About this season
The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.
Episodes (23)
1. How I Spent My Summer VII (A Change of Plans)
Aired 16 July 2020 • 34 min
Well, my (working) Summer Vacation turned into a (working) Summer Staycation…
2. Record Ripoffs Vol. 10 (A Tribute To...)
Aired 30 July 2020 • 32 min
Featuring some of the genuine leg ends of Rock N’ Roll!
3. Oddity Archive: Behind The Box (A Documentary)
Aired 20 August 2020 • 35 min
A film made especially for the occasion by Swedish documentarian Hans Krullitzer.
4. Early Color Film (but not Technicolor)
Aired 3 September 2020 • 22 min
Either the all-time most beautiful or most psychedelic episode of the Archive…we’re not sure.
5. History of VHS, Vol. 3 (S-VHS)
Aired 17 September 2020 • 26 min
It’s not just VHS…it’s SUPER VHS!
6. Cheesy Logos
Aired 1 October 2020 • 26 min
Just when you thought the Archive couldn’t possibly get any more tacky…
7. Pioneer Promotional Laserdiscs
Aired 15 October 2020 • 30 min
Looking at a trio of (slightly misguided) discs touting Pioneer Laserdiscs and Home Theater gear…
8. VHS Vault Vol. 17 (Vampires & Pumpkins) (Halloween Special 2020)
Aired 29 October 2020 • 33 min
Life has gotten so tangled lately. As such, let’s roll things back to the absolute (commercial) basics of Halloween…
9. Benny's Birthday Bash
Aired 12 November 2020 • 26 min
You’re not getting older. Just crazier…
10. OA Lost Classics (or, The Ones That Got OA)
Aired 26 November 2020 • 26 min
Spending Thanksgiving with some prime, succulent, deep cuts of…the Archive.
11. The Ballad of Raymond Rohauer
Aired 10 December 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 the negative side.
12. Christmas Special 2020 (Chunks of Christmas Coal)
Aired 24 December 2020 • 36 min
It’s a Vinyl and VHS Christmas! It’s not anywhere near as cool as it sounds…
13. PSA's Vol. 2 (or, Only You Can Prevent PSA's)
Aired 7 January 2021 • 30 min
Myasthenia is better than Yourasthenia. So there.
14. Prehistoric Videotape (The Road To Quadruplex)
Aired 21 January 2021 • 22 min
…or, how Bing Crosby’s golf game launched a technological revolution.
15. Ben's Music "Career", Vol. 5 (Minn-Knot/The End?)
Aired 4 February 2021 • 48 min
Benny-boy’s unintentional swan song…or is it?
16. Ben Vs. The Space-Race Tapes
Aired 18 February 2021 • 40 min
Uh-oh. Benny-boy's playing preservationist again...
17. Ben Vs. The Wheel Of Fortune TV Play-Along
Aired 4 March 2021 • 35 min
18. Cheap Radio Thrills
Aired 25 March 2021 • 27 min
Oddity Archive®: Where the thrills are cheap as radio, and radio is cheap as thrills…
19. Weather Warnings Vol. 2 (Looks Like We're In For Nasty Weather)
Aired 8 April 2021 • 35 min
The Oddity Archiveland Service (OAS) has issued a WEATHER WARNING…warning.
20. KeyFax Rides Again (Teletext in the U.S.)
Aired 22 April 2021 • 29 min
Teletext: Not just for Europeans anymore! Well, not really…
21. VHS Vault Vol. 18 (So You wanna Be A Rock N' Roll Star)
Aired 6 May 2021 • 34 min
…well, listen now to what the Archive says!* *Apologies to The Byrds
22. Gag Reels
Aired 20 May 2021 • 26 min
A serious dissertation on the dangers of workplace stress and how to cope with it…using pure silliness.
23. History of VHS, Vol. 4 (D-VHS/Demise & Resurrection)
Aired 3 June 2021 • 29 min
All good things must come to an end…or must they?