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The Best Episodes of The Jetsons

Every episode of The Jetsons ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Jetsons!

Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Jetson's Nite Out" is the best rated episode of "The Jetsons". It scored 7.4/10 based on 228 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen, it aired on 10/21/1962. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Flying Suit".

  • Jetson's Nite Out
    7.4/10228 votes
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    #1 - Jetson's Nite Out

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1962

    George Jetson and his boss Cosmo Spacely attend a robot football game. George fools his wife into thinking he's working late so that he won't be able to attend a PTA meeting.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen

  • The Flying Suit
    7.4/10201 votes
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    #2 - The Flying Suit

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1962

    Spacely's competitor Cogswell invents a flying suit. Meanwhile, Elroy thinks he's invented a flying pill. When George picks up the wrong suit at the cleaners, he is convinced Elroy's pills actually work.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Tony Benedict

  • Uniblab
    7.4/10205 votes
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    #3 - Uniblab

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1962

    Spacely buys a new robot 'Uniblab'. This means George actually has to work the full three hour work day. Or so it seems, until George's janitor finds a solution.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Barry Blitzer

  • Instant Replay
    7.4/10129 votes
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    #4 - Instant Replay

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/1985

    An elderly man on the bus home offers George a better life with a special invention called "Replayola", but when George accidentally erases his wedding day with Jane, he must make a choice to either keep his newfound wealth and power or forego it and regain his normal family life.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: George Atkins

  • Future Tense
    7.4/10121 votes
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    #5 - Future Tense

    Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 11/12/1985

    In an alien shopping gallery, Jane Jetson unwittingly buys sunglasses that allow whoever is wearing them to see into the near future. When George Jetson finds this out, he decides to take his wife to the space-horse races, to make a little extra money off of Jane's ability to see which space-horse will come in first. Will George's idea succeed, or is he playing with fire?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: George Atkins

  • Robot's Revenge
    7.4/10123 votes
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    #6 - Robot's Revenge

    Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 11/20/1985

    After an incompetent robot named Ralph is fired from his 32nd job, he decides to take his revenge out on the person who caused his termination—George Jetson.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: George Atkins

  • Rosey the Robot
    7.3/10334 votes
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    #7 - Rosey the Robot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1962

    When the automatic food preparer malfunctions, Jane Jetson tests a used robot maid on the night George brings his boss home to dinner.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Larry Markes

  • The Space Car
    7.3/10219 votes
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    #8 - The Space Car

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1962

    George and Jane go shopping at Molecular Motors. The Supersonic Suburbanite turns out to be too much for them so the buy a car similar to their old model. They get mixed up with bad guy Knuckles Nuclear and his gun Moll.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Barry Blitzer

  • Las Venus
    7.3/10196 votes
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    #9 - Las Venus

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1962

    George and Jane visit Las Venus for gambling and entertainment. The trip is paid by Spacely because George has to try to sell some sprockets to a female client. Now George has to please his wife and the client.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Barry Blitzer

  • Jetson's Millions
    7.3/10128 votes
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    #10 - Jetson's Millions

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 11/4/1985

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: O. Gordy

  • 9 to 5 to 9
    7.3/10116 votes
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    #11 - 9 to 5 to 9

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1987

    Rocky Retro is the new hunk in school and Judy loses him to Marcia because she has a car. Judy wants her own car and has to find a job to pay for that. She accepts three jobs: walking dogs through space, doing construction work and taking orders at a fly-thru burger joint in a nearby solar system.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Barry O'Brien, Bob Smith

  • A Date with Jet Screamer
    7.2/10285 votes
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    #12 - A Date with Jet Screamer

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1962

    Pop star 'Jet Screamer' organizes a quiz, first prize: a date with the celebrity himself. George tries to make sure Judy won't win, but Judy is the lucky girl. Without her knowing it George acts as a chaperone.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Harvey Bullock

  • A Visit From Grandpa
    7.2/10187 votes
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    #13 - A Visit From Grandpa

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1962

    George's father visits. On his way he fixes a lady's vehicle, they exchange addresses. Because of some miscommunication the Jetson family think they got involved while in reality grandpa just baby-sits for someone else.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Miss Solar System
    7.2/10173 votes
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    #14 - Miss Solar System

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1963

    Jane decides to enter the Miss Solar System contest without George knowing. However, Spacely Sprockets is sponsoring the contest. George & Mr. Spacely are judges, but Mrs. Spacely removes her husband from the judges' stand & George is the ""Mystery Judge"".

