The first program ever to be broadcast in color on ABC-TV.
Originally ran for only 24 episodes during the 1962-63 TV season. In 1985 the program was revived, with new episodes designed to syndicate alongside the originals.
The design of the Jetsons' flying car was inspired by a 1954 Ford concept car, the FX-Atmos, notable for its all-glass bubble canopy, dashboard radar screen and jet-plane-like tailfins.
The series displays several devices that did not exist at the time, such as a flatscreen television, newspaper on a computer-like screen, a computer virus, video chat, a tanning bed and a home treadmill. Today, those things are common in the real world.
An episode of another Hanna-Barbera show, The Flintstones (1960) (Time Machine (1965)), in which the Flinstones and the Rubbles use a time machine at the World's Fair to travel to the future, features a distinctly Jetson-esque 21st century.