<P> The following is a list of major characters in The Jetsons . The Jetsons is an animated television comedy produced by Hanna - Barbera and first broadcast in prime - time on ABC as part of the 1962--63 United States network television schedule . Additional episodes were produced from 1985 to 1987, with the same cast of characters . </P> <P> George J. Jetson is a fictional character and the 40 - year - old head of the Jetson family . He is the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy and elementary school aged son Elroy . </P> <P> George resides with his family in the Skypad Apartments in Orbit City, in a future with the trappings of science fantasy depictions of American life in the future, such as robot servants, flying saucer - like cars, and moving sidewalks . All the apartment buildings are set on giant poles, resembling Seattle's Space Needle; the ground is almost never seen, though in Jetsons: The Movie, it is suggested that the earth is extremely polluted, thus everyone lives in the sky . </P> <P> When George was a kid he had to fly through ten miles of asteroid storms to go to Orbit High School, where he was the star pitcher of its Spaceball team . Mostly in high school, he was labeled as an outsider and a geek in Orbit High School . George is now an employee at Spacely's Space Sprockets, a manufacturer of "sprockets" and other high tech equipment . His job title is "digital index operator ." His boss is Cosmo G. Spacely, noted for being short in both height and temper; Spacely usually treats his employees (particularly George) in a rather tyrannical fashion . George's job primarily requires him to repeatedly push a single button (or on occasion a series of buttons) on a computer (named RUDI (Short for: Referential Universal Digital Indexer) in the 1980s series of Jetsons episodes). Once, George complained of his heavy work load; having to push a button for one hour, one day of the week! Often, Mr. Spacely will fire George in a fit of anger, only to hire him back by the end of the same episode . </P>

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