‘Archer: Danger Island’: Season 9 Title and Premise Revealed, as Archer Heads to the South Pacific

Set in 1939, Season 9 finds Archer and the gang assuming new roles for another adventure in an alternate reality.

The show is going even further back in time next season. After a year in “Dreamland” — specifically the year 1947 — “Archer: Danger Island,” Season 9, will take place in the spring of 1939 on a remote beach locale in the South Pacific.

Archer will be a seaplane pilot with one eye-patch and two partners: One is Pam Poovy, his co-pilot who he’s gotten into “many scrapes” with across the globe. The other is a “talking, fucking” parrot named Crackers, who will be voiced by Lucky Yates (who usually plays Dr. Krieger).

Lana is a princess on the island, while Mallory is a bar owner and (unlike last season) Archer’s mother. Mallory’s character in “Dreamland” was not related to Archer, and voice actress Jessica Walter said she was glad the familial connection has been restored.

Other new roles for the characters include Charlotte, who’s still an heiress to a massive fortune, but in 1939 she’s visiting the island on her honeymoon. Cyril will now be Cypert Fuchs, a British intelligence officer posing as a local on the island.

While some things will remain the same — Archer is still a “semi-functioning alcoholic,” for instance — “Danger Island” marks the fourth major change in setting and second major story overhaul for the series in five years.

While the real Archer is still trapped in a coma. At the end of Season 7, Archer was shot and the premiere of Season 8 found him comatose. The season was set inside his dream, and it ended without any clarification as to Archer’s life-or-death status. A Parallel  universe, maybe?