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0019, 1988, 23 min. When Connie wonders why Whit is away from the shop, Tom Riley shares the bittersweet story of the remarkable woman behind Whit's End and the fight to save an old building the whole town had forgotten. 0115, 1990, 20 min. When a farmer's kindness toward a young apple thief goes unappreciated, he finds a more hands-on way to teach the boy about mercy. 0895, 2020, 25 min. After caving to locker-room teasing about his faith, a young quarterback hears the story of a prisoner in Burma whose quiet courage changed a brutal prison camp - and learns what forgiveness looks like when you fall short. 0551, 2004, 25 min. With only days to invent a television commercial for Whit's End, the gang's wildly clashing visions collide - while Tamika's essay assignment sends her searching for what truly makes someone a hero. 0301, 1995, 23 min. When his estranged childhood best friend suddenly wants to reconnect, Sam must decide whether the friendship is real or a setup by the gang his friend now runs with.
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1043 Suggestion Box When an old suggestion box at Whit's End turns up ideas eerily identical to Penny's own tastes, her hunt for a mysterious double collides with a young boy's struggle over whether being a Christian means being normal.
1042 You're in Good Hands When a class assignment asks fourth graders what they want to be when they grow up, one kid launches an insurance company and another chases stand-up comedy stardom - and both discover their shortcuts come with a price.
2 of 2 1041 The Measure of a Patriot Two kids time-travel through American history hoping to find a flawless founding father to write about - but every patriot they meet keeps disappointing them.
1 of 2 1040 The Measure of a Patriot When two classmates use the Imagination Station to settle whose American patriot is most inspiring, meeting their heroes face-to-face proves far more complicated than the history books let on.
1039 The Great Yellowstone Heist A know-it-all kid's obsessive vacation planning becomes his family's only hope when a Yellowstone camping trip takes a criminal turn.
1038 Accountability, Please On the same day a mom returns to the police force under a difficult partner, her daughter's friends must decide whether caring about someone means confronting her about a secret.
1037 A Quick Fix When a get-rich-quick promise lures a young lawn-mowing entrepreneur away from honest work, two families in Odyssey learn what fast money really costs.
1036 What's the Catch? A high schooler starting college classes gets roped into a friend's scheme to flatter a student teacher for fundraiser money - and finds the plan harder on her conscience than she expected.
1029 This Is My Story When a downtown bookstore burns and a reporter suggests Whit's own words may have inspired the arsonist, Whit responds not by defending himself but by gathering the stories of Odyssey's newest believers.
1035 Word in the Hallway When a hallway rumor about her spirals out of control, a middle schooler must decide whether staying silent to help her best friend is worth the harm it causes.
3 of 3 1028 Face the Truth Reeling from a secret trip through the Imagination Station that left her shaken and empty, Renee Carter boards a one-way bus out of town - and finds the ride home is anything but ordinary.
2 of 3 1027 Face the Unknown When Renee loads a mysterious old Imagination Station program in search of answers about the afterlife, she gets an adventure far different from the one she expected - while an angel shows Connie how the smallest moments matter more than she knows.
1 of 3 1026 Face the Future When three unrelated conversations in one day all point to the same question about her future, Connie begins to wonder whether God is sending her a message - and whether it's time for an adventure.
2 of 2 1034 The Prodigal Twin When Wooton's estranged twin brother vanishes amid accusations of a multimillion-dollar theft, the Bassett family must decide whether some relationships are truly beyond repair.

