Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Archie Show (1968)
The Archies was one of the most popular Saturday Morning Cartoons that ever aired. It spawned that ever present trend in the early seventies of a rock band in every cartoon. It spawned bubble gum pop and cartoon bands in:
Josie and The Pussycats
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
The Osmonds
The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
The Catanooga Cats
The Brady Kids
The Banana Splits
The Hardy Boys
The Sugar Bears (featuring Kim Carnes)
Lancelot Link
That is just a sampling. There were several others that you and I don't even remember. During this period, Archie comics were filled with promotional pages or sentences about the triple threat: Filmation's Archie Show, Filmation's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats - all Archie properties - all wildly popular. Howard Morris was the veteran voice actor that appeared in the Filmation shows. Other than voicing Riverdale regulars Jughead Jones, Dilton Doiley, Big Moose and Mr. Weatherbee, he was also responsible for 75% of the incidental characters - executives, reporters, politicians, hot dog vendors, butlers and anything else a given script called for.
Josie and The Pussycats
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
The Osmonds
The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
The Catanooga Cats
The Brady Kids
The Banana Splits
The Hardy Boys
The Sugar Bears (featuring Kim Carnes)
Lancelot Link
That is just a sampling. There were several others that you and I don't even remember. During this period, Archie comics were filled with promotional pages or sentences about the triple threat: Filmation's Archie Show, Filmation's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats - all Archie properties - all wildly popular. Howard Morris was the veteran voice actor that appeared in the Filmation shows. Other than voicing Riverdale regulars Jughead Jones, Dilton Doiley, Big Moose and Mr. Weatherbee, he was also responsible for 75% of the incidental characters - executives, reporters, politicians, hot dog vendors, butlers and anything else a given script called for.
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