Archie's friends look like the people who monitor the public TV cameras that have appeared all over the place in the last decade. Look out, big Archie is watching you.
This show's never screened in New Zealand. I'm not familiar with any of these guest cartoons except Dick Tracey.
Loved "TV Funnies"...very good "Dick Tracy" episodes and "Smokey Stover" was cool.
The later "Fabulous Funnies" in 1978 revived "The Captain and The Kids", "Broom Hilda," "Emmy Lou", "Nancy and Sluggo" in new stories with new voice actors June Foray, Bob Holt, Alan Oppenheimer, and Jayne Hamill and added "Alley Oop" and "Tumbleweeds" (for one episode only...in which permission was never granted by the newspaper syndicate for use in the series until after that episode was broadcast).
i wish they would put the Dick Tracy episode on DVD, i think everette sloan played him in it like he did the other animated series, but this has all the better characters. I hope that they put it on DVD soon, or someone puts it on youtube for everyone to watch, instead of paying almost 50 bucks for the vhs
If they produced a show like this today, it would feature current comic strip favorites such as Calvin & Hobbes (despite Bill Watterson´s reluctance to have his character animated or menchandized, we always can dream, can´t we?), Mutts, Liò, Fox Trot, Zits, Get Fuzzy, Piranha Club, etc.
Yes and these Dick Tracy episodes were SO much better than those horrid The Dick Tracy Show episodes. Sadly I haven't found any thing that shows them by themselves and who even known most of the comic strip characters in this clip?
Amen about Dick Tracy's episodes here! "The Dick Tracy Show" is funny, but klutzy & corny - Dick doesn't do a thing. Here, Dick really gets the job done. Plus, in one episode, Dick chooses between catching crooks & saving people's lives - he chooses to save the lives first, and gets the crooks. In another episode he taught kids that smoking's not good for you.
This cool show is the earliest recollection of Archie that I have. I was about 4-5 years old when the show was on back around 1970. It wouldn't be until about 6 years later that I would become the huge fan of the Archies that I am now.
I remember at the time that Archie scared me just a little, even though he's imaginary, because, being a teenager, he and the gang were kind of like "big kids" to me. I really didn't like Reggie-he scared me-because to me, he was always "The Mean One".
childhood memory weirdness: not remembering exactly when I started to like looking at what the girls wore at slumber parties. If I didn't have a bf I'd date Rose Mcgowan and write songs for her to perform, well her or someone cool I knew.
I wasn't familiar either on Emmy Lou and the Drop-Outs. Was it me or did Sluggo sound like a 60 year old man with a 5 pack a day habit?
BroomHilda here was much funnier and more faithful compared to the later incarnation on Filmation's other comic strip show "The Fabulous Funnies" on NBC. Dick Tracy rocked on this show!
@multivox I grew up in the Bronx and had no idea some of these comic strips existed. Then my family visited friends on Long Island and I saw their local newspaper comics. They had stuff like "Little Iodine" and other strange (to me) comic strips. It was like being on another planet.
I think will try to pass this series in my Internet Channel called " KFTV ontheNet ". I just need episodes. also cool video. i saw this only like 1-2 times or something like that. I did not saw when it origianly passed, just reruns but in spanish.
It's kind of painfully obvious that they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for comic strips (Since other companies had dibs on Popeye, Charlie Brown, et al.)
Here come the Dropouts! LOL
griffybutt 4 months ago 2
As Smokey Stover would say, FOO!
ChrisK42 8 months ago
Archie's friends look like the people who monitor the public TV cameras that have appeared all over the place in the last decade. Look out, big Archie is watching you.
This show's never screened in New Zealand. I'm not familiar with any of these guest cartoons except Dick Tracey.
bukster1 9 months ago
where are all the eps???
why there is no dvds???
no fan sites???
fabulous funnies intro,where is the intro of this cartoon,
i know there is only vhs videos,
do something will yuo!!!
jvcc31 10 months ago
This was the 4th ARCHIE cartoon series,since its CBS debut in 1968. it was
certainly unique,since Filmation Associates not only got The Archie Comic Co
rights,but also secured the rights from most of the major Sunday comic pubs-
putting Filmation,as the first studio that did its shows from several major comic
book companies(DC Comics,Archie Pubs,etc)-not to mention,that this was Eight
years before they did "THE FABULOUS FUNNIES" for NBC in 1978
MONGOOSE1ful 11 months ago
cool stuff and innocent
pelicaned1 1 year ago
Loved "TV Funnies"...very good "Dick Tracy" episodes and "Smokey Stover" was cool.
The later "Fabulous Funnies" in 1978 revived "The Captain and The Kids", "Broom Hilda," "Emmy Lou", "Nancy and Sluggo" in new stories with new voice actors June Foray, Bob Holt, Alan Oppenheimer, and Jayne Hamill and added "Alley Oop" and "Tumbleweeds" (for one episode only...in which permission was never granted by the newspaper syndicate for use in the series until after that episode was broadcast).
artytoons 1 year ago
Funny how most of these comic strip characters were already passé even then.
