I finally came across this one! I was happy to find the whole series on the archive website. I never knew that Sabrina herself was a character in the Archies series until sometime in 2016! This cartoon, unlike all the other Sabrina adaptations (from the sitcom to the 90s cartoon to the Satanic witch version on Netflix...yes, I love them all!)....I am not familiar with it at all. When I played the first episode and I heard that theme song, I went, "ummm what the *bleep* was that?!!" I was not expecting a theme song to a 1960s show about a female witch to sound so out of place. Why does it sound very honky-tonk country-like?? This is the late 60s; you would think they would go with an obvious 60s bubblegum pop tune like the Archies did. But with a female singer this time! Whose idea was it to give poor Sabrina that awful theme song to her own show? Poor Sabrina and my poor ears.
I am not a huge fan of the voice acting. I maybe saw the original Archies cartoon when I was very young, and I don't really remember it. I'm aware that's what their voices sounded like in the Archies cartoon. Still I'm going to be critical of the (young male) voices. I know these are prominent voice actors. But the male voice actors are rubbish. They are too cringe and very goofy-sounding for me. The older men sound good. But Archie, Harvey, Jughead and their peers sound awful.
But Jane Webb as Sabrina is a keeper. I love Sabrina's voice! The female voices (Webb does a majority of them!) were a lot better than the male voices. Webb, as Sabrina, reminded me of one of my favorite voice actors, Tress MacNeille! I never knew Veronica was Southern?! & I was expecting her to have a much deeper voice. Every time Veronica talked I couldn't help but laugh. I thought they redid the show in the late 70s because this cartoon has a few alternate titles, so I was wrong, which is a pity. Some episodes of the show are cute, and the others are just blah and forgettable. This is a cartoon I could've skipped. I guess it's now time for me to start reading the vtg comics!
