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Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (released on video as Archie: Return to Riverdale) 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.
Archie Andrews, fifteen years after graduating from Riverdale High, has... MORE
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (released on video as Archie: Return to Riverdale) 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.
Archie Andrews, fifteen years after graduating from Riverdale High, has become a successful lawyer and is getting ready 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. LESS
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