The New Archies was a children's television cartoon

Cartoon

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, based upon the long-running Archie

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

comic book

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s and characters. The series, produced by DiC Entertainment

DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

 and originally airing on NBC

NBC

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, reimagined Archie Andrews

Archie Andrews (comics)

Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Vic Bloom and Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, as well as the long-running Archie Andrews radio series, a syndicated comic strip, The Archie Show, and Archie's Weird Mysteries.-Character and...

, Betty Cooper

Betty Cooper

Betty Cooper is a fictional character of Archie Comics, the blonde-haired daughter of Hal and Alice Cooper. Betty likes sports, and is also a cheerleader. Betty was created in December 1941. Her older brother Chic Cooper and older sister Polly Cooper have both moved out of Riverdale, their hometown...

, Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge is a fictional character in the Archie Comics books series.-Fictional history and character:She is called both by her name Veronica and her nickname Ronnie...

, Jughead Jones

Jughead Jones

Jughead Jones is a fictional character in Archie Comics who first appeared in the comic in December 1941. He is the son of Forsythe II; although in one of the early Archie newspaper comic strips, he himself is identified as Forsythe Van Jones II...

, Reggie Mantle

Reggie Mantle

Reggie Mantle is a fictional character in the Archie Comics book. His full name is given as Reginald Mantle, but he is usually called by his nickname Reggie, and sometimes refers to himself as "Mantle, The Magnificent." The character was introduced in 1942...

, and the other teenage students of Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Fourteen episodes of the show were produced, which all aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were repeated in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

 series was produced bearing the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series. Reruns of the series ran on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup, 1991 to 1993 and on Toon Disney

Toon Disney

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 from 1998 to 2002.

In this series Veronica speaks like a valley girl

Valley girl

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. However, in previous animated cartoons

The Archie Show

The Archie Show is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation. Based on the Archie comic books, created by Bob Montana in 1941, The Archie Show debuted on CBS in September 1968 and lasted for one season. A total of 17 half-hour shows, each containing two 11 minute segments,...

 and the radio show, she had a southern accent. Dilton Doiley

Dilton Doiley

Dilton Doiley is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. He is the smartest teenager in Riverdale High School.-History:Characters resembling Dilton appeared quite early in Archie stories—one can be seen, unnamed, in Archie Comics #1...

 was changed to an African American

African American

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 named Eugene, and he had a girlfriend named Amani.

Cast

• J. Michael Roncetti as Archie Andrews
• Lisa Coristine as Betty Cooper
• Alyson Court
  Alyson Court
  Alyson Stephanie Court is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 children's film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year...
  
   as Veronica Lodge
• Sunny Besen Thrasher
  Sunny Besen Thrasher
  Sunny Besen Thrasher was a Canadian child actor who starred as Paul Edison in Nelvana's live-action series, The Edison Twins, and supplied voices in the first two Care Bears movies....
  
   as Reggie Mantle
• Michael Fantini as Jughead Jones
• Rex Hagon
  Rex Hagon
  Rex Hagon is a Canadian actor and television host. His career began in his youth, most notably with The Forest Rangers....
  
   as Hot Dog
• Marvin Goldhar
  Marvin Goldhar
  Marvin Goldhar was a Canadian actor, best known for his voice work in animated programs and in made-for-TV movies.Among his voice credits include Cedric Sneer on The Raccoons, Mr...
  
  as Mr. Weatherbee
• Colin Waterman as Eugene
• Greg Swanson as Coach
• Karen Burthwright as Amani
• Victor Erdos as Big Moose
• Jazzmin Lausanne as Big Ethel
• Linda Sorenson as Miss Grundy

DVD release

Cookie Jar Entertainment (the current owners of the DiC library) currently has no plans to release the animated show on DVD at this time.

Episodes

• 01 - The Visitor / Ballot Box Blues
• 02 - The Last Laugh / Thief! (Of Hearts)
• 03 - I Got To Be Me, Or Is It You? / Sir Jughead Jones
• 04 - The Awful Truth / Jughead Predicts
• 05 - Future Shock / Stealing The Show
• 06 - Hamburger Helpers / Goodbye Ms. Grundy
• 07 - Red To The Rescue / Jughead The Jinx
• 08 - Telegraph, Telephone, Tell Reggie / Wooden It Be Loverly
• 09 - I Was A 12 Year Old Werewolf / The Prince Of Riverdale
• 10 - Loose Lips Stops Slips / A Change Of Minds
• 11 - Incredible Shrinking Archie / Gunk For Gold
• 12 - Jughead's Millions / Making Of Mr. Richteous
• 13 - Take My Butler, Please / Horray For Hollywood
• 14 - Got hair?/ Teenage Birthday party

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