The New Archies

The New Archies was an animated childrens television show based on the popular Archie comic books that aired in 1987, featuring younger versions of the characters in a junior high setting, with notable changes such as Veronicas valley girl speaking style, the addition of new characters, and Archie gaining a dog named Red. The New Archies is a 1988 American English-language series starring J. Michael Roncetti, Michael Fantini, Lisa Coristine, Alyson Court, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Victor Erdos and Greg Swanson. The series is inspired from Archie Comics by John L. Goldwater Bob Montana Vic Bloom. DIC Animation City in association with Archie Comics and Saban Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Jim Simon. The series is directed by Jim Simon. Screen Gems acquired the distribution rights for the show. Creator of the series is Kimmer Ringwald. The New Archies has only one season and a cumulative total of 13 episodes which have a running time of 22-24 minutes each. The music was composed by William Loose along with John Seely.