6.6/10141 votesLoading...#1 - Elroy Meets Orbitty
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1985
During a school field trip to a remote asteroid, Elroy finds an odd pink rock, which turns out to be an egg that hatches into Orbitty, a spring-legged creature.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Mark Young
6.6/10125 votesLoading...#2 - Fugitive Fleas
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/1985
A rock band of fleas take refuge on Astro to escape the tyrannical Solarini's flea circus.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry Blitzer
6.7/10174 votesLoading...#3 - Elroy's TV Show
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1962
The future TV producers got bored with cowboy and doctor's programs, so the want Elroy as 'Space boy Zoom and his dog Astro'. Of course Spacely wants his son and dog on TV instead, badly ...
Director: N/A
Writer: Warren Foster
6.7/10124 votesLoading...#4 - One Strike, You're Out
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/1985
When Spacely discovers that his rival Cogswell has won the "Tycoon of the Day" Award, he goes all out to beat him, forcing all his employees to work a "Triple-Shift". After 24 hours of work and severe hounding by Spacely, George accidentally convinces the human employees of Spacely Sprockets to go on strike. Meanwhile, George is faced with his own problems when he destroys Elroy's athlete robot, "Jocko", and then tries to impress his son by portraying the robot himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Young
6.7/10241 votesLoading...#5 - A Jetson Christmas Carol
Season 2 Episode 41 - Aired 12/13/1985
Based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge Spacely orders George to work overtime on Christmas Eve, which begins to tire George. Meanwhile, Astro is injured in a freak accident while chasing a toy robot cat, which causes him to get sick. Now it's up to the Spirits of Christmases Past, Present, and Future to convince Spacely that Christmas is a time for giving.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Levy, Marc Paykuss
6.7/10118 votesLoading...#6 - ASTROnomical I.Q.
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1987
Elroy invents an evolution machine. By mistake his evolutes Astro by 10,000 years, increasing his I.Q. by 4000 points. George bets everything he owns by playing chess with a little help of Astro. At that moment Astro is caught by the dogcatcher. When that doesn't work he enters a brainy game show where the contestants can win millions.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: George Atkins
6.7/10114 votesLoading...#7 - Clean as a Hound's Tooth
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1987
George has a tooth ache and visits his dentist. The dentist uses an experimental artificial teeth for George. The tooth turns out to be a dog's tooth but cannot be replaced because the dentist left for a vacation. Still George starts chasing cats and mailmen and barks at his family member.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Atkins
6.8/10176 votesLoading...#8 - Rosey's Boyfriend
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1962
Judy and Rosey find boyfriends. The problem with love is that you're either up or down ... and the animated junk pile being Henry's assistant gets a little confused.
Director: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
6.8/10173 votesLoading...#9 - Jane's Driving Lesson
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1963
Jane gets fed up with public transportation and decides to take driving lessons. After all, Elroy can get a learner's permit when he's 8 years old, so Jane should be able to get driving lessons, can't she? Her talents scare the teacher so much, he goes back hunting wild lions again. Accidentally Jane thinks she's got a new instructor while that persons turns out to be a crook on the run ...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10131 votesLoading...#10 - Solar Snoops
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1985
An unknown package delivered to Spacely Sprockets contains a robot sentry dog named "Sentro", and Spacely decides to use it to guard his "Chocolate Microchip Cookie". However, the "Galactic Sneak"—a spy for Cogswell Cogs—has pulled a Trojan Horse–type move by hiding inside Sentro's body to infiltrate Spacely's plant. When he and Sentro steal the prototype Microchip Cookie, it is up to George Jetson—who discovers a want-ad in the news for an executive secretary for Cogswell Cogs—to become "Georgina Jetstream", infiltrate Cogswell Cogs, and get Spacely's cookie back.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry Blitzer
6.8/10118 votesLoading...#11 - High Moon
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 10/15/1985
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!
