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This Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{CBS}} was an early successor series to ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow''. As a FramingDevice, 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:
* ''ComicStrip/BroomHilda''
* ''The Captain and the Kids'' (based on ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids'')
* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''
* ''The Dropouts''
* ''Emmy Lou''
* ''Moon Mullins''
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nancy}} (and Sluggo)''
* ''Smokey Stover''

''The Fabulous Funnies'', also produced by Filmation in 1978, was a later series on Creator/{{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 FramingDevice, Foozy of ComicStrip/AlleyOop 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:
* AnimatedAnthology
* SecondaryAdaptation: This cartoon is a {{Spinoff}} of ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow'', using the same characters to provide a FramingDevice to air adaptations of other ComicStrip stories. ''The Archie Show'' is based (in part) on a radio series, called ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfArchieAndrews'', which itself is based on the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' which began in TheForties.
* TruerToTheText: The ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' segments are much more faithful to the original comic strip than ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow''
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