Archie Andrews is the name of the main fictional character in a American comic book series, and the title of a long-run radio series about that character, created by Bob Montana. A fictional character is any person who does appear in a work of fiction. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

It also is the name of a ventriloquist's puppet that appeared on radio and television shows in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s. Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. ... A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ...

Bob Montana's characters

Archibald "Archie" Andrews debuted in Pep Comics #22 December, 1941, and six decades later is still a redheaded 17-year-old. He lives in Riverdale, attends Riverdale High, and is the only son of Fred and Mary Andrews. December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Red hair is a hair color shared by several species, among them humans, orangutans and horses. ... Riverdale a fictional town that is the setting for most of the various characters that appear in Archie Comics. ... Japanese high school students in uniform High school, or Secondary school, is the last segment of compulsory education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (Republic of China) (only junior high school) and the United States. ...

A number of stories have revealed the Andrews family has its origins in Scotland. Archie has been depicted wearing the traditional kilt of his ancestors and playing bagpipes. Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... The kilt is seen as an item of traditional Scottish Highland dress, although the origin of that tradition is more recent than is commonly believed. ... A bagpipe performer in Amsterdam. ...

Archie has many hobbies, drives an old car and takes jobs to pay for dates. A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

Archie's love is divided between the upper class and refined Veronica Lodge and the middle class and athletic Betty Cooper; Betty is humble, and Veronica is a snob; the two girls often fight over him. Archie is the lead singer of The Archies, performing with Betty, Veronica, Reggie Mantle and Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones. The term upper class refers to a group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. ... Veronica Ronnie Lodge (born April 1942) is an adolescent fictional character in the Archie Comics books series. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... Elizabeth Betty Cooper is a fictional character of Archie Comics. ... Humility is the state of being humble. ... A snob, guilty of snobbery or snobbism, is a person who imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and apes the lifestyle of a social class of people to which that person does not by right belong. ... The Archies are a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones. ... Reginald Reggie Mantle (1941- ) is a fictional character in the Archie Comics book. ... Forsythe Pendleton Jughead Jones is a fictional character in Archie Comics, first appearing in December, 1941. ...

Archie is a good fellow, but also an accident waiting to happen and always gets involved in the funniest situations. Some of the many adults who try to be far away from this walking hurricane are Hiram Lodge and Riverdale High's principal, Waldo Weatherbee. Hiram Lodge is a fictional character by Archie Comics. ... Waldo Weatherbee, is a fictional character by Archie Comics. ...

In the TV movie and subsequent comic book "To Riverdale and Back Again", which portrayed all the characters 15 years after their graduation from high school, Archie is a lawyer with a practice in Riverdale -- and still gets to Pop Tate's Chock'lit Shoppe as much as possible. A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... Terry Pop Tate is a fictional character of the fictional Archie universe, is the owner and manager of the Chocklit Shoppe, a soda store and frequent hangout of Archies Gang. ...

The Spanish version of Archie Andrews is named Archi Gómez.

Bob Montana's characters were adapted to radio in the early 1940s. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5, 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as the title character during the NBC years. Harlan Stone portrayed Archie's pal, Jughead, known for the catchphrase, "Relax, Archie, reeelax!" Jughead was also played by Cameron Andrews. Alice Yourman and Arthur Kohl, amongst others, played Fred and Mary Andrews. Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket First transistor Colossus, the worlds first totally electronic computer. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining, as the last day of May. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The 1986 Peacock logo, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

After four years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Bob Montana returned in 1946 to launch the Archie newspaper comic strip, which he drew until his death in 1975. Bob Montana's main characters were all based on real-life individuals he knew in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he went to high school from 1936 to 1939. The U.S. Army Signal Corps was founded in 1861 by Major Albert J. Myer, a physician by training. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Haverhill is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Ventriloquist's puppet

Possibly derived from the comic character, Archie Andrews was the name of the puppet used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in a radio and television show in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s, in its radio format it was called 'Educating Archie'. The bizarre concept of delivering a ventriloquist act, a visual humour, by radio, an audio media, never seemed to bother anyone at the time, however. Archie was invariably dressed in a broad-striped blazer, and addressed the ventriloquist as "Brough". The television scripts were written by Marty Feldman and Ronald Chesney. A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. ... Peter Brough (February 26, 1916 - June 3, 1999) was an English radio ventriloquist who became a well-known name to audiences in the 1950s. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933–December 2, 1982). ... Ronald Chesney (born 1922) and Ronald Wolfe are British TV comedy scriptwriters, best known for their popular 1960s / 1970s sitcoms The Rag Trade and On The Buses. ...