Director: N/A
Writer: Bill Allen
6.8/10123 votesLoading...#12 - Elroy in Wonderland
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 10/22/1985
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mike Dirham
6.8/10116 votesLoading...#13 - The Wrong Stuff
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 11/5/1985
After winning a school science contest, Elroy is invited with the family to view a space shuttle launch. But he gets more than he bargains for when he and Astro get aboard the shuttle and get launched into deep space. They're able to return to Earth, but are significantly changed in terms of age. A parody of The Right Stuff.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry Blitzer
6.8/10111 votesLoading...#14 - The Odd Pod
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1987
Jane enters a garden contest. Astro crushes Jane's plant and the plant passes away. George buys Jane a new plant at 'Far Out Flowers', a rare import 'A Martian Creeper'. It turns out to be a very rare breed ...
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry Blitzer
6.9/10175 votesLoading...#15 - Elroy's Pal
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1962
Elroy's wins a contest to meet his big hero 'Nimbus the Great' from the TV show. Unfortunately the player is very ill and cannot come. George stands up for Elroy and visits 'Nimbus' to prevent a disappointment for Elroy. The only solution is to have George wear a Nimbus suit and visit Elroy ...
Director: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
6.9/10165 votesLoading...#16 - Private Property
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1963
A new building is built next to Spacely's company. The owner of the new plant turns out to be Cogswell and George finds out the new building is 6 inches over Spacely's property. Spacely makes Cogswell walk on his hands and knees, Jetson is promoted. That is until it turns out Spacely's existing building is actually 6' over Cogswell's ground ...
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry Blitzer
6.9/10161 votesLoading...#17 - Dude Planet
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1963
Jane badly needs some rest and goes to 'Dude Planet' with a friend. The rest of the family stays at home and tries to run the household.
Director: N/A
Writer: Walter Black
6.9/10132 votesLoading...#18 - Judy's Birthday Surprise
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/1985
Judy tells her talking lips diary of the events of the week before her birthday on Sat. expecting her parents to throw her a surprise birthday party. Curley Quasar helps her when her space car breaks down when no one else will help her. Then she avoids him the rest of the week thinking he isn't one of the in-crowd. On Sat. thinking everyone has forgotten Curley comes over with a gift for her & she changes her mind about him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Young
6.9/10130 votesLoading...#19 - SuperGeorge
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/20/1985
George is Superhero for a day with the help of a thought remote, but he might stay that way forever because the remote gets broken.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Atkins
6.9/10123 votesLoading...#20 - S'no Relative
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/2/1985
George and Jane's nephew, Hunky Moonrock, is scheduled to visit Earth, but when a research team loses an inhabitant from the planet Polaris, everything is turned upside down when that alien is thawed out right at the Jetsons' back door.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony Benedict, Barry Blitzer
6.9/10120 votesLoading...#21 - Winner Takes All
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/9/1985
George is duped into an Olympic-themed showdown with Cogswell Cogs, but when Cogswell pulls a twin-brother substitution, can George come out on top when he doesn't know who is who?
Director: N/A
Writer: Pamela Burton, Laura Numeroff
6.9/10116 votesLoading...#22 - Little Bundle of Trouble
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/18/1985
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kerry Ehrin, Ali Marie Matheson
6.9/10117 votesLoading...#23 - Space Bong
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 10/30/1985
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alex Lovy
6.9/10117 votesLoading...#24 - Astro's Big Moment
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 11/1/1985
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alex Lovy, Chuck Coach
6.9/10119 votesLoading...#25 - Crime Games
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/19/1987
A malfunction of the TeleViewer causes Elroy to discover a robbery plot by "The Gripfather" (a take on "The Godfather"), and George ends up trapped in the middle of it.
Director: N/A
Writer: Haskell Barkin
The Worst Episodes of The Jetsons
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Elroy Meets Orbitty" is the worst rated episode of "The Jetsons". It scored 6.6/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Mark Young, it aired on 9/16/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fugitive Fleas".