Octonauts: Above & Beyond
Octonauts: Above & Beyond | |
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Based on | Characters by Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy |
Directed by | Patrice Bérubé |
Voices of |
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Theme music composer | Darren Hendley |
Composer | Darren Hendley |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 (50 segments) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Andrew Hymas |
Producers |
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Editor | Tanner Adams |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production companies | Mainframe Studios Silvergate Media |
Original release | |
Network | Netflix |
Release | 7 September 2021 present | –
Related | |
Octonauts |
Octonauts: Above & Beyond is an animated children's television series that is the successor and spin-off of Octonauts.[1] Produced by Mainframe Studios and Silvergate Media for Netflix, the spin-off series premiered on 7 September 2021.[2] The series follows a similar structure to the original Octonauts series, but is primarily focused on terrestrial creatures and habitats. In addition, to cover this global range of missions, more characters join the crew as main characters in the series.
A second season debuted on 2 May 2022 on Netflix.[3] A third season debuted on October 16, 2023 on CBeebies and the BBC iPlayer,[4] with an unspecificied release date on Netflix. A fourth season debuted on February 19, 2024 on CBeebies and the BBC iPlayer.[5]
Characters
[edit]The Octonauts, consisting of the Octopod crew and captain, are the recurring main characters.
Original main characters
[edit]These are the Octonauts that were in the original series, including the captain. They are unchanged in Above & Beyond, with the exception of the Vegimals, who all gain new voice actors. Everyone’s previous actors from the original series reprise their roles here.
Name | Rank | Species | Voice cast | Description |
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Barnacles | Captain | Polar bear | Simon Greenall (speaking) Simon Foster (singing) |
Barnacles is the brave polar bear captain of the Octonauts. He knows how to drive any vehicle and is strong enough to lift a giant clam. Catchphrases: "Octonauts, let's do this", "Sound the Octo-Alert!", "Octonauts, to the launch bay!" and "Hold on, this could get bumpy". |
Kwazii | Lieutenant and cryptozoologist | Cat | Rob Rackstraw | A cat who speaks in a Cockney accent. Kwazii is a daredevil cat with a mysterious pirate past. He believes in many sea monsters such as the Nackerwhack, Tri-Toothed-Terror, Giant Shrimp Monster, Monster of Creepy Cove and others and likes to drive fast in the Gup-B. In the episode "The Octonauts and the Giant Spider Crab", it is revealed that he has a fear of spiders. Catchphrases: "Shiver me whiskers" and "Yeow!". |
Peso | Medic | Penguin | Paul Panting (UK) Wayne Grayson (US) |
He is a penguin with a British accent (Spanish accent in the US version) and the medic of the Octonauts. He is not fond of scary situations, but if someone is hurt or in trouble he can be the bravest Octonaut of all. He has a younger brother called Pinto. Catchphrase: "Flappity flippers!". |
Inkling (Prof.) | Oceanographer and founder | Dumbo octopus | Keith Wickham | An octopus who speaks in a posh accent. Inkling brought the Octonauts together, to study the oceans and have adventures. Catchphrase: "Fascinating!" |
Shellington (Dr) | Biologist | Sea otter | Keith Wickham | A sea otter who speaks with a Scottish accent. Dr. Shellington is a biologist who assists the Octonauts on missions. He is not a very good driver and once crashed the GUP-D. Catchphrase: "Jumping jellyfish!" and "Fascinating". |
Tweak | Engineer | Rabbit | Jo Wyatt | A rabbit who speaks with a Southern US accent. Tweak lives and works in the launch bay. She often invents things like multiple GUPS, the Octo-Max suit, and the Friend Finder which was designed her friend, Sandy the leatherback sea turtle. She often refers to Captain Barnacles as "Cap". Catchphrases: "Right away, Cap!", "...faster than you can say 'buncha munchy crunchy carrots'!", and "Oh, me, oh, my!". |
Dashi (Previously Sauci) | Computer programmer, pilot and photographer | Dog (Dachshund) | Teresa Gallagher (UK) Jenny Yokobori (US) |
A dog who speaks with an Australian accent (American in the US version). Dashi is the photographer for the Octonauts, and takes care of all the computers aboard the Octopod. She's also a professional surfer.Dashi pilots the Octoray. Catchphrase: "Already on it, Captain!"
