly in black and white. It wasn't until the early 1970's I finally got to see cartoons like this in full color. Imagine my surprise when I watched Jonny Quest for the first time in color, it completely change the feel and intensity of the that cartoon. Kids these day's have no idea what early TV was like, without being in color and maybe 2 or 3 channels to watch.
This was the first program that ABC broadcast in color, despite the fact that NBC had several shows broadcast in color since '54, and CBS broadcast some specials and sporting events in color for about that same time period. ABC never had the budget for anything like that.
+bdh70 only the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit & New York markets were guaranteed to see it in color. The Flintstones (though always produced in color) were broadcast in B&W for the first two seasons.
@@bdh70 Well at least they got the show on in color, but yeah, this was still a transitional period where a lot of programs still did B&W for a few more years and not everyone had a color set to use.
@@JHollowayNetwork True too.
This is the version I remember in elementary school. Oh the memories of Saturday cartoons..sigh
Loved the Jetsons. Still do..
Did you know that when Hanna-Barbera was working on *_Space Stars_* in 1980, that that block was supposed to have been 90 minutes long? The missing last 30 minutes of the show were to include 8-minute fragments of these 1962 _The Jetsons_ episodes (the family pet, Astro, already had his own spinoff series within _Space Stars_ called _Astro & the Space Mutts_) alongside a second new _Herculoids_ segment.
Loved the opening and closing credits!!!!
The first five seconds of the opening credits were later used for the opening credits of Space Ghost (1966-67).
That's why it looks the same
The future was seen with such optimism back then. As a kid, watching this show, I thought the 21st century would be as cool as this cartoon.
I didn't find out till much later that this cartoon was set 100 years in the future from this cartoon s conception-2062.
+David Smith Oh really? I didn't know that (you learn something new each day! :D )...
You know what this means!? There's still time!!
There's hope for the generation Xers. There young enough to see it happen.
Alas the future has not been as good as we have been lead to believe. We have learned nothing .
As a kid I used to think this took place in 2022
The Jetsons had no internet, texting, twitter, or social media. There was also no vcr/dvd/tivo as there was an episode where George was upset about having to miss a football game on tv. Also in the 1962 episodes they still used the Univac-type computers that filled an entire room and went obsolete during the 1970s
Keith Idota
😂😂😂
Actually there was an Internet of sorts referenced in the episodes for information, but not as exposed. After all, it was supposed to be about the characters living in the ultra-modern society still having the same problems of the human experience. The gadgets were just props and visual puns, not the focus of the concept.
Add to that, the writers could only "convert" their 1962-63 minds to imagine what life would be like 100 years later, based only on what their minds could comprehend. For exampleI remember George asking Elroy if he did his "homework tapes." No CD, no downloads, etc.
But they did have 100 inch Big Screen Television.
I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but would that "Internet of sorts" have been RUDI (Referential Universal Digital Indexer), at Spacely's office?
Did Jane ever stop that crazy thing?
+Doug Shoemaker one time on cartoon network she did pushed a button and it stop when a Commercial was coming on or was it the next sponsor for the next cartoon ?
There is a new Scooby Doo comic where The Mystery Inc gang time travel to the future and meet The Jetsons In it you can learn how George stops that crazy thing!
Did Gilligan ever get off the island?
Doug Shoemaker did scooby not ever do it for a Scooby snack
no he was out there for 45 minutes he know cause his dam watch is broken
I really liked The Jetsons. Look how adoringly George's wife and family greet him after a long day at work.
At least the children aren't unhappy!
One of Hoyt Curtin's very best arrangements and conducts. // But I always wonder, how did Judy get George's pipe lit? Did she take a few puffs herself first? Jet Swinger would've turned off by the pipe-breath.
Wow! I used to watch it as a child and it was so hilarious. Good old times. The theme song is unforgettable.
All Hanna-Barbera cartoons were produced in color, but not all were broadcast in color until the early '60s. "The Jetsons" was the first ABC network series to be broadcast in color...
How about live action
In order for them to do that, they had to use the film chain at NBC in Burbank!
