Jetsons closing theme-skip?

I've been watching the Jetsons for many years, but it was only when I heard the TV's Greatest Hits album that I noticed what appeared to be a rather jolting skip in the ending theme music. I hear it again, but more softly, in this YouTube video (with an original ABC presentation close) at around 1:46-1:47. Anyone know what happened here? A bad edit?

 

I think that's always been there.
Many of HB's themes are edited for time in the closing credits.

It's possible your TV Greatest Hits album use a version recorded for records instead of the TV edit.

 

There is a Jetsons soundtrack CD that has the theme songs uninterrupted with no edits, if I recall correctly. It's not a cheap package ($200 on Amazon): Hanna-Barbera's Pic-a-Nic Basket Cartoon Classics, released on Rhino.



That's about as good as those old shows will ever sound. You got me as to why and how the syndicated versions got cut, but my guess is that there was an embedded sponsor voice-over they were trying to cut around. The HB soundtrack came from the studio master mag tracks, so those were sans announcer.

 

The video above is apparently from the original broadcast, as it includes sponsor announcements related to the show, and the ABC tag at the end. Unless the audio is from syndication. That skipping part just makes the music sound chaotic.

 

I enjoyed the closing credits with the cityscape exteriors.

 

Likely an awkward though unavoidable edit.

 

They are going to have newspapers in the future?

 

Yes

 

The repeated plucked violin/"Chopsticks" notes have been there for more than 50 years, as you can see from this transfer of the original network open & close:



I hear bad music edits all the time, what I call "meat cleaver editing" where they just slapped it together for time. In the Jetsons closing credits, I think there's at least four or five edits at musical phrases that sound a little sloppy to me. I'm not sure if the version on the Rhino boxed set is completely uncut or not.

 

Meanwhile, here's the Jetsons' opening titles as you never saw them before...