They already mentioned that Tom Riley being dead in two different episodes which are #811: “Legacy, Part 1” , and #884: “Always Home”. Sorry for being late to the topic, but I dropped off the face of the (online) earth when COVID ground the world to a standstill. *ahem* Tom Riley is dead?!?! He was...

A friend and I were sitting out on a boat talking about our respective childhoods a month back, and he mentioned how his parents weaned him on Adventures in Odyssey . I had heard the announcement of Will Ryan's death; he, however, was not the "superfan" that I was once, so I conveyed the m...

Plunking around on the piano (something that I do from time to time) reminds me how the Adventures in Odyssey theme was composed back in 1987.

Happy little accidents, as Bob Ross said.

My best guess would be Southwest Ohio. This area, part of the wider Butternut Region of Civil War fame, is directly adjacent to the slaveholding state of Kentucky. If the edifice in The Knight's Travellers was truly a plantation house, the protagonists would have quick and easy access to numerous si...

No, no, no. Tom is a good ol' boy who operates a farm and apple orchard in rural Ohio. The show begins in 1987, and most older people in rural areas drive vehicles for approximately twenty years, or until they wear out. Since Adventures in Odyssey begins in the late 1980s, we can make the assumption...

As an experienced veteran of the Odyssian world, I feel like I should give my opinion. My family nor I have never purchased a subscription to the OAC. We do not have the time to enjoy all of its features, and we do not have the money to spend a monthly fee just to listen to episodes that would have ...

And once again, I will lament the fact that instead of phasing out the Parker family like they have done with all the families in the past whose actors grew up, they have kept these characters going. If there is any issue that has irked me about Classic Adventures in Odyssey was how they just "...

I've noticed this weird trend with the fandom where we assume that the women who get married on the show hyphenate their maiden name and their husband's last name... There is at least one legitimate occasion of this phenomenon in the canon itself. Jana not only did it, but had her children's legal ...

Who will host the B-TV episode? If they do it correctly, this will be a huge boost to AIO. With Dave Madden's passing, Bernard is uncertain at best and finished at worst. Of course, no one lasts forever; but if they decide to have Steve Harvey or some other such airwave scum to host the show, the fa...

Older couples are one of the most amazing things in all of creation. I adore a relationship that has blossomed into an unprecedented maturity through decades of cooperation. Jack and Joanne, Whit and Jenny, but we are forgetting what is perhaps the most touching and truly great of all of the couples...

I met a young man yesterday with the last name of Nagel. I kept turning the name over in my mind thinking, "Nagel, Nagel......It sounds so familiar......." Then it hit me this morning. Someone to Watch Over Me, one of my favorite AIO episodes of all time.

I am currently reading a book called Panama Fever , about the trials experienced and innovations developed during the construction of the Panama Canal. I was getting ready to go to bed the other night, and as my glance swept across the book I noticed something peculiar. I started up out of my bed an...

I would never have really considered a specific person to be a reason for Odyssey 's greatness. I invest myself in the characters to be portrayed, as finding out about the people behind the characters typically saddens me. However, AIO has had some of the best vocal talent of all time, especially in...

True. I remember all that now. Forgive me. I'm a forgetful former moderator who has failed to remember the protocols and mission of the board.

That is reasonably. Except that a lot of the kid characters have grown up so Odyssey being only 6 years just wouldn't work. But I can see that. It isn't necessarily that they have grown up. As Tiger stated, most of Whit's End's patrons are from upper elementary to middle school age. Just because a ...

I just realized as I was perusing through these topics that not only have I abandoned the Soda Shop for months, but that I have also neglected the very reason that we all come here for discussions: Adventures in Odyssey !!! :mad: This topic will be for all of those people like me that have stopped l...

Any kind of deep sinister voice triggers memories of Doctor Blackgaard. Earl Boen has a special kind of richness to his voice that is extremely rare. I was watching an episode of Doctor Who on Monday, and there was that type of a voice from a non-corporeal being trying to take over the TARDIS. (I ju...

Matthew, Emily, Camilla, Olivia, all of our main kids stay pretty much the same episode-to-episode....Everybody is mostly just stagnant which makes them pretty boring one-dimensional characters. Anyway, that's my analysis of the current situation of Odyssey. Take from it what you will. Okay. I will...

Belle wrote:No, I don't think so. This is the extent of celebrating we do nowadays.

So we all have become curmudgeonly old people who have fallen into a routine that we cannot be extricated from no matter what. At least I'm not the only one who's like that now.

Yes. I believe that I heard that on one of the old "Gold Audio" bonus interviews with Steve Harris and Phil Lollar. One of them (my mind is inclined to say Harris) sat down and wrote a complete biography for the newly-christened John Avery Whittaker. You can check the accuracy of this, but...