The subscription fee supports Focus on the Family as well as other world relief and ministry organizations. On January 2, 2014, a subscription service for Adventures in Odyssey fans and their families launched, the Adventures In Odyssey Club. The show has been adapted into Spanish audio and Hindi live-action videos, with plans to create Mandarin audio as well. Īs of 2022, Chris Anthony and Katie Leigh are the only original cast members remaining in the series. In March 2010, regular episodes resumed airing as Album 51, Take it from the Top, premiered. Whittaker only months later, on February 2, 2010, Paul Herlinger died from his illness. In September 2009, Andre Stojka was selected as the third actor to voice Mr. 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. Stories center around the people who live there, particularly ice-cream and discovery emporium owner John Avery Whittaker, who was originally voiced by Hal Smith. The series is set in the fictional town of Odyssey. The Odyssey radio series also includes several spin-off items, including a home-video series, several computer games, books, and devotionals. In 2005, the show's daily audience averaged around 1.2 million within North America. Aimed at families with children age 12 and younger, the series first aired in 1987 as a 13-episode pilot called Family Portraits and has over 970 episodes to date.
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Radio: 1,012 (including specials and currently unreleased episodes) Full listĪdventures in Odyssey ( AIO), or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian radio drama and comedy series created and produced by Focus on the Family. Evangelical Christian radio drama and comedy series Adventures in Odyssey (AIO)
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