Oddity Archive: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Oddity Archive Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
How I Spent My Summer IV (Ben Vs. Laserdisc Audio & Turntable Tune-up)
Jul 6, 2017 · 28 min
12 inches of Archivian goodness!
Record Ripoffs Vol. 7 (Revenge of the 70's!)
Jul 20, 2017 · 36 min
What’cha doin’ on your rump? Hopefully, you’re watching this episode!
Elvis Has(n't) Left The Building (Elvisploitation)
Aug 3, 2017 · 35 min
A King-sized episode for a King-sized anniversary. Of course, we can't play any actual Elvis, so let's look at some of the cash-ins based around the man.
Tape Baking (A Quasi-Documentary on Sticky-Shed Syndrome)
Aug 17, 2017 · 34 min
A cooking show—Archive style.
LaserKaraoke Vol. 5 (+ assorted VHS & VCD Karaoke)
Aug 31, 2017 · 42 min
New from Sing Alone Video!
Playtape & Aroma Disc (or, The Anti-Audiophile Files)
Sep 14, 2017 · 27 min
I was burning incense on not-quite vinyl (while listening to Playtapes) before you were. Take that, hipsters.
As Seen On TV! (Mail-Order & Infomercial-Style Commercials)
Sep 28, 2017 · 27 min
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Ben's Palm PDA's (& Camera "Spy" Glasses)
Oct 12, 2017 · 28 min
A double (if not triple) dose of failure. You know you love it.
"Telecine" Film Transfer (A Nightmare In Celluloid) (Halloween Special 2017)
Oct 26, 2017 · 31 min
The scariest (in the existentialist sense, at least) Archive Halloween to date!
VHS Vault Vol. 12 (Child Safety Videos)
Nov 9, 2017 · 29 min
Let’s reminisce about the great bully/child abductor epidemic of the ‘90’s.
The Max Headroom Incident Revisited (30 Years On)
Nov 22, 2017 · 21 min
The Archive returns to its deepest roots (largely because it was convenient).
Dynagroove & Friends (Vinyl Oddities)
Dec 7, 2017 · 28 min
Oddity Archive® Vinyl: Now 50% lighter and with 50% more foreign debris!
Christmas Special 2017 (Ben's Christmas Clunkers)
Dec 21, 2017 · 38 min
Broken equipment, bad records and loopy videos—in other words, your standard Archive Christmas.
Phoney Nostalgia
Jan 4, 2018 · 21 min
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Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul #2
Jan 18, 2018 · 39 min
More hissy (and at times, indecipherable) goodness from the deepest, darkest depths of the Archive.
Ben's Music "Career", Vol. 1 (The Outsider years, Pt. 1)
Feb 1, 2018 · 39 min
Bring your earplugs! And, no, this isn’t false modesty—these recordings are pretty harsh (in every meaning of the word).
Dolby Noise Reduction (The Hard Way)
Feb 15, 2018 · 19 min
This is what happens when Benny-boy’s control-freak tendencies get the best of him. Honestly, it’s not too terrible. Shame the product is mediocre.
Laserdisc, Vinyl & Cassette Computer Programs
Mar 1, 2018 · 22 min
The Archive sets sail for the United Kingdom in search of some unusual computer storage and sharing methods—we weren’t disappointed.
VHS Vault Vol. 13 (Movin' Out)
Mar 15, 2018 · 27 min
No Billy Joel songs were harmed in the making of this episode.
Silent-Era Talking Pictures
Mar 29, 2018 · 22 min
These talking pictures will never catch on…come to think of it, these didn’t.
Vinyl Potpourri
Apr 12, 2018 · 27 min
Funny how a little kiddie music, a little commercialism and a heaping helping of Easy Listening stewed in someone’s garage for 40+ years equals such a lovely sonic bouquet.
Loudness Wars
Apr 26, 2018 · 23 min
Finally! An Archive episode with true A E S T H E T I C S!
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel (Round 2)
May 10, 2018 · 22 min
…because the first reel-to-reel worked so well.
Local Flavor (Part 1: Nostalgia)
May 24, 2018 · 30 min
The Archive is getting ready to leave Beautiful Downtown Aurora. Better look at some of our local stuff before we go.
Local Flavor (Part 2: Anti-Nostalgia)
Jun 7, 2018 · 33 min
Let’s close our Beautiful Downtown Aurora years without any tears (maybe).