In the year 1962, a series was premiered showing a space age where human needs were totally automated. In this future era, (year 2062), very funny family situations were shown. The protagonist cooked dinner for 4 people at the push of a button, and they also owned a splendid robot-domestic.
Humans live in intelligent houses suspended in the air by means of large supports, travel in flying vehicles and go from one point to another by means of conveyor belts.
The name of this series was The Jetsons, at first competing with two very successful series, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and Dennis the Menace.
Since the audience did not turn out as expected by ABC, the network decided to rerun the first 24 episodes on Saturday mornings, so the series was a great success among children and teenagers.
George Jetsons and his family live in an apartment above the clouds in Orbit City. He is employed at the Spacely Space Age Sprockets.
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His wife Jane is dedicated to domestic chores, although she has the latest technology devices that facilitate her task, in addition to the invaluable help of Rosie, the robot acquired from the U-Rent-a-Robot Maid Service.
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Judy is the eldest daughter of this marriage, she is a beautiful teenager who studies at Orbit High School, likes rock music and dreams of finding her prince charming.
Elroy his brother is a boy genius who studies at the Little Dipper School, where all his teachers are robots.
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Astro is the huge Great Dane dog of the family, very intelligent and loyal to his masters.
Many viewers imagined flying in their personal vehicles, living in floating cities and frequently traveling to the Moon, given what was shown in this animated series.
Sixty years after this series aired many of the things shown in it have come true:
1.- The sliding belts that move people from one place to another:
These are very common today in shopping malls, airports and subways worldwide.
2.- Videoconferencing:
They are the well-known telephone calls by which the interlocutors see each other's faces, they can be made through computers with Internet or cellular phones.
3.- The smart home:
In the series its protagonists lived in a high-tech house, today there are devices like Google Nest that can identify friends or strangers at the door, Philips Hue lights can be programmed to change color based on our heart rate. There are refrigerators that photograph what's left in the fridge and make suggestions based on our diets.
Amazon's Alexa alerts us of unusual sounds in our homes, if our domestic devices are smart we can program them to work at the time that suits us best.
4.- Robots that do the housework:
This family had a robot that did the housework, and, along with several other devices, cleaned the dirt automatically.
5.- Work On Line:
The On Line work is nowadays omnipresent, being more showy in this Covid-19 era, many of us work On Line alternating this with our face-to-face work.
6.- The flat screen television:
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If you look at the series carefully there are flat screen televisions everywhere, these televisions have a more attractive design and manage to immerse us in the program we are watching.
7.- The smart watch:
This technological gadget, apart from telling the time, allows us to send messages, play music, manage our social networks and help answer calls on our cell phones from the wrist of our arm.
8.- The Internet:
The Internet facilitates access to information, entertainment, communication and work, being this service available on computers, tablets, cell phones and even smart watches.
As a little boy I started watching this series and I even liked it more than The Flinstones, I was always attracted by those objects and devices that I had never seen before, there I saw for the first time a flying vehicle, a dog that almost spoke, a robot maid, a genius child, an inventor father and a housewife accustomed to high technology.
The creators and producers of the series were William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who along with musician Hoyt Curtin wrote the theme song for the series. The voices of these futuristic characters belong to: George O'Hanlon (George Jetson), Penny Singleton (Jane Jetson), Janet Waldo (Judy Jetson), Jean Vander Pyl (Rosie), and Daws Butler (Elroy Jetson).
The series consisted of three seasons, between 1962 and 1963 24 episodes were aired. The second season consisted of 41 episodes and was broadcasted in 1985, and the third and last season consisted of 10 episodes and was broadcasted in 1987. Precisely in this year The Jetsons meet The Flintstones:
In 1988 a film called Rockin' with Judy Jetson is produced:
In a way the series gave a positive glimpse into the future and well if we notice most of the things we are shown have come true.
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