Actually, we just viewed this because the same thing almost happened to me today with our treadmill!! The family was cackling and they’re the ones who were saying that it reminded them of the ending credits of the Jetsons!! Life imitating art…😂 And still making ppl laugh and smile some 60 years later - thank you for uploading!
On an instrumental basis, this just might be the best TV theme ever, whether the show was live-action or animated. The energy and diverse elements in the opening made it special.
A terrific, energetic composition by Hoyt Curtain, who brought big band jazz to cartoons.
I'm honestly hoping that mid-century architecture makes a come-back by 2062-when the show takes place.
You don't have to wait that long; it's back in fashion now. I work in an antiques and collectibles shop, and anything mid-century gets bought up quickly.
We are slowly moving our house back to its mid-century roots. Gotten wild and thrown one or two Bauhaus details in as well.
That theme song is wild. Big band sound
Really...! Who in this day and age would bother with such an awesome trumpet solo/horn arrangement? Today, just mail it in...
Doc Sevreinson
I love The Jetsons I watched as a kid,and it gave you hope and dreams for the future. What the hell happened?
Kevin Pippin What happened is the sad reality of the 21st century, the future becoming the present. As George Carlin once commented on this subject -The future ain't what it used to be.
Optimism and imagination was discouraged by the "masterminds," that's why. And if you follow American political history up to today, you may also find your answer.
@Roy Pointer
Indeed. Now The Tribe has mandated that we be PC and include everyone and reward folks whether they have earned it or not.
@@watershed44 Oh, FFS
@thoof2001
FFS says the uden. Udens are behind all this PC carp.
This and the Flinstones were cartoons shown in primetime for adults or for the whole family, to watch together, that simulates real life.
Yes, because I remember watching the Flintstones in the evening..
The Flintstones=The Simpsons
The Jetsons=Futurama
@@Super_Mario128 Top Cat=Ouran High School Host Club
60s toons were so cool....couldn’t wait for Saturday..
"The 1980s Jetsons episodes used the exact same opening as it existed in 1962. To clarify, it may have been color-timed and developed differently in the film lab, but it wasn't repainted at all."
Prior to 1985, the show in syndication had the opening/end credits as above (at the time the show was probably aired on the weekends given there was only 24 episodes total). In 1985, a new set of episodes was produced to give the show a daily strip syndication of 5 days a week, so a new opening theme song was created to sync to the original footage, while the end credits was all new, and that's the version that continued to be syndicated into the 90's and such.
There was no need to "color time and develop differently" the opening, Christopher when they had the original negatives. Those were were re-transferred since color reproduction on video had advanced since 1962.
Actually the music was slightly different after 1962. You don't hear the brass and percussion/bass section as prominent. I remember when they changed it.
I liked Hoyt Curtin's original 1962 arrangement better. The brass section really swung... That final high blast at the end is so fantastic.
Yes in the 1970s it actually moved to NBC Saturday afternoon around noon
I wish they would bring it back on different TV channels love it
Thank you for this. I like how the credits were originally episode specific, unlike when they were broadcast in the 80's and even unlike how they created a one-size-fits-all 60's credits when they eventually reused the original end credits. For example, I see that "Other Voices" lists Don Messick and Shepard Menken instead of just Mel Blanc and Don Messick on each episode as they do when shown now.
One of my My favorite cartoons ..The theme song was 🔥🙌🏾 the instrumental arrangements was everything 🎷 🎺🥁🎹🎼🎻
Chasidy Light It’s great to see someone that appreciates great music!
BEST
OPENING & CLOSING
EVER
i like how the quality is the original 60s orange yellow brown style
Yeah, fancy!
The brass section and the orchestration is fantastic
"Elroy's Mob" will be last original episode of the Jetsons to air until the 1985 syndication revival.
Oh, yeah-that's the one where Elroy's report card got switched on him.
@@Ian16545 and Fred and Barney makes cameos on smartwatches
I believe that the 1963 closing credits here fit that of “Elroy’s Mob”-Carlo Vinci animation, the voice of Don Messick as a cop or law enforcement rep, etc. I believe that this is the only original closing outside of the same 1962 closing that has been plastered on all 1960’s reruns now.
When I was a kid in the '80s I had no idea this show dated back to 1962. Crazy.
i grew up in 60's we only had 3 tv channels
Really? That's probably because you did not see the pre-1980s reruns with the 1962-63 copyright dates on them. When the new episodes were produced for the syndication package, new end credits were made with the still title cards instead of the animated closing of the original.
@@RayPointerChannel I remember seeing the closing for awhile and then I never saw it again. I knew it dated back to the 60s, but I thought the later seasons were also from the 60s.
I watched it in the 2000s. I use to think the show was from the 1600s lol.
George to Jane: Did you NOT hear me out there??? 😠😠😠😠
Hanna-Barbera is in my opinion the best cartoon studio that it has ever been, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were such geniuses! They created such awesome and legendary cartoons and always so affectionatley animated! And the music composed by Hoyt Curtin is always so perfectly harmonized to the animations... that is so awesome!
On point with your comment
As a child of the 70s, I remember watching alot of Hanna-Barbera cartoons of that era, but when i look back on them now they are such low quality productions and only worsened by the 80s. In my opinion they were never able to match what they had with the Flintstones and The Jetsons
RageTV They started going downhill when Bill and Joe became executive producers and they turned the producing and directing over to others.
@@dougshoemaker7733 that's because Hanna-Barbera Productions gotten so big by the early 60's, it became humanly impossible for Bill and Joe to supervised every cartoon show they made while running the company. It's a good thing that their friend and hollywood director George Sidney was the CEO of H-B, otherwise, Bill and Joe would've dropped dead of an heart attack before they moved into new facility in Universal City in 1963.
I definitely have to agree with you 100%. There's nothing else to say they are amazing.
The perfect family....where the man is king of the castle.....Wish those days were back!!!!
Mike M
me too
Amen, brother
@Mike M
Absolutely.
"Those days"? Like, in the 2000s? Remember, this is a show about the "future"
Jane Jetson was voiced by Penny Singleton. In 1936 she was know as Dorothy McNultey. That year she was a prominent character in the film "After the Thin Man", considered to be one of the first modern Hollywood sequels.
Then she became Blondie Bumstead. This series is a futuristic Blondie and Dagwood.
Thanks for posting. The best theme HB ever did (of course, they had the music figured out across the board).
Rock & Roll HOF member Hal Blaine on drums...in 2016, age 89-still rockin'!
In my honest opinion , the absolute coolest cartoon theme song from H.B. was the theme song from
JOHNNY QUEST .
Wait if they walk there dogs on eskalaters then what if they fall in to space 😰😓
i used to get home from school and watch the jetsons , flintstones , batman good old days
Thank you for uploading! This is the real-deal! Perfect! :)
Rest in paradise Janet Waldo
I love to watch this growing up as a kid
“For 45 minutes I was screaming, I know that because my damn watch is broken!”
Thanks for posting !! Thought these were long gone.
It aired in color, but prints ABC sent out to affiliates who aired the show at a different time were normally in B&W (since many of those smaller stations -- which might have multiple network affiliations and only took a handfull of ABC programming -- still hadn't upgraded to color equipment by 1964). Any promos or other commercials attached to those prints were also going to be in B&W.
My grandmother remembers watching this show when it first aired when she was 7 years old.
Love it it is cool to see this original opening with commercial
I was not born yet when the Jetsons aired in prime time on ABC
George Jetson is born into the world today, July 31, 2022.
55 Years Of The Jetsons, Today!
That trumpeter was Bud Brisbois was a legend player. RIP Bud
When did he die
@@kascnef June, 1978 41 years old suicide. His Wickapedia page credits will blow your mind.
I used to watch this show all the time
I Love How George Got Stuck In The Treadmill!
By this time, the classic ABC logo and it's circle 7 logo were introduced by the time the Jetsons debuted.
Certainly lasted decades.
Ya gotta love Hoyt Curtin's jazzy big band music on the end credits.