Note: Recent UK editions of the books changed Sauci's name to Dashi to match the television series. [citation needed] |
Tunip | Chef and horticulturist | Vegimal | Helen Walsh | Tunip is half-tuna, half-turnip. He loves to make kelp cakes and to work in the greenhouse. He often faints at shocking news. Tunip the Vegimal is the Octonauts' head cook and gardener. He is a Vegimal, a half-animal, half-vegetable creature capable of breathing on land as well as underwater. Tunip is very childish and innocent, always wanting to help the Octonauts in any way he can. He is the smallest main character in the Octonauts crew. Aside from cooking the meals, Tunip works in the garden, cultivating vegetables he can use to cook meals. His two favorite meals are fish biscuits and kelp cakes. Tunip, like all Vegimals, speaks Vegimalese. Since he was born, his first words were "Cheepa cheepa!, Cheepa cheepa!" and "Zuupa zuupa!" |
New main characters
[edit]These are the characters that were added to the Octonauts crew in the series Above & Beyond. They are known as Octo-Agents, friends of the Octonauts who are stationed all over the world. They are experts and adventurers that assist the Octonauts on their new land missions. Paani and Selva are the only Octo-Agents so far that made their debut in Above & Beyond; all the others debuted in the original series. All Octonauts and Octo-Agents are able to sound the Octo-Alert via new pieces of equipment called Octo-Watches (except Barnacles, who still has his Octo-Compass, and Tunip).
Name | Rank | Species | Voice cast | Description |
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Paani | Hydrologist | Macaque monkey | Antonio Aakeel | Paani is a Macaque Monkey who joins the Octonauts as an Octo-agent in the first episode of Above and Beyond. He is a hydrologist who studies how water affects all kinds of beings. He is brave and daring, and also impulsive, similar to Kwazii. He gets off on the wrong foot with Kwazii, though, because Kwazii is the one who catches him trying to steal supplies from the team to help animals suffering from a drought. |
Calico Jack | Cryptozoologist and Pirate | Cat | Rob Rackstraw | Kwazii's grandfather. He travels with Pete, his parrot sidekick. |
Ranger Marsh | Park ranger | Rabbit | Unknown | Tweak's father who loves to explore swamps. He resides in the Florida Everglades. |
Pearl | Marine biologist | Sea otter | Kate Harbour | Shellington's older sister. She has a son named Periwinkle. |
Ryla | Cave diver | Wombat | Helen Walsh | An old friend of Dashi's who specializes in cave diving. |
Tracker | Radio operator | Polar bear | Paul Panting | Barnacles's former protégé. He is the radio operator for the Polar Scout Emergency Post in the Arctic. |
Professor Natquik | Glaciologist and polar explorer | Arctic fox | William Vanderpuye | Barnacles's former mentor who specializes in field research. |
Min | Cartographer | Red panda | Chipo Chung | An old friend of Inkling who resides in the Yangtze river who specializes in mapmaking. |
Koshi | Junior Octo-Agent | Dog (Dachshund) | Unknown | Dashi's younger sister who is interested in mysteries. |
Pinto | Junior Octo-Agent | Penguin | Teresa Gallagher (UK) Jaimie Kelton (US) |
Peso's little brother who is a quick thinker. |
Selva | Botanist | Iguana | Elena Saurel | Selva is an iguana who debuted in the third season. Originally living in the Amazon Rainforest, she spent most of her time tending to local plants and talking to them until she encountered Shellington and the Vegimals on a honey run. She later joined him in attending Captain Barnacles' surprise birthday party and afterward joined as an Octo-Agent. |
Bud | Aspiring Engineer | Beaver | Alan Marriott | The son of a beaver family who taught Tweak everything she knew as an engineer during her youth. He later joined as Tweak's protege and spent much of his time traveling the world to study engineering in nature. |
Other creatures that were introduced in the original series also make appearances in Above & Beyond. These include The Invasive Species (With the exception of the Burmese Python) Spiny Sue the catfish, and Ronnie, Donnie and Lonnie the Monitor Lizards, from The Great Swamp Search, who all appear in The Monitor Lizards, and Phil the baby flamingo in The Nine Banded Armadillo. As well as this, Paolo the Hoatzin, a character from season 2's special, The Rainforest Rescue, returns in the season 3 episode The Flooded Forest.
Phil’s mother Flo, also appears in the same episode as Phil does, however off-screen.
