Major characters (currently active)

• John Avery Whittaker, voiced by Hal Smith
  Hal Smith (actor)
  Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...
  
   (1987–1994), Paul Herlinger
  Paul Herlinger
  Paul Herlinger was an American voice actor, best known for his role as John Avery "Whit" Whittaker on the radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey . He began in that role soon after Hal Smith died in 1994, and has also voiced Whit on the Adventures in Odyssey video series and Adventures in Odyssey video...
  
   (1996–2008), and Andre Stojka
  Andre Stojka
  Andre Stojka is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as Owl in Winnie-the-Pooh projects beginning with The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, inheriting the role from Hal Smith. He was also the voice of the horse Starlite in all of the animated Rainbow Brite productions...
  
   (2009 - ), often known as "Whit", is the main fictional character of Adventures in Odyssey
  Adventures in Odyssey
  Adventures in Odyssey , or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian-themed radio drama/comedy series created by Focus on the Family in 1987. The show's daily audience averages around 1.2 million within North America. The Odyssey series also includes several spin-off items, including a home-video...
  
  and the namesake of Odyssey's most famous attraction, Whit's End. He is viewed as a spiritual Christian leader to the children, and adults also, in Odyssey. He was originally voiced by Hal Smith
  Hal Smith (actor)
  Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...
  
  , but after Smith's death in 1994, the character of Whit left Odyssey to lead an archaeological
  Archaeology
  Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
  
   mission in Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   for the Universal Press Foundation. Whit returned to Odyssey in 1996; he had been voiced by Paul Herlinger
  Paul Herlinger
  Paul Herlinger was an American voice actor, best known for his role as John Avery "Whit" Whittaker on the radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey . He began in that role soon after Hal Smith died in 1994, and has also voiced Whit on the Adventures in Odyssey video series and Adventures in Odyssey video...
  
   until 2008. Andre Stojka took the role following Herlinger's retirement.

• Connie Kendall (1987 - ), voiced by Katie Leigh
  Katie Leigh
  Katherine "Katie" Leigh is an American voice actress best known for her role as Connie Kendall on the Focus on the Family radio program Adventures in Odyssey since 1987...
  
  , is probably the second-most major character in Adventures in Odyssey, appearing in more episodes than any character except John Avery Whittaker. Connie has been voiced by Katie Leigh
  Katie Leigh
  Katherine "Katie" Leigh is an American voice actress best known for her role as Connie Kendall on the Focus on the Family radio program Adventures in Odyssey since 1987...
  
   since her arrival in Odyssey in episode #4: "Connie Comes to Town".

• Eugene Meltsner (1988 - ), voiced by Will Ryan
  Will Ryan
  Will Ryan is an American voice actor and producer–writer–composer, well-known for singing about the American West. In the late seventies he teamed up with Phil Baron as Willio and Phillio. They had regular gigs on television, radio and comedy clubs and universities throughout the US...
  
  , is a longtime employee at Whit's End. He is very intelligent, having a reputation for erudition and a fondness for trivia. Major plot arcs involving Eugene include his conversion to Christianity and his courtship, engagement, and then marriage to Katrina Shanks. Another major storyline about Eugene is the rediscovery of his father, whom he had believed dead since he was seven years old.

• Katrina Shanks-Meltsner, voiced by Pamela Hayden
  Pamela Hayden
  Pamela Hayden is an American actress, best known for providing various voices for the animated television show The Simpsons.-Biography:...
  
   (1994 - 2002) and Audrey Wasilewski
  Audrey Wasilewski
  Audrey Wasilewski is an American actress and voice actress.-Life and career:Wasilewski's first role came in the 1994 Japanese animated film Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko, where she was one of the additional voices dubbed in English...
  
   (2005 - ), is the wife of Eugene Meltsner. She is the daughter of wealthy father Armitage Shanks and mother Millie. She also has two brothers that have never been named.

• Bernard Walton (1990 - ), voiced by Dave Madden is the town of Odyssey window-washer. Though kind-hearted, Bernard is somewhat cynical and grumpy, but is most widely known for his metaphorical humor and penchant for storytelling
  Storytelling
  Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values...
  
  . He hosts B-TV, a Christian television show in Odyssey. He is also Eugene's cousin

• Jason Whittaker (1994 - ), voiced by Townsend Coleman
  Townsend Coleman
  Townsend Coleman is an American voice actor who performed in many animated series and TV commercials beginning in the early 1980s...
  
  , is Whit's son and former National Security Agency
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
   agent. He ran Whit's End while Whit was in the Middle East
  Middle East
  The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
  
  . Jason came very close to marrying his longtime sweetheart, Tasha Forbes, but they broke up while parked in front of the Justice of the Peace
  Justice of the Peace
  A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
  
  's house.

• Jack Allen (1994 - ), voiced by Alan Young
  Alan Young
  Alan Young is an English-Canadian actor and voice actor, best known for his role as Wilbur Post in the television series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games...
  
  , is a childhood friend of Whit, former manager of "Whit's End" when Whit was in the Middle East, and current owner of the J & J Antique Gallery, along with his wife Joanne Allen. He last appeared in Album 50 in 2008, and a couple of Darian's Rise episodes in 2009.

• Wooton Bassett (2001 - ), voiced by Jess Harnell
  Jess Harnell
  Jess Q. Harnell is an American voice actor and singer, best known for voicing Wakko Warner on Animaniacs. Harnell has been the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998.-Life and acting career:...
  
  , is an Odyssey mailman who is also the author of Power Boy comics. In some ways, he seems to have not grown up yet (example: he collects Smiley Meal toys and has a slide going out of his house), although he occasionally shows his mature/serious side. He currently has a strained relationship with his father because Wooton is a Christian.

• Chris (1987 - ), voiced by Chris Anthony
  Chris Anthony (voice actor)
  Chris Anthony is an American voice actress best known as host of Focus on the Family's radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey...
  
  , is the show's announcer from the first episodes until the present time.

Adults

• Bart Rathbone, (1987-2008) voiced by Walker Edmiston
  Walker Edmiston
  -Career:Walker Edmiston was an American character actor and voice-over artist who was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Edmiston appeared on various television programs in character roles during the 1950s – 1970s, such as Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes of Hazzard, all...
  
   and Robert Easton
  Robert Easton (actor)
  Robert Easton is an American actor whose career in film and television spans more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect has earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices", For decades he has been a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.Easton was born Robert Easton Burke in...
  
  , is the schemish manager of the Electric Palace. Bart's character often attempts publicity stunts, such as a television game show, and at one time ran as an unfocused, populist
  Populism
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   candidate for mayor, against Tom Riley. He was most recently voiced by Robert Easton, as Edmiston recently died.

• Tom Riley (1987 - 2008), voiced by the late Walker Edmiston
  Walker Edmiston
  -Career:Walker Edmiston was an American character actor and voice-over artist who was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Edmiston appeared on various television programs in character roles during the 1950s – 1970s, such as Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes of Hazzard, all...
  
  , is a local farmer
  Farmer
  A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...
  
   and good friend of Whit. Edmiston recently died, so the producers are doing what they did to Whit when Hal Smith died, taking Tom's lines from other episodes and putting them together for new shows. Tom is said to be a longtime conservative member and chairman of the Odyssey City Council, as well as one-term mayor.

• George Barclay (1988 - 1997, 2003 - 2004), voiced by Chuck Bolte, Left for Pokenberry Falls to become pastor at local church. Returned for several episodes in 2003 and 2004 to perform Connie and Mitch's wedding, which never happened. (Barclay's name shares a pronunciation with that of Bishop George Berkeley
  George Berkeley
  George Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley , was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"...
  
  , the 18th century philosopher after whom the University of California, Berkeley is named.)

• Mary Barclay (1993 - 1996), voiced by Carol Bilger. Mary is the wife of Pastor George Barclay and mother of three children, Donna, Jimmy, and Stewart Barclay.

• Dr. Regis Blackgaard (1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000), voiced by Earl Boen
  Earl Boen
  Earl Boen is an American actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator series...
  
   is Whit's nemesis. Dr. Blackgaard was supposedly killed in an explosion of his own making in 1995. However, he left behind a virus in the Imagination Station that was destroyed a few years later after attempting to gain a corporeal form from Aubrey Shepard. Some of Dr. Blackgaard's biggest fans refuse to admit he was killed in the explosion, saying he's still alive but biding his time before returning to Odyssey again, if he ever does.

• Robert "Mitch" Mitchell (2001 - 2004), voiced by Steve Burns is Connie's boyfriend and an FBI agent also known as AREM (phonetical spelling of RM, his initials). Mitch's relationship with Connie was a turbulent one, plagued by misunderstandings and Connie's reluctance to trust him because of the secrecy of his work. Mitch was placed in witness protection during the Novacom Saga and was presumed dead until Connie discovered the truth. After the Novacom Saga, he proposed to Connie, but the two decided to call off the wedding at the last minute and temporarily separate.

• Dale Jacobs (1989 - 1998), voiced by Phil Lollar
  Phil Lollar
  Phil Lollar is a writer, director, and producer for the Focus on the Family-created radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey. He is credited as being one of the show's creators. He also provided the voice for one of characters from the show, Dale Jacobs. He also worked on the Jungle Jam and Friends: The...
  
  , was the editor of The Odyssey Times. He had two daughters, Robyn and Melanie; Robyn (1989 - 92) was one of the more popular kid characters during her time on the show.

• Richard Maxwell (1989 - 2000), voiced by Nathan Carlson, debuted in the episode "Eugene's Dilemma" as a manipulative bully who worked as a counselor at Campbell County Community College and victimized his young charge, Nicholas Adamsworth. After the truth about Richard's actions was revealed and he was dismissed from the college, Richard entered the employment of Dr. Regis Blackgaard, but had a change of heart after one of Blackgaard's schemes landed Lucy Cunningham-Schultz in the hospital. Having burned down Tom Riley's barn (for which Tom refused to forgive him for years afterward) and hacked into John Avery Whittaker's computer on Blackgaard's orders, Richard served two years in the Campbell County Detention Center before being released on parole. He foiled a number of Blackgaard's plans as part of his quest for personal redemption.

• Officer David Harley (1987 - 1989), voiced by Will Ryan
  Will Ryan
  Will Ryan is an American voice actor and producer–writer–composer, well-known for singing about the American West. In the late seventies he teamed up with Phil Baron as Willio and Phillio. They had regular gigs on television, radio and comedy clubs and universities throughout the US...
  
  , is a bumbling, affable police officer who appeared in several early episodes. His character was replaced by Private Eye Harlow Doyle after parents complained that the character of Officer Harley gave kids the wrong impression about the intelligence of most police officers.

• Peter Bourland (2002 - 2003), voiced by Keith Silverstein
  Keith Silverstein
  -Anime:*Blade of the Immortal - Manji*Bleach - Coyote Starrk, Aaroniero Arruruerie , Mabashi, Tesra Lindocruz*Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Sōjirō Kusaka*Blue Dragon - Lemaire*Buso Renkin - Masashi Daihama, Mita...
  
  , was an FBI Agent who helped investigate the Novacom case.

• Arthur Dent (2000 - 2002), voiced by Christopher Snell, was an employee of Andromeda. Arthur Dent was driven to temporary paranoia by the realization of the corporation’s goals and apparent power. He later destroyed a radio tower with fertilizer explosives, thinking that it was the tower from which Andromeda would be broadcasting its mind-control signals. After a court trial, he did not make any further appearances in Odyssey.

• Armitage Shanks, voiced by Bernard Erhard
  Bernard Erhard
  Bernard Erhard was an American voice actor.He worked primarily in children's cartoons. Among his roles were Cy-Kill in Challenge of the GoBots , King Morpheus in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, and one of the wolves in Rover Dangerfield.-External links:...
  
   (1995 - 1998) and Brian Cummings
  Brian Cummings
  Brian Cummings is an American voice actor.-Biography:He is known for his work in radio and television commercials, television and motion picture promos, cartoons and as the announcer on The All-New Let's Make a Deal from 1984 to 1985...
  
