Album 50: The Best Small Town

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Album 50: The Best Small Town
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2008
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Album 50: The Best Small Town

The Best Small Town is the 50th 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

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!

Bonus features

Bonus material includes:

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.

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.

Episodes

Episode Original Airdate Writer Director Rating Buy Preview
#631: “A Capsule Comes to Town”
March 1, 2008
Paul McCusker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kelly gets in a new version of the Imagination Station and experiences the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.

Writers

Writer Episode Number
631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642
Marshal Younger
Nathan Hoobler
Paul McCusker

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