2010 Season
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The 2010 Season is the 24th regular season of Adventures in Odyssey. It started on March 6, 2010 with the airing of #655: “The Inspiration Station, Part 1”, and concluded with the airing of #678: “Grandma's Christmas Visit” on December 18, 2010.
The spring season was highly anticipated as the last episode to be aired and released in the regular series was #642: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 2”, broadcast on May 17, 2008. Although the Passages: Darien's Rise dramatization had aired in the fall of 2009, it didn't pick up the "cliff-hanger ending" from the 2008 Season.
- The 2010 Season contains 25 episodes that have an average rating of 85.7%.
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Three different albums encompass all of the episodes in the 2010 Season.
Album 51, Take it From the Top, was released in March 2010. Much excitement was built up in the two years before its release.
Album 52, Cause and Effect, was released in October of 2010. According to the official podcast, album 52 is the longest album ever produced.
The sampler album Welcome to Whit’s End, includes the 11-minute minute episode called “Welcome to Whit’s End”.
Between 2008 and 2009 the AIO team took a long hiatus to reevaluate the direction that the show was taking, as they had done 10 years earlier after Album 25: Darkness Before Dawn. During this time they wrote new episodes, created new characters, and decided to make changes on things such as the show's logo and the release of albums.
Whit's Voice
Probably the most notable and noticeable change in the season is that the acting role of John Whittaker, who was done by Paul Herlinger up until the end of 2008, was taken over by the actor Andre Stojka. When the switch was officially announced, it was stated that Herlinger retired because of health reasons. Sadly, one month before the premiere of this season, he passed away.
Album Release
In the past, albums were always available some time after all of the episodes in them were aired on the radio. Starting with the release of Passages: Darien's Rise, albums have been available before their episodes air, or shortly after the first few episodes air.
Logo
Around this time the AIO logo was redesigned, making its debut on the official site and then on the covers of Album 51 and the sampler album Welcome to Whit's End.
Opening Theme
This season also marked the use of a new theme song composed by John Campbell. It was released shortly before the season premiere on the Official Podcast.
Character Art
The character images for Whit, Connie, and Eugene were updated with somewhat of a new look. The first image of Wooton without his face covered was also released.
As was done after the first hiatus, many new families and characters were introduced in this season, primarily in spring.
New Characters
- Two new bully characters: Vance King, played by Jason Earles; and Jay Smouse, played by Whit Hertford.
- Wooton's Captain Absolutely comics, which replaced PowerBoy.
- The Parker family, whose members include Eva (mother), David (father), Camilla (age 8), Matthew (age 10), Olivia (age 11), and their grandmother, Lucia.
- The Jones family, which consists of Simon (father), Dorothy (mother), Emily, and Barrett.
Character Changes
- With the exception of Whit, Connie, Eugene, and Wooton, every character left Odyssey after the hiatus. Jason eventually returned, and Monty Whittaker-Dowd, Dale and Ann Jacobs, Mitch, Jeff Lewis, Edwin Blackgaard, Wellington Bassett, and Marvin Washington made appearances in later albums.
- Ryan Cummings and Nelson Swanson (and later Valerie Swanson), characters from Kidsboro, were eventually integrated into normal Odyssey episodes.
- The actors for Tom Riley and Bernard Walton had died, so their characters left the show; although Bernard later made a cameo in #771: “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Foolish Puppet”.
This is a teaser for the cover of Album 52, released in a promo video for the FOTF Mother's Day contest.
A full quality screen-shot of the first teaser.
Clearer than the previous Album 52 teaser, this artwork seems to have been modified a bit.
The printed second teaser was given to a fan at Focus on the Family and then eventually was scanned and uploaded here.
Including the second teaser for Album 52, this image may have had other clues about future episodes.
The back cover of Album 52, as seen in a picture on the 100th Official Podcast.
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