About this season
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.
Episodes (26)
1. The Visitor
Aired 12 September 1987 • 15 min
2. Ballot Box Blues
Aired 12 September 1987 • 15 min
3. The Last Laugh
Aired 19 September 1987 • 15 min
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.
4. Thief! of Hearts
Aired 19 September 1987 • 15 min
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.
5. I Got To Be Me, Or Is It You?
Aired 26 September 1987 • 15 min
6. Sir Jughead Jones
Aired 26 September 1987 • 15 min
7. The Awful Truth
Aired 3 October 1987 • 15 min
8. Jughead Predicts
Aired 3 October 1987 • 15 min
9. Future Shock
Aired 10 October 1987 • 15 min
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.
10. Stealing The Show
Aired 10 October 1987 • 15 min
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.
11. Hamburger Helpers
Aired 17 October 1987 • 15 min
12. Goodbye Ms. Grundy
Aired 17 October 1987 • 15 min
13. Red To The Rescue
Aired 24 October 1987 • 15 min
14. Jughead The Jinx
Aired 24 October 1987 • 15 min
15. Telegraph, Telephone, Tell Reggie
Aired 31 October 1987 • 15 min
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.
16. Wooden It Be Loverly
Aired 31 October 1987 • 15 min
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.
17. I Was A 12 Year Old Werewolf
Aired 7 November 1987 • 15 min
18. The Prince Of Riverdale
Aired 7 November 1987 • 15 min
19. Loose Lips Stops Slips
Aired 14 November 1987 • 15 min
20. A Change Of Minds
Aired 14 November 1987 • 15 min
21. Incredible Shrinking Archie
Aired 21 November 1987 • 15 min
22. Gunk For Gold
Aired 21 November 1987 • 15 min
23. Jughead's Millions
Aired 28 November 1987 • 15 min
24. Making Of Mr. Righteous
Aired 28 November 1987 • 15 min
25. Take My Butler, Please
Aired 5 December 1987 • 15 min
26. Horray For Hollywood
Aired 5 December 1987 • 15 min