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 animated adaptations of newspaper comic strips, such as:
- 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, was a later series on
NBC with a similar concept. For its
Framing Device, a friend of
Alley Oop introduced the various segments.
This series provides examples of: