I had NO Idea That 'The Jetsons' Was Such A Bomb on TV! - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 12-23-2010, 08:13 PM

I never knew that the Jetsons only lasted one season on ABC! It seemed that it lasted a lot longer than that. I guess the constant reruns in syndication made it seem like it lasted a lot longer.

Marvo301 · 12-23-2010, 08:39 PM

It also probably seems longer because there are 65 episodes of The Jetsons. The first season in 1962-63 consisted of 24 episodes. The popularity of those 24 episodes in syndicated reruns prompted Hanna-Barbera to make 41 new episodes of The Jetsons between 1985 and 1987 specifically for syndication. So now there are a total of 65 episodes of The Jetsons playing in syndication.

Brian Damage · 12-23-2010, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

It also probably seems longer because there are 65 episodes of The Jetsons. The first season in 1962-63 consisted of 24 episodes. The popularity of those 24 episodes in syndicated reruns prompted Hanna-Barbera to make 41 new episodes of The Jetsons between 1985 and 1987 specifically for syndication. So now there are a total of 65 episodes of The Jetsons playing in syndication.

I suppose you are right. It just seems that once a show goes into syndication it makes a show appear longer than what it really is. For example, What's Happening!!

TV Knowledge Fan · 12-26-2010, 05:04 AM

...its original time period was.

Keep in mind that the show, upon its premiere in the fall of 1962, was scheduled on Sundays at 7:30pm(et), opposite "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" on NBC and CBS' "DENNIS THE MENACE" (in its final season). Walt had more kids tuning in that season than George and the family and Dennis...and very few ABC affiliates were able to telecast "THE JETSONS" in color, outside the "big cities" like New York and Los Angeles,
because of financial and technical limitations. That caused the demise of the series after its first season.

When the series went into repeats on ABC's Saturday morning schedule in the 1963-'64 season, that was the beginning of its "resurgence". NBC and CBS eventually aired the same 24 episodes on their Saturday A.M. schedules, on and off, from 1965 through 1975 (and again on NBC, in the 1979-'80 season). That, and the popularity of the show in concurrent syndicated repeats, paved the way for Hanna-Barbera to revive it [and expand its "package" of episodes] in the fall of 1985, with 41 new segments...and an additional 10 produced for the fall of 1987, making a grand total of 75 episodes.

MrCleveland · 12-26-2010, 07:26 PM

Well in 1960, "The Flinstones" aired on Prime-Time on ABC and both Hanna and Barbera was trying to have a 2nd Prime-Time Show. The first was was "Top Cat" and that lasted for a year and "The Jetsons" was aired in 1962 right after "Top Cat" was canceled and put into syndication!

And there's more "Jetsons" episodes in the 80's than there were in the 60's!

TV Knowledge Fan · 12-26-2010, 10:55 PM

....it also appeared in a bad time period during the 1961-'62 season- Wednesdays, 8:30-9pm(et), opposite NBC's highly-rated "THE PRICE IS RIGHT" and CBS' "CHECKMATE" (in its final season). "TC" also had a weak lead-in at 7:30, "THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW", which itself was "pummeled" by NBC'S "WAGON TRAIN", and disappeared in mid-season. And it, too, found a new audience on Saturday mornings during the 1960's, and eventual syndication. However, except for a 1988 TV movie, "TOP CAT" had no additional episodes produced...

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12-26-2010, 05:04 AM	#4
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	The series itself wasn't a "bomb"... ...its original time period was. Keep in mind that the show, upon its premiere in the fall of 1962, was scheduled on Sundays at 7:30pm(et), opposite "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" on NBC and CBS' "DENNIS THE MENACE" (in its final season). Walt had more kids tuning in that season than George and the family and Dennis...and very few ABC affiliates were able to telecast "THE JETSONS" in color, outside the "big cities" like New York and Los Angeles, because of financial and technical limitations. That caused the demise of the series after its first season. When the series went into repeats on ABC's Saturday morning schedule in the 1963-'64 season, that was the beginning of its "resurgence". NBC and CBS eventually aired the same 24 episodes on their Saturday A.M. schedules, on and off, from 1965 through 1975 (and again on NBC, in the 1979-'80 season). That, and the popularity of the show in concurrent syndicated repeats, paved the way for Hanna-Barbera to revive it [and expand its "package" of episodes] in the fall of 1985, with 41 new segments...and an additional 10 produced for the fall of 1987, making a grand total of 75 episodes.

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12-26-2010, 10:55 PM	#6
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Unfortunately, for "TOP CAT"... ....it also appeared in a bad time period during the 1961-'62 season- Wednesdays, 8:30-9pm(et), opposite NBC's highly-rated "THE PRICE IS RIGHT" and CBS' "CHECKMATE" (in its final season). "TC" also had a weak lead-in at 7:30, "THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW", which itself was "pummeled" by NBC'S "WAGON TRAIN", and disappeared in mid-season. And it, too, found a new audience on Saturday mornings during the 1960's, and eventual syndication. However, except for a 1988 TV movie, "TOP CAT" had no additional episodes produced...