(Last updated 4/5/2001)

1. The character with the most episodes is Whit, of course.   Here's a chart of the top ten:

2. The character who was gone for the longest from the show was Ben Franklin, who appeared in 33: The Day Independence Came and then in 425: Blackgaard's Revenge, Part 2.   The Odyssey resident who was gone for the longest was Agnes Riley who appeared in 49: Thank You, God and then much later in 368: The Other Woman.

3.  There are no Y characters in Adventures in Odyssey canon, either for first name or last name.

4. There are more "John" characters than any other name.  Here's a chart of the Top Ten.

5. There are far more "J" characters than any other letter.  Also, many main characters tend to have "J" as their first letter. (Consider: Jack Allen, Jack Davis, Jared DeWhite, Jason Whittaker, Jellyfish, Jenny Roberts, Jesse Morales, Jimmy Barclay, Joanne Woodston Allen, John Avery Whittaker, June Kendall)  (NOTE: Number in parentheses below is the number of character appearances for that letter.  There are twice as many J character appearances as any other letter.)

6. Bad guys tend to have a "R" name. (Consider: Dr. Regis Blackgaard, Richard Maxwell, Inspector Roberto Cordova, Rodney Rathbone, Russell Kosh, Rusty Gordon.)

7. So far we've had a principal Johnson, a principal McFadden, principal McSpadden, a principal Skinner, and a principal Hughes.  Also, Bernard had a princiapl Bigsby.

8. A character appears in an average of 2.78 shows.

9. Tom and Whit are the only two characters still left over from Family Portraits.  Perhaps the Whittaker- Dowds are out there somewhere, but we haven't heard from them in FOREVER.

10. There are 1323 characters listed. There have been 3681 total character appearances.