What The Jetsons got right and wrong about the future of work
Get the Full StorySixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s 51 episodes over two seasons and a feature-length movie in 1990. The Jetsons was created by the Hanna-Barbara animation studio in Los Angeles as a futuristic version of the studio s hit series The Flintstones, the first cartoon series to gain a prime-time slot. But whereas The Flintstones was set in a distant, mythical This story continues at The Next WebShare: