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The Adventures of Archie Andrews
Volume 2



"Aw, Reeelax, Archie. Reeelax...."

The cast of "The Adventures of Archie Andrews", circa 1948When we look back at American family life in the late 1930s, many of us view it not through the eyes of reality but, instead, thru the rose colored glasses of popular culture. If you were young yourself at that time, you have a more realistic memory of those years - but, if you're a baby boomer and beyond, you're more likely to imagine a typical American home, circa 1940, as being in Carvel where a teenager named Andy Hardy lives: clean, pleasant, prosperous, and where every challenge, crisis, or misadventure is resolved in time for a happy ending - complete with the occasional musical number.

Harlan Stone as Jughead, Bob Hastings as Archie, and Gloria Mann as Veronica in "The Adventures of Archie Andrews"It's not surprising that we have this rosy vision of the past; after all, every entertainment medium did its best to create and sustain this image. Hollywood gave us a seemingly endless series of Andy Hardy movies, the Broadway stage gave us What a Life! which introduced the perpetually teenaged Henry Aldrich, and radio quickly turned Henry and his friend Homer into comedy characters that would endure for over a decade. As the 1940s progressed, the trend continued: perky teenager Corliss Archer came to radio in 1943, as did A Date with Judy - both sit-coms featuring a typical teenage girl dealing with her boyfriends, her often baffled parents, and the overwhelming dramas of high school social life. But it wasn't the stage, screen, or radio that would bring us our most enduring and innocent image of teenaged life; it was, instead, the comics.

In December of 1941, just two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Pep Comics introduced a new character that continues to entertain readers to this very day - and his name is Archie Andrews. From the beginning, Archie was the epitome of the American teenager of the 1940s: dressed in a polka dot bow tie and a letterman's sweater that proclaimed his loyalty to Riverdale High, he drove a souped-up jalopy, hung out with the perpetually lazy Jughead Jones, and spent most of his time in a lovesick haze. Aside from occasional crushes on movie goddesses, Archie divided his affection between two teenaged beauties: Betty Cooper, a bright and down-to-earth blonde, and Veronica Lodge, a wealthy brunette who loved to toy with Archie's affections. Hitting just the right mix of familiarity, slapstick comedy, and small-town warmth, Archie and his pals were an instant hit with teen readers - and, in less than a year, the characters had made their way from comic books to a daily newspaper comic strip and to radio.

In its first incarnation, 
The Adventures of Archie Andrews was a daily fifteen-minute radio series, aired over the Blue Network. Ratings were respectable and, after a brief move to a half-hour weekly slot, the five-a-week format returned on Mutual in 1944. But the series really hit its stride in June of 1945, when a largely new cast was introduced and it premiered over NBC in a Saturday morning slot that it would happily occupy for eight years. For the majority of the Saturday morning run, Archie was played by Bob Hastings, a talented young actor who had already made his reputation playing juveniles on dramatic programs. Woman-hating food-loving Jughead was played by Harlan Stone, perky Betty was played by Rosemary Rice, and the honey-voiced Veronica was played by Gloria Mann. If you were looking for subtlety or teenaged angst, you were never going to find it on The Adventures of Archie Andrews; in typical sit-com fashion, the plots usually revolved around some simple misunderstanding that quickly turned into bedlam. Aimed straight at a pre-teen audience, the programs were designed to be nothing more than loud, goofy, and fun - and, from the reactions of the studio audience that attended each live broadcast, the show was clearly adored by its listeners.

The Adventures of Archie Andrews, Volume 2 an eight-hour collection from RadioArchives.com, offers sixteen original NBC broadcasts taken from the original network master recordings and fully restored for sparkling audio fidelity. If you've enjoyed our other comedy collections - and especially if Archie and his pals were a big part of your youth - this is a collection you simply won't want to miss. Programs include:

Veronica's Coming Out Party
Saturday, October 19, 1946 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Jokes at Mrs Lodge's Red Cross Party
Saturday, March 15, 1947 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Archie Has the Hiccups
Saturday, May 15, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Archie Has a Cold
Saturday, June 12, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
No Ice
Saturday, July 10, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Wallpapering
Saturday, July 17, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Going on a Picnic
Saturday, August 21, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Late for a Dance
Saturday, September 4, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Archie Borrows a Tire Jack
Saturday, September 11, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Archie's in Love
Saturday, September 18, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Halloween Party
Saturday, October 30, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, Swift Premium Franks commercials
 
Locked Out of the House
Saturday, November 6, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Early to Bed
Saturday, November 13, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Relatives Visit Unexpectedly
Saturday, November 20, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Laryngitis Ruins Dad's Nap
Saturday, November 27, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining
 
Archie Gets a Job at the Drugstore
Saturday, December 4, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC, sustaining

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5 of 5 June 23, 2022
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5 of 5 Adventures of Archie Andrews Vol 2 January 4, 2019
Reviewer: Wesley Tom from Redlands, CA United States  
The sound quality of the Archie Andrews episodes was of the usual excellent level, characteristic of all audio projects Radio Archives produces.

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5 of 5 Goofball Teen Comedy for the family March 11, 2018
Reviewer: Raymond Johnson from NEW CONCORD, OH United States  
I really enjoy these cleaned-up OTR programs.  I missed those days, being born too late, but have always cherished their material.  Archie is a forerunner as an early sit-com, and I often think that his goofy hijinks could have inspired Lucille Ball's stunts on I Love Lucy.  Here each episode is lovingly reproduce so that it sounds like it was made in a modern studio.

The humor is good clean fun, and yes, it can be corny but it harkens back a to percieved time of purity and innocence, and the laughs come from the situation, and not at anyone's expense.  You just don't see that kind of humor any more.  I let my kids listen to this, and they laughed right along with me.  Pure sound quality, pure fun.  I wish I had grown up in this era.

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