NaN/100 votes#1 - How I Spent My Summer III (Super Betamax/Software-Defined Radio/ Talking House Transmitter)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2016
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
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#2 - Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2016
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
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#3 - Home Shopping Channels
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 8/4/2016
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
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#4 - LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/18/2016
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
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#5 - Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/1/2016
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
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#6 - Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 9/15/2016
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
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#7 - The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/2016
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
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#8 - Betamax
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2016
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
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#9 - Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/27/2016
This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that the LP’s discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya?
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#10 - VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/2016
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
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#11 - Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's & 90's)
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/2016
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
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#12 - The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/2016
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
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#13 - Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/2016
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
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#14 - VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/2017
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
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#15 - Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/2017
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
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#16 - VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/2017
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
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#17 - Random Kiddie Records
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/2017
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
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#18 - Minidisc
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/2017
It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format that I’ve bashed in the past.
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#19 - Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/2017
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
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#20 - DBX Noise Reduction System
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/2017
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
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#21 - Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/2017
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
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#22 - Useless VHS Tapes
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/2017
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
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#23 - Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/2017
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
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#24 - Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/25/2017
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
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"How I Spent My Summer III (Super Betamax/Software-Defined Radio/ Talking House Transmitter)" is the best rated episode of "Oddity Archive" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/7/2016. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)".