Episode
The Jetsons: The Swiss Family Jetson
Overview
When George is laid off by Spacely for six months, the family convinces him to live off the land on Planet Paradisio—but get the shock of their lives when a redevelopment company turns their quaint little paradise into condo estates.
Details
- Series
- The Jetsons
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 1985-10-23
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Swiss Family Jetson is Episode 22 in Season 2 of The Jetsons. It aired on 1985-10-23. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 21: Elroy in Wonderland
A take on both "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz". When Elroy and Astro are forced to be separated while on vacation at Club Mellowstar, they wind up in a dream world where antique robots resembling our modern-day appliances are at war with each other.
Episode 23: Rip-Off Rosie
George is hailed a hero when he repairs a malfunctioning shipping robot, but when Rosie starts to malfunction afterwards and steal everything she can find, the Jetsons must reprogram her "Jekyll-and-Hyde" personality.
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Episode 20: Little Bundle of Trouble
The Jetson family gets a baby on their doorstep, but this is no ordinary baby. Turns out he is a pint-sized robber in diguise.
Episode 24: Fantasy Planet
With all the problems the Jetson family have, they decide to take a trip to Fantasy Planet. The host—named Mr. Rocket (played by Sonny Melendrez and a take on "Mr. Roarke" from Fantasy Island)—has each family member in capsules to live out their fantasies:
George: Boss of Jetson's Sprockets
Jane: Queen of an asteroid where she does absolutely nothing
Judy: World-renowned pop star
Elroy and Astro: Superhero team
After realizing their fantasies aren't really what they were looking for, they use a special "stop watch" that can end their fantasies.
Episode 19: Hi-Tech Wreck
When R.U.D.I. malfunctions one time too many, Spacely orders George to relocate his family to "Outer Moongolia"—but is forced to eat crow when R.U.D.I. threatens to destroy his factory.
Episode 25: Space Bong
It is a case of mistaken identity when George is kidnapped by an enemy spy organization called SNEAK. During his ordeal as their captive, George discovers his exact doppelganger, a secret agent named Space Bong (a take on James Bond), who aids him in escaping their grasp.
Episode 18: High Moon
George tries to break Elroy's fascination with spies by taking the whole family to an old west town. While there, Bad Bart Blaster challenges George to a showdown. Bad Bart's dog & Astro gang up on Bart and save the day!
Episode 26: Haunted Halloween
The curator of a museum takes a special interest in Orbitty wanting to make him his special project in time for Halloween.
Episode 17: The Cosmic Courtship of George and Jane
It's George & Jane's wedding anniversary. Yet George forgets his anniversary and Jane throws a fit. During that time, the couple recaps how they got together. Later they found out that the man that married them was a fraud. So, they ended up remarried at a wedding chapel.
Episode 27: Astro's Big Moment
Mr. Spacely assigns George to be the judge for the annual Spacely Space Sprockets Space Dog Show. But this leads to a very stressful situation for him as his family wants him to make Astro the winner, as well as the boss wanting him to insure his wife's poodle comes out on top, and even a mobster named Mangler Mars gets into the act by making George choose his bulldog, Starbite, as the top dog. What choice will George make? In the end, Mrs. Spacely's pooch gets taken away to give birth to puppies; Starbite is revealed to be a stolen dog which gets the mobsters arrested; and Astro wins, with a stray dog winning a consolation prize: dog food.
Episode 16: The Mirrormorph
The Jetsons contend with a transmuting alien called the Mirrormorph, who can become an exact duplicate of that person, but remains mute.
Episode 28: Jetson's Millions
Spacely offers George a raffle book for the Venutian Sweepstakes, but Mrs. Spacely is offended when George actually wins the grand prize of 10,000,000 Venuties.