The UK radio show attracted up to 15m listeners and had a children's fan club that at one time had 250,000 members. Among future stars who appeared on the show were Tony Hancock, Max Bygraves, Harry Secombe, Benny Hill, Beryl Reid and (as a 14-year-old) Julie Andrews. Anthony John Hancock, best known as Tony Hancock (May 12, 1924 - June 26, 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Max Bygraves (born 16 October 1922 in Rotherhithe as Walter William Bygraves) is a singer songwriter. ... Harry Secombe Sir Harry Donald Secombe, (September 8, 1921 – April 11, 2001), was a Welsh entertainer, with a fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. ... Born Alfred Hawthorn Hill (January 21, 1924/1925 - April 20, 1992), Benny Hill was a prolific comic British actor. ... Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trapp children in The Sound of Music. ...

Archie went missing several times.

• In 1947, he was in Peter Brough's car when it was stolen from Lower Regent Street, London, but found two days in a garden at Paddington.
• He was left in the rack of a railway carriage at Chatham, but a railway porter sent him back by taxi in time for his show.
• In 1951, Brough was travelling to Leeds to compere the televised Northern Music Hall at the Theatre Royal, Leeds, with Archie in his suitcase. Brough went for dinner in the dining car, and whilst away the carriage in which he had been sitting was taken off the train and went on to Bradford. Unable to locate the puppet, at the venue Brough went through a revised script without the dummy. A £1000 reward was offered and he was returned.

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Archie in the movies

On May 6, 1990, NBC released a TV-movie that focused around Archie and the gang titled "Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again". Instead of having them stuck in Riverdale High, they were now adults and preparing for their fifteen year high school reunion. Archie was now a lawyer engaged to the image conscience, Pam. His best friend, Jughead, was a neurotic psychiatrist with a troublemaking son (Archie dubbed him "Jughead Junior"). May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term neurosis was coined by the Scottish doctor, William Cullen in 1769 to refer to “disorders of sense and motion” caused by a “general affection of the nervous system. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ...

Betty was an elementary school teacher and aspiring novelist engaged to a jerk named Robert who was jealous of Archie. Veronica was living in France and chartered a Concorde to Riverdale for the reunion. She was still tied down by her dad's money and still in love with Archie. Reggie worked for Mr. Lodge and owned several businesses. Moose Mason and Midge Klump were married and worked as chiropractors, while Big Ethel had turned into a beautiful model. Primary or elementary education consist of the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ... Marmaduke Moose Mason (nicknamed Big Moose) is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. ... Midge Klump is a fictional character from Archie Comics. ... Chiropractic, also known as chiropractic care, is a health discipline that seeks to prevent and treat health problems by using spinal adjustments in order to correct misalignments, or subluxations. ... Big Ethel Muggs is a fictional character by Archie Comics. ... Italian model Francesca Dani. ...

The film focused around the good times the gang had during the weekend reunion. Reggie planned to demolish Pop Tate's so he add could extra space for his gym. Archie decided to fight this in court. Meanwhile, Archie still wrestled with his feelings for Betty and Veronica. Terry Pop Tate is a fictional character of the fictional Archie universe, is the owner and manager of the Chocklit Shoppe, a soda store and frequent hangout of Archies Gang. ...

In the end, Archie breaks up with Pam and decides to stay in Riverdale, Jughead moves back to Riverdale to open a practice, Betty decides to teach in Riverdale, Veronica decides to stay in Riverdale for a while before going back to Paris and Reggie is forgiven for trying to destroy the gang's local hangout. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

The film was a pilot for a possible series. It was panned by fans and critics alike, and never picked up for a series run.

External links

• Haverhill cartoonist Bob Montana (http://mcnsclips.blogspot.com/2002_06_09_mcnsclips_archive.html#77553536)
• Trivia on the character (http://www.geocities.com/jughead_p_jones_12/archie_andrews.htm)
• Archie Andrews the ventriloquist's puppet (http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/archieandrews.htm)