   (2002), was the father of Katrina Shanks; now deceased (allegedly murdered by poisoning during the Novacom Saga). He was a bit overprotective of his daughter, and was frequently at odds with Eugene during the early stages of Eugene and Katrina's relationship; however, he was motivated more by love of his daughter than by malice toward Eugene.

Children

• Rodney Rathbone (1989 - 2007), voiced by Steve Burns, is the son of Bart Rathbone, he is a mischievous local bully, and head of The Bones of Rath, a gang of teenagers who bully.

• Aubrey Shepard, voiced by Camilla Belle
  Camilla Belle
  Camilla Belle is an American actress. Her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000 BC, The Quiet, Push and Speedy Singhs.- Early life :...
  
   (1998-1999) and Danielle Judovitz (1999-2005), was a creative and introspective girl who loves books and poetry. She has a tendency to act impetuously, which often gets her into trouble. Aubrey lived in Tom Riley's Timothy Center with her father Ben, mother Ellen, and younger sister Bethany. She was initially unhappy about her parents' newfound Christianity and often made a point to rebel against it, but became a Christian herself during the Novacom Saga. She later left for college.

• Sam Johnson (1991 - 1996), voiced by Kyle Ellison, was a good-hearted boy who also tended to be somewhat naive.

• Lawrence Hodges (1992 - 1995, 2008), voiced by Gabriel Encarnacion, is a hyper-active kid with a run-away imagination to the point where he was having trouble separating his make-believe world and the real world, He was briefly heard over a phone-interview in the two part 2008 episode "The Triangled Web" (He is working at a laundromat as he has been kicked out of NASA.)

• Lucy Cunningham-Schultz (1988 - 1996, 2008), voiced by Genni Long, was a pre-teen reporter for both her middle school's newspaper The Odyssey Owl and The Odyssey Times. She reappeared as a college student in "The Triangled Web" and got engaged to Jack Davis.

• Donna Barclay (1988 - 1996), voiced by Azure Janosky. Daughter of George and Mary, older sister of Jimmy; often portrayed as a typical teenage girl who liked boys and shopping. Donna had a rebellious streak and could be somewhat temperamental also, but had a good heart and moral compass. Her best friend was Dale Jacobs' elder daughter, Robyn Jacobs (voiced by Sage Bolte, 1989-1992), who was herself the central character in many episodes.

• James (Jimmy) Barclay (1988 - 1996, 2004, 2008), voiced by David Griffin. Probably the most popular child character in the show's history. He and his family were in numerous episodes. He was the only child star kept after the death of the 1st Whit and was kept after his voice changed (it was common practice for AIO to drop actors when their voice changed). He has the second most appearances for a child character, behind Lucy. Returned for "The Triangled Web".

• Grady McKay (2004 - 2008), voiced by Jordan Orr
  Jordan Orr
  Jordan Del Spina is an American child actor and voice actor.Del Spina is the younger brother of Ashley, Jennifer and Michael, and older brother of Tyler.-Filmography:* Gilmore Girls as Aaron...
  
  , is a friend of Wooton.

• Tamika Washington (2003 - 2008), voiced by Courtney Brown, is the daughter of Ed and Elaine

• Digger Digwillow (1988), voiced by Chad Reisser, was the first person to experience the Imagination Station, and the founder of "Wonderworld." Oddly enough, he was only in three episodes (The Imagination Station I & II, Heatwave).

• Isaac Morton, (1989 - 1993) voiced by Justin Morgan, is a friend of Lucy, although before Curt. He was a good-hearted but cowardly kid who had a lot of run-ins with a bully named Rodney Rathbone, leader of the "Bones of Rath" gang.

• Jack Davis, (1988 - 1989, 1992 - 1994, 2008) voiced by Donald Long, is another of Lucy's acquaintances. Most known for the being the "coolest" kid. He later became engaged with Lucy in "The Triangled Web".

