ARCHIE'S WEIRD MYSTERIES

'''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.
The show is distributed as meeting the FCC's educational and informational children's programming requirements, and is used by commercial stations in the United States to meet this guideline.

Contents

Students

Selected monsters

Censorship

Students

★ Archie Andrews, redhead student at Riverdale High, reporter for the school newspaper

★ Betty Cooper, the blonde girl in love with Archie who's general nature is kind and caring.

★ Veronica Lodge, a very proud, rich and stubborn girl who is friends with Betty and is also in love with Archie.

★ Reggie Mantle, an egotistic and self centered person, who Archie normally does not get on with very well, but nonetheless they still are friends.

★ Jughead Jones, Archie's life long best friend who loves to eat.

★ Dilton Doiley, a nerdy genius who usually helps Archie and the gang save the day.

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"

★ man-eating worm

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.