"JANE, WILL YOU STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!" Now that's classic, folks!!! :)
The 1960s intro version looks amazing for well the 60s. Could still easily be mistaken for 1970s or 80s as it is already although it was re-coloured in a darker hue for the 80s I think.
1:57 The episode was produced in February of 1963 and aired from March 3, 1963.
in the 1970s it moved to NBC on Saturday mornings at noon or 1230 for a few years
It was also aired in syndication on Sunday mornings.
That's how I remember first seeing it. I was surprised to learn it originally aired in the 1960s and that it first ran on ABC. It was also the first ABC program broadcast in color. Although the first 2 seasons of The Flintstones (1960-1966) were filmed in color, they had to be aired in black-and-white because some ABC stations couldn't broadcast in color. The first few episodes of The Flintstones' season 3 were also aired first in B&W.
Lasted from September,1971 to April,1983.
WE’RE POLLUTING THE WORLD WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
I saw these sponsor ads when streaming the show on HBO Max.
The Jetsons were made in Mid 1962 because they were all produced from Summer 1962-Early 1963, and aired from September 23, 1962-March 3, 1963 with 24 Episodes from the ABC era, before in Syndication between 1985 and 1987.
You can tell the announcer voice is Dick Tufeld who was the robot voice from Lost in Space TV series
This may have been the season before the "dancing sticks",which started in 1963-64,if I recall.
It was.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X It is believed that the dancing sticks logo was used for 1964-1970 repeats on CBS' Saturday Morning lineup. I remember seeing the "S from hell " closing from a 1971 rerun on syndicated channel 2, a then-CBS distributed station in Detroit, Michigan.
His daughter is such a sweetheart
1:45 - 2:05 50+ years later STILL the best goddamn thing Hoyt Curtain EVER wrote!!!!
The first video tape machine marketed to the public was introduced in 1965.
AFAIK, Jonny Quest was also in full color on network prime time. They showed clips of "Mystery of the Lizard Men" as such on their fall preview special.
Omg, the network is coming on!
I never thought I’d say this but…
The Jetsons had better commercials than The Flintstones
I bet a lot of people never thought that a mere cartoon would show a glimpse into the future, how wild is that.
NBC's 1980-1981 Saturday Morning Line-Up
8:00am The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9:00am The Flintstone Comedy Show
10:30am Batman and the Super 7
11:30am Jonny Quest
12:00pm The Daffy Duck Show
12:30pm The Jetsons
The Jetsons were also aired in syndication on Sunday mornings.
@@Rlotpir1972 but a new Saturday AM was attempted by H-B in 1974 for CBS (but was reformatted into "Partridge Family 2200 A.D."), If it hadn't be that then we would've got some Jetson spinoffs like "The Jetson Comedy Show" (Orbit City Cops (w/ Casper and Hairy Scarey), Space Ghost (which will eventually move as a segment on "Space Stars"), Judy, Elroy & Astro (solving Scooby-Doo style mysteries) etc...).
Where'd you find this? Never saw this version of the credits until now!
This Is Just Like Watching Animated Shows In Real Prime Time Again
The 1980s Jetsons episodes used the exact same opening as it existed in 1962. To clarify, it may have been color-timed and developed differently in the film lab, but it wasn't repainted at all.
When The Jetsons was reran on syndication in the 1970's, the ABC card at the end was replaced by Screen Gems.
It was still there up to 1983.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X You mean the "S from Hell" or the "Dancing Sticks" logo that preceded it?
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No, the in-credit mention of Screen Gems that follows the in-credit mention of H-B.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X But I heard that most people saw the Screen Gems "S from Hell/Filmstrip S" on syndicated reruns of The Jetsons in the early 1970s. but I'm not sure what the NBC Saturday Morning airings from 1965-67 had? even the CBS repeats from 1964? (maybe the "Dancing Sticks" logo, although it wasn't on there when it originally aired.)
@@JHollowayNetwork Dancing sticks.
I love the Jetsons
ABC also had season 7 of Wagon Train and The Greatest Show on Earth in 1963-64, and reruns of Empire, which were aired in the previous season of 1962-63 on NBC. I have several TV Guides from that season for proof.
