Odd Squad is a live-action television series that premiered on TVOKids in Canada and PBS Kids in the United States on November 26, 2014, both on the same day. In the UK, the series is broadcast by CBBC.[1] In Latin America, it airs on Discovery Kids. KiKa airs the show in German-speaking European countries.[2] The fourth season of Odd Squad will be filmed in the United Kingdom. It will consist of 12 episodes and will be released on October 1, 2024.[3] [4]
Odd Squad was renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 20, 2016, with "Agents of Change", a one-hour special combining the first season's finale with the second season's premiere.[5] [6]
Odd Squad was renewed for a third season, which premiered on February 17, 2020. The third season is titled Odd Squad: Mobile Unit and focuses on an Odd Squad team that travels the world solving odd cases "like a globe-trotting creature or a villain that is causing oddness across multiple towns." The season starts with a one hour special titled: "Odd Beginnings".
In October 2023, Odd Squad was renewed for a fourth season entitled Odd Squad UK which will begin airing on October 1, 2024. It will be produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment, Fred Rogers Productions, and BBC Studios Kids and Family, in partnership with CBBC, TVO Kids, SRC and PBS Kids. It will have 12 half-hour episodes, or 24 11-minute episodes, in total, in addition to a few long-form specials. It has a mostly British cast and is filmed exclusively in the United Kingdom, specifically in and around the Manchester area.[7]
This is a movie written for the series which premiered on PBS Kids on August 1, 2016, with a one-day theatrical showing in Canada and limited screenings before its television premiere in the United States.[8] [9]
| Title | Directed by | Written by | American premiere (PBS Kids) | Canadian premiere (Theatrical release) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odd Squad: The Movie | J. J. Johnson | Story by Mark De Angelis, Tim McKeon Teleplay by Mark De Angelis, Tim McKeon, Adam Peltzman | |||
| Odd Squad is put out of business by a new rival organization, Weird Team, staffed by adults and run by a man who calls himself Weird Tom (Jack McBrayer). When Olympia (Anna Cathcart), Otis (Isaac Kragten), Ms. O (Millie Davis), and Oona (Olivia Presti) realize that Weird Tom's solutions are simply covering problems up, they call for backup from the previous agents, Olive (Dalila Bela), Otto (Filip Geljo), and Oscar (Sean Michael Kyer). Eventually, the problems—most glaringly, "Daves", creatures who multiply to form double their original number—are too much for even the Odd Squad agents, and they realize they must work together with every agent as well as the Weird Team to clear up a worldwide infestation of Daves. Special guests: Sean Cullen, Rizwan Manji, Sue Galloway, John Lutz, Keith Powell, Hannah Simone, Jack McBrayer Running time: 66 minutes | |||||
World Turned Odd, a made-for-TV movie, premiered on January 15, 2018, on PBS.
| Title | Directed by | Written by | American premiere (PBS Kids) | French Canadian Premiere (Radio-Canada)[10] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Turned Odd | J. J. Johnson | Tim McKeon | |||
| When the entire squad is celebrating a major milestone for Ms. O (Millie Davis) (100 years working for Odd Squad), Oona (Olivia Presti), Olympia (Anna Cathcart), and Otis (Isaac Kragten) decide to use a gadget to travel back to the 1980s to see when Ms. O passed her test to be promoted (depicted in the Season 1 episode, "Totally Odd Squad".) Unfortunately, their actions change the past when they accidentally flip a number on the outside of a building upside down when returning to the present. When they return, Odd Todd (Joshua Kilimnik) is now in charge of "Todd Squad" and is forcing agents to promote oddness instead of preventing it. In order to fix their mistake, the heroes must find a new gadget to go back and fix their mistake. Running time: 44 minutes | |||||
