Jetson's Nite Out

Jetson's Nite Out
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Network	ABC
Premiere date	October 21, 1962
Starring	George O'Hanlon Penny Singleton Daws Butler Janet Waldo Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl Don Messick
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Harvey Bullock R.S. Allen
Director(s)	William Hanna
Voice director(s)	Joseph Barbera
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"Jetson's Nite Out" is the fifth episode of The Jetsons season one. It aired on October 21, 1962 on ABC. It was written by Harvey Bullock and R.S. Allen, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

A PTA meeting conflicts with a football game Geroge wants to attend, and since his boss insists, he pretends to work overtime at the office.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Jane Jetson	Penny Singleton
Elroy Jetson	Daws Butler
George Jetson	George O'Hanlon
Judy Jetson	Janet Waldo
Henry Orbit	Daws Butler
Cosmo Spacely	Mel Blanc
Robot secretary	Jean Vander Pyl
Mrs. Spacely	Jean Vander Pyl
Phil Sputnik
Announcer	Don Messick
Coach O'Brien	Unavailable
Coach Lasky	Unavailable
Pluchek	Unavailable
O'Mara	Unavailable
Hiccupski	Unavailable
O'Hara	Unavailable
Swatchahowiz	Unavailable
Gibralski	Unavailable
Crazy Legs Cosmos	Unavailable
Bronco Titanium	Unavailable
Brimlovich	Unavailable
Desovich	Unavailable
Drombrowski	Unavailable
Red Rocket	Unavailable

Organizations

• Spacely Space Sprockets, Inc.
• Parent Teachers Association (mentioned)

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Orbit City
      • Skypad Apartments
        • Jetson residence
      • Spacely Space Sprockets building
      • Space Coliseum
  • Africa (mentioned)
• Jupiter (mentioned)

Objects

• Morning News
• George's talking wristwatch
• Visaphones

Vehicles

• Space cars

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: October 21, 1962 on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland: July 31, 1963 at 6:05 pm on ITV

Behind the scenes

• In this episode, Spacely's middle initial is given as "G," although in "The Good Little Scouts", it is "Q."
• This is the first time Mrs. Spacely appears outside of the visaphone.

Errors

• When talking through the visaphone, Jane still has to tell George it's her, but this may have been done as a joke more than anything else.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	フットボール見物	Watching Football

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • March 17, 1997: First Independent Films releases The Jetsons: Bumper Edition on VHS.
• 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.