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago
What a theme song....just keep increasing the basic riff chromatically.
mammatusofmystery 1 year ago
damn, the kind of shows make me wish I had been born ten years earlier...I can't believe I missed all this cool shit.
tical2010 1 year ago
This reminds me of how stupid we were as kids, being entertained by this crap.
dowhatthouwilt911 1 year ago
Im doing a comic with this guy in an Archie-Esque Style check out my PinUpG00gle :crimsonarcherjimdo,
alivepool 1 year ago
Oh lord the memories, youtube just keeps on giving me back wonderful pieces of my childhood.
synthastia 2 years ago 10
i wish they would put the Dick Tracy episode on DVD, i think everette sloan played him in it like he did the other animated series, but this has all the better characters. I hope that they put it on DVD soon, or someone puts it on youtube for everyone to watch, instead of paying almost 50 bucks for the vhs
Futurevoiceactor 2 years ago
i was wrong, it's john erwin who plays tracy, I was thinking of the crossover between him and Mr. Magoo
Futurevoiceactor 2 years ago
If they produced a show like this today, it would feature current comic strip favorites such as Calvin & Hobbes (despite Bill Watterson´s reluctance to have his character animated or menchandized, we always can dream, can´t we?), Mutts, Liò, Fox Trot, Zits, Get Fuzzy, Piranha Club, etc.
alftoon 2 years ago
This was the second and last time that Dick Tracy appeared as
a tv cartoon character.
143AC 2 years ago
Yes and these Dick Tracy episodes were SO much better than those horrid The Dick Tracy Show episodes. Sadly I haven't found any thing that shows them by themselves and who even known most of the comic strip characters in this clip?
Maximara 2 years ago 3
Amen about Dick Tracy's episodes here! "The Dick Tracy Show" is funny, but klutzy & corny - Dick doesn't do a thing. Here, Dick really gets the job done. Plus, in one episode, Dick chooses between catching crooks & saving people's lives - he chooses to save the lives first, and gets the crooks. In another episode he taught kids that smoking's not good for you.
author 2 years ago
It is a shame that the bad version (The Dick Tracy Show) is so much easier to get than the good version (Archie's Dick Tracy)
Maximara 2 years ago 3
This cool show is the earliest recollection of Archie that I have. I was about 4-5 years old when the show was on back around 1970. It wouldn't be until about 6 years later that I would become the huge fan of the Archies that I am now.
I remember at the time that Archie scared me just a little, even though he's imaginary, because, being a teenager, he and the gang were kind of like "big kids" to me. I really didn't like Reggie-he scared me-because to me, he was always "The Mean One".
spy4863 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
self as child: wah! everyone's so mean to betty!
childhood memory weirdness: not remembering exactly when I started to like looking at what the girls wore at slumber parties. If I didn't have a bf I'd date Rose Mcgowan and write songs for her to perform, well her or someone cool I knew.
humdrum99 3 years ago
This was Moon Mullins' only appearance in the medium of animation.
SkyfireTheFox 3 years ago 3
I always liked Broomhilda. Thanks for posting this video.
AmethystWillow 3 years ago 2
om goodness its been along time since I seen this video I was a little kid when I saw this video
Sabin06 3 years ago 2
I wasn't familiar either on Emmy Lou and the Drop-Outs. Was it me or did Sluggo sound like a 60 year old man with a 5 pack a day habit?
BroomHilda here was much funnier and more faithful compared to the later incarnation on Filmation's other comic strip show "The Fabulous Funnies" on NBC. Dick Tracy rocked on this show!
multivox 3 years ago 5
@multivox I grew up in the Bronx and had no idea some of these comic strips existed. Then my family visited friends on Long Island and I saw their local newspaper comics. They had stuff like "Little Iodine" and other strange (to me) comic strips. It was like being on another planet.
chasxyz1234 1 year ago
Their version of Dick Tracy was FAR better than the awful UPA cartoon of the 60s... and more faithful to the comic!
reelsiriuspwnage 3 years ago 4
I wonder if this is where the theme to "TV Funhouse" came from.
rockdontrun 3 years ago
Sure sounds like they were playing on this sound when they made that bit for SNL although it's clearly a parody.
FlamingoKicker 3 years ago
How many episdoe were there actually in this cartoon? 16 episodes?
klee5760 4 years ago
I think will try to pass this series in my Internet Channel called " KFTV ontheNet ". I just need episodes. also cool video. i saw this only like 1-2 times or something like that. I did not saw when it origianly passed, just reruns but in spanish.
vilapupu 4 years ago
Man this brings back memories! Not sure if they are good or bad.;)
slagit 4 years ago
I believe all of the characters on this show were owned by King Features at this point, which explains the weird selection of characters.
ccie12933 4 years ago
Nope. As per the credits:
Archie Comics: "Archie"
Chicago Tribune-New York News: "Dick Tracy"
United Features: "Captain and the Kids," "Emmy Lou," "The Dropouts," "Nancy"
Chicago Tribune: "Broom Hilda," "Moon Mullins"
New York News Inc.: "Smokey Stover"
gatorman295 4 years ago 2
I meant besides Archie, but I was still wrong. :)
Thanks for that info. Still one oddball group of characters, though.
ccie12933 4 years ago
It's kind of painfully obvious that they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for comic strips (Since other companies had dibs on Popeye, Charlie Brown, et al.)
superleviathan 4 years ago 2
that made no sense. i thought archie had his own show?
funnywoman18 4 years ago
brutal ARCHIE TV FUNNIES DEATH METAL
bandablasphemy 4 years ago
This show only ran one season. The theme song you are probably thinking of is the original Everything's Archie theme from 1968. This is from 1971.
rtususian 4 years ago
No raposfan this is the full complete version of the theme music.
I saw this program when it first came out too, and sometimes its opening would be shortened beginning with the just the vocal track.
Remember this was in the pre-cable network days when stations wanted as much time for commercials as possible.
TVFREAKMAN 4 years ago
Wow, I remember different music to this... hey Culpit, was there ever an alternate theme made for this show?
raposofan 4 years ago