The Adventure Begins Gold Cass-TN
Davey's pizza oven goes haywire in #1: “Whit's Flop”
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History
This album has been released under four different titles. The first two were called Odyssey USA and simply Adventures in Odyssey. Both contained the same episodes, including Odyssey USA references and the unedited Officer Harley episodes #3: “Lights Out at Whit's End”, #7: “Promises, Promises”, #9: “Doing Unto Others”, #12: “The Tangled Web”, #13: “Bobby's Valentine”, and #14: “Missed It By That Much”. These albums were pulled after Focus on the Family decided to remove the Officer Harley episodes from availability.
The third release of this album was called The Early Classics and featured edited versions of two of the Officer Harley episodes (#7: “Promises, Promises”, and #12: “The Tangled Web”) and completely removed four episodes (#3: “Lights Out at Whit's End”, #9: “Doing Unto Others”, #13: “Bobby's Valentine”, and #14: “Missed It By That Much”). This album included three episodes that were remakes of some of the original Officer Harley episodes (#115: “An Act of Mercy”, #116: “Isaac the Benevolent”, and #117: “The Trouble with Girls”) and also included the episode #19: “Recollections” to round out the collection of twelve episodes. All of the old episodes contained new "wraps", which replaced the Odyssey USA references with Adventures in Odyssey.
When it came time to re-release this album for the Gold Audio CD series in 2003, the Officer Harley remakes were deemed out of place since, although the plots were from the beginning of Odyssey, they included episodes which contained newer characters (such as Eugene Meltsner who wouldn't be introduced until Album 03: Heroes). These three episodes were removed from this album and other older and unreleased episodes took their places. Two of the new episodes were #17: “A Member of the Family, Part 1” and #18: “A Member of the Family, Part 2” which were rebroadcast in December 2002 for the first time since the Odyssey USA days. Rather than edit the original Odyssey USA "wraps", a completely new one was recorded, the first new "wrap" for an older episode in many years.
The other new episode added for the Gold Audio re-release to make 12 episodes was #27: “A Change of Hart”, which, prior to 2003, had not been released on any album.
The result of these various re-releases is that this album is the only one to have featured 19 different episodes since its first release, though only 12 episodes were available at one time.
- Gold Audio Series Release
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