Archie's Weird Mysteries facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Archie's Weird Mysteries Archie, mystères et compagnie
Genre	Mystery Horror Science fiction
Developed by	Jymn Magon Brian Swenlin Michael Patrick Dobkins
Voices of	Andy Rannells America Young Camille Schmidt Chris Lundquist Paul Sosso Tony Wike Ben Beck Ryle Smith Jerry Longe John Michael Lee
Country of origin	France United States
Original language(s)	English French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Andy Heyward Robby London Michael Maliani Richard Goldwater Charles W. Grimes Tony DeRosa-Grund Michael Silberkleit
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company(s)	Riverdale Productions and Kent/QMA Les Studios Tex DIC Productions, L.P.
Distributor	United States DIC Entertainment Internationally Buena Vista International Television
Release
Original network	PAX (United States) M6 (France)
Audio format	Dolby Surround
First shown in	United States
Original release	October 2, 1999 (1999-10-02) – February 22, 2000 (2000-02-22)

Archie's Weird Mysteries (French: Archie, mystères et compagnie) is a 1999-2000 French/American animated television series based on the characters by 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. All the main characters solve strange mysteries in a format similar to both Scooby-Doo and The X-Files. The series is distributed as meeting the FCC's educational and informational children's programming ("E/I") requirements, and is used by commercial stations in the United States to meet this government guideline. Produced by Les Studios Tex and DIC Productions, L.P., the series was initially shown mornings on the PAX network, often with infomercials bookending the program. The series eventually premiered in France on M6 on January 19, 2000.

Voice cast and characters

Main

• Andrew Rannells as Archie Andrews, a redheaded, freckled student at Riverdale High, reporter for the school newspaper, and the titular character. He is cute, loving, fun and good hearted. He and Betty are the only main characters without black hair, since Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, and Dilton all have raven-black hair. He has dark-red hair and freckles; he and Betty being the only main characters with light hair. Archie is also the only main character with freckles. And all of his news-reporting stories on his laptop that happened in real life always end with "in a little town called Riverdale…". He has the most number of females attracted to him on the show, whether they be human or not.
• America Young as Betty Cooper, a smart girl-next-door who is sweet, caring, and the head of the cheerleading squad. She is in love with Archie and is best friends with Veronica. Unlike the rest of the characters, she does not have raven-black hair, and instead has dark blond hair. She and Veronica are the only female main characters on the show.
• Camille Schmidt as Veronica Lodge, a beautiful, popular and rich girl who is best friends with Betty, who she also shares a rivalry with for Archie's affection. She, like the other main protagonists besides Archie and Betty, has black hair. She and Betty are the only female protagonists.
• Chris Lundquist as Jughead Jones, a funny, quirky and geeky guy who loves food and is Archie's best friend. He does not like girls except for Betty, and he and Veronica are usually at each other's throats. He, like Veronica, Dilton, and Reggie, has black hair in the raven-black shade. Jughead usually wears a fast–food-souvenir-looking paper-crown hat on his head.
• Paul Sosso as Reggie Mantle, a self-confident, popular, rich jock who has a crush on Veronica and is frenemies with Archie. He's the uncle of a girl named Amy who is revealed to be his niece. Like most other protagonists of the show, he has black hair. He and Dilton are the only main protagonists in the show who don't always appear in every episode or don't get mentioned in every episode.
• Ben Beck as Dilton Doiley, a nerdy genius who is friends with Archie, Jughead, Moose, and Betty. He usually helps the gang save the day. He has raven-black hair and is the only bespectacled protagonist on the show. He and Reggie are the only protagonists who do not always make an appearance or mention. His catchphrase is: "I'll be super amalgamated!"

Supporting

• Tony Wike as Mr. Waldo Weatherbee, the Principal of Riverdale High, he is a bald man who has it in for Archie the most. Most bad things that happen around the school he blaims on Archie.
• Moose Mason - High school jock and Archie's, Jughead's, Dilton's and Betty's friend and boyfriend of Midge Klump.
• Lucinda - Practices voodoo magic; provides advice to Archie when he needs it regarding the supernatural; creates potions for those individuals in love. Her ways with magic have made her be labeled "a charmer".
• Ryle Smith as Pop Tate, the owner and operator of the "Pop Tate Chock'lit Shoppe" shop where Archie's friends hang out and friend with Archie and the gang. He calls Jughead his best customer.
• Mr. Fisk - CEO of ZoomCo who, after discovering that his Zoom energy drink contains a mutant formula that causes some people to mutate into monsters, tries to bribe and stop Archie from telling the world on national TV. He convinces Archie not to go to press as doing so would destroy his company and many new jobs for Riverdale.
• Jerry Longe as Dr. Beaumont, a vampire-looking man who is the caretaker and owner of an odds/supernatural/curiosity store. Provides advice to Archie and friends as he solves Weird Mysteries.
• Longe also voices Smithers, Veronica's cynical butler. He is aware of the supernatural but only shows any interest in waiting on Veronica.
• John Michael Lee as Mr. Hiram Lodge, Veronica's father who is disapproving of Archie.
• Miss Grundy - The homeroom teacher of Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead and Reggie. She has feelings for Mr. Weatherbee. Her name first name is Geraldine in the original comics, but in the show according to the episode "Twisted Youth", it is revealed that her first name is Doris in Archie's Weird Mysteries.

