| Above and Beyond Season 2 | |
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| Episodes: | 25 |
| Premiere: | May 2nd 2022 |
| Previous: | Above & Beyond Season 1 |
| Next: | Above & Beyond Season 3 |
Octonauts: Above & Beyond Season 2, otherwise known as Octonauts Season 7, is the second season of Octonauts: Above & Beyond, a spin-off of the original Octonauts series. The season contains 24 11-minute episodes, as well as a 22-minute special.
It was confirmed in 2021 for the following year, with a worldwide Netflix release date on May 2nd, 2022 confirmed as of April 4th, 2022. With the announcement brought a new 1-minute clip including Captain Barnacles, Kwazii, Tweak, and Min on a mission atop a bridge with the TG-1 carrying a scratching tree belonging to a sun bear, Atif. The 22-minute episode The Rainforest Rescue also got an early release on April 18th, 2022 on the Netflix Jr. Youtube channel.
Gups[]
Episodes[]
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Snag Hotel" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Min and the team save a crowded tree hotel from an itchy bear. | ||
| 2 | "The Stubborn Albatross" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| The agents must convince some albatrosses to leave their sinking island for somewhere new. | ||
| 3 | "The Honey Badger" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| A honey badger chases away other animals from a watering hole. | ||
| 4 | "The Pink Glacier" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Cute pikas must move to higher ground when a glacier starts melting faster than usual. | ||
| 5 | "The Cold Snap" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| The weather’s starting to freeze, but the critters aren’t ready for the cold! | ||
| 6 | "The Mystery of the Longfin Eels" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Dashi and Koshi look for baby eels that have lost their way back home. | ||
| 7 | "The Lonely Frog" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Paani and the team help a water frog search for more of his species. | ||
| 8 | "The Jungle Ghost" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Something strange raided Kwazii and Tweak’s campsite and ate all of their food. | ||
| 9 | "The Red Fox" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| A red fox moves into Professor Natquik’s den and causes a mess. | ||
| 10 | "The Pygmy Sloths" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| The Vegimals train as pirates to protect mangrove trees from a group of pygmy sloths. | ||
| 11 | "The Secret Beneath the Snow" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Paani bundles up underground with a new feathered friend after a snowstorm. | ||
| 12 | "The Salt-Mining Elephants" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| The Octonauts rescue a herd of elephants stuck inside a salt cave. | ||
| 13 | "The Barnacle Geese" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| A baby goose won’t sit still and stay in his best to wait for his mama. | ||
| 14 | "The Missing Lake" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Tracker and the team try to find out why all the water in a lake went away. | ||
| 15 | "The Monitor Lizards" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Ranger Marsh looks to reunite a trio of egg-stealing lizard siblings. | ||
| 16 | "The European Bison" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Shellington and pals find mysterious clues of a bison in need of help. | ||
| 17 | "The Rainforest Rescue" | April 18th, 2022 |
| The Octonauts explore the different layers of the rainforest and help its creatures find a new home when their habitat becomes too dried up. | ||
| 18 | "The Alligator-Shark Showdown" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Paani and the team find a new home for alligators after sharks swim into a swamp. | ||
| 19 | "The Quest for Cocoa" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| There’s no cocoa in sight, so the Vegimals head to the Amazon for more! | ||
| 20 | "The Arabian Camels" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| A trio of camels helps a lost Paani find some water in the desert. | ||
| 21 | "The Giant Carp" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| A hungry carp endangers a lake after chomping on all of the plants. | ||
| 22 | "The Mountain Parrots" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Two curious parrots cause problems after sneaking into the Octo-Ray aircraft. | ||
| 23 | "The Mystery Island" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Kwazii and Calico Jack wash ashore on a strange and legendary island. | ||
| 24 | "The Monarch Butterflies" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| The agents track down a monarch butterfly that got separated from his swarm. | ||
| 25 | "The Sand Cat" | May 2nd, 2022 |
| Calico Jack and Kwazii team up with a sneaky cat to find buried treasure. | ||
Trivia[]
- This is the first piece/season of any Octonauts animated media to not have Stephanie Simpson on the writing team or as an executive producer anymore. Taking her place as Head Writer in this season is Marty Isenberg, who began working on the show’s writing team in Above & Beyond Season 1 prior to his promotion.
- According to the series’ information page on Netflix, 3 additional cast members had joined the show for the upcoming season.
- One new cast member in particular, Shala Nyx, had been previously rumoured to voice a character named Akita in “The Octonauts and the Mystery Island”, an unintentional placeholder name used to represent the Above & Beyond series in early 2021.
- The other former placeholder series name, “The Octonauts and the Arabian Camels”, makes a return as well. Shala Nyx is listed again as a different character, Samira, along with another new cast member confirmed to be involved with Above & Beyond Season 2. It can be assumed that both of these names were internal leaks of what are new Above & Beyond episodes, instead of stand alone series.
- An episode from the original China airing of season 1, “The Cold Snap”, is now included in season 2 after it was replaced by “The Bamboo Rescue” in Season 1’s Netflix release. As a result this causes some continuity issues with Ranger Marsh not yet being used to the Gup-K.
- The TG-3, TG-4, and TG-5 GUPs make their proper physical debut in this season, after first appearing in the credits artwork of the previous season.
- In The Rainforest Rescue, Professor Inkling seems to be slightly more comfortable with getting out of the Octopod more often, much like in The Siberian Salamander, especially to be with Min.
- Many characters get noticeably more appearances this season compared to the previous one, including Captain Barnacles, Kwazii, Tweak, Ranger Marsh, and Pearl.
- Some characters also get slightly less or even a complete lack of screen-time this season, such as Paani and Pinto.
Trailers[]
You can watch a sneak peek of season 2 here: https://youtu.be/YkVJ_x64NE8
You can watch a sneak peak of the season 2 special here: https://youtu.be/uohBIITgOY0