Solar Snoops

Solar Snoops
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Premiere date	September 18, 1985
Run time	21:46
Starring	George O'Hanlon Penny Singleton Daws Butler Janet Waldo Don Messick Jean Vander Pyl Mel Blanc Howard Morris
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Barry E. Blitzer
Voice director(s)	Gordon Hunt
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"Solar Snoops" is the third episode of The Jetsons season two, and the twenty-seventh overall. It aired on September 18, 1985 in syndicated markets that featured The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming blocks. It was written by Barry E. Blitzer, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

When Cogswell sends in a spy to Spacely Space Sprockets to steal Spacely's new chocolate microchip cookie, Spacely sends George—disguised as Georgina Jetstream—to act as Cogswell's new secretary to get it back.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mr. Spacely	Mel Blanc
George Jetson	George O'Hanlon
Sentro	Unavailable
Galacta Sneak	Barry Gordon
Mr. Cogswell	Daws Butler
Harlan	Howard Morris
Mrs. Cogswell	Unavailable
Miss Nova	Unavailable
Elroy Jetson	Daws Butler
Jane Jetson	Penny Singleton
Judy Jetson	Janet Waldo
Astro	Don Messick
Rosie	Jean Vander Pyl
Robot chaffeur	Unavailable
Fred Asteroid	Unavailable
Venus	Unavailable

Organizations

• Spacely Space Sprockets
• Cogswell Cogs

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Orbit City
      • Spacely Space Sprockets building
      • Cogswell Cogs building
      • Skypad Apartments
        • Jetson residence
      • Cafe D'Lune

Objects

• Chocolate microchip
• Solar tape deck
• Visaphones

Vehicles

• Flying cars

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 18, 1985 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• Orbitty is absent for the first time since his debut in "Elroy Meets Orbitty."
• George refers to Sentro as Lassie.
• Fred Asteroid is a parody of dancer Fred Astaire.
• Despite season two apparently being written for a younger audience, Cogswell tries to start an affair with Georgina (George). This may be because Barry E. Blitzer, the writer, came from season one, which was written more for adults in the 1960s.

Errors

• Jane programmed responses into the solar tape deck that she could not have possibly foreseen. It would've been easier to just make the device cover up George's voice as he spoke.
• The phone booth the Galacta Sneak is talking at doesn't have a screen, yet Cogswell is looking at him through his own.
• Harlan has been given the character model of Moonstone by mistake.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • June 2, 2009: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 1 on DVD.
  • 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.