Intern
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Jul 21, 2011, 10:50 AM
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Question about The Jetsons
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I know that HB released only 1 season of The Jetsons from the 1960s. I also know that the show was revived for the 80s. Did they ever released a DVD of the revived version of the show?
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Cartoon Aficionado / Moderator
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Jul 21, 2011, 3:13 PM
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Yes. The complete second season was released on DVD a while back. The ten eps from 1987 are the only ones left.
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Directing Animator / Moderator
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Jul 21, 2011, 8:44 PM
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I think there were 24 original episodes made in the 1960s.
41 new half hours episodes were made for Fall 1986 broadcast for weekday syndication. Orbitty was added as a family pet. 10 new episodes were made for Fall 1987 for a total of 75 half hour shows.
George O'Hanlon, George Jetson's voice, suffered from health problems and was close to being legally blind when the 1986 and 1987 episodes were produced. He had to have someone feed him dialogue lines to perform since he could not see well enough to read the scripts.
By the time the 1990 "Jetsons" theatrical movie premiered in theatres, O' Hanlon, Mel Blanc (Mr. Spacely), and Daws Butler (Elroy, Mr. Cogswell, and Henry the maintenance man) had all passed away. 
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"Don't chew gum on camera. Don't whistle. You may kiss Bob Barker but please don't kill him." -announcer Johnny Olson briefing the audience of potential contestants for "The Price is Right"
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Directing Animator
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Jul 26, 2011, 6:46 AM
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Why were only 24 original episodes produced? Did NBC cancel the series? Oh, wait... sorry, I think they aired on NBC on Saturday mornings but originally were on ABC (same as "The Flintstones"?)
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Directing Animator / Moderator
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Jul 26, 2011, 3:50 PM
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Why were only 24 original episodes produced? Did NBC cancel the series? Oh, wait... sorry, I think they aired on NBC on Saturday mornings but originally were on ABC (same as "The Flintstones"?)
The original Jetsons series episodes were shown on ABC prime time around 1963-1964. 24 episodes made for one season. It was not renewed for a second season.
NBC picked up the reruns to show on their Saturday Morning line-up from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. That was where I first saw the series.
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"Don't chew gum on camera. Don't whistle. You may kiss Bob Barker but please don't kill him." -announcer Johnny Olson briefing the audience of potential contestants for "The Price is Right"
(This post was edited by artytoons on Jan 28, 2012, 5:33 PM)
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Inbetweener
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Dec 28, 2011, 10:28 AM
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Oh, what's also worth mentioning of the Later 1980s Jetsons were that some of those (and eventually all of the 1987 episodes which have animation done at Toei Animation whose credits include Magical DoReMi, One Piece, the 1986 Dennis the Menace cartoon and earlier episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Fil Cartoons who had ties with H-B in the beginning) were notably done on the computer, specifically that H-B computer system (which even back then had an extremely bad reception, specifically from Earl Kress, due to technology being not as advanced at the time) which was in reality a bought out Cambridge Animation Systems of London, England, UK.
I believe the very last use of the exact H-B computer system was in Johnny Bravo from 1993 (the second to last was that jagged Scooby Doo Arabian Knights cameo fest from 1992)
Yes, The Jetsons (itself, the original that is) only ran for one season from 1962-1963.
The ones from the 1980s are the remake version and John Kricfalusi (of Ren and Stimpy and He-Hog The Atomic Pig where there are talks in his blogsite of turning it into a mainstream feature film) was clearly involved in mostly the 1980s computer episodes (ie, you can see his exact earmarks in the High Tech Wreck episode) and had some good ties with both Bill and Joe (he had lots of great things to say on his blog and does have lots of GOOD points about Animation in general).
John K aside, Dave Feiss of I.M Weasel is known to have also worked on some of these as well.
Even though Mr K himself no longer worked on the 1987 episodes, his influence (clearly the BG coloring and panting) is still kept in the 1987 Season 3 episodes, just to give a few points, roughly speaking.
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Everything the Light Touches Is Our Kingdom.
ROAR!, Confound it, Kiddies, Don't miss my Cartoon Show! - King Leonardo.
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Directing Animator / Moderator
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Jan 3, 2012, 9:48 AM
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The 1990 movie was most remembered for the dumping of Janet Waldo as Judy Jetson's voice and having then-popular pop star "Tiffany" voicing Judy's voice in an effort to lure younger moviegoers.
The treatment of Ms. Waldo left a not-so-pleasant aftereffect between her and the studio, unfortunately.
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"Don't chew gum on camera. Don't whistle. You may kiss Bob Barker but please don't kill him." -announcer Johnny Olson briefing the audience of potential contestants for "The Price is Right"
(This post was edited by artytoons on Jan 3, 2012, 9:48 AM)
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Animator
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Jan 28, 2012, 1:45 PM
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Apparently not too unpleasant, because she did provide the audio commentary on the Season 1 DVD, mainly the episode "Date with Jet Screamer", which happens to be my all-time favorite episode.
