Archie's Weird Mysteries
| Archie's Weird Mysteries | |
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| Genre |
Comic science fiction Animation Adventure Family Horror |
| Starring |
Andy Rannells America Young Camille Schmidt Chris Lundquist Paul Sosso Tony Wike Ben Beck Ryle Smith Jerry Longe John Michael Lee |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
| 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 Entertainment |
| Distributor |
Anglia Television Tribune Entertainment (2005–2007) DHX Media (2012–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
PAX (US) Teletoon (Canada) |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | October 2, 1999 – February 22, 2000 |
Archie's Weird Mysteries is an American animated children's television program, based on the 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. The show 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 guideline. Produced by DIC Entertainment, the show was initially shown mornings on the PAX network, often with infomercials bookending the program. The following season, its repeats were syndicated to television stations throughout the US, as a way to comply with mandatory E/I regulations.
The theme song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. Musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao. The Riverdale vampires story arc episodes were put together and released on VHS as Archie and the Riverdale Vampires.
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 TV show) and the series was canceled with issue 34 after 10 issues of doing straight mystery stories with no supernatural or science-fiction components.
On July 22, 2011, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to release the series (under license from Cookie Jar Entertainment). They subsequently released Archie's Weird Mysteries - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time on February 21, 2012. They also released a 10 episode best-of collection on the same day.
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