Syl I thought too that we would be living in Space Needle style homes, having food immediately made at the stroke of a button, a robot housekeeper, and a self-organizing wardrobe. While most things have stayed pretty much the same, the Jetsons was a futuristic version of the family featuring George and his wife, Jane Jetson, living a space needle designed home. They traveled space by motorized planes. Cars is non-existent and travel to other planets occurred regularly. Anyway, the show was a perfect companion piece to the Flintstones and both made by the same company. There was some interaction between the shows and the families differences but there were the similarities.

BumpyRide A poor step-sister to The Flintstones, The Jetsons never achieved the viewer ship or following that The Flintstones had achieved, which was why it was canceled after only one season. The downfall of the show was that is was not nearly as inventive as The Flinstones. Here, all you had to do was push a button and some robotic device would come out and clean the dinner table. The location is also vague. Where are they, and why are all the buildings elevated above the clouds? The characters weren't very inventive, aside from Rosie, and the other relationships were never fleshed out thus leaving the show sterile and antiseptic. Clever at times but not clever enough.

SonicStuart The Jetsons is one of the most famous and classical cartoons done by Hanna-Barbera cartoons! Along with The Flinstones and Scooby-Doo which were also big classics by Hanna-Barbera. This series is about a space-age family called The Jetsons that live in the space-age and in their setting they have flying hover cars, robots as like maids and some other things, video phones, also pipe elevators that can you up to the next floor in like 2 seconds and some other neat stuff! I got to meet the creators who did this cartoon and other Hanna-Barbera cartoons! I liked this show next to The Flinstones and it is sort of similar to The Flinstones except with time period differences. But The Jetsons and The Flinstones meet each other in this Hanna-Barbera Super Star Movie called, "The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones" and in that movie they actually switch places. The Flinstones were in the Space Age and The Jetsons were Stone Age.User Rating: 6/10BOTTOM LINE: A GREAT HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON!

djdavig I bought the new Jetsons original series DVD set for a friend's kid and ended up watching it with her and was blown away. I used to watch re-runs as a kid and had forgotten how much I used to love them. It's a very high quality cartoon series that put me in sort of Vulcan mind meld with the past and the future all at the same time. That is because when you watch it you are seeing a 1962 version of the 23rd century (or so). It is fascinating to see this in action. The wife stays home and goes shopping while the husband goes off to the exploitive factory to work for a demeaning boss. I really enjoyed looking at all of the gadgets they had and seeing which ones came true in the future, like flat screen TVs and wristwatch phones everywhere, and which ones never did. Maybe some of the creators ideas are right around the corner! The funny thing was my friend's daughter enjoyed it as much as I did because of the funny story lines. I can highly recommend the new DVD set with all 24 episodes from 1962. There are commentaries from some of the characters and other added features that made this a great buy.