Agent Olympia (Anna Cathcart) hosted a weekly online video series called OddTube in which she answered questions from fans, toured interesting areas of the Odd Squad headquarters, and met with special guests.[11] [12]
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| Prod. | Release Date | Title | |
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| 1 | 1 | 101 | November 10, 2016 | Welcome to OddTube PBS KIDS">Web site: ODDTUBE Welcome to OddTube PBS KIDS . . 2021-04-09 . en. | "Welcome to OddTube Season One" |
| 2 | 2 | 102 | November 17, 2016[13] | "What's Inside My Desk?" | |
| 3 | 3 | 103 | November 24, 2016[14] | "Villains and a Puppy" | |
| 4 | 4 | 104 | December 1, 2016[15] | "See It, Solve It" | |
| 5 | 5 | 105 | December 1, 2016[16] | "Pandas" | |
| 6 | 6 | 106 | December 15, 2016[17] | "Viral Video with Dr O" | |
| 7 | 7 | 107 | December 22, 2016[18] | "Your Questions" | |
| 8 | 8 | 108 | December 29, 2016[19] | "The O Song" | |
| 9 | 9 | 109 | January 5, 2017[20] | "Coach O's Life Tips" | |
| 10 | 10 | 110 | January 12, 2017[21] | "The Creature Room" | |
| 11 | 11 | 111 | January 19, 2017[22] | "Interview with Olive" | |
| 12 | 12 | 112 | January 26, 2017[23] | "Meet Agent Olo" | |
| 13 | 13 | 113 | February 2, 2017[24] | "Let's Get Historical" | |
| 14 | 14 | 114 | February 9, 2017[25] | "Your Questions: Part 2" | |
| 15 | 15 | 115 | February 16, 2017[26] | "How Odd is Odd Squad?" | |
| 16 | 16 | 116 | February 23, 2017[27] | "Oona Fills In" | |
| 17 | 17 | 117 | March 2, 2017[28] | "Otis Fills In" | |
| 18 | 18 | 118 | March 9, 2017[29] | "The Ball Pit" | |
| 19 | 19 | 119 | March 16, 2017[30] | "Your Gadgets + Tubes" | |
| 20 | 20 | 120 | March 23, 2017[31] | "20th Anniversary Video" | |
Season 2 of OddTube launched June 10, 2020, hosted by Agent Orla (Alyssa Hidalgo) in place of Olympia. It also launched a new game called OSMU Van Dashboard, coinciding with the season premiere. It was initially slated to premiere in the fall of 2020[32] but premiered sooner for an unknown reason.
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| Prod. | Release Date | Title |
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| 21 | 1 | 201 | June 10, 2020[33] | "Welcome to OddTube Season Two" |
| 22 | 2 | 202 | June 17, 2020[34] | "Van Secrets" |
| 23 | 3 | 203 | June 24, 2020[35] | "Meet an Agent From Around the Globe" |
| 24 | 4 | 204 | July 1, 2020[36] | "The Button Song" |
| 25 | 5 | 205 | July 8, 2020[37] | "Know an O, Part One" |
| 26 | 6 | 206 | July 15, 2020[38] | "Oswald's Favorite Rooms To Go To" |
| 27 | 7 | 207 | July 22, 2020[39] | "The Pit Crew" |
| 28 | 8 | 208 | July 29, 2020[40] | "Know an O, Part Two" |
| 29 | 9 | 209 | August 5, 2020[41] | "Souvenir Time" |
| 30 | 10 | 210 | August 12, 2020[42] | "Oddness in NYC" |
| 31 | 11 | 211 | August 19, 2020[43] | "Know a Big O" |
| 32 | 12 | 212 | August 26, 2020[44] | "Happy Twelve-iversary" |
Season 1 of Odd Squadcast is a podcast launched November 18, 2020, hosted by The Big O (Millie Davis). The season was initially slated to premiere in the summer of 2020,[32] but premiered later for an unknown reason.[45]
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| Prod. | Release Date | Title Big O's Happenings |
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| 0 | 0 | 100 | November 18, 2020 | "Introducing the Odd Squadcast!" (Promo) |
| 1 | 1 | 101 | December 2, 2020 | "Episode 1” |
| 2 | 2 | 102 | December 2, 2020 | "Episode 2" |
| 3 | 3 | 103 | December 9, 2020 | "Episode 3" |
| 4 | 4 | 104 | December 9, 2020 | "Episode 4" |
| 5 | 5 | 105 | December 16, 2020 | "Episode 5" |
| 6 | 6 | 106 | December 23, 2020 | "Episode 6" |
| 7 | 7 | 107 | December 30, 2020 | "Episode 7" |