The 1988 Season is the second regular season. It began on January 2 with #7: “Promises, Promises” and ended on December 31 with #55: “Auld Lang Syne”. The 1988 Season saw 49 new episodes, the most of any season. Although six of these episodes were re-broadcasts of Family Portraits episodes, 43 were original episodes.
Broadcast promos
During the first Odyssey seasons, Chris would often provide a teaser for the next episode to air. A sampling of these promos can be heard below.
The 1988 season began on January 2, 1988 with the broadcast of #7: “Promises, Promises”. The first 22 Odyssey episodes were broadcast under the name Odyssey USA. Twelve of the episode were included in an album called Odyssey USA.
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Connie reads the story of Jeremy Forsythe, a boy who tells his mother a fib about some missing money. Both Jeremy and Connie learn that one lie leads to another.
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Middle-schooler Rachel Weaver is late for everything. But when Connie threatens to kick her off the volleyball team, Rachel tries her very best to be on time.
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Phillip Callas gets angry during baseball practice and tells his younger brother Dean to go home. When Dean doesn't return home, the police get involved and try to track down the boy.
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In an effort to get attention, young Nicky does whatever he can to get his parents to stop thinking about their soon-to-be-born child.
Adventures in Odyssey
To appeal to listeners outside the United States, the show was renamed to Adventures in Odyssey. The changes came quickly: #23: “The Quality of Mercy” on April 23, 1988 was the first time the phrase "Adventures in Odyssey" was ever used in a broadcast. A few weeks later in #25: “Harley Takes the Case, Part 1”, the show itself was first called "Adventures in Odyssey" and it has remained that way ever since. One other modification came with #27: “A Change of Hart”, which introduced the episode "wraps" where Chris meet with someone from around Odyssey. These lasted for the next several years.
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Ten-year-old troublemaker Scott Williams is let off the hook when he is caught trying to steal apples from Tom Riley. Unfortunately, Scott doesn't extend the same mercy to others.
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Mr. Altman teaches his class that the men who fought in the Vietnam war were killers. This doesn't sit well with Kirk McGinty, whose father died in the war fighting for his country.
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Connie doesn't like Odyssey and feels she is being swamped by Christians. So she wants to go back to California. But when Whit gets hurt, she realizes how much he means to her.
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Ned Lewis' V.B.S. class is a mess and he must perform a sketch in front of the entire church! If everything goes well, the church will consider starting up a Drama program, but things don't look too good for Ned.
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Donny McCoy gives his account of what happened at Camp What-A-Nut. He describes his encounter with a bear, and the rest of the camp's encounter with a skunk.
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Superstar basketball player "Lightning" Livingston opens a sports store in Odyssey, but a scathing exposé reveals more than megafan Jimmy Barclay wanted to know.
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Connie encounters old friends who remind her of how different she was before coming to Odyssey. Meanwhile, Eugene Meltsner starts working at Whit's End and promptly changes how the shop works.