The Rydell Saga

0802 Parker for President When a school grant puts real power up for grabs, sibling rivals Matthew and Olivia Parker face off in a student election that grows messier than either of them bargained for.
0804 The Key Suspect When every locker at school is found mysteriously open two mornings in a row with nothing stolen, middle-school detectives Emily Jones and Matthew Parker take on a taunting culprit who seems to be daring them to catch him.
0833 The Secret of the Writer's Ruse When a never-before-seen novel by a long-dead mystery author surfaces at the library, two young detectives follow its cryptic inscription into a decades-old puzzle of vanished writers and hidden identities.
0853 The Good in People A newly elected drama club president stakes everything on a bold promise, but a mysterious benefactor's offer proves too good to be true.
0877 A Sacrificial Escape When a mysterious voice hijacks a new escape room and seals it shut, two young detectives must solve its puzzles against the clock while their friends outside race to help.
0885 Further from the Truth When Emily Jones finds her school locker emptied and a cryptic poem left behind, the young detective must follow a trail of riddles that leads uncomfortably close to the friend she's been avoiding.
1 of 3 0898 The Rydell Revelations When a frantic Morrie Rydell accuses Emily Jones of kidnapping his sister, Whit must sift through Emily's recorded case log to untangle who has really been playing detective - and who has been playing everyone.
2 of 3 0899 The Rydell Revelations When a vanished sister forces Odyssey's cleverest schemer to seek help from the one man he couldn't fool, every game he ever played comes unraveled.
3 of 3 0900 The Rydell Revelations When a trusted caretaker turns out to be far more dangerous than she seems, three gifted kids and a stolen souvenir pull Emily Jones into a high-stakes game of spies, secrets, and rescue.
0909 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off When three students land in detention for phones that aren't theirs, they realize someone framed them to get the school's best detectives out of the way - and the plot is unfolding right now.
0922 The Team A blackmailed high school athlete turns to a reluctant young detective and two reformed schemers, who must outwit an unseen tormentor without breaking any rules themselves.
0955 Value in the Process A brilliant young programmer schemes to skip ahead of a class far beneath his abilities, only to find that the real lesson isn't in the curriculum.
0965 Two's Company, Four's a Crowd When a nervous Suzu asks Emily to help investigate a popular classmate's stolen award, the mismatched detectives uncover clues that don't add up - and Emily must decide what kind of partner, and person, she really wants to be.
1 of 3 0976 The Rydell Realizations When a stranger's tearful story moves young genius Morrie Rydell to an act of kindness, it lands him in a police interrogation room accused of a quarter-million-dollar cyber theft.

Imagination Station

0305 St. Paul: Set Apart by God A blinded persecutor waits in Damascus, and the one man sent to help him is a follower of the very faith he came to destroy.
1 of 2 0318 A Touch of Healing An ambitious experiment with the Imagination Station offers two children a taste of what their disabilities have denied them, while Connie faces a family crisis at the hospital.
2 of 2 0319 A Touch of Healing A boy in a wheelchair experiences walking inside the Imagination Station, and the fallout forces everyone at Whit's End to confront what healing really means.
0330 The Time Has Come With everything he loves stripped away, a brilliant skeptic turns his own invention inward to search his past for an answer his mind has long refused to give.
0331 Checkmate With Whit's End shuttered and a shadowy rivalry escalating, Jason's plan to outmaneuver the Bones puts everyone he's protecting in danger.
0367 The Decision When a mission board's offer threatens to pull Whit away from Odyssey, everyone around him campaigns for a different outcome - and Whit must sort genuine calling from every other motive.
1 of 2 0370 Christmas Around the World When two kids need help with a report on Christmas carols, Whit's Imagination Station whisks them on a musical journey through the countries and centuries where the world's most beloved songs of the season were born
2 of 2 0371 Christmas Around the World A group of time-traveling friends tours Christmas celebrations across the globe, discovering how one song of hope takes on the voice of every culture that sings it.
0392 When In Doubt... Pray! A skeptical girl's question about whether God still answers prayer sends Mandy and Eugene on an Imagination Station journey through history's most remarkable stories of faith.
0404 Hide and Seek When Kevin sneaks into the off-limits Imagination Station during a game of hide-and-seek, an unfinished program sweeps him into a runaway journey through the Bible's greatest stories of God seeking people who hide from Him.
1 of 3 0406 Malachi's Message When a mysterious stranger appears inside the Imagination Station claiming to be an angel with a message from God, Whit must decide whether he's a fraud, a madman, or exactly what he says he is.
2 of 3 0407 Malachi's Message A mysterious stranger who knows everyone's secrets arrives in Odyssey, delivering messages that force each person to confront the life change they've been avoiding.
0416 The Tower A visitor's dream of a perfectly united humanity is put to the test when Eugene takes him back to ancient Babel, where one people, one language, and one towering project hide a darker truth.
1 of 2 0424 Blackgaard's Revenge A curious girl's trip into the Imagination Station takes a dark turn when a supposedly dead enemy resurfaces inside the machine - with an agenda of his own.