Vehicles
[edit]These are the new vehicles that appear in Above & Beyond, in addition to the vehicles from the original series. These new vehicles specialize in terrestrial missions, and are thus referred to as "Terra-GUPs" (abbreviated as "TG").[6] All vehicles are equipped with an Octo-Alert.
Vehicle | Purpose | Resemblance | First Appearance |
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Octoray | The Octonauts' airborne ship and remote base. It can go in the water and can carry other GUPs. | Manta ray | "The Octonauts and the Skeleton Coast Adventure" (Season 1, episode 1) |
TG-1 | A small all-purpose vehicle with expandable legs, a horn similar to that of a rhinoceros beetle, "super-gripper" feet, and wings. | Beetle | "The Octonauts and the Hot Spring Snake" (Season 1, episode 4) |
TG-2 | A strong vehicle that moves by rolling like a ball. Its mouth has a drill, and it can use its front legs like shovels. | Giant pangolin | "The Octonauts and the Rocky Mountain Rockslide" (Season 1, episode 7) |
TG-3 | A tracked excavator and mobile crane. A safety harness can be attached. | Giraffe-necked weevil | "The Octonauts and the Pink Glacier" (Season 2, episode 2) |
TG-4 | A large utility vehicle that can go in the water. It is quick, lightweight, and quiet. | Sea turtle | "The Octonauts and the Lonely Frog" (Season 2, episode 4) |
TG-5 | A long tracked utility vehicle that consists of five cockpits attached to each other. Each cockpit can hold one person in it, except the fifth one. It has powerful treads that allow it to climb, as well as pincer claws. | Centipede | "The Octonauts and the Rainforest Rescue" (Season 2, episode 9) |
Episodes
[edit]Series overview
[edit]Season 1 (2021)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Octo-Alert sounded by | Original release date [7] | ||||
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1 | 1 | "The Octonauts and the Skeleton Coast Adventure" | Barnacles | 7 September 2021 | ||||
After being beached on the Skeleton Coast following a storm, the crew encounters Paani, a macaque working as a hydrologist, and soon find themselves working to help a herd of elephants find water. Note: This is the only episode of Above & Beyond to use the Octo-Alert sequence from the original series. A new sequence would be used from the next episode onwards. | ||||||||
2 | 2 | "The Octonauts and the Land of Fire and Ice" | Paani (offscreen) | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Beetle Invasion" | Calico Jack (offscreen) | |||||||
During a volcanic eruption in Iceland, a volcano begins melting the ice of the glacier sitting on top of it, threatening to flood a valley below and take out 2 reindeer herds unless Dashi, Peso and Paani can evacuate them. Kwazii sets off to assist Calico Jack in taking a group of bombardier beetles to a new island home, but they have to find the group's scout first, and he is proving difficult to catch. Note: These episodes are the first in the series to use the redesigned Octo-Alert sequence, which would become a permanent fixture for the rest of the series' run. | ||||||||
3 | 3 | "The Octonauts and the Wild Windstorms" | Kwazii (offscreen) | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Siberian Salamander" | Paani | |||||||
After a delivery run to ferry supplies to Professor Natquik in Antarctica, Dashi must fly to a tropical island with Peso and Tweak in tow to help Kwazii and Pete rescue Calico Jack from a pile of trees. However, Dashi has to fly through a fierce windstorm first. Paani loses his soil sampling pole while doing research in Siberia with Professor Inkling. When Dashi and Peso arrive, the group discovers a Siberian Salamander frozen in ice, and after she wakes up, all present are in danger, with underground methane deposits beginning to blow. | ||||||||
4 | 4 | "The Octonauts and the Hot Spring Snake" | Paani (offscreen) | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Devil's Hole Pupfish" | Pearl (offscreen) | |||||||
Paani rescues a Bailey's snake from a mudflow in the Himalayan Mountains and calls for backup, which arrives in the form of Dashi, Tweak and Tunip in the new Terra-Gup 1. The group now has to find the snake a new hot spring to call home. After the Nevada desert gets hit by an earthquake from Alaska, Pearl calls for backup to help clear rocks off an algae patch in Devil's Hole so that the pupfish can access their food. Peso, Dashi, and Shellington arrive to help, but the severity of the situation very quickly rises. | ||||||||
5 | 5 | "The Octonauts and the Australian Outback Mystery" | Barnacles (offscreen) | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Antarctica Rescue" | Professor Natquik | |||||||
