Western Animation / Archie's TV Funnies

This Filmation series on CBS was an early successor series to The Archie Show. As a Framing Device, Archie and his friends worked at a Riverdale television station. The real purpose of the program, however, was to showcase these animated adaptations of newspaper comic strips:

• Broom Hilda
• The Captain and the Kids (based on The Katzenjammer Kids)
• Dick Tracy
• The Dropouts
• Emmy Lou
• Moon Mullins
• Nancy (and Sluggo)
• Smokey Stover

The Fabulous Funnies, also produced by Filmation in 1978, was a later series on NBC with a similar concept with nearly all the strips featured from TV Funnies, (all except for Dick Tracy, The Dropouts, Moon Mullins, and Smokey Stover) and included Alley Oop and Tumbleweeds . For its Framing Device, Foozy of Alley Oop acted as host introducing the various segments.

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In addition to the tropes found in the source material, this series provides examples of:

• Animated Anthology
• Secondary Adaptation: This cartoon is a Spinoff of The Archie Show, using the same characters to provide a Framing Device to air adaptations of other Comic Strip stories. The Archie Show is based (in part) on a radio series, called The Adventures of Archie Andrews, which itself is based on the Archie Comics which began in The '40s.
• Truer to the Text: The Dick Tracy segments are much more faithful to the original comic strip than The Dick Tracy Show

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