Sunday, December 7, 2025

Teenage Toons: The Archies enter syndication, and Archie is rapping? (1976)

 After CBS cancelled US of Archie, Filmation landed a deal to syndicate previous iterations of the franchise, including chopping the Archie Comedy Hour into half hour increments.

What you're about to see, unearthed earlier this week, is Archie (Dallas McKennon) rapping a new intro over the opening of 1970's Archie's Funhouse, followed by the open to a sample short.

A year later, Filmation would do a similar package fronted by the Groovie Goolies.


McKennon would end his association with Filmation a year later after the franchise's ill-fated move to NBC and a guest appearance (previously reviewed) on Space Academy. Now, all we need is the closing from this same era, with a voiceover by co-producer Lou Scheimer or Norm Prescott, exhorting viewers to "remember what you learned".

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