Towards the end of their Australian vacation, Dashi and Koshi receive a weather warning and begin evacuating the local area before a flash flood hits. But after helping 2 kangaroos and a bearded dragon, the duo have to find a pregnant desert crab. Dashi and Paani head off for Antarctica to help Professor Natquik investigate the possibility of running water in Antarctica. However, when a lost skua comes into the picture, Paani and the misplaced seabird have to rely on Natquik and Dashi for a rescue. | ||||||||
6 | 6 | "The Octonauts and the Caterpillar Caravan" | Min | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Curious Penguin" | Shellington (offscreen) | |||||||
Dashi and Min discover a group of Quino Checkerspot caterpillars while mapping a valley, but while the bugs nap until more plantains grow, the 2 must move them and keep them safe with the help of Shellington and Tunip. Peso's little brother Pinto must return home from his stay with the Octonauts, but while attempting to help Dashi, he becomes distracted, which becomes problematic when both she and Paani get stuck in a boiling sulfur pool in Yellowstone Park. | ||||||||
7 | 7 | "The Octonauts and the Rocky Mountain Rockslide" | Paani | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Bamboo Rescue" | Min (offscreen) | |||||||
Paani calls in for backup when a rockslide begins in the Rocky Mountains, which arrives in the form of Barnacles, Tweak, and a few Vegimals in the new Terra-Gup 2. Unfortunately, they have to evacuate some stubborn mountain goats who are not keen on leaving. Barnacles, Dashi, and the Vegimals set off to help Min relocate a giant panda who just ate up an entire bamboo grove in China. Unfortunately, things get complicated when a second one shows up halfway to the bamboo. | ||||||||
8 | 8 | "The Octonauts and the Hurricane Hunter Adventure" | Tweak | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Little Goby" | Tominnow | |||||||
Dashi, Paani, and Tweak follow a developing hurricane to track its direction. When they reveal that the storm is heading for the Florida Everglades, however, the Octo-Ray gets caught in the fierce winds, preventing them from assisting Ranger Marsh. While the Octonauts are clearing up an island after a tropical storm, the Vegimals attempt to help a misplaced goby return to his home pond. Kwazii soon shows up to help, especially when a hungry bird comes after the goby. | ||||||||
9 | 9 | "The Octonauts and the Golden Mole" | Dashi | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Giant Weta" | Paani | |||||||
Kwazii joins Tracker in a survival test in the Sahara Desert. However, a young golden mole and Kwazii's misplacement of their supplies mean that they quickly encounter problems when a sandstorm hits. Paani, Shellington, and Kwazii search New Zealand for a weta in trouble, but after 3 duds discover that the endangered weta is a Tasman Lake Giant Weta, one who is in danger of being eaten by hungry rats. | ||||||||
10 | 10 | "The Octonauts and the Sleepwalking Dormice" | Paani | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Harlequin Duck" | Pete the Parrot | |||||||
Paani discovers a nest of dormice that have prematurely woken from their hibernation, but when Shellington and Tweak arrive to help, all three have to hurry before the dormice get caught by a hungry weasel. While examining the results of coastal erosion on an island's shoreline, Kwazii, Tracker, and Calico Jack have to reunite a Harlequin Duck mother with her wayward nest. Unfortunately, a clever and hungry raven manages to fool Calico Jack and steal an egg. | ||||||||
11 | 11 | "The Octonauts and the Mountain River Cave" | Ryla | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Nine-Banded Armadillo" | Ranger Marsh | |||||||
While on a spelunking expedition in the Hang Son Doong caves, Kwazii, Shellington, and Ryla get trapped when an unexpected rainstorm hits and are trapped with an Indochinese tiger. Tweak, and Dashi set off to help Ranger Marsh track down a turtle egg that vanished after a swamp fire, narrowing the suspect down to a misplaced nine-banded armadillo. | ||||||||
12 | 12 | "The Octonauts and the Fire Ants" | Paani | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Flying Foxes" | Dashi | |||||||
After Paani gets swept up by a river flood in a rainforest downpour, Dashi and Tweak arrive to check on him and discover a colony of fire ants doing so. Unfortunately, the insects climb onto the Octo-Ray while a bigger storm is approaching. Peso and Dashi get stranded in the Australian wilderness after the Octo-Ray overheats while cooling off some flying foxes. However, they must hurry to help a flying fox mother and her baby, who is drastically overheating by the minute. | ||||||||
13 | 13 | "The Octonauts and the Puffin Colony" | Peso | 7 September 2021 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Monster Digger" | Tweak | |||||||
