History ChuckCunninghamSyndrome / Radio

* Back in the day, Atari released a few vinyl record albums with audio dramas based on their games. The ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' one contains an odd example of this trope. The 4-act story opens with space patrol ship Captain Jim Stanton bantering with a new [[SpaceCadet cadet.]] There's no indication that there's anybody else on board the ship. Midway through the 2nd act, though, Stanton starts interacting instead with the ship's sentient computer. At this point, they encounter some asteroids and go through a time warp. Without giving away the plot, suffice it that there is a happy ending... except that we haven't heard a single word from or about the cadet since the middle of Act 2. While this was presumably just an oversight in a hastily thrown-together production, it's hard for the listener not to [[EpilepticTrees start wondering if the poor kid somehow got erased during their little time warp adventure.]]

* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': After the "Best Small Town" StoryArc closed, the series went on a hiatus and, when it came back, nearly all of the current characters except for Whit, Connie, Eugene, and Wooten had suddenly disappeared, including major characters such as Tom Riley[[note]]who was eventually revealed to have passed away in the two-part episode "Legacy"; a case of TheCharacterDiedWithHim as his voice actor Walker Edmiston passed away before the aforementioned Best Small Town arc ended[[/note]], Bernard Walton[[note]] whose voice actor, Dave Madden, has also since passed away; the whereabouts of Bernard himself have not been shown in-universe[[/note]], the Washingtons[[note]] At least in this case, we can chalk it up to the kids of the family, Marvin and Tamika, aging out of the series, a normal practice for this series[[/note]] and the Rathbones as part of a soft reboot starting with the 51st album.

* Back in the day, Atari released a few vinyl record albums with audio dramas based on their games. The ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' one contains an odd example of this trope. The 4-act story opens with space patrol ship Captain Jim Stanton bantering with a new [[SpaceCadet cadet.]] There's no indication that there's anybody else on board the ship. Midway through the 2nd act, though, Stanton starts interacting instead with the ship's sentient computer. At this point, they encounter some asteroids and go through a time warp. Without giving away the plot, suffice it that there is a happy ending... except that we haven't heard a single word from or about the cadet since the middle of the Act 2. While this was presumably just an oversight in a hastily thrown-together production, it's hard for the listener not to [[EpilepticTrees start wondering if the poor kid somehow got erased during their little time warp adventure.]]

* Back in the day, Atari released a few vinyl record albums with audio dramas based on their games. The ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' one contains an odd example of this trope. The 4-act story opens with space patrol ship Captain Jim Stanton bantering with a new [[SpaceCadet cadet.]] There's no indication that there's anybody else on board the ship. Midway through the 2nd act, though, he starts interacting instead with the ship's sentient computer. At this point, they encounter some asteroids and go through a time warp. Without giving away the plot, suffice it that there is a happy ending... except that we haven't heard a single word from or about the cadet since the middle of the Act 2. While this was presumably just an oversight in a hastily thrown-together production, it's hard for the listener not to [[EpilepticTrees start wondering if the poor kid somehow got erased during their little time warp adventure.]]

* Back in the day, Atari released a few vinyl record albums with audio dramas based on their games. The ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' one contains an odd example of this trope. The 4-act story opens with space patrol ship Captain Jim Stanton bantering with a new [[SpaceCadet cadet.]] There's no indication that there's anybody else on board the ship. Midway through the 2nd act, though, he starts interacting instead with the ship's sentient computer. At this point, the actual plot starts, they encounter some asteroids and go through a time warp. Without giving away the plot, suffice it that there is a happy ending... except that we haven't heard a single word from or about the cadet since the middle of the Act 2. While this was presumably just an oversight in a hastily thrown-together production, it's hard for the listener not to [[EpilepticTrees start wondering if the poor kid somehow got erased during their little time warp adventure.]]

* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry's'' first series, the General Assistance Department had a second secretary named April Adams. For whatever reason she disappeared without a word afterwards, and was even completely AdaptedOut in the 1980 re-recordings and the Finnish version.

* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': After the "Best Small Town" StoryArc closed, the series went on a hiatus and, when it came back, nearly all of the current characters except for Whit, Connie, Eugene, and Wooten had suddenly disappeared, including major characters such as Tom Riley, Bernard Walton, the Washingtons[[note]] At least in this case, we can chalk it up to the kids of the family, Marvin and Tamika, aging out of the series, a normal practice for this series[[/note]] and the Rathbones. And, considering that the [=VOs=] for Tom Riley, Bart Rathbone, and Bernard, Walker Edmiston and Dave Madden respectively, have since [[AuthorExistenceFailure passed away]], the chances of those characters in particular returning seem rather slim.

* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': After the fairly recent "Best Small Town" StoryArc closed, the series went on a hiatus and, when it came back, nearly all of the current characters except for Whit, Connie, Eugene, and Wooten had suddenly disappeared, including major characters such as Tom Riley, Bernard Walton, the Washingtons[[note]] At least in this case, we can chalk it up to the kids of the family, Marvin and Tamika, aging out of the series, a normal practice for this series[[/note]] and the Rathbones. And, considering that the [=VOs=] for Tom Riley, Bart Rathbone, and Bernard, Walker Edmiston and Dave Madden respectively, have since [[AuthorExistenceFailure passed away]], the chances of those characters in particular returning seem rather slim.

* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry's'' first series, the General Assistance Department had a second secretary named April Adamas. For whatever reason she disappeared without a word afterwards, and was even completely AdaptedOut in the 1980 re-recordings and the Finnish version.