Archie's TV Funnies

''Archie's TV Funnies'' is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation which appeared on CBS from September 11, 1971, to September 1, 1973. The series starred Bob Montana's Archie characters, including Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones.

''Archie's TV Funnies'' is the fourth incarnation of the Archie cartoon shows, which began in 1968 as '' The Archie Show'' and was then retitled ''The Archie Comedy Hour'' in 1969 and ''Archie's Funhouse'' in 1970.

This was the first show in the popular series to move away from the series' earlier successful formula of comedic segments and musical segments performed by The Archies musical group. ''Archie's TV Funnies'' would each week feature Archie Andrews and his friends running a local television station (which bore a close resemblance to the Filmation studios) which would feature short animated adaptations of several classic newspaper comic strips. A typical episode would start with one of the gang reporting on a story that was occurring in Riverdale that day, then several of the animated strips would be shown to the viewing audience as the reporter continued to report the story, and the episode would then conclude with the entire gang appearing at the end of the story. Although the series ran on CBS for two years, it was replaced in 1973 with ''Everything's Archie'' which returned the series to its more familiar format.

Comic strips featured

As introduced in the opening sequence, the featured strips are:

* '' Dick Tracy''
* '' The Captain and the Kids''
* '' Emmy Lou''
* '' Nancy''
* '' The Dropouts''
* ''Moon Mullins''
* ''Smokey Stover''
* '' Broom-Hilda''

Some of the above featured comic strips were later adapted again as part of '' Fabulous Funnies'', another Filmation production.

Voice cast

* Dallas McKennon – Archie Andrews, Hot Dog, Mr. Weatherbee, Pop Tate, Mr. Lodge, Sam Catchem, Pat Patton, B.O. Plenty, Flattop, Mumbles, Pruneface, President Pearshape, der Inspector, Alf, Smokey Stover, Spooky (meowing sounds), Chief Cash U. Nutt, Gaylord Buzzard, additional voices
* Howard Morris – Jughead Jones, Moose Mason, Dilton Doiley, Junior Tracy, B-B Eyes, der Captain, Fritz, Sandy, Moon Mullins, Earl, Irwin Troll, Professor Transo, additional voices
* John Erwin – Reggie Mantle, Dick Tracy, Sluggo Smith, Hans, Fritz (some episodes), Alvin, Kayo, Spooky, additional voices
* Jane Webb – Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Miss Grundy, Big Ethel, Tess Trueheart, Moon Maid, Gravel Gertie, Mama, Emmy Lou, Taffy, Nancy Ritz, Fritzi Ritz, Cookie, Hazel Nutt, Broom-Hilda, Breathless Mahoney, additional voices

Episodes

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