Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again

Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
Genre	Comedy
Created by	John Goldwater Bob Montana
Written by	Evan Katz
Directed by	Dick Lowry
Starring	Christopher Rich Lauren Holly Karen Kopins Sam Whipple Gary Kroeger
Theme music composer	Mark Snow
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Graham Cottle
Running time	96 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)	Patchett Kaufman Entertainment DIC Entertainment
Distributor	National Broadcasting Company (NBC) New Horizons Home Video Roadshow Home Video
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	May 6, 1990
Chronology
Preceded by	The New Archies
Followed by	Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (released on video as Archie: Return to Riverdale in the United States and Archie's Weekend Reunion in Australia) was a live-action television movie based on comic book characters published by Archie Comics. It was produced by DiC and premiered on NBC Sunday Night at the Movies in 1990.

The concept behind the movie was to combine the long-standing familiarity of Archie and the gang from the comics with adult issues. In this sense, it can be seen as being similar to other "updates" of family-friendly concepts for television such as The Bradys and 2017's Riverdale

Archie Andrews, fifteen years after graduating from Riverdale High, has become a successful lawyer and is preparing to marry his fiancée, Pam, and move to "the big city." Before doing that, however, he returns home to Riverdale for his high school reunion.

Archie and company are all now in their early thirties, with the trials and tribulations one might expect to have happened to such a group over the years:

When Archie sees Betty and Veronica for the first time in fifteen years, all his old feelings for them come flooding back, threatening his engagement—and it doesn't help that the girls renew their pursuit of Archie, heedless of the fact that he has a fiancée. Meanwhile, Archie also tries to keep Reggie, helped along by an uncharacteristically menacing Mr. Lodge, from evicting Pop Tate from his soda shop. Archie ultimately saves the Chock'lit Shoppe, though he loses Pam in the bargain, and decides to stay in Riverdale.

Almost all of the characters in the movie are regular or recurring characters in the originating comics:

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