The TV series Riverdale (2017) names all of its episode titles after movies. The eleventh episode of the first season, Chapter Eleven: To Riverdale and Back Again (2017), was named after this made-for-TV film.
Originally intended as a pilot for a TV series that every major television network ultimately declined to pick up.
In this TV special, Betty has grown up to teach grade school in Midvale. Josie and the Pussycats, characters in the Archie Comics universe who have their own spin-off comic books, live in Midvale.
Jughead's real name is Forsythe Jones.
There is a line while Archie and Jughead talk about graduating from Riverdale High School, and Jughead says "I wish we never did that". This is a in-joke to the comics, where the gang still attends good old Riverdale High, and have also never aged.