Astro the dog is a canine character on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons. Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... The Jetsons was a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. ...

Astro (in the hole) with Rosey, George, Jane, Judy and Elroy

Astro was designed by Iwao Takamoto, and originally voiced by Don Messick. In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Back to the Present", Astro was voiced by Wally Wingert. Picture of The Jetsons family File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Picture of The Jetsons family File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... George Jetson, with Star Trek: Voyager character Seven of Nine. ... Judy Jetson is a fictional character voiced by Janet Waldo for the cartoon series The Jetsons and by Tiffany for Jetsons: The Movie. ... Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007) was a Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director. ... Autographed photo of Don Messick. ... Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street that airs on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block. ... Wallace E. Wingert (born May 6, 1961 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American actor and voice actor. ...

Astro was found by Elroy in the fourth Jetsons episode, "The Coming of Astro". When Elroy, Jane and Judy proposed keeping the dog to George, he was against it. To try and stay out of the "doghouse" with his family, he got an electronic dog. The electronic dog was supposed to be the new hairless, non-eating, protect your house, way to go. When a cat burglar tried to rob the Jetsons, the electronic dog attacked him (which he did to anyone wearing a mask). Elroy tried waking Astro to get him to stop the burglar as a way to prove himself, but Astro turned out to be more interested in hiding in fear. However, when trying to escape, the cat burglar put the mask on George. The electronic dog then proceeded to chase after George. It was Astro (who was trying to run from the cat burglar) that inevitably caught the criminal (by accident) by crashing into him. This prompted George to decide that the electronic dog was not the way to go. They gave the electronic dog to the police and kept Astro as part of their family.

• In the fifteenth episode, "Millionaire Astro", Astro is discovered to be Tralfaz, the long-lost pet dog of zillionaire J.P. Gottrockets.

• Astro also appeared in Astro and the Space Dogs, a segment of Space Stars.

• Astro's signature expression was "Ruh-roh!" (or "Ruh-roh, Reorge!") , supposedly the canine variant of "Uh-oh!" (expression of dismay). More popularly remembered as, "ROT-ROH!!!"

Space-Stars is a 1981 NBC Saturday morning cartoon created by Hanna-Barbera which lasted from 1981-1982. ... Uh-oh! is a ubiquitous interjection or expression of dismay in the English language, generally uttered in anticipation, rather than after something bad has happened. ...

Reference

• Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, by Michael Mallory, 1998, published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., distributed by Publishers Group West. ISBN 0-88363-108-3