The New Archies is a kids' TV show based on the long-running Archie comics and characters. The series, which was made by DIC Entertainment and first aired on NBC, re-imagined Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and the other teenagers from Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Fourteen episodes of the show were made, and all of them aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were shown again in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics series with the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series was made. Reruns of the show were shown on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup from 1991 to 1993 and on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. In this series, Veronica talks like a valley girl. But in earlier animated cartoons and the radio show, she had a southern accent. Dilton Doiley was replaced as the "intellectual" character by Eugene, who is African American. Eugene's girlfriend Amani was also added to the cast. Archie also got a dog, Red.
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The New Archies is a kids' TV show based on the long-running Archie comics and characters. The series, which was made by DIC Entertainment and first aired on NBC, re-imagined Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and the other teenagers from Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Fourteen episodes of the show were made, and all of them aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were shown again in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics series with the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series was made. Reruns of the show were shown on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup from 1991 to 1993 and on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. In this series, Veronica talks like a valley girl. But in earlier animated cartoons and the radio show, she had a southern accent. Dilton Doiley was replaced as the "intellectual" character by Eugene, who is African American. Eugene's girlfriend Amani was also added to the cast. Archie also got a dog, Red.
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