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Barry Blitzer

  • Family Fallout
    7.2/10134 votes
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    #15 - Family Fallout

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1985

    After some chicanery by Mr. Spacely, the Jetsons appear on a game show called "Family Fallout" (based on Family Feud), facing off against the Spacelys. The Jetsons win a new Foodarackacycle in the end, while the shocked and dismayed Spacelys receive a lifetime supply of Cogswells Cogs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Mark Seidenberg

  • S.M.A.S.H.
    7.2/10127 votes
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    #16 - S.M.A.S.H.

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/26/1985

    Jane accidentally crashes Mr. Spacely's car that she borrowed, which causes him to merrily blame George, making him a virtual slave and groveler, until it was discovered that the brakes are jammed by a piece of fine space china from one of Spacely's space china collections. This absolves the Jetsons, and then the tables are turned and a furious and humiliated Spacely becomes the reluctant servant of George.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Barry Blitzer

  • The Mirrormorph
    7.2/10121 votes
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    #17 - The Mirrormorph

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/11/1985

    The Jetsons contend with a transmuting alien called the Mirrormorph, who can become an exact duplicate of that person, but remains mute.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Glenn Leopold

  • The Cosmic Courtship of George and Jane
    7.2/10123 votes
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    #18 - The Cosmic Courtship of George and Jane

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 10/14/1985

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John Semper Jr.

  • Hi-Tech Wreck
    7.2/10122 votes
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    #19 - Hi-Tech Wreck

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/17/1985

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Tony Benedict

  • Fantasy Planet
    7.2/10118 votes
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    #20 - Fantasy Planet

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 10/28/1985

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lane Raichert

  • The Vacation
    7.2/10115 votes
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    #21 - The Vacation

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 11/7/1985

    Jane wins a vacation on the Love Rocket. George meets his old girlfriend and Jane meets her first boyfriend on the rocket. Elroy and Judy find out and try to save the marriage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Alex Lovy

  • Far-Out Father
    7.2/10119 votes
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    #22 - Far-Out Father

    Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 11/13/1985

    Elroy must make a Father's Day Video for his school class, but Astro's fixation with the poodle next door causes more problems than either Elroy or George can handle.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Mark Young

  • To Tell the Truth
    7.2/10114 votes
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    #23 - To Tell the Truth

    Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 11/22/1985

    George convinces Elroy to tell his mother the truth about what happened to her favorite pitcher, but when Bubbles Blastoff, a guest at Spacely's plant, must leave on the red-eye back to her planet, George ends up being stranded with her on an asteroid. Will he follow his own example and tell the truth to Jane about why he never returned home until morning?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Harvey Bullock

  • Spacely for a Day
    7.2/10118 votes
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    #24 - Spacely for a Day

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1987

    Spacely convinces all his employees to take an aptitude test and makes sure George scores the lowest. But when Judy, Elroy and Astro alter his father's score to be higher than everyone else's, George is given charge of Spacely's plant for the day when his boss is forced to take an impromptu vacation. Upon discovering that George is in charge of Spacely's plant, Cogswell makes plans to destroy Spacely Space Sprockets once and for all and attempts to ensure that George takes the fall.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Haskell Barkin

  • The Coming of Astro
    7.1/10223 votes
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    #25 - The Coming of Astro

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1962

    Jane and the kids want a dog for personal protection, George doesn't believe in that but wants to keep everyone happy. To George the answer is an apartment approved electronic dog, one of those nuclear powered trouble free dogs: Electronimo! At the same moment the rest of the family found a biological dog. A contest should point out the superior dog. Astro proves to be the superior dog when he unwittingly tackles a burglar terrorizing the apartment building.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Tony Benedict