Episodes

Selected monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural characters

• a sea monster, who lives in an old Riverdale swimming hole
• a mummy in a museum exhibit
• werewolf sheriff
• mad scientists
• a 50-foot Veronica
• vampires
• giant beetle
• UFOs
• zombies
• "Stanley 9000" (a artificially intelligent talking processor)
• mutant crocodile
• man-eating worm
• super smart rats
• super smart teen (in "Brain of Terror")
• giant cockroaches
• Tapioca Pudding Glob
• alien potatoes
• insane artificial intelligence in Archie's car alarm ,also in Archie's Car Named Betsy.
• ancient wish-granting artifacts gone haywire
• Ghost of Quiet Violet - she used to be a very strict librarian when Jughead was young. She completely scared Jughead away so much when he was young that he stopped going to the library. As a ghost, she haunts the library.
• monster "Archie" – Archie gets turned into a monster when he drinks a new energy drink called "Zoom".
• monster "Stevenson" – Stevenson, a health and workout advocate, gets turned into a monster when he drinks a new energy drink called "Zoom".
• genie - escapes from an urn in Dr. Beaumont's store into Archie's laptop. Reggie, in turn, uses the laptop and is granted three wishes; after which, the Genie is set free and begins to wreak havoc on the city.
• Reggie Droid - After Reggie points out to two aliens who've abducted him that his friends will know he's missing, the aliens make a droid clone to cover up Reggie's absence, but to ensure his friends find him, Reggie lies about his personality traits, thus creating a nice version of himself. In case of discovery and revealing his creators to other Earthlings, the droid has a nuclear bomb inside him.
• Evil Trogs' Leader and his Trogs in "Virtually Evil"
• Mega-Mall of Horrors.
• Maria Nacht - she haunted Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead in their dreams
• Arnie - haunted Big Ethel in her dreams.
• Evil Sentient Humanoid-Like Talking Bees.

Broadcast

United States

The series first ran in the United States on PAX, and was the first newly-produced animated feature to first air on the network. It was planned to air alongside fellow-DIC programme Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century as part of an hour-long block, but the latter show instead aired on Fox Kids, leaving Archie to air alongside other DIC shows on the channel's Cloud Nine block. It later moved to a daily-slot on the network and remained on PAX until late-2000.

In 2001, the show began to air on syndicated television stations throughout the United States, as a way to comply with their mandatory E/I regulations. The series would later be part of the syndicated DIC Kids Network block beginning in 2003, also to comply with E/I regulations.

From 2012-2018, the show reran on Qubo.

France

Archie, Mystère Et Compagnie first ran on M6 on January 19, 2000 as part of the channel's M6 Kid strand, and later reran on Disney Channel and Toon Disney in the country.

Comics

An ashcan comic book tie-in also titled Archie's Weird Mysteries, written by Paul Castiglia, pencilled by Bill Golliher, inked by Rick Koslowski and colored by Stephanie Cofell (née Vozzo) was published in 1999. This led into a February 2000 launch for an ongoing, regular-sized series (also titled Archie's Weird Mysteries) with the same creative team. "Weird" was dropped from the title with issue 25 (signaling the end of the tie-in with the television series) and the series was canceled with issue 34 after 10 issues of doing straight mystery stories with no supernatural or science-fiction components.

The Archies in Jugman

In 2002, DIC produced a TV-movie as part of their DIC Movie Toons series, titled The Archies in Jugman. It originally premiered on television on Nickelodeon on November 3, 2002 and was released on DVD and VHS shortly afterward by MGM Home Entertainment, followed on with international airings on Disney Channel and Toon Disney. The movie features the same character designs (but with different clothes, different looks) as this series, as well as most of the same crew and voice cast, and the similar theme of weird events happening in Riverdale.