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Octonauts: Above & Beyond Season 3, otherwise known as Octonauts Season 8 in China, is the third season of Octonauts: Above & Beyond, a sequel spin-off of the original Octonauts series. It is unknown when the season will release globally on Netflix. It premiered on CBeebies on October 16th 2023, with all episodes available to watch on BBC iPlayer the same day. It first premiered in China on May 26th, 2023, and concluded its airings on June 7th, 2023. The season contains 24 11-minute episodes, as well as one 20-minute special.

It was confirmed in April 2023 via a teaser image on the official Octonauts Weibo account, a chinese social media app, though initially lacking a release date. Eventually, the same account confirmed a release date of May 26th 2023. The seasons English release was confirmed in September 2023, when CBeebies release a schedule that included the first 10 episodes of the third season, all marked with a release date of October 16th, 2023.

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Episodes[]

# Title Original Air Date
1 "The Pininga Turtle" October 16th, 2023
While testing out the new Terra-Gup 6, Tweak crash lands in the desert.
2 "The Portuguese Man o’ War" October 17th, 2023
A Portuguese man o’ war washes ashore; the Octonauts need to reunite him with his legion.
3 "The Pink Fairy Armadillo" October 18th, 2023
The Octonauts help protect some creatures from rain when the rain shadow effect fails.
4 "The Flooded Forest" October 19th, 2023
When a hoatzin’s eggs go missing in the Amazon, the Octonauts work to get them back.
5 "The Twelve-Year Bloom" October 20th, 2023
A search for a gift for Captain Barnacles leads the Vegimals and Shellington to India.
6 "The Penguin Adventure" October 23rd, 2023
When his little brother Pinto gets trapped on a piece of ice, Peso has to rescue him.
7 "The Atmospheric River" October 24th, 2023
Paani and Min use the new Octoblimp to map a ‘river in the sky’.
8 "The Red Tide" October 25th, 2023
Harmful algae create a red tide on the Florida coast, causing creatures to get sick.
9 "The Rival Ravens" October 26th, 2023
When the Terra-Gup 1 is damaged, Barnacles and Koshi work together to repair it.
10 "The Orangutans" October 27th, 2023
While cleaning up a fire, the Octonauts encounter some fast-learning orangutans.
11 "The Termite Mound" October 30th, 2023
When a termite colony gets sucked into an aardvark’s nose, the Octonauts head to the rescue.
12 "The Tsunami" October 31st, 2023
A tsunami washes some sea creatures inland; the Octonauts trek into the forest to help.
13 "The Very Salty Lake" November 1st, 2023
When a flamingo chick gets left behind, it’s up to the Octonauts to save the young bird.
14 "The Mimics" November 2nd, 2023
A lyrebird confounds the Octonauts with its ability to mimic any sound it hears.
15 "The Snowshoe Hares" November 3rd, 2023
When winter comes early in Canada, the Octonauts help some hares with their camouflage.
16 "The Gila Monster" November 6th, 2023
Kwazii finds that the 'dragon' he’s met is really a Gila monster.
17 "The Weaver Bird" November 7th, 2023
Tweak and Bud find themselves stranded on a floating island made of papyrus reeds.
18 "The Malabar Giant Squirrel" November 8th, 2023
A Malabar squirrel, stuck aboard the Octoray, starts to build stashes all over the ship.
19 "The Spectral Tarsier" November 9th, 2023
While cleaning after a storm, the Octonauts find a primate known as a spectral tarsier.
20 "The Missing Shell" November 10th, 2023
It’s an underwater mystery when a valuable protective shell goes missing.
21 "The Kauri Forest" November 13th, 2023
The Octonauts must track down some Australian possums and help them return home.
22 "The Sea Turtle’s Shell" November 14th, 2023
When a sea turtle loses a chunk of its shell, Tweak and Bud must engineer a solution.
23 "The Yellowstone Wolves" November 15th, 2023
The Octonauts must chase away some hungry wolves while in the Yellowstone ecosystem.
24 "The Bald Ibises" November 16th, 2023
Tracker spots some northern bald ibises migrating in the wrong direction.
25 "The Kilimanjaro Climb" November 17th, 2023
During a mission to replant the area around Mount Kilimanjaro, the Octoray gets stuck.

Trivia[]

  • Whilst China’s airings of the season contained 26 11-minute episodes and no specials, the Korean & English airings have a new special, known as The Kilimanjaro Climb. It is unknown why this occurred, but as a result, 3 of the 11-minute episodes that aired in China were left out in the English airings.
  • Some clips contained in overseas airings and promotional material showcased episode content that has yet to air.
    • China’s episode airings include a shot of Tweak in the seasons intro.
    • Some footage for the season’s Korean trailer include a shot of some sharks.
  • One episode from the upcoming season premiered in China in July 2022 as a part of their airings of Above and Beyond Season 2. This is a similar situation to how The Cold Snap, an episode from the aforementioned season, had an early release in China’s initial airings of Above and Beyond Season 1 in place of The Bamboo Rescue.
  • More Terra-Gups are introduced this season, the Terra-Gup 6 (a 2-seat airborne Gup based on a hummingbird), the Terra-Gup 7 (a single passenger hovering Gup based on a snowshoe hare), and the Terra-Gup 8 (a large mobile greenhouse based on an elephant).
  • The season also introduces the Octomite (a small remote-controlled camera device based on a termite) and the Octoblimp (a blimp that can fly higher and longer distances in comparison to the Octoray).
  • In February 2023, the sound designers for the series confirmed that they had just begun working on the new season, establishing that Season 3 was in post-production at the time, presumably up until some point in Spring 2023.
  • After making no appearances in Above & Beyond Season 2, Pinto returns this season in the episode The Penguin Adventure. He also makes a minor appearance in The Rival