The Archie Show - Formats

Formats

• The Archie Show (1968)
• Archie and His New Pals (TV special; 1969)
• The Archie Comedy Hour (1969) (all new material, now in an hour-long format, contains two Sabrina segments, one at the start of the show, and one at the end, with a new "The Funhouse" joke segment in the middle that is loosely based on Laugh-In, and contains such things as Sabrina's Magic Trick and Dilton Doily's Inventions; and contains a "Side Show" segment of one-liner jokes; followed by an Archies music segment)
• Archie's Funhouse (1970) (expanded version of the previous season's "Funhouse" format, now featuring an audience of live-action kids and the "Giant Jukebox;" a music-heavy incarnation of the series, originally padded to one hour with repeats of The Archie Show segments)
• Archie's TV Funnies (1971) (The gang runs a TV station, presenting a selection of cartoons featuring characters from the funny papers)
• Everything's Archie (1973) (repeats of previously released material)
• The U.S. of Archie (1974) (The gang interprets various events from American history)
• The New Archie and Sabrina Hour (1977) (new Archie and Sabrina episodes plus repeats of previous material)
• Hero High (1981), part of the Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam!, was to have featured Archie and the gang as superheroes; however, this series was altered at the last minute because Filmation's rights to the "Archie" characters had expired during production and was not renewed.

The New Archie and Sabrina Hour was subsequently divided into The Bang-Shang Lalapalooza Show and Sabrina: Super Witch during its original network run. While the other Archie shows were on CBS, these shows were on NBC. It was later repeated in syndication, and on The Family Channel in a half-hour format as The Archie and Sabrina Surprise Package; this is the version offered by DreamWorks Classics (formerly Classic Media, now a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation), the current rightsholder for most Filmation programs, including The Archies franchise; the previous rightsholder, Entertainment Rights, was acquired by Classic Media in 2009, followed by DreamWorks Animation's purchase of Classic Media in 2012.

Collectively, most episodes of these series were later put into television syndication in 1976 as The Archies (excluding material produced for The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, which did not debut until a year later). Strangely, the music segments from "Comedy Hour" were missing in this syndication package.

In 2010, the show began airing on Retro Television Network.