The 1990s

0198 Treasure Hunt A charity treasure hunt turned water-pistol war game collides with a manhunt when an escaped convict stumbles back into the one town he swore he'd never see again.
1 of 2 0130 Bernard and Joseph While washing windows at Whit's End, Bernard Walton helps a boy fed up with his six siblings by recounting the story of Joseph, whose troubles with his own brothers make any family squabble look small.
1 of 2 0244 The Mysterious Stranger A young stranger walks into Whit's End claiming it was once his childhood home - and he knows secrets about the building that no outsider possibly could.
0282 The Fundamentals At a Christian basketball camp, a talented player who refuses coaching and a knowledgeable young believer both discover that fundamentals matter more than natural gifts.
0337 W-O-R-R-Y With picture day and a school-wide spelling bee looming, two friends learn that faith works differently for problems you can't control and problems you can.
3 of 3 0258 Aloha, Oy! A parasailing mishap, a sinking tour boat, and a chase through Honolulu collide as two vacationing families scramble to salvage their Hawaiian day - and Lawrence makes one last attempt to catch up with his Navy father.
0390 No Bones About It Two kids stumble upon a giant skeleton in a cave near Trickle Lake, and dreams of Bigfoot riches send greed rippling through Odyssey.
0100 Ice Fishing A boy tired of living in his talented little sister's shadow joins an ice fishing trip hoping to finally prove himself by landing the lake's legendary uncatchable fish.
2 of 2 0381 The One About Trust A high school campaign assignment turns painful when a leaked payroll document convinces Connie that the man she trusts most has been treating her unfairly.
1 of 2 0122 Castles and Cauldrons A summer visit from Jimmy's cousin Len turns unsettling when the "game" packed in his suitcase demands secrecy, incantations, and total trust.
0216 Like Father, Like Son When the soccer team's fundraiser cash box vanishes, a boy whose father is in prison must fight to prove his innocence to a town - and a mother - all too ready to believe the worst.
0142 Train Ride A weary Whit and Eugene board a train home to Odyssey, only to find the ride crowded with old grudges, curious strangers, and trouble that refuses to stay quiet.
0299 The Truth about Zachary A school reporter's assignment to profile Odyssey's newest student becomes a battle of wills with a boy determined to keep his past a secret.
0154 Coming of Age Aspiring young actor Jimmy Barclay starts keeping a journal again just as a string of strange changes - in his family, his body, and his heart - begins turning his world upside down.

Featuring Eugene Meltsner

0599 Blood, Sweat, and Fears When a hospital blood drive comes to Whit's End, its most confident organizers and promoters must confront the hidden fears that threaten to derail it.
1 of 2 0605 The Chosen One A gifted young runaway with a mysterious past arrives alone in Odyssey, and her stay at Whit's End brings a string of strange troubles no one can explain.
2 of 2 0606 The Chosen One A troubled runaway's cry for help forces one family to weigh their comfortable plans against what it truly means to choose someone.
0607 The Undeniable Truth While hiding from a dangerous pursuer, Eugene's father tries to protect his son - only to jeopardize the very work and reputation Eugene has built.
0610 Hear Me, Hear Me When a forgotten allergy sparks a battle over who listens better, Wooton turns Connie and Eugene's friendship into a high-stakes quiz show at Whit's End.
1 of 3 0611 The Top Floor When a dangerous man from Leonard's past resurfaces, father and son must return to Africa to recover the one piece of evidence that could bring him to justice.
2 of 3 0612 The Top Floor Posing as janitors inside a bitter rival's fortress-like penthouse, Leonard and his allies race to recover stolen evidence before its owner discovers who is hunting him.
3 of 3 0613 The Top Floor A grieving father discovers his long-lost son alive in a penthouse fortress - and must risk everything to prove the truth to a boy who loves the man who took him.
1 of 3 0619 A New Era With his long ordeal finally behind him, Eugene's father settles into a peaceful new life in Odyssey - until a hidden illness and an urgent plea from a distant village upend everything.
2 of 3 0620 A New Era As Eugene recovers from donating a kidney to his father, he and Katrina wrestle with whether a plea from Africa is God's call or a distraction from the ministry they already love.
3 of 3 0621 A New Era Long-buried family secrets come to light as Leonard finally faces the truth about his past, and an urgent crisis abroad demands a decision no one expected.
0631 A Capsule Comes to Town When a national radio program asks whether Odyssey is stuck in the past, the search for a century-old time capsule puts the town's memory - and its heart - to the test.
0632 Suspicious Finds When a magazine nomination for Best Small Town in America sends Odyssey scrambling to impress a secret inspector, the townspeople's frantic makeovers threaten to undo the very charm that earned the honor.
0636 A Class Reenactment A pompous theater impresario is hired to dramatize Odyssey's founding for radio, but his flair for spectacle keeps colliding with the town's true story.

From the shelf: A Call to Something More

1 of 2 0727 Your Servant is Listening A doubting girl travels back to ancient Israel, where a childless woman's desperate prayer teaches her what it means to hear God's voice.
2 of 2 0728 Your Servant is Listening When the Imagination Station drops Camilla into the tabernacle of ancient Israel, she befriends young Samuel and discovers what it truly means to listen for God's voice.
0729 No Chemistry Whatsoever When a demanding new professor takes over their easy chemistry class, Connie must figure out why she's really struggling while a Sunday-school memorization contest tempts Barrett to cut corners.
0730 The Friend Formula A lonely newcomer to Odyssey trades a rare Elvis record for lessons in a scheming boy's four-step formula for making friends - only to discover what friendship really costs.
0731 More Than a Feeling A new believer's overflowing excitement collides with a string of disappointments, while Connie pushes a long-married couple to prove their romance isn't dead.
0732 Repent After Me With opening night days away and his grades on the brink, a desperate student's shortcut on a science test pulls him into unmasking the anonymous scammer behind it - before the trail leads back to him.
0733 Big Trouble Under the Big Top When a string of suspicious accidents threatens her uncle's circus, Emily and her friend Matthew question the performers to unmask a saboteur before someone gets seriously hurt.
1 of 3 0734 Life Expectancy When a sudden loss upends Connie's world, the people of Odyssey gather around her - until an unexpected arrival brings a secret she never saw coming.
2 of 3 0735 Life Expectancy As Connie prepares to lay her mother to rest, her estranged father arrives with a surprise that upends an already heartbreaking week.
3 of 3 0736 Life Expectancy As Connie sorts through her mother's belongings, she and her friends in Odyssey wrestle with how faith makes sense of grief and suffering.
1 of 2 0737 The Pilot A young pilot chasing an airline career reluctantly agrees to fly a doctor and nurse to a remote Venezuelan village, where a mysterious illness among the babies tests far more than his flying skills.
2 of 2 0738 The Pilot While flying a medical mission deep in the Venezuelan jungle, Jeff races the clock to discover what mysterious medicine is poisoning a dying patient - and finds a new purpose along the way.

Novacom

0457 Opportunity Knocks When financial trouble at the Timothy Center accidentally goes public over Kids' Radio, a mysterious new company's arrival in Odyssey brings both a tempting opportunity and unsettling questions.
0458 Red Herring A class trip's glimpse of a guarded college laboratory pulls Alex and his cousin Cal into a tangle of forbidden secrets, computer break-ins, and a mysterious stranger who seems a little too eager to help.
0460 Nova Rising When a powerful media company showers Odyssey with gifts, Bernard's big TV break and two boys' dream jobs reveal there may be strings attached.
0462 The W.E. When a flashy new tech-filled Kids Center lures away his young customers, Whit must decide how far he'll go to modernize Whit's End without losing what made it matter.
0463 Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips A charming stranger from Odyssey's controversial new media company leaves Connie tongue-tied - and torn between her heart and her loyalty to Whit.
1 of 2 0468 Chains When Whit chooses a struggling neighborhood over the safe suburbs for his new Whit's End, he discovers the community's resistance runs deeper than he imagined - and so do the needs of two children he finds in its path.
2 of 2 0469 Chains When vandals halt construction and a hostile neighborhood rejects his new shop, Whit gambles that an open invitation - and stubborn trust in two runaway kids - can change hearts in Oswald Heights.
0473 Breaking Point With the new Connellsville shop stretching Whit impossibly thin, a chaotic day at Whit's End and a malfunctioning Imagination Station force him to decide how much of his life's work he can trust to strangers.
0478 Strange Boy in a Strange Land A quiet camping trip unravels when two girls discover a strangely familiar boy hiding in the woods with spy gear and secrets he refuses to explain.
1 of 2 0481 Grand Opening The grand opening of the new Whit's End in Connellsville is barely underway when hidden cameras, a persistent hacker, and a web of corporate connections begin to surface around Odyssey.
2 of 2 0482 Grand Opening As Connie's romance with Mitch blossoms, mounting evidence ties his employer Novacom to the surveillance at Whit's End - and everyone must decide how far trust can stretch.
0483 Secrets Connie's doubts about dating a man full of secrets take a sharp turn when a mysterious photograph tumbles out of Mitch's forgotten briefcase.
0484 Plan B, I: Missing in Action When Eugene vanishes without a word and his ransacked apartment yields more questions than answers, Whit and Connie launch a search that uncovers a family crisis - and something far more sinister.
0485 Plan B, II: Collision Course As the hunt for Eugene's stolen research intensifies, Whit closes in on a mysterious hacker while friends in Chicago and Odyssey take dangerous risks to uncover what Andromeda is really after.

