Of the thirteen episodes that were made, I have eleven on VHS.  Someone else decided to upload a few episodes, so I thought I'd post the link so that if you were curious, you could see them.  Granted, Veronica's voice grates on your nerves after a while, and the music and vocab is totally eighties, but it's quite hysterical...

JUGHEAD PREDICTS:  Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra-1vn00yMI
JUGHEAD PREDICTS:  Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAq5dxEWL48

THIEF OF HEARTS:  Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvaQgNuG6yY
THIEF OF HEARTS:  Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1tk2Lt06ag

I already cackle whenever I see Veronica's gigantic box/glasses combo  80's slang and music added to that might just kill me.

Magnificent! Thank you for sharing!

I remember hating this when it originally was on, as I wanted to see the original Archie cartoons, but no station here carried them at the time.  I'll give it another chance now and see what I think.

Wow, the New Archies... that certainly brings me back. Did you know they even made Digests of it? I actually have one (#13 I believe- no idea where they got the number of stories to even go THAT far). I even made a giant diatribe about it that I posted on some old message boards:

Found it:
Among the weirder and more hard-to-understand portions of Archie comics history revolves around the curiously titled "New Archies". See, around the late-eighties early-nineties period, a new cartoon show came out that lasted just one season (13 episodes of two 10-minute pieces), featuring Archie & the gang devolved into pre-teens, with pretty much the same dynamic as the regular comics. The name was never really explained (beyond the "New" referencing a new kind of way to show the Archie crowd), and changes were made alongside the original Archie canon. "Fangs" Fogarty, the bully of the Little Archie universe, was brought in as a kind of bad guy for the cast to deal with. Chuck & Nancy, Riverdale's only black couple, were melded with Dilton Doiley, creating Eugene, a black nerdy kid (thus eliminating two archetypes for the price of one) and his would-be girlfriend Amani. The "Big Five" alongside Ethel were included along with Miss Grundy & The Bee, who were left at the same age they always were (Meaning they've looked sixty-ish since Archie & the gang were six years old till their teen years, never changing. Also never explained was the fact that they seemed to be a part of every school the Archies ever went to). Now, the show wasn't a big success, but Archie Comics made a go of it, even making a New Archies Digest, which I only saw one issue of (number 7 or something) and then never saw or heard from it again.

I think the show was a somewhat misguided attempt at creating a true age of marketing for Archie's main fans, most of whom are actually the pre-teen crowd. Unfortunately, the problem with that lies in the fact that pre-teens want to fantasize about living as TEENAGERS: driving, making it to the prom, high school dating, all that jazz, and not their own more pedestrian antics of just hanging around and babysitting and stuff. Problematically, New Betty & Veronica (I'll call them that to differentiate them from the younger or older parallel earth versions), weren't drawn to be even slightly attractive either. They were both mostly flat-chested, dopey-looking kids (Betty hasn't a lick of makeup or lip definition, and Ronnie's got the biggest, lamest pair of sunglasses on EARTH perched on her head, which I assure you were never in style for long in the EIGHTIES, much less the era this show came from), which is precisely what Archie's female audience (their biggest by far) DOESN'T want to see. See, it's all about fantasy wish-fulfillment. How many ugly kids do you see on shows aimed at pre-teens? Look at Lizzie Mcguire, the Disney Channel's biggest hit ever (note: this was written pre-Hannah Montana ), and That's So Raven, it's wannabe successor which has done nothing but disappoint. Hilary Duff, star of Lizzie Mcguire, was an exceptionally beautiful young girl who EVERY girl that age wishes she could look like. Raven Symone, by comparison, was a chubby little cherub who you wanted to beat with a rake, and nobody cares about her show. The point being: You have to make the girls attractive (even the ones who are supposed to be outcasts), or else little girls won't want to watch the show. See, you could have a girl be an outcast or considered unpopular, but you could ALSO put her in the popular fashions at the time, so little girls would shout "OOOOOH I want THAT shirt!" Part of the success of Archie comics is the perennial fashion show of Betty & Veronica, as little girls dream about looking like that some day, and oggling the dresses & stuff they wear. Dressing them the exact same way, every time (due to the limits of animation and the necessity of 'character model' sheets you can't diverge from or else it'll take too long to learn to draw anything... just look at the Simpsons, or even comic strips featuring the same shirts over & over) makes it boring for the little girls and future fashionistas out there.

I don't think Archie's mullet or Jughead's PURPLE hat helped matters much, either. And as such, this series, lacking in the nostalgic kiddie stories of Little Archie & the Good Ol' Gang, the parodic adventure of the Challengers of the Unknown, or anything else for that matterr, has pretty much been ignored in history. Seriously, you can't even find their stories in Digest format nowadays, which I've even seen R/C Racers and Archie 3000 in as side-stories in there. Perhaps the continuity is too hard to pass off (Dilton, Chuck, Nancy & Moose suddenly vanishing in Junior High, replaced by Eugene, Amani & Fangs) for such a young audience, or perhaps it's just because the stories were never that good, but until they re-play the cartoon again (unlikely except for early Saturday mornings on some backwater station), we've seen the last of New Archie & the gang.


From the Archie Archive's Website:
The New Archies concept came about because, at the time, DIC and NBC wanted to do something with the Archie characters, but the standard teenage versions of the characters were under option to a movie studio, meaning no other studio could use them for a certain amount of time. So a compromise was reached wherein younger versions of the characters were created. Originally, the cast from the "LITTLE ARCHIE" comics was considered, but the network thought characters that were slightly older and "hipper" than that would have more appeal to the audience. The show became a hit and ran for a couple of years, enjoying a second life in syndication. Currently, it can be seen on the "Toon Disney" cable network. Meanwhile, "NEW ARCHIES" stories occasionally pop up from time to time in digests to this day.

Well there you go. There's the explanation. Calling it a 'hit' seems a little exaggerative  (13 episodes), but whatever. The site also states that the digest lasted 12 issues (which adds up to like two or three years, which is kinda surprising since they didn't actually have an old archive to go back on).

...What was the new/reprint balance in the Digest ?
  There was a 32er , too , wasn't there

Yeah, there was a pamphlet version that ran from 1987-1990, but I don't have any of them, so I can't say for sure.  I do know that the New Archies stories haven't been reprinted at all since the title's overall cancellation in 1991.

yeah, I knew it went to at least 13, because that's the one I have. And actually looking at it, nearly every single story was an original. I think it's ratio of "new" to "reprints" was virtually 100% (it'd have to be- I don't think it had any Giant Size comics at all). I have no idea how the writers and artists (usually Henry Scarpelli) did so many that quickly.

Any interest in having your VHS tapes digitized?