Riverdale Gets a Throwback Title With “To Riverdale And Back Again” Synopsis

Later this month, The CW’s Archie Comics adaptation Riverdale will take on a throwback episode […]

September 5, 2017, 6:35pm

Later this month, The CW‘s Archie Comics adaptation Riverdale will take on a throwback episode title with “To Riverdale And Back Again.”

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The network has released the official synopsis for the episode, which you can read below.

Betty (Lili Reinhart) is slammed overseeing Homecoming and Reunion weekend, but Alice (Madchen Amick) wants her to help with the Jason Blossom investigation.Alice turns to Archie (KJ Apa) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) for help, but when Betty discovers they are working with her mom, she is not happy.After seeing his father FP (guest star Skeet Ulrich) start to clean up his act, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) wonders if it’s the right time to give him another chance.

Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) and Polly (guest star Tiera Skovbye) have both decided to go to Homecoming in Jason’s honor, until a revelation waylays their plans.Meanwhile, Fred (Luke Perry) and Mary (guest star Molly Ringwald) attend the Homecoming dance, leaving Fred to possibly reconsider the divorce.Ashleigh Murray and Marisol Nichols also star. Kevin Sullivan directed the episode written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

This marks the second episode to feature Molly Ringwald, whose character will debut in next week’s installment of the series.

The episode title is a reference to a 1990 TV movie in which Archie, Jughead, and the gang all returned to Riverdale for a high school reunion, bringing their adult baggage with them. While it seems relatively tame by comparison to Riverdale, the movie was promoted as “too adult for the comics” and was one of the first official Archie products to cater to a specifically adult audience.

Recently, Archie Digest: A Riverdale Podcast took a look at To Riverdale and Back Again during on of Riverdale‘s hiatus weeks. You can listen to that episode below.