During 1958-1966, Hanna-Barbera Productions were owned by Columbia's "Screen Gems" TV Production.
nope Screen Gems owned a 25% stake of Hanna-Barbera in exchange of distribution. They had an option to buy the rest, but decided not to because their parent company, Columbia Pictures, was losing money and was fighting a hostile takeover. MCA/Universal at the time, expressed interest in buying H-B, but the company decided to sell it to Taft Broadcasting in 1966
+David Gibson "steak" as in porterhouse or "stake" as in a percentage of?
Percentage of.
+BearOnARomp spell check complete
Hanna-Barbera had a six-year deal with MCA/Universal during the 1990's. Then in 1996, Warner Bros. bought the entire Turner Entertainment including Hanna-Barbera and half of MGM movies and TV shows.
At the ending credits what is it with the wives not hearing their husbands scream for help George and the treadmill screaming Jane and Fred Flintstone screaming Wilma to open the door XD
I always saw this as men being clumsy on their free time.
And top cat gets to bed in the credits, a dead woman scares him and he says, IS SOMEBODY CALL 911 NOW!!!!!, but his friends can't hear him
Just so you know...
This show ran for only one season, 1962-1963. It got a second life in the 1980s, and Hanna-Barbara produced a slew of new episodes for the five-a-day-week weekday morning/afternoon time slot.
Which proves...?
Technically it also ran on saturday mornings in the 60's and 70's.
Meet Bob Belcher
His boy Eugene
Daughter Tina
Linda his wife
1:04 This is what sponsor tags were like before these modern days.
0:25 *MEET GEORGE JETSON!*
0:31 *HIS BOY ELROY!*
0:37 *DAUGHTER JUDY!*
0:43 *JANE HIS WIFE!*
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, no, no! I took this one out for you! You take this one! I keep this! You're not taking my whole wallet so you can go shopping!
When I was little I would always crack up at the "Jane! Get me off this crazy thing"! part.
I don't think I ever saw this version. The ones I saw in reruns were mostly the 80s reboot. I think people know that version more. I don't think I ever saw these credits.
FYI...Don Messick was also the voice for Boo-Boo bear and Ranger Smith in the Yogi Bear series....
Don't forget _Scooooby-doooby-doo!_ (of course til _Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights_ which by then he passed away)
He also voiced the Autobots Ratchet and Gears, in the 1984-86 G1 Transformers cartoon.
Also, did the Constructicon, Scavenger in the G1 Transformer series.
Also Dr Benton Quest from episode 7 of Jonny Quest on.
I can not believe FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR THOUSAND people watched this.
just on about at least 2 1960s episodes such as Rosie the Robot and a Date w/ Jet Screamer have the 1980s closing credits. Otherwise most of the closing credits for the 1960s Jetsons have been restored.
Your right this IS the original!
Wasn't there an episode where they were on the Moon and Astro dug up this black rectangle, and later Gorge was in this fancy room on his deathbed now really old trying to touch another one? I think the rectangle consumed him and he was reborn.
Animation then was about our future. Now it is about mutations and death. I miss the old standards.
Me too..
The Jetsons closing George gets caught up on that treadmill!
Someone forgot to put an emergency stop button in the first place.
This was set in 2062. George is 40. He'll be born soon!
My favorite character was Judy and the mom
Delilah Pet Productions were
i do remember watching the jetsons
I only came here for "Jane, stop this crazy thing!" 🤣🤣🤣
Great to see this in its original form. Turner/H-B has plastered over the Screen Gems logo on present versions just by repeating the portion of the "cycle" of George on the treadmill.
I crack up when Astro rips the paper
Thank goodness for Scotch Magic Tape!
I believe that in addition to The Jetsons & The Flintstones, one other ABC series in color (although not in prime time) was "Beany & Cecil." I could be wrong on that---but I believe I read that somewhere. Possibly "The Bugs Bunny Show" as well.
Yes, BEANY AND CECIL was originally broadcast in color at 7:30 Saturday evenings, sponsored by Mattel.