Archie's Weird Mysteries
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| Archie's Weird Mysteries | |
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 The show's title screen. |
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| Genre | Animated television series |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Starring | Andy Rannells Danielle Young Camille Schmidt Chris Lundquist Paul Sosso Tony Wike Ben Beck Ryle Smith Jerry Longe John Michael Lee |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original channel | PAX (now i) |
| Original run | October 2, 1999–February 21, 2000 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
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Archie's Weird Mysteries is a traditionally animated children's television program, based on the continuously successful Archie comics. The series premise revolves around a Riverdale High physics lab gone awry, making the town of Riverdale a "magnet" for B-movie style monsters. The series is meant to be a spooky comedy. Main Title song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. Musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao.
[edit] Students
- Archie Andrews, redhead student at Riverdale High, reporter for the school newspaper
- Betty Cooperthe blackheaded girl in love with Archie.
- Veronica Lodge
- Reggie Mantle
- Jughead
[edit] Selected monsters
- a swamp monster, who lives in an old Riverdale swimming hole
- Frankenstein's monster, who "hangs out" in Lover's Lane
- mad scientists
- werewolves
- vampires
- giant ants
- UFOs
- zombies
- "Stanley 9000"
Archie's Weird Mysteries meets FCC standard for children's television programming.
Forty episodes, half an hour each. Produced by DIC Entertainment.
Some episodes of the show were released on VHS and DVD at Halloween of one year, across North America.
[edit] Censorship
In the commercial for Archie's Weird Mysteries, it originally described Veronica to be "sexy". However, as of recently, some networks have made the decision to describe her as "beautiful", no doubt for younger viewing audiences.
