Hanna-Barbera’s futuristic animated television series The Jetsons celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Though it has yet to receive a live-action adaptation, we felt that such a milestone was worthy of note. Matt Novak ponders at show’s significance:
“The Jetsons was the distillation of every Space Age promise Americans could muster. People point to The Jetsons as the golden age of American futurism because (technologically, at least) it had everything our hearts could desire: jetpacks, flying cars, robot maids, moving sidewalks. But the creators of The Jetsons weren’t the first to dream up these futuristic inventions. Virtually nothing presented in the show was a new idea in 1962, but what The Jetsons did do successfully was condense and package those inventions into entertaining 25-minute blocks for impressionable, media-hungry kids to consume.”
Speaking of Hanna-Barbera adaptations, Dave Trumbore explains why he believes that Jonny Quest should be worthy of consideration.
(Image: The Jetsons (George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, and Astro), Warner Bros.)
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