Jane's Driving Lesson

Jane's Driving Lesson
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Network	ABC
Premiere date	January 27, 1963
Starring	George O'Hanlon Penny Singleton Daws Butler Janet Waldo Howard Morris Jean Vander Pyl
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Dalton Sandifer
Director(s)	William Hanna
Voice director(s)	Joseph Barbera
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"Jane's Driving Lesson" is the eighteenth episode of The Jetsons season one. It aired on January 27, 1963 on ABC. It was written by Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Jane goes for driving lessons to get a second car and ends up with Knuckles Nuclear as her driving instructor.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
George Jetson	George O'Hanlon
Woman driver	Unavailable
Barber impersonator	Unavailable
Henry Orbit	Daws Butler
Elroy Jetson	Daws Butler
Judy Jetson	Janet Waldo
Bobby	Unavailable
Astro	Don Messick
Jane Jetson	Penny Singleton
Mr. Sonic	Daws Butler
Titus T. Tweeter	Howard Morris
Bank teller	N/A
Knuckles Nuclear	Daws Butler
Officer O'Jetski	Unavailable
Officer O'Jetski's partner	Unavailable
TV reporter	Don Messick
Police officer	Don Messick
Police sergeant	Daws Butler
Mayor
Judge	Unavailable
Ariel	Jean Vander Pyl

Organizations

• Spacely Space Sprockets

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Orbit City
      • Spacely Space Sprockets building
      • Barbershop
      • Skypad Apartments
        • Orbit residence
        • Jetson residence
    • Spaceys Department Store
    • Aero-Space Driving School
    • Bank
    • Police station
    • Bus stop

Objects

• George's talking wristwatch
• Chutes
• Menulator
• Courage pill

Vehicles

• Flying cars
• Buses

Production

Aftermath

When The Jetsons originally aired, no title cards were present. They were only added when the series was revived in 1985, and the original episodes were given title cards for consistency when they were all packaged together for The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. Notably, they all include Orbitty, who wasn't in the original series.

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 27, 1963 on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland: October 30, 1963 at 6:05 pm on ITV

Behind the scenes

• A driving learner's permit can be given at eight years old.

Errors

• The judge says George slammed into his car, but the car resembles the one Jane was driving from the Aero-Space Driving School.
• Both the officers in the car following Jane refer to each as O'Jetski.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ママは練習中	Mom is Practicing

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • May 11, 2004: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete First Season on DVD.
  • May 23, 2017: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete First Season (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
  • September 10, 2019: Warner Archive Collection releases The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series on Blu-ray Disc.
  • October 13, 2020: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
  • June 21, 2022: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete Series on DVD.