text: Original broadcast The Archie Show debuted its first episode on September 14, 1968, on CBS at the 10 a.m. (EST) timeslot, competing with other Saturday-morning cartoons, such as Filmation's own The Batman/Superman Hour and reruns of The Flintstones and Spider-Man. The show was a commercial success; it regularly had a 47 Nielsen rating in the 2-11 age group. It was the most successful Saturday-morning cartoon at the time.
  Syndication
  Most of the episodes from all of the series produced by Filmation were syndicated in 1976 as The Archies (excluding material produced for The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, which did not debut until a year later). The music segments from The Archie Comedy Hour were missing in this syndication package, for unknown reasons.
  The New Archie and Sabrina Hour was later repeated in syndication, and on The Family Channel in a half-hour format as The Archie and Sabrina Surprise Package; this is the version offered by Universal Television, the current rightsholder for most Filmation programs, including the Archies franchise; a previous rightsholder, Entertainment Rights, was acquired by Classic Media in 2009, followed by DreamWorks Animation's purchase of Classic Media in 2012. Currently, Universal Pictures owns the rights to most Filmation programs, including the Archies franchise, since its purchase in 2016.