Peso and Tunip are helping to feed a colony's new pufflings while Kwazii tries to fend off a seagull until Barnacles returns with some missing puffins. While responding to Paani after losing contact with him, Peso, Tweak, and Tunip have to stay with him until a lightning storm passes so Dashi can pick them up. Unfortunately, Tunip gets stuck in a landslide, but the others receive help in the form of a neighboring giant pangolin. |
Season 2 (2022)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Octo-Alert sounded by | Original release date | ||||
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14 | 1 | "The Octonauts and the Snag Hotel" | Min | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Stubborn Albatross" | Pearl | |||||||
While working with the Octonauts to clear fallen trees in Thailand, Min finds a snag tree home to numerous creatures. Unfortunately, a stubborn sun bear sees it as nothing but a back scratcher, and not willing to give it up causes many problems when the snag is to be moved to avoid him. While doing research in the Pacific Ocean, Pearl discovers that an atoll is on the verge of sinking. Unfortunately, the atoll is an Albatross nesting ground, and the resilient birds refuse to move until it's too late. | ||||||||
15 | 2 | "The Octonauts and the Honey Badger" | Paani | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Pink Glacier" | Pearl | |||||||
Paani finds a honey badger is hogging a watering hole during the dry season in the African savannah. When they look deeper, though, they find the badger has an injury but is too prideful to accept treatment. Pearl discovers a river in the Yukon has flooded due to a fast-melting glacier, and while Tweak deals with some pikas, she, Kwazii, and Dashi set out to reverse to the problem that caused the flooding: red algae turning the glacier snow pink. | ||||||||
16 | 3 | "The Octonauts and the Cold Snap" | Ranger Marsh | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Mystery of the Longfin Eels" | Koshi | |||||||
Ranger Marsh wakes up to discover the everglades in the middle of a cold snap, and the Octonauts are dispatched to check on any animals that may be affected by the cold. Koshi recounts the time that she, Dashi, and Shellington uncovered the mystery of the missing baby longfin eels. | ||||||||
17 | 4 | "The Octonauts and the Lonely Frog" | Paani | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Jungle Ghost" | Tweak | |||||||
Paani finds a long-thought extinct Sehuencas water frog and calls for backup in searching for some more in Bolivia. Unfortunately, the chances are slim with the given natural hazards. While camping near the African Jungle, Kwazii and Tweak find their campsite raided and their supplies stolen, leading them and Tracker to discover some nearby okapis. | ||||||||
18 | 5 | "The Octonauts and the Red Fox" | Professor Natquik | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Pygmy Sloths" | Kwazii | |||||||
Professor Natquik returns to his family burrow in Siberia for a long-deserved break, but he discovers a red fox and his kits have made themselves home in it. Now, they're stuck together when the snow falls and buries them. Kwazii, Calico Jack, and the Vegimals are planting mangrove trees when they discover a number of sloths swimming on the coast. However, things get dicey when a baby sloth is lost at sea. | ||||||||
19 | 6 | "The Octonauts and the Secret Beneath the Snow" | Paani | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Salt-Mining Elephants" | Dashi | |||||||
While studying in winter near the Great Lakes, Paani encounters a Ruffed Grouse and an ice storm traps him with the bird under the snow. Now, Peso and Tweak have to save him using the subnivean zone before hungry wolves reach the pair. Ryla invites Dashi to some caves in Africa, and both discover elephants scraping salt off the walls. However, an encounter with hungry hyenas traps them all in a rockslide, and the team must keep the hungry predators away until the rescue is complete. | ||||||||
20 | 7 | "The Octonauts and the Barnacle Geese" | Paani | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Missing Lake" | Tracker | |||||||
While doing research in the mountains, Paani encounters a gosling that keeps jumping off a high cliff... an encounter that quickly spirals into a dramatic adventure for birds. Tracker searches for a lake in Ireland for a campsite check and ends up in a sinkhole with a red deer and a natterjack toad, requiring Ryla to rescue them before the tunnels they're trapped in floods. | ||||||||
21 | 8 | "The Octonauts and the Monitor Lizards" | Ranger Marsh | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the European Bison" | Shellington | |||||||