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Supervising Animator
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Jan 29, 2012, 6:00 PM
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The 80's Jetsons had Orbity.
I like Orbity...many may not....
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Inbetweener
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Feb 7, 2012, 4:10 PM
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Well, i've got to tell you, Mr Clevland, it's fine if you like Orbitty and i'm okey dokey with that, as for people not liking Orbitty, well it goes like this, from what i got clearly, the H-B writers and even about half of the artists literary HATED this character because it was extremely ridiculous and out of place in appearance with the Jetsons character designs and did not fit at all and was more in place with sappy hideous utter unwatchable eye twitching stuff like Care Bears, Pokemon and Mochichis.
The writers would try as far as they were allotted to do scenes that abuse and morbidly molest and expose Orbitty such as Astro using him as a tissue to blow his snot at him and as such the artists (including especially John K.) tried as they could to make it effective such as drawing him "off model" when he got scared in the Halloween episode of the revivial, i guess (let alone working on in the first place) all of this lousy, mutually, stagnant and over conservative execution (the reason why H-B cartoons started to look artless, pretentious and badly drawn in the first place, all because and due to Filmation, and a little half came from Bill and Joe's extremely naive conservatism, due to jumping in the business when it was said the only great cartoons were that of Disney and everyone had to all copy them, the only thing that would make sense of copying them would be all the good things, the great drawing, technique and stuff, but all the faults, NAW.), and badly drawn characters straight from horrendous art direction, must've really traumatized, rotted and extremely corrupted (in general, hello, John K?) the poor innocent artists who had an extreme misfortune, not to mention lowering the self esteem while it was at it as well (this is why we have amateurish, eye-corrosive, and extremely unwatchable stuff like CatDog, Spongebob Squarepants, Family Guy and The Simpsons, but i've no problem if you disagree however, that is just my opinion, were all entitled).
Really, really sad and i feel extremely sorry for these artists, if it wasn't for this whole thing, Dave Feiss would've been twice the artist as he already was (as i get a glimpse from it he was extremely talented but his style reminds me of the fantastic Milt Kahl speficially for the best of the 1950s stylized Disney look such as Sleeping Beauty and Sword in The Stone), John K's site would've been twice as informative and easy to follow, and all of the other well renowned people such as Eddie Fitzgerald and Kent Butterworth would have showed a sense of balance and cleaness in their works along with the funny stuff.
See how dangerous this garbage is, and now i seem to fully understand how mind rotting, shock inducing, scary, evil, menacing, dark, amateur, rotten, corrupting, vile and again dangerous, and overall just plain unwatchable this whole Hanna Barbera/Filmation/DIC/Marvel and utterly general late 1960s-1990s - Today Saturday Morning crap truely is, the reason why i added today is because it's still going on, believe it or not, Traditional Animation, no offense of course, (mainstream generally, animated cartoons, specially, by no means including independent stuff which specially animation in that can also be also stop motion, cutout, regular mineral clay-animated ala Gumby, and also Polymer/Plasticine/ Plastillina modelling clay animated ala Wallace and Gromit, Pingu and Miffy) has still not recovered from this, and once more it is wearing out it's welcome, and it is becoming a novelty from memory, say what you will like, but it is TRUE, futhermore, as our fellow Starburst once pointed out, Live Action is way much more quicker to produce than animated cartoons, which take about half a year to make each and that way it is extremely time consuming and really expensive, and therefore because schedules are becoming tighter and tighter and salary wages becoming lower and lower (due to the Animators who are actually members of the "Animation" Union, keep constantly jacking and stealing all the salaries by demanding unusually high amounts of money in every area involving the drawing visuals) there has been several cost cutting procedures to combat this, fist taking a practice invented by UPA (which with the New York division, practically invented Dosemitic Animation and was the very first studio to move doing work in-house, Ward's output to Gamma also counts because Mexico is literally in North America, though the culture is totally different.) and running it overseas, first Europe, the earliest being done in Halas and Batchelor in the UK and Pegbar Productions in Spain, then Australia and (consider the Vietnam and Korean Wars as well as the aftermath recession of WWII and the Cold War) in less than a few years it finally went to Asia, with TMS and Wang being the earliest examples, and practically this is were the worst of the overseas animation is in place.
sorry if i went way too long in my post, hope you won't mind if i take the long ones and revise them into a post, much later, only when i seem to be ready
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Everything the Light Touches Is Our Kingdom.
ROAR!, Confound it, Kiddies, Don't miss my Cartoon Show! - King Leonardo.
(This post was edited by Lion55 on Feb 7, 2012, 4:11 PM)
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