TV's Saturday Morning Cartoon Legacy: The Jetsons (Rosey: head of the household)

We continue our look back at The Jetsons... and their family robot Rosey.   There are potentially many 'robotic' AI-like assistants in our family homes today, including Amazon's Alexa, Google's Home and Apples Siri.  But none of them can compare to the amazing Rosey the robot maid who ran the Jetsons household.

This video clip shows Rosey in action, and how enamored and dependent the Jetson family became with her.  It is one of our personal favorites here at the Vanguard office.  The introduction of Rosey the robot to the Jetsons' cartoon existence back in the early 1960s was as much a comment on Rosey the 'alloy and bolts machine' as it was on Jane, the 'shopping machine.'  We're not entirely sure if this take on the modern American housewife in 1962 would go over well in 2018.  As Jane's mom tells her: "You don't need money, charge it."

The Jetsons ran just one season on Sunday nights on ABC, but has been a favorite of young and old for decades.  The show premiered on September 23, 1962 and ended its run on March 17, 1963.  

Like The Flintstones, The Jetsons has had many spin-offs and remakes over the decades, and a feature film in the 1990's as well. A very impressive run for both cartoons.  In fact, The Jetsons had a nice run on Saturday mornings as well for all three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) over the years.  

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Enjoy!

Coming up later at the end of this week, we'll take a quick detour away from Hanna Barbera creations (but will return in full force in July) to look at the cartoon Dick Tracy and another amazing 'high-tech' gadget from the 1960's that predated Star Treks' communicator but looks surprisingly like today's Apple Watch (2.0).