List of Adventures in Odyssey episodes


This is a list of all the episodes of Adventures in Odyssey, a Christian radio drama series produced by Focus on the Family. It has aired on the radio since its debut on November 21, 1987, and has been one of the longest-running radio programs still in production. Almost all the episodes, sorted into a series of albums, have been available, originally on cassette tape, but also on CD, digital download, and through Focus on the Family's online subscription service, the Adventures in Odyssey Club.

Series Overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1987–88)

Episodes 1-19 were originally aired under the name "Odyssey USA".
End of Odyssey USA title
Start of Adventures in Odyssey title
At the end of the 1996 season, the AIO team took a nine-month break, with no new episodes until September 1997. According to the "Adventures in Odyssey HQ" website, "the hiatus" means the time from December 1996 to September 1997 where no episodes were produced. The writers, producers, actors, and production engineers needed a break from the daily pressure of the program and after ten years of production decided it was time. Many things have changed from "old Odyssey" before the hiatus to "new Odyssey" after the hiatus. None of the children from old Odyssey have been carried over to new Odyssey. Nearly all of the storylines from old Odyssey were finished off in the final album of that era and the show has in general had a different "flavor" than before."

Season 10 (1997–98)

During this season, the series experimented with a "split-episode" format for some episodes. The concept was not particularly popular and the format was ultimately discontinued.
Originally, the first few albums included every episode in chronological order exactly as it aired on the radio. The 3rd album release would have featured the episodes starting with the 19th episode "Recollections" and ending around the 30th episode "Honor Thy Parents", but it was shelved when the controversy surrounding the character Officer David Harley occurred. The following album, Grins, Grabbers, and Great Getaways was then released, continuing where the unreleased album would have left off. After those releases, future albums no longer followed the exact chronological order, and starting with the 5th album release, Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes, many episodes were often edited to remove references to product promotions and upcoming episodes. The original 1987 four-cassette package containing all the episodes of Family Portraits, the test pilot series, was later phased out, and the 1st album release was re-released several times, first with simply a title change and the same tapes, and in 1992 with all references to the Officer Harley character and Odyssey USA removed.
Family Portraits
The Officer Harley Collection
The Lost Episodes
1 - The Adventure Begins
2 - The Wildest Summer Ever
3 - Heroes
4 - FUN-damentals
5 - Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes
6 - Mission: Accomplished
7 - On Thin Ice
8 - Beyond Expectations
9 - Just In Time
10 - Other Times, Other Places
11 - It's Another Fine Day..."
12 - At Home and Abroad
13 - It All Started When...
14 - Meanwhile, In Another Part of Town
15 - A Place of Wonder
16 - Flights of Imagination
17 - On Earth As It Is In Heaven
18 - A Time of Discovery
19 - Passport To Adventure
20 - A Journey of Choices
21 - Wish You Were Here
22 - The Changing Times
23 - Twist and Turns
24 - Risks and Rewards
25 - Darkness Before Dawn
26 - Back on the Air
27 - The Search For Whit
28 - Welcome Home
29 - Signed, Sealed & Committed
30 - Through Thick & Thin
31 - Days To Remember
32 - Hidden Treasures
33 - Virtual Realities
34 - In Your Wildest Dreams
35 - The Big Picture
36 - Danger Signals
37 - Counter Moves
38 - Battle Lines
39 - Friends, Family and Countrymen
40 - Out of Control
41 - In Hot Pursuit
42 - No Way Out
43 - Along For the Ride
44 - Eugene Returns!
45 - Lost & Found
46 - A Date with Dad
47 - Into the Light
48 - Moment of Truth
49 - The Sky's the Limit
50 - The Best Small Town
The Truth Chronicles
Passages: Darien's Rise
51 - Take It From the Top
52 - Cause and Effect
53 - The Green Ring Conspiracy
54 - Clanging Symbols... and the Meaning of God's Love
55 - The Deep End
56 - The Grand Design
57 - A Call to Something More
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 1
58 - The Ties That Bind
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 2
59 - Taking the Plunge
60 - Head Over Heels
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 3
61 - Without a Hitch
62 - Let's Put on a Show
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 4
63 - Up in the Air
64 - Under the Surface
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 5
65 - Expect the Unexpected
66 - Trial by Fire
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 6
67 - More Than Meets the Eye
68 - Out of the Blue
Odyssey Adventure Club, Season 7
69 - Best Kept Secrets
Unreleased episodes
The first 15 albums were originally released on audio cassette tape only. Starting in 2003, Focus on the Family updated and re-released those albums as part of the Gold Audio series. In the process, these albums, which were digitally remastered, were released on compact disc for the first time. Not only did these releases contained remastered episodes, but they also contained behind-the-scenes material from the cast and crew as bonus features. In addition, a small number of episodes that never appeared in the original cassette albums made their debut in the discs.
As mentioned above, all episodes that originally contained Officer Harley have been replaced with edited versions of the original episodes or with other unrelated episodes, carrying over the changes first made in The Early Classics when it was released in 1992. The openings to many episodes have been removed or replaced, sometimes with newly recorded openings with Whit voiced by Paul Herlinger rather than Hal Smith. Other changes include the reordering of the episodes to make the chronological listening experience more accurate, and the removal of references to cassettes at the end of multi-part episodes. The changes are most noticeable in the chronologically earliest albums, while albums 8 onwards feature comparatively fewer changes. Most albums were also renamed, by suggestions from listeners as well other means. Re-releases of these albums have dropped the Gold Audio label.
The sixteenth album, The Lost Episodes, contained an additional 17 episodes that were not included in any of the other Gold Audio releases. Most of these episodes were previously available as individual cassettes from Focus on the Family.
AIO released a series of animated videos starting in 1991, and ending in 2003. Each are now available on both VHS and DVD formats, in English and Spanish.

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