Album 50: The Best Small Town

Album 50: The Best Small Town

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Released

2008

Season

2008

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Album Type

Series
Thematic

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Number of Episodes

12

Average Episode Rating

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Small Album Art

CD cover

Cover Artist

Gary Locke

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Purchase Album

Buy CD from Focus

Other websites

Official Site
Odyssey Scoop
AIO Update
Odyssey Library
Soda Fountain

ISBN

9781589974876

Album 49: The Sky’s the Limit

Album 50: The Best Small Town

The Truth Chronicles

The Best Small Town is the 50^th Adventures in Odyssey mainstream album. The album follows Odyssey as it enters the Best Small Town Contest. Album 50 was the last album to be released before the Odyssey team took its second hiatus from 2008 until 2010. It was released in 2008. Its episodes began airing on the radio starting on March 1, 2008 and finished on May 17, 2008.

Description

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It's time for the annual "Best Small Town in America" national competition, and Odyssey's in the running! This special occasion brings together a hometown reunion of long-lost friends, like Jimmy Barclay, Lucy Cunningham-Schultz, and Edwin Blackgaard. But who knows how far everyone will go to take the title? Your family won't want to miss these stories with old-fashioned fun!

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Bonus features

Bonus material includes:

A fold out behind-the-scenes poster
A tribute to Walker Edmiston, including a photo gallery on CD-ROM and an 8-minute audio tribute (an extended podcast version of the audio tribute in the 14th Official Podcast.)
A deleted scene with Robyn Jacobs on Candid Conversations with Connie
Many deleted lines and scenes in the episodes themselves

Character farewells

Album 50 marks the last mainstream album appearance of the recurring characters listed below, although many of them had not made an appearance for quite some time before album 50.

Tom Riley (134 episodes)
Bernard Walton (87 episodes) (♦)
Lucy Cunningham-Schultz (75 episodes) (♦)
Bart Rathbone (72 episodes)
Mandy Straussberg (51 episodes) (♦)
Robyn Jacobs (29 episodes) (♦)
Tamika Washington (26 episodes)
Bryan Dern (26 episodes)
Jared DeWhite (24 episodes)
Jack Davis (24 episodes) (♦)
Lawrence Hodges (20 episodes)
Grady McKay (18 episodes)
Trent DeWhite (18 episodes)
Elaine Washington (17 episodes)
Walter Shakespeare (17 episodes)
Curt Stevens (14 episodes)
Tasha Forbes (10 episodes)
Margaret Faye (10 episodes)
Officer Stew Burke (10 episodes)
Kelly (10 episodes)

Note: (♦) indicates that The character made an appearance in #???: “B-TV: Live!”

Marvin Washington, Ed Washington, Philip Glossman, Edwin Blackgaard left the series until #817: “Unfair Game”, #852: “The Toy”, #???: “30th Birthday Live Show”, and #769: “B-TV: To Tell the Truth”, respectively.

Episode title allusions

The title of each episode in album alludes to the title one or more past Odyssey episodes, most of which were included in the Gold Audio Series.

Album 50 Episode	Older Episode(s)
#631: “A Capsule Comes to Town”	#4: “Connie Comes to Town”
#632: “Suspicious Finds”	#113: “Suspicious Minds”
#633: “License to Deprive”	#194: “A License to Drive”
#634: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 1” #635: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 2”	#8: “Dental Dilemma”
#636: “A Class Reenactment”	#218: “A Class Act”
#637: “The Forgotten Deed”	#92: “The Ill-Gotten Deed”
#638: “The Triangled Web, Part 1” #639: “The Triangled Web, Part 2”	#12: “The Tangled Web”, #464: “The Triangle, Part 1” #465: “The Triangle, Part 2”
#640: “Rights, Wrongs, and Winners”	#217: “Rights, Wrongs, and Reasons”
#641: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 1” #642: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 2”	#66: “The Imagination Station, Part 1” #67: “The Imagination Station, Part 2”

Notes

The Used Battery price of $6.42 on the cover is a reference to the last episode of this album being episode #642.
It is said in the album that there are over 20 characters hidden on the cover. An interactive version of the poster which displays the character's name when rolled over can be found here.

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#631: “A Capsule Comes to Town”

#632: “Suspicious Finds”

#633: “License to Deprive”

#634: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 1”

#635: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 2”

#636: “A Class Reenactment”

#637: “The Forgotten Deed”

#638: “The Triangled Web, Part 1”

#639: “The Triangled Web, Part 2”

#640: “Rights, Wrongs, and Winners”

#641: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 1”

#642: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 2”

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Episode	Original Airdate	Writer	Director	Rating
#631: “A Capsule Comes to Town”	March 1, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Connie narrates a documentary about the people and places in Odyssey against the backdrop of a search for a missing time capsule.
#632: “Suspicious Finds”	March 8, 2008	Nathan Hoobler	Nathan Hoobler	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
An editor from Home and Country Magazine announces that Odyssey is a contender for Best Small Town in America.
#633: “License to Deprive”	March 15, 2008	Marshal Younger	Dave Arnold	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
For a historical exhibit, the Washington family must live as people on the frontier did.
#634: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 1”	March 22, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
When Jason Whittaker is revealed publicly as an intelligence agent, an old nemesis named The Whisperer tracks him to Odyssey.
#635: “Accidental Dilemma, Part 2”	March 29, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
When Jason Whittaker is revealed publicly as an intelligence agent, an old nemesis named The Whisperer tracks him to Odyssey.
#636: “A Class Reenactment”	April 5, 2008	Nathan Hoobler	Nathan Hoobler	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Edwin Blackgaard puts on a “radio reenactment” of the founding of the town of Odyssey. Two of his actors, Mandy Straussberg and Trent DeWhite, are unhappy when they’re cast as a young couple in love.
#637: “The Forgotten Deed”	April 12, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
The plan to bury the new time capsule in the basement of Whit's End causes a “separation of church and state” conflict that jeopardizes the future of the shop.
#638: “The Triangled Web, Part 1”	April 19, 2008	Marshal Younger	Marshal Younger	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Lucy Cunningham-Schultz becomes the center of attention when Jimmy Barclay, Curt Stevens and Jack Davis return to Odyssey for a reunion – each young man determined to win her heart at last.
#639: “The Triangled Web, Part 2”	April 26, 2008	Marshal Younger	Marshal Younger	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Lucy Cunningham-Schultz becomes the center of attention when Jimmy Barclay, Curt Stevens and Jack Davis return to Odyssey for a reunion – each young man determined to win her heart at last.
#640: “Rights, Wrongs, and Winners”	May 3, 2008	Nathan Hoobler	Marshal Younger	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
The two finalists for “Best Small Town” are in a perfect tie. Each town is given one week to show the heart of the town to win the contest.
#641: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 1”	May 10, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Kelly gets in a new version of the Imagination Station and experiences the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.
#642: “The Imagination Station, Revisited, Part 2”	May 17, 2008	Paul McCusker	Paul McCusker	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%
Kelly gets in a new version of the Imagination Station and experiences the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.