Ranger Marsh recalls his time checking on the invasive Nile Monitor Lizards in the Nile River. Tweak, Shellington, Pearl, and Periwinkle find an injured wisent in the Białowieża Forest far from his herd and attempt to help him regain his lost mobility. Unfortunately, a nearby brown bear has other ideas. | ||||||||
22 | 9 | "The Octonauts and the Rainforest Rescue" | Min | 2 May 2022 | ||||
The entire crew is deployed to the rainforest when the area begins to suffer a severe drought, but the dry weather and notoriously territorial howler monkeys complicate the mission. | ||||||||
23 | 10 | "The Octonauts and the Alligator-Shark Showdown" | Kwazii | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Quest for Cocoa" | Tominnow | |||||||
Kwazii joins Paani on a research expedition in the Withlacoochee River, but when they find a group of stubborn alligators harassed by sharks in a ghost forest, Ranger Marsh is required to step in. The Vegimals set off for the Amazon Rainforest when the Octopod runs out of Hot Cocoa. However, the cocoa trees have been suffering in the heat, and their attempts to give it shade are less than successful. | ||||||||
24 | 11 | "The Octonauts and the Arabian Camels" | Dashi | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Giant Carp" | Pearl | |||||||
While taking shelter from a sandstorm, Paani gets distracted by a mirage and ends up lost in the Arabian desert. He must follow a group of camels for survival while the other Octonauts search for him. Pearl and Periwinkle encounter a wild and greedy Asian carp in a river near the great lakes, and despite their best efforts, the group has trouble trying to catch the giant and hungry fish. | ||||||||
25 | 12 | "The Octonauts and the Mountain Parrots" | Dashi | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Mystery Island" | Pete | |||||||
While working with Paani to set up a weather station in New Zealand, the Octonauts run afoul of numerous Keas, which becomes problematic when the birds accidentally sabotage the Octo-Ray. Kwazii and Calico Jack strand themselves on a mysterious island, and they must attempt to survive while Pete calls out for help. | ||||||||
26 | 13 | "The Octonauts and the Monarch Butterflies" | Tweak | 2 May 2022 | ||||
"The Octonauts and the Sand Cat" | Calico Jack | |||||||
Dashi, Tweak, and Peso help a lone monarch butterfly rejoin his swarm, but a tornado threatens to derail the migration to Mexico. Kwazii is tasked with helping Calico Jack rebury his treasure, but when they end up in the desert, the duo find that a new creature has snuck around their campsite and stolen the goods, hiding the treasure far better than they expected. |
Release
[edit]Octonauts: Above & Beyond debuted on 7 September 2021, on Netflix.[2] A trailer was released on 10 August 2021.[8]
A second season was released 2 May 2022 on Netflix. The special double episode in this season is "The Octonauts and the Rainforest Rescue", which focused on a rescuing a baby eaglet.[3] Fisher Price will also release an Above & Beyond toy line to sell alongside the existing main series toys.[9]
According to the producers at Silvergate Media, attempts are being made to have Above & Beyond return to public television airings. Unlike the original that originally aired on Disney Junior in America, Above and Beyond does not air on that channel, due to Disney not purchasing the show with a US dub. The show airs on television on CBeebies, respectively like the original series.
References
[edit]- ^ "'Octonauts: Above & Beyond' Coming to Netflix". Animation World Network. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ a b Lyman, Paige (25 August 2021). "Netflix Swims with New 'Octonauts' Spinoff Show in Sept". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ a b Debbie Diamond Sarto (3 May 2022). "Netflix Releases 'Octonauts: Above & Beyond' Season 2". Animation World Network. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Season 3 CBeebies Schedules 16/10/23". CBeebies Schedules. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "Season 4 CBeebies Schedules 19/2/24". CBeebies Schedules. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Get to know the Gups from Octonauts!". CBeebies. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Octonauts: Above & Beyond – Listings". The Futon Critic. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ Netflix Jr. (10 August 2021). Octonauts: Above & Beyond NEW Series Trailer | Netflix Jr. YouTube. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ James Zahn (19 January 2022). "Kids Can Play 'Above and Beyond' With New Octonauts Toys - The Toy Insider". The Toy Insider. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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