• Curt Stevens, (1990 - 1992, 2008) voiced by Fabio Stephens, was always getting into trouble and was most notably known for his relationship with Lucy. He also returned for "The Triangled Web".

• Jenny Roberts, Voiced by Natalie Babbitt, was the show's second of two blind
  Blindness
  Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
  
   characters. Despite her disability, she never let it get her down and fit in quite easily in Odyssey. In the three-episode The Perfect Witness, she was kidnapped from Holstein's Bookstore and made use of her heightened senses of smell and hearing to help catch the criminals. She was also the longtime pen-pal to Melanie Jacobs, as seen in the Episode "Pen Pal."

• Liz Horton, (1998 - 2007) voiced by Lauren Schaffel was the reporter for Odyssey Owl and best friend of Mandy Straussberg.

• Jared DeWhite (1997 - 1999, 2001 - 2004, 2008), Voiced by Brandon Gilberstadt, was a trouble maker and conspiracy theorist who moved away after a few seasons. He returned during the Novacom series (he and his family had been placed in Witness Protection) and tipped off Sarah and Mandy to the activities of Novacom.

• Dwayne Oswald, (1997 - 1999) voiced by Kris Kachurak, is best known as a foil for Jared DeWhite, Dwayne began as a character who was no good at anything and turned into an honor student later on.

• Alex Jefferson, (1999 - 2003) voiced by Travis Tedford
  Travis Tedford
  Travis William Tedford is an American actor. A child actor during the 1990s, he is best known for portraying Our Gang kid Spanky McFarland in the 1994 feature film The Little Rascals and for being the first Welch's "advertising-spokeskid" beginning in 1994 at age 5.-Biography:Tedford was born in...
  
  , played a pivotal role in the Novacom saga with his cousin Cal.

• Marvin Washington, voiced by Kyle Massey
  Kyle Massey
  Kyle Massey , is an American actor, dancer, singer, comedian and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known for starring in the Disney Channel sitcom That's So Raven, in which he played Cory Baxter, and in the Disney show Cory in the House, a spin-off of That's So Raven...
  
   (2003), Jordan Colloway (2003-2004), and Kendre Berry (2004-2008) was a child character and an African American; lives with his parents Ed and Elaine and his sister Tamika. While the Washington family were not the first African-American characters on Adventures in Odyssey, they are arguably the first to be considered "major" characters.

• Nick Mulligan (1997 - 2005), voiced by Chris Castile, (the nephew and adopted son of Mike and Tracy Mulligan) was portrayed early on as a brash, tough-talking street kid from New York City who smoked and frequently clashed with his cousin/adopted sister Lisa, but eventually he quit smoking and became an employee at Whit's End, and his character mellowed slightly.

• Mandy Straussberg (1998 - 2008), voiced by Aria Curzon
  Aria Curzon
  Aria Noelle Curzon is an American actress and singer. Her most famous voice roles are Ducky in The Land Before Time video series, Theresa in Recess, and Mandy Straussberg in the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey...
  
  , is very gifted in writing stories and plays, and in the episode "The Present Long Ago", it is revealed that she will one day marry the middle school's other top student, Trent DeWhite.

• Rusty Gordon (1993 - 1995), Voiced by Shawn Svoboda, is a member of Rodney's gang, the Bones of Rath. He later wrote a book that painted a very negative portrait of Odyssey, which inspired Connie to write her own book.

• Trent DeWhite (2003 - 2008), voiced by Corey Padnos, is Jared's little brother. Possessing a toned-down version of his brother's vivid imagination, Trent has been known to overreact and daydream at times. He is a top student at Odyssey Middle School, and at one point developed a crush on Mandy Straussberg, who he will one day marry as revealed in "The Present Long Ago".

• Shannon Everett (1992 - 1994), is a rich and popular cheerleader who often resorted to bullying tactics and/or deception to get her way.

Minor characters

• Edwin Blackgaard (1992 - 2008), voiced by Earl Boen
  Earl Boen
  Earl Boen is an American actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator series...
  
  , is the twin brother of Dr. Regis Blackgaard and owner of the Harlequin Dinner Theatre.

• Walter Shakespeare (1992 - ), voiced by Corey Burton
  Corey Burton
  Corey Burton is an American voice actor, perhaps best known as Count Dooku, Ziro the Hutt and Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Brainiac in the DC animated universe and Spike Witwicky and Shockwave in the Transformers universe...
  
  , is the assistant to Edwin at the Harlequin Dinner Theatre.

• Doris Rathbone (1993 - 1998), voiced by Pamela Hayden
  Pamela Hayden
  Pamela Hayden is an American actress, best known for providing various voices for the animated television show The Simpsons.-Biography:...
  
   and Diane Hsu (2007 - present), is Rodney's mother.

• Principal Skinner (1993), voiced by J.P. Sloane.

• Harlow Doyle (1992 - 2000, 2005, 2008, 2010), voiced by Will Ryan
  Will Ryan
  Will Ryan is an American voice actor and producer–writer–composer, well-known for singing about the American West. In the late seventies he teamed up with Phil Baron as Willio and Phillio. They had regular gigs on television, radio and comedy clubs and universities throughout the US...
  
  .

• Tasha Forbes, voiced by Christie Nimitz (1994 - 1996) and Mandy Steckelberg (2008), is Jason Whittaker's on-again, off-again girlfriend/fiancée.

• Joe Finneman (1991 - 1994), voiced by Parley Baer
  Parley Baer
  Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in film, television, and radio.-Radio:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Baer had a circus background, but began his radio career at Utah station KSL...
  
  , was Connie's great uncle, owner of "Finneman's Market".

• June Kendall (1988 - 1996, 2002 - 2003), voiced by Maggie Malooly, is the mother of Connie.

• Agnes Riley, voiced by Julia Kazarian (1988) and Susan Silo
  Susan Silo
  Susan Silo is an American actress and voice actress.-Early life and career:She was born in New York City, New York. Her acting career started in television on an episode of The Jack Benny Show. Silo also co-starred with Larry Blyden, Dawn Nickerson, and Diahn Williams in the NBC sitcom Harry's...
  
   (1996, 2002 - 2005) is Tom Riley's wife, also known to her close friends as "Rose" (her middle name). Agnes, an artistic woman who enjoys painting and music, suffers from dementia
  Dementia
  Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...
  
   and resides in an assisted-living facility. She was so infrequently seen by Odyssey residents that the first time Rodney Rathbone saw Tom talking to her (and being unaware that they were married), he assumed Tom was having an illicit affair with her.

• Margaret Faye (1997 - 1998, 2006, 2008), voiced by Alexandra Kenworthy
  Alexandra Kenworthy
  Alexandra Kenworthy is an American voice actress. She is married to fellow voice actor Marc Snegoff and have two sons Her son, voice actor Gregory Snegoff and stuntman Tony Snegoff.-Filmography:*3×3 Eyes - Pai*Lensman - Lens...
  
  , ran for Odyssey Mayor against Bart Rathbone and won. She had feelings for Mr. Whittaker and asked him to marry her as well as manage her campaign, but Whit, not agreeing with many of the issues she supported, declined, which infuriated her. Connie later worked on her campaign.

• Phillip Glossman (1988 - 1990, 1992, 1994 - 1995, 2008), voiced by Paul McCusker
  Paul McCusker
  Paul McCusker is a writer and producer best known for his work on Adventures in Odyssey, a nationally-syndicated radio drama, and for his work with Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre. He has written over 50 books, 21 plays and 4 musicals. His best known works are the play "Catacombs", the novels...
  
  , is a state Congressman who harbors a personal vendetta against John Avery Whittaker dating back to the founding of Whit's End.

• Leonard Meltsner (2006 - 2007), voiced by Phil Proctor is the father of Eugene. He returned to America
  United States
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   for a while and then returned to Africa. He is now a Christian
  Christian
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  .

External links

• Complete list of characters
• AIOHQ.com Character Histories
• OdysseyScoop.com Citizens of Odyssey Character Summaries
• John Avery Whittaker, Connie Kendall, and Eugene Meltsner at the Internet Movie Database
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