Richie Rich (1980 TV series)

Richie Rich is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from November 8, 1980, to September 1, 1984, based upon the Harvey Comics character of the same name. The series shared time slots with Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Little Rascals, Pac-Man and Monchhichis over its original four-year broadcast run. 42 half-hours were produced, split into segments of 12, 7 and 4 minutes.

Many of the titles of segments were never revealed on air, but the titles were used in comic book issues then recently published at the time of production.

In 1988, the series was re-broadcast as part of the weekend/weekday programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera

Plot
This show details the various adventures of Richie Rich, his family, and his friends.

Segments
Richie Rich's adventures are sorted into different segments:
 * Riches – This segment deals with threats to the Rich family or more specifically Richie.
 * Treasure Chest – Segments that revolve around Dollar and/or Cadbury.
 * Gems – Short segments for humor. These segments were based on one-page comic book stories.
 * Zillion-Dollar Adventures – This segment deals with Richie Rich and his friends fighting master criminals, aliens, and other threats to the world. While Dr. Blemish appeared in one episode, some episodes have an exclusive villain called the Collector as a recurring enemy.

Adaptation changes
The animated series took a number of liberties from the original comics:
 * Richie is depicted as slightly older, inconsistently voiced as a child between 10 and 13, and wears a red sweater with a large "R" on the front as well as long trousers. In the comics, he wears a black suit with a red bow tie and blue short pants.
 * Gloria is shown as the same age as Richie and wears a white long-sleeved a blouse, pantyhose, purple sweater or sweater vest and purple mini skirt. In the comics, she wore a bow in her hair and wore a white blouse with a short skirt supposedly made of tartan.
 * Dollar is more anthropomorphized with Walter Mitty-like fantasies.
 * Irona the Robot Maid is given a greater presence in the series with additional duties as Richie's personal bodyguard as seen in the "Zillion Dollar Adventures" segments. To fulfill that role, Irona can convert her body into various alternative modes as necessary. For instance, the moment she receives a summons from Richie, she would change her body into a jet plane mode and immediately fly to the boy.

Broadcast history
Richie Rich was originally broadcast in these following formats on ABC:
 * The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (November 8, 1980 – September 18, 1982)
 * The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (September 25, 1982 – September 3, 1983)
 * The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (September 10, 1983 – September 1, 1984)

It later aired on CBS as reruns from January 11 to August 30, 1986, and then again from November 15 to December 27, 1986.

Season 1 (Nov 1980 - Jan 1981)
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13

Season 2 (Sep 1981 - Nov 1981)
Episode 14 Episode 15 Episode 16 Episode 17 Episode 18

Episode Notes

 * Theoretically each episode, in at least season 1 and 2, featured a short approx. one minute Gems short, but these don't appear to be on Boomerang, or listed anywhere.
 * Butlering Made Easy on the Boomerang Streaming Service is listed as Dollar Watching.

Home Video

 * Currently every Zillion-Dollar Adventures, Riches and Treasure Chest segment is available on the Boomerang Streaming Service.
 * The first 7 episodes of the series were released on DVD in the The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour: Volume One.
 * In the 80s and 90s several episodes were released on VHS from Worldvision Home Video and Turner Home Entertainment.

Worldvision Home Video

 * Blue Volume 1 VHS
 * Pink Volume 2 VHS
 * Kid Klassics VHS
 * The Boy With The Bucks VHS

Turner Home Entertainment

 * Pri¢ele$ Toy$ VHS
 * Maltese Monkey VHS