Every episode as artwork
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Muckraker
A young school-paper reporter goes hunting for her first big consumer exposé and learns that chasing an important story can be far trickier than it looks.
0147
Where There's a Will...
When a big job offer threatens to uproot the Barclay family from Odyssey, each family member tries their own method of figuring out what God wants them to do.
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.
0150
Home is Where the Hurt Is
A scheme to score a teacher's edition math book unravels when it forces Curt Stevens to face the one thing he's spent his whole life hiding - what's waiting behind his front door.
0151
...The Last Shall Be First
When Connie can't convince her stubborn great-uncle that it's never too late to come back to church, an ordinary cleanup job at Whit's End turns into a living lesson from an old parable.
0152
The Meaning of Sacrifice
When the Barclay family gives up television for a month as an act of sacrifice to God, everyone discovers that keeping a promise is harder than making one.
0153
Mayor For a Day
When young Curt Stevens enters Odyssey's Mayor for a Day contest convinced the job is all cushy offices and celebrity handshakes, his imagination shows him just how wrong he might be.
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.
0158
A Day in the Life
When a Hollywood producer buys Whit's affectionate short story about everyday life in Odyssey, the whole town lines up for its shot at movie stardom.
0160
A Rathbone of Contention
When Bart Rathbone fast-tracks the grand opening of Odyssey's new electronics store, his habit of cutting corners - and borrowing other people's talent for free - puts the whole venture on shaky ground.
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0165
Bernard and Esther
With the Imagination Station broken, Bernard proves a well-told story beats any machine by spinning the biblical tale of a brave young queen whose people's fate rests in her hands.
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Bernard and Esther
At Whit's End, Bernard finishes his cliffhanger tale of Queen Esther, who must risk her life before the king to save her people from the scheming Haman.
0028
The Price of Freedom
When a new teacher tells twelve-year-old Kirk McGinty that the soldiers who died in Vietnam died for nothing, the boy's cherished image of the father he never knew is thrown into doubt on the eve of Odyssey's Memorial Day picnic.
0080
A Prisoner for Christ
Hiding out at Whit's End after ruining Eugene's college project, Nicholas takes a test ride in the Imagination Station and lands in ancient Rome, where he's swept into the flight of a runaway slave with a slave catcher hot on their heels.
0081
Good Business
When a coveted dress proves too expensive for her allowance, Robyn sets out to find a way to make lots of money without actually working for it.
0082
Heatwave
During a sweltering Odyssey heat wave, a self-styled kid detective in a trench coat drags his reluctant sidekick into investigating a mysterious boy who disappears into the woods every day with an armload of lumber.
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Elijah
When a rebuilt invention at Whit's End whisks two kids into the age of the prophet Elijah, one falls into the clutches of Israel's wicked queen while the other must journey with the prophet himself to find her.
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0088
Elijah
Trapped in ancient Israel, two kids get caught between a vengeful queen and the prophet Elijah as he prepares a fiery showdown to prove whose god is real.
0089
That's Not Fair!
Three kids fed up with parents, siblings, and teachers agree to Whit's experiment: for a few days, everyone will treat them absolutely fairly - no more, no less.
0090
But, You Promised
A small four-second fib to a friend snowballs until Robyn finds herself in a police station, staring at two strangers her imagination put there.
0091
A Mission for Jimmy
Reluctantly stuck running his Sunday school's missionary fundraiser, Jimmy Barclay falls asleep over a missionary's memoir and gets a firsthand lesson in what mission work really costs.
0092
The Ill-Gotten Deed
When Calvin storms into Whit's End looking for revenge on his cheating brother, Whit hands him a book he wrote himself - the true story of identical twins racing across the country to claim their father's mysterious inheritance.
0093
Rescue from Manatugo Point
A mysterious two-word letter from England sends Whit back to his old wartime journals - and the story of a dangerous night mission off the coast of Guadalcanal.
0094
Operation Digout
A mysterious English stranger leaves Whit a cryptic message - "Operation Digout" - summoning him to Trickle Lake and stirring memories of a wartime mission he thought long buried.
0102
The Treasure of Le Monde!
When a boarded-up attic room at Whit's End reveals an antique pipe organ hiding a century-old riddle, Robyn and Connie join Whit on the trail of a legendary French nobleman's buried treasure - but greed has a way of trapping the hunters.
0001
Whit's Flop
After a humiliating Little League loss cements his reputation as the kid who ruins everything, young Davey Holcomb is challenged by Whit to unravel the mystery of a failed invention called "Whit's Flop."
0002
The Life of the Party
The funniest kid in town discovers what happens when the laughter stops and he needs his friends for something more than jokes.
0004
Connie Comes to Town
A restless girl from Los Angeles takes a temporary job at Whit's End to earn bus fare home, but small-town Odyssey has other plans for her.
0005
Gifts for Madge and Guy
At Whit's End, a Christmas squabble over what to buy a friend prompts Whit to tell the story of a penniless young couple, each determined to give the other a perfect gift.
0006
The Day After Christmas
A bored girl with a pile of unwanted Christmas presents tags along on a charity trip to the poor side of town, where a forbidden detour teaches her what real riches look like.
0007
Promises, Promises
New in town and new to her job at Whit's End, teenage Connie Kendall bets her boss Whit that sheer willpower is enough to make a person better - and puts it in writing.
0010
Nothing to Fear
A girl who's afraid of everything is lured into a prank that leaves her facing her worst fear in a pitch-black basement.
0012
The Tangled Web
When Connie asks for the afternoon off while hiding her real plans, Whit hands her one of his old stories to read aloud - a tale about a boy whose one small lie spirals wildly out of control.
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A Member of the Family
When his pampered nine-year-old grandson arrives in Odyssey for the summer, Whit discovers that love sometimes means holding the leash tight.
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0018
A Member of the Family
When Whit's estranged daughter arrives furious over how he disciplined her son, a family crisis forces three generations to confront the hurts they've never spoken aloud.
0019
Recollections
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.
0027
A Change of Hart
When relentless bullying makes a lonely boy beg his family to move away, he gets a fresh start at a new school and the chance to reinvent himself as somebody cool.