Odyssey Tapes megathread
Posted by: MesaMom73
Since the main thread is getting cluttered:
Let’s consolidate memories of other programming that aired on Channel 94 in Deep Lake.
Not tape mechanics.
Just shows people remember watching live in the 80s & 90s.
Reply by: CarlFromCarl’sHardware
There was a cooking show.
I’m positive.
Woman in a yellow kitchen. No windows. She never said her name.
I don’t remember recipes. I just remember she never actually ate anything she made.
My mom doesn’t remember it. But I remember watching it with her. We were on Cactus Drive, Deep Lake.
Reply by: SandiaStatic
I don’t remember a cooking show.
I remember a home improvement program.
Single camera.
Host wore a tool belt but never used the tools.
He would measure walls and then just… stop.
Sometimes the measurements didn’t add up.
My dad used to get irrationally angry watching it. Rest in peace dad.
Reply by: JuniperRoad
There was a children’s block in the mornings.
Not cartoons.
Puppets, maybe? Or masks? Something about a lumberjack
The set looked like it was made of painted plywood.
I remember a character that wasn’t acknowledged by the others. It stood too still.
This was before school. Deep Lake Elementary days.
Reply by: HighDesert1990
Okay but does anyone remember the weather segment?
It wasn’t local weather.
It was just the lake.
Camera pointed at the water.
A voice listing temperatures that didn’t match ours.
“Humidity: rising.”
That’s all I remember.
Reply by: LakebedLurker
The late movie slot.
Not actual movies.
Long static shots.
Parking lot at night.
Empty grocery aisle.
A hallway that might have been the high school but wasn’t.
My older brother insists there were actors, but I never saw any.
Reply by: DesertStatic
There was a talk show, right?.
Small desk.
Two chairs.
Sometimes only one person in the room.
I don’t remember interviews.And the host, Joe something?
The camera would stay on the empty chair longer than felt normal.
Reply by: AnalogKid
Station IDs between programs:
White circle.
Black background.
A tone that dipped slightly at the end.
No call letters.
Just “94.”
But the 9 looked wrong.
Reply by: MesaMom73
My husband grew up outside Deep Lake and says none of this sounds like real programming.
Which is fair.
It was just… what was on.
Reply by: CarlFromCarl’sHardware
There was a sports recap once.
Deep Lake High wasn’t playing that night.
No one was.
But the scoreboard said 17–17.
I remember that because it stuck.
17–17.
Reply by: SandiaStatic
Does anyone remember commercials?
I don’t.
Maybe that was the point, man I miss the 90’s.
Reply by: JuniperRoad
Yes.
No commercials.
Or maybe ads for local businesses that don’t exist anymore.
I vaguely remember Carl’s Hardware.
Sorry, Carl.
Reply by: CarlFromCarl’sHardware
We’ve never advertised on television.
Ever.
Reply by: HighDesert1990
The weirdest part to me:
No one ever mentioned watching 94 outside of actually watching it.
It never came up at school.
Never came up at church.
It was just silently understood that you could turn to it.
And then one day you couldn’t.
Reply by: LakebedLurker
I asked my older cousin (still lives in Deep Lake) what he remembered besides Odyssey.
He said:
“Not sure what you mean.”
Then he wouldn’t elaborate. We watched these shows together as kids.
Reply by: OldLakeArchivist
For documentation:
No TV Guide listings in the Sentinel ever included Channel 94 programming.
Not once.
And yet multiple households recall structuring evenings around it.