Growing up, I listened to a lot of Adventures in Oddesey (released by Focus on the Family and distributed by Chic-Fil-A.)
I haven't listened to any of their episodes since I was about 10, I assume that, if I was to go back to them, I'd be horrified.
Can someone with more recent experience or vivid memories confirm?
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Amanda
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Oh my goodness, I haven’t thought of that radio show in years! It was on the Christian radio station in the neighboring town, and that station was often on when my mom was driving us kids around. I think most of the stories were kids having adventures, and needing to make good choices (and pray) to save the day?
I have to wonder if it was less icky when I was a kid in the 80s, because my mom is pro-choice liberal who belongs to a progressive Protestant denomination (more progressive than they used to be), and she has always had low tolerance for conservative BS.
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in reply to Amanda • • •@amanda my impression so far is that the show was usually mostly neutral but socially conservative, but occasionally went Hard in to conservative values.
But I haven't listened to it since I was a child.
Amanda
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in reply to Amanda • • •@amanda it is!
The majority of the show is on the internet archive.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Oh my god, I listened to so much AiO as a kid. (Way before Chic-Fil-A was a thing)
I remember there was a multi-episode anti-D&D arc complete with Jim Dobson voiceover bookending the episodes talking about how dangerous "these so-called role playing games" are.
It was like the Dark Dungeons Chick tract but an hour long.
The game in the episodes was Castles and Cauldrons: aiowiki.com/wiki/Castles_and_C…
Based on that I'm certain the rest of the show would be horrifying to a former Christian but especially for a former Evangelical.
An aside: @rainbowdarling@toot.works please tell us about your experience with Dobson's "pooberty" talk tape.
Castles and Cauldrons, Part 1 - Adventures in Odyssey Wiki
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Was a huge fan. Despite now recognizing most of it as either hamfisted evangelicalism or clumsy plagiarism (or both), I still have mostly positive memories of the series.
I don't know why. Maybe imagination was still such a big part of it, as a radio show, that we could partially shape it in our heads?
Maybe we just didn't have anything else quite like it.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Josh Collinsworth • • •@collinsworth the episode I remember most vividly was Tron!video games are evil. It was called Gloobers.
I think the reason the show worked, aside from the fact that the cast and crew were actually good, is because it took itself seriously and it had no real competition. There were no other narrative radio programs airing in the US at the time that I ever heard, much less for children.
(I didn't call them out by name, at least I don't think I did, in my community media handbook, but Focus on the Family is absolutely the kind of organization that recognized the power of media to deliver a message to a potentially hostile audience. They are a perfect example of the kinds of things I'm trying to harness and undo.)
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •And from both guided and independent listening, yeah it's not good.
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