Written by Phil Lollar

0059 A Worker Approved After confidently sharing her faith with her class, a young girl is stumped by one classmate's honest question and discovers that knowing why she believes is harder than she thought.
0224 Greater Love On the twentieth anniversary of his son's death, a grieving father comes face to face with the last person he ever expected to find at the boy's grave.
0021 The Case of the Missing Train Car When a prize-worthy model train engine vanishes from Whit's End just before a state-fair competition, suspicion falls on a foster child whose troubled past makes her an easy target.
0243 Family Values When his son's joke essay lands the family in the finals for Family of the Year, a scheming father tries to fake strong family values in a single weekend.
0312 Rewards in Full A citywide charity drive and a school safety campaign test what happens when the credit for good work lands on the wrong people.
0383 B-TV: Thanks When jealous officials turn a king's own law against the empire's most faithful man, B-TV explores what it truly means to give thanks - even when gratitude comes at a deadly price.
2 of 2 0038 Camp What-A-Nut While Mr. Whittaker helps young Donny cope with being the smallest kid at Camp What-A-Nut, a walk in the woods turns into a wilderness ordeal - and back at camp, a skunk, a mysterious carved heart, and a boy bent on revenge stir up trouble of their own.
0182 The Scales of Justice When two thousand dollars in found cash sparks a courtroom showdown at Whit's End, Isaac must prove the money is rightfully his against the scheming Rathbones.
0908 The Christmas Bells A pastor's mysterious prompting leads him to an antique shop, where a Victorian music box opens the door to the true story of heartbreak and hope behind a beloved Christmas carol.
0776 A Daughter's Love A young visitor from Singapore tells a girls' club how her love for a broken, absent father was tested in ways she never expected.
0149 By Dawn's Early Light A school assignment about flag burning sends two kids tumbling through the Imagination Station into the War of 1812, where the question of what a symbol is worth stops being homework.
0934 A Dickensian Dilemma A detective testing a friend's Victorian-mystery simulation must solve a jewel theft in a world of Dickens characters - where finding the truth proves easier than deciding what to do with it.
0230 Our Father A lonely boy with a runaway imagination goes looking for someone to fill his absent father's shoes - and nearly finds it in all the wrong places.
0110 A... Is For Attitude When a TV self-help guru convinces Connie that attitude beats effort, she spreads her new philosophy all over Odyssey - to a friend with stage fright, a losing basketball team, and a boy terrified of heights.

Live Shows

0387 New Year's Eve Live! When the Whit's End gang hosts a live New Year's Eve radio broadcast, songs, bumbling field reports, and a tale of a boy with a magical clock invite Odyssey to think about how we spend our time.
0448 Mandy's Debut A young playwright's opening night at Whit's End puts two comedies of guilt and neglected chores on stage - with her friends cast as themselves.
0502 Live at the 25! Connie's live anniversary broadcast at Whit's End doesn't go quite as planned - but a Western-style parable and a glimpse of the future reveal what really makes the shop worth celebrating.
SP01 B-TV: Live! When Bernard and the B-TV cast go live to explore how God calls each person, comedy sketches, surprise guests, and one very bad Whit impression put the theme to the test.
0726 Push the Red Button (Live) When Eugene's new master computer program links every invention at Whit's End, one untested red button threatens to blur the line between imagination and reality.
SP03 30th Birthday Live Show Whit's End goes live on air for a holiday arts festival, but with a missing performer, a mysterious mustachioed stranger, and Eugene begging for fireworks, the show behind the show is anything but smooth.
SP04 A Thousand Blessings

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