50 Fun Facts About Riverdale

Riverdale is based on the characters of which comic book publisher?

The publisher's own chief creative officer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, adapted it for television.

On which US network did Riverdale premiere on January 26, 2017?

Fox had held the project first but passed on it in 2014, and development moved the following year.

Who plays Archie Andrews?

He was cast in February 2016 after a four-month worldwide search, and was one of the last actors to audition.

Which actress plays Veronica Lodge?

Her character is a former Manhattan 'it girl' who moves to town after her father is jailed.

How many seasons of Riverdale aired in total?

That added up to 137 episodes, an unusually long run for a teen drama in the streaming era.

In which Canadian city was Riverdale filmed?

The Pop's diner set there was so convincing that a truck driver once parked his 18-wheeler outside expecting to eat.

Whose death, a supposed drowning the summer before school starts, drives the mystery of season one?

The victim was Cheryl's twin brother, captain of the Bulldogs and heir to the family maple syrup business.

Which season-one killer murdered his own son to protect the family's drug secret?

Police then found him hanged in the syrup distillery when they came to arrest him.

With whom does Archie have a secret affair in the early episodes of season one?

Betty and Veronica later discover that 'Geraldine Grundy' does not exist and find a gun and an ID with another name.

What is the name of the school newspaper Betty revives, later run with Jughead?

Its first assignment was interviewing the Adventure Scouts who found Cheryl at the river.

What family secret do Betty and Alice uncover when they catch Hal destroying evidence in season one?

The revelation made Polly and Jason's relationship technically incest, which is exactly as awkward as it sounds.

After her father's death, Cheryl attempts suicide at which location, only to be saved by the core four?

She then burns down Thornhill mansion in the same finale.

Season two opens with Archie rushing which character to hospital after a shooting?

The shooter took no money from the register, which told Betty and Jughead it was a hit rather than a robbery.

What is the name of the masked shooter who terrorises the town throughout season two?

He announced himself in a letter to the Coopers, promising to target sinners.

Which character reveals himself to Betty and Alice as the man behind the season-two mask?

A copycat second shooter turned out to be Tall Boy, who was killed by an officer.

Which Stephen King story was the basis for the season-two musical episode?

Kevin directed the show, and Midge replaced Cheryl in the lead role after threats supposedly from the season's masked killer.

Which actor took over the role of Reggie Mantle in season two after Ross Butler left for 13 Reasons Why?

Butler later returned once, as an alternate-universe Reggie in the 100th episode.

Which of these actors plays Hiram Lodge, Veronica's gangster father?

The actor's real-life wife Kelly Ripa guest-starred as Hiram's mistress, and their son played a young Hiram in a flashback.

What is the name of the gang Jughead's father once led on the wrong side of the tracks?

Toni Topaz eventually became its leader, and Jughead wore its crown for a while too.

What is the name of the vigilante group Archie founds in season two to protect Riverdale High students?

His viral video announcing it got him ordered to disband by Principal Weatherbee.

What is the street name of the drug that the Ghoulies deal in season two?

Season three's drug of choice was a different one, tied to the Gargoyle King's game.

Season three revolves around a role-playing game that grips the town. What is it called?

The parents had played it too, back when they were the Midnight Club.

Which cult starts indoctrinating Riverdale residents in season three?

It turned out to be harvesting its followers' organs, and its leader Edgar Evernever 'ascended' when Alice shot him.

Who is unmasked as the mastermind behind the Gargoyle King's game in the season-three finale?

The man actually wearing the costume was Chic, the impostor who had posed as Betty's brother.

Season three's flashback episode pays homage to which 1985 John Hughes film?

The teenage cast played their own characters' parents, and the actor who plays Hiram had his son Michael play the young version.

Which musical did Cheryl demand the school stage in season three?

The season-four variety show later had Kevin attempting a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

What is the season three drug whose bad batch leaves a brothel client foaming at the mouth?

It was known on the street as 'G' and was made in the prison Hiram was building.

Luke Perry, who played Archie's father, died in March 2019. Which episode was the first dedicated to him?

It aired two days after his death; the season-four premiere was then written as a full tribute to Fred.

In season four, Jughead transfers to which elite boarding school?

His hostile roommate Bret and classmate Donna framed him for his own apparent murder there.

What series of mystery novels does Jughead win the contract to write in season four?

He then discovered his own grandfather had written the first book, which the credited author denied.

What does the anonymous 'Voyeur' of season four leave on Riverdale doorsteps?

The tapes escalated to masked re-enactments of the town's murders, and the culprit turned out to be Jellybean.

Season four was cut short at 19 episodes for what reason?

The remaining three episodes' storylines were folded into the start of season five, ending with graduation.

How long is the time jump that begins in the fourth episode of season five?

The gang returned as adults to save the town from being dissolved by Hiram Lodge.

After the time jump, what is Betty's job?

Veronica, meanwhile, was married to a controlling Wall Street husband named Chad Gekko.

What does Archie decide to do after graduating high school at the end of the season-five premiere arc?

He came back years later as a sergeant and became a JROTC instructor at his old school.

Which new series regular in season five is Pop's granddaughter, who takes over the diner?

She later turns out to be Riverdale's time-travelling guardian angel, which is very much a season six sentence.

Season six opens with a five-episode event set in a sinister parallel town. What is it called?

It featured La Llorona, the devil under the alias Louis Cypher, and Sabrina Spellman helping Cheryl with a spell.

Which Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star reprised her role in season six of Riverdale?

Cole Sprouse also briefly played Nick Scratch, after a resurrection spell was cast on Jughead's body.

Who is the immortal villain of season six, seeking revenge on the descendants of the town's founders?

He turned the river red with plagues and killed the town's first-born children before Jughead entered his mind.

What superpower does Archie gain in season six after surviving a bomb explosion?

Jughead got the mind reading, Cheryl the fire, and Tabitha the time travel, which is a lot of powers for one diner town.

In which year does the gang wake up, back in high school, at the start of season seven?

Only Jughead remembered their past lives; Fred had died in the Korean War and Cheryl's twin was alive and renamed Julian.

What celestial event sends the gang back in time at the end of season six?

Cheryl melted it with her powers, and the town woke up seven decades earlier.

In the series finale, an aged Betty dies and walks as a teenager into which place in the afterlife?

She sits down in a booth with Archie, Jughead and Veronica, and Jughead's apparition closes the show.

Which Riverdale character was described as the first openly gay character in the comics' history?

Casey Cott was the last actor cast for the pilot and was promoted to series regular in season two.

Which spin-off, starring Lucy Hale in New York, took Ashleigh Murray's Josie McCoy away from Riverdale?

It was cancelled after one season in July 2020, and several of its characters drifted back into Riverdale.

Why does the show name episodes after old movies, like the pilot 'The River's Edge'?

The opening credits, meanwhile, are a deliberate homage to Twin Peaks.

Which streaming service held exclusive international rights, releasing episodes within a day?

The show's popularity there was so big that The CW's president said the network would watch streaming numbers more closely.

What controversial change did the show make to Jughead compared with the comics?

Critics called it a-spec erasure; the comics had established him as aromantic and asexual.

Archie's much-mocked 'epic highs and lows of high school football' speech was delivered to whom?

Lili Reinhart said being 'the butt of the joke' online was hard on a cast that took the acting seriously.

Which country did Riverdale top the TV rankings in during the last week of October 2018?

It aired there as a streaming original hours after the US broadcast and regularly made the national top 10.