Bart Rathbone

Bart Rathbone is Odyssey's resident shady businessman and the owner of the Electric Palace, an electronics store built on the site of the old castle. He cares far more about a fast buck than about quality, and his schemes are constant. He gouges frightened neighbors during a tornado, coaches a softball team to cheat, blackmails rivals, and once runs for mayor on empty promises. His shortcuts usually collapse on him, often in public. Bart is married to Doris, whom he met while both were running scams at a funeral, and he is the father of Rodney, a bully whose troublemaking mirrors his own. Loud, greedy, and easily embarrassed, Bart nonetheless shows an occasional flash of decency, as when a little girl's sacrifice moves him to tears.

1987 2026

Appearances

71 episodes No.

0115 An Act of Mercy Walker Edmiston 0121 Missing Person Walker Edmiston 0124 The Winning Edge Walker Edmiston 0129 Not One of Us Walker Edmiston 0160 A Rathbone of Contention Walker Edmiston 0163 A Model Child Walker Edmiston 0164 Sixties-Something Walker Edmiston 0175 East, Winds Raining Walker Edmiston 0179 You Gotta Be Wise Walker Edmiston 0181 It Takes Integrity Walker Edmiston 0182 The Scales of Justice Walker Edmiston 0196 Harlow Doyle, Private Eye Walker Edmiston 0198 Treasure Hunt Walker Edmiston 0214 The Living Nativity Walker Edmiston 0220 This is Chad Pearson? Walker Edmiston 0243 Family Values Walker Edmiston 0246 My Fair Bernard Walker Edmiston 0251 Pilgrim's Progress Revisited, Part 2 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0254 Truth, Trivia & 'Trina Walker Edmiston 0256 Aloha, Oy!, Part 1 of 3 Walker Edmiston 0257 Aloha, Oy!, Part 2 of 3 Walker Edmiston 0258 Aloha, Oy!, Part 3 of 3 Walker Edmiston 0280 Gone... Walker Edmiston 0286 Tom for Mayor, Part 1 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0287 Tom for Mayor, Part 2 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0306 A Victim of Circumstance Walker Edmiston 0312 Rewards in Full Walker Edmiston 0323 A Little Credit, Please Walker Edmiston 0324 Small Fires, Little Pools Walker Edmiston 0325 Angels Unaware Walker Edmiston 0326 Gathering Thunder Walker Edmiston 0328 Hard Losses Walker Edmiston 0332 Another Chance Walker Edmiston 0334 The Final Conflict Walker Edmiston 0342 Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard Walker Edmiston 0359 The Merchant of Odyssey Walker Edmiston 0364 Home, Sweet Home Walker Edmiston 0368 The Other Woman Walker Edmiston 0380 The One About Trust, Part 1 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0381 The One About Trust, Part 2 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0387 New Year's Eve Live! Walker Edmiston 0390 No Bones About It Walker Edmiston 0397 Tornado! Walker Edmiston 0417 Not-So-Trivial Pursuits Walker Edmiston 0430 Blind Girl's Bluff Walker Edmiston 0435 A Look Back, Part 1 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0438b The Telltale Cat Walker Edmiston 0440 I Slap Floor Walker Edmiston 0442b Sticks and Stones Steve Burns, Walker Edmiston 0444a Career Moves Walker Edmiston 0463 Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips Walker Edmiston 0470 Break a Leg Walker Edmiston 0471 Fifteen Minutes Walker Edmiston 0480 The Popsicle Kid Walker Edmiston 0500 500 Walker Edmiston 0501 Inside the Studio Walker Edmiston 0502 Live at the 25! Walker Edmiston 0528 The Taming of the Two Walker Edmiston 0538 Stubborn Streaks Walker Edmiston 0545 Somethings Got to Change Walker Edmiston 0551 Stars in Our Eyes Walker Edmiston 0552 Sunday Morning Scramble Walker Edmiston 0558 A Glass Darkly Walker Edmiston 0570 For Better or For Worse, Part 1 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0571 For Better or For Worse, Part 2 of 2 Walker Edmiston 0572 Odyssey Sings! Walker Edmiston 0581 A Christmas Conundrum Walker Edmiston 0586 A Cheater Cheated Walker Edmiston 0598 My Favorite Thing Walker Edmiston 0609 Prequels of Love Walker Edmiston 0632 Suspicious Finds Robert Easton