Original title
The New Archies
Released
9/12/1987
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Family
Production companies
Saban Entertainment, DiC Entertainment, The Archie Company
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
26
The New Archies is a children's television cartoon, based upon the long-running Archie comic books and characters. The series, produced by DIC Entertainment and originally airing on NBC, re-imagined Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and the other teenage students of Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Thirteen 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 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 from 1998 to 2002.
Reggie plays tricks on Fangs Foherty during a school gym competition. When Fangs asks Reggie to ask Veronica to go to the dance with him, Reggie impersonates Veronica.
After seeing Sugar Slayde, Archie, Jughead, Reggie, and Eugene compete against Veronica, Betty, and Amani in a competition to solve a mystery. But their discoveries all lead to Mr. Weatherbee.
At a summer function, two children are to be crowned king and queen -- the nominees? Archie and Veronica; Reggie and Betty. All is well until it's revealed that almost all former winners have gone on to marry, and suddenly the gang's dreams are full of unpleasant fantasies of the future.
When Betty wins the lead in a school play, a rock opera version of Cinderella, Veronica will stop at nothing until she is the star of the show...and Reggie is more than willing to help her achieve this goal.
Tired of Reggie being so mean, the gang decides to try and win him over with kindness by throwing him a party. But with everybody acting so strangely around Reggie, he gets the gist of secret plans that don't involve him, and seeks to ruin their fun.
The gang is devastated when the old tree which houses their clubhouse is threatened to be destroyed, and set about trying to save it. They run into difficulties, however, when all their plans of attack are mysteriously thwarted by a secret opposition.
This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
