<P> While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a world with elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions . The original series comprised 24 episodes and aired on Sunday nights on ABC beginning September 23, 1962, with primetime reruns continuing through September 22, 1963 . It debuted as the first program broadcast in color on ABC - TV . (Only a handful of ABC - TV stations were capable of broadcasting in color in the early 1960s .) In contrast, The Flintstones, while always produced in color, was broadcast in black - and - white for its first two seasons . </P> <P> Following its primetime run, the show aired on Saturday mornings for decades, starting on ABC for the 1963--64 season and then on CBS and NBC . New episodes were produced for syndication from 1985 to 1987 . No further specials or episodes of the show were produced after 1989 due to the deaths of stars George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc . The 1990 film Jetsons: The Movie served as the series finale to the television show until 27 years later, when the new direct - to - video animated movie, The Jetsons & WWE: Robo - WrestleMania! was released in 2017 . </P> <P> The Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City . The city's architecture is rendered in the Googie style, and all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns . George Jetson lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a homemaker, their teenage daughter Judy attends Orbit High School, and their son Elroy attends Little Dipper School . Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie, which handles chores not otherwise rendered trivial by the home's numerous push - button Space Age - envisioned conveniences . The family has a dog named Astro, that like Scooby Doo talks with an initial consonant mutation in which every word begins with an "R", as if speaking with a growl . </P> <P> George Jetson's workweek is typical of his era: an hour a day, two days a week . His boss is Cosmo Spacely, the bombastic owner of Spacely Space Sprockets . Spacely has a competitor, Mr. Cogswell, owner of the rival company Cogswell Cogs (sometimes known as Cogswell's Cosmic Cogs). Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top . Daily life is leisurely, assisted by numerous labor - saving devices, which occasionally break down with humorous results . Despite this, everyone complains of exhausting hard labor and difficulties living with the remaining inconveniences . </P>

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