Because of health issues, a mutual decision was made by Herlinger and the crew to replace Herlinger with another voice actor.Ĭonsequently, Adventures in Odyssey took a long hiatus, with no new episodes planned while the staff searched for a new actor to voice Mr. Herlinger voiced Whittaker from 1996 through 2008. After a search that lasted over two years, a replacement voice was finally found in Paul Herlinger, who sounded very similar to Hal Smith. When Hal Smith died in 1994, Adventures in Odyssey was left without its main character and Focus on the Family considered canceling the radio show. Television star Dave Madden played the character "Bernard Walton" from 1990 to 2008. The rest of the original "key" characters were voiced by Katie Leigh, Will Ryan, and Walker Edmiston, who, along with Hal Smith, had all previously worked together extensively at Disney.
Hal Smith voiced the lead character John Avery Whittaker in one of his favorite roles. Several well-known voice actors were brought in to provide the lead roles. Large amounts of work were put into each individual story for the first few years, each thirty-minute episode typically took over one hundred hours to produce. While the show aimed to promote Christian values, according to Odyssey's co-creator Phil Lollar, the goal is not to be "a preaching program", but to be an "entertaining program". The goal of the Odyssey staff was to create a "values-based" radio show with production values comparable with or surpassing those of most mainstream audio dramas. The title was later changed in 1988 to Adventures in Odyssey to "increase international appeal". The test episodes engendered a favorable audience response, and led to a continuing radio program in November 1987, called Odyssey USA. It was created by Steve Harris and Phil Lollar, who set it in a small Midwest town they called Odyssey.
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This effort culminated in a thirteen-week test series titled Family Portraits which aired in early 1987.
In 1982, Focus on the Family began creating several short dramas for inclusion in the ministry's daily half-hour radio show these radio dramas were commissioned by Focus on the Family founder and then-president James Dobson as an alternative to Saturday-morning cartoons.
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Radio: 879 (including specials) Full listĪdventures in Odyssey ( AIO), or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian radio drama/ comedy series created and produced by Focus on the Family. My favorite ever, the "Let's make a White Elephant Deal" game show was the best part.Evangelical Christian radio drama and comedy series Adventures in Odyssey (AIO)
We started with the first AIO Christmas Episode, and ended with the latest. What a title! Thumbs up AIO Team! AIO's classic family adds a member on Christmas. Who doesn't enjoy the bustle of Christmas? I sure do, (no school, huzzah!) but should we get so wrapped up in it that we ignore the needs of others? What better way for Whit to teach this lesson than a trip in the Imagination Station?Ĭonnie and Eugene go, well, back to Bethlehem! The first Christmas Imagination Station adventure in the history of AIO! What better way to do it than trying to shut down a living nativity in front of another electronics store?
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One of the last pre-Novacom episodes to feature Eugene, what’s a Christmas in Odyssey without our friend's ukulele?Ī heart-warming episode about a child's need for a father, and how to love those who have family in prison.Īnother Christmas must: Bart Rathbone abusing the season by using it as a way to boost business at the Electric Palace. Should you dump them off to a friend? Great moral and lesson, despite being a tad unrealistic earns it number nine. This one makes the top ten, being the original AIO Christmas episode. Sutter sent out a request for some of the AIO bloggers to write some Christmas articles for Audio Theatre Central, so I responded. Christmas greetings to all of the readers of ! This is Trenton Landmark of the AIOFansite! Recently J.D.
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