Oddity Archive: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
How I Spent My Summer VII (A Change of Plans)
Jul 16, 2020 · 34 min
Well, my (working) Summer Vacation turned into a (working) Summer Staycation…
Record Ripoffs Vol. 10 (A Tribute To...)
Jul 30, 2020 · 32 min
Featuring some of the genuine leg ends of Rock N’ Roll!
Oddity Archive: Behind The Box (A Documentary)
Aug 20, 2020 · 35 min
A film made especially for the occasion by Swedish documentarian Hans Krullitzer.
Early Color Film (but not Technicolor)
Sep 3, 2020 · 22 min
Either the all-time most beautiful or most psychedelic episode of the Archive…we’re not sure.
Cheesy Logos
Oct 1, 2020 · 26 min
Just when you thought the Archive couldn’t possibly get any more tacky…
Pioneer Promotional Laserdiscs
Oct 15, 2020 · 30 min
Looking at a trio of (slightly misguided) discs touting Pioneer Laserdiscs and Home Theater gear…
VHS Vault Vol. 17 (Vampires & Pumpkins) (Halloween Special 2020)
Oct 29, 2020 · 33 min
Life has gotten so tangled lately. As such, let’s roll things back to the absolute (commercial) basics of Halloween…
OA Lost Classics (or, The Ones That Got OA)
Nov 26, 2020 · 26 min
Spending Thanksgiving with some prime, succulent, deep cuts of…the Archive.
The Ballad of Raymond Rohauer
Dec 10, 2020 · 19 min
With (backhanded, insincere) apologies to Hunter S. Thompson: Film Preservation is a cruel and shallow nitrate ditch, a long celluloid hallway where good films rot. That’s just th
Christmas Special 2020 (Chunks of Christmas Coal)
Dec 24, 2020 · 36 min
It’s a Vinyl and VHS Christmas! It’s not anywhere near as cool as it sounds…
PSA's Vol. 2 (or, Only You Can Prevent PSA's)
Jan 7, 2021 · 30 min
Myasthenia is better than Yourasthenia. So there.
Prehistoric Videotape (The Road To Quadruplex)
Jan 21, 2021 · 22 min
…or, how Bing Crosby’s golf game launched a technological revolution.
Ben's Music "Career", Vol. 5 (Minn-Knot/The End?)
Feb 4, 2021 · 48 min
Benny-boy’s unintentional swan song…or is it?
Ben Vs. The Space-Race Tapes
Feb 18, 2021 · 40 min
Uh-oh. Benny-boy's playing preservationist again...
Cheap Radio Thrills
Mar 25, 2021 · 27 min
Oddity Archive®: Where the thrills are cheap as radio, and radio is cheap as thrills…
Weather Warnings Vol. 2 (Looks Like We're In For Nasty Weather)
Apr 8, 2021 · 35 min
The Oddity Archiveland Service (OAS) has issued a WEATHER WARNING…warning.
KeyFax Rides Again (Teletext in the U.S.)
Apr 22, 2021 · 29 min
Teletext: Not just for Europeans anymore! Well, not really…
VHS Vault Vol. 18 (So You wanna Be A Rock N' Roll Star)
May 6, 2021 · 34 min
…well, listen now to what the Archive says!* *Apologies to The Byrds
Gag Reels
May 20, 2021 · 26 min
A serious dissertation on the dangers of workplace stress and how to cope with it…using pure silliness.
History of VHS, Vol. 4 (D-VHS/Demise & Resurrection)
Jun 3, 2021 · 29 min
All good things must come to an end…or must they?