Saturday, July 11, 2009

Saturday Morning Cartoon

Like most of my generation I first encountered Archie, Jughead, Veronica and the rest of the gang in the funny papers. But in the late 1960s they jumped to Saturday morning TV in a program called The Archie Show. Here's a segment from about 1969:



Not satisfied with just being animated jokemakers, Archie and the others soon became recording stars as well. Here's a video of their biggest hit, which, if I recall correctly, was introduced on the cartoon show:

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