Mar. 21, 2007: Celebrating the Life of Walker Edmiston - with actors' stories, clips and more

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

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🗓️ 21 March 2007

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Actor Walker Edmiston (1926-2007) has performed as "Tom Riley" and dozens of characters since 'Adventures in Odyssey' began. Tune in as Steve Burns, Chris Anthony, Katie Leigh, Paul McCusker and others remember their dear friend.

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0:00.0	Howdy, Tom Riley here. We're just getting ready for a time of wonder, adventure and excitement.
0:06.0	Would you like to join us? Then get ready, because you never know what can happen when you have an adventure in Odyssey.
0:21.0	Hi everyone, this is Executive Producer Dave Arnold.
0:24.0	And I'm Paul McCusker. We're here for the March 21st 2007 edition of the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast.
0:31.0	We are and unfortunately it does sadness to announce that a very good friend and a very good actor. Walker Edmiston passed away on February 15th of this year, just a few weeks ago.
0:42.0	Walker, you may know, played two beloved characters, Tom Riley and Bart Rathbone here for Adventures in Odyssey.
0:50.0	In fact, Walker has been on Adventures in Odyssey since the very first episode.
1:03.0	Walker also loved to play historical and biblical characters. He was very good at it, he had a wide range.
1:09.0	And so he just plugged them into a lot of different characters for that.
1:20.0	The weapon of King David in the Old Testament. These two strange looking and smelly little children all spied.
1:29.0	How do I care a storeways? A storm is destroying my ship and you bring me storeways.
1:35.0	I worked on our vineyards in an northwest corner, planted a new field of crops and talked to God. What's for dinner?
1:43.0	All right, Walker. What's your favorite thing about Adventures in Odyssey? What's your favorite thing about doing the recordings?
1:53.0	The fellowship, the camaraderie, the family feeling of it all. I've been doing it 14 years.
1:59.0	It's right. And we are truly a family. It really is true folks.
2:05.0	Hi, this is Steve Burns. I play Rodney. And the thing that strikes me most about Walker was that Walker was an entertainer.
2:20.0	But when you type this, you put the print too close to the paper. There's no depth perception.
2:27.0	We'll work on that.
2:29.0	In the studios, there was constant laughter because we were constantly trying to one up each other.
2:37.0	You talk too much, Pop.
2:40.0	And I told him forever, forever. Even in the writing, it says on the paper right there and I read it, don't call me Pop.
2:47.0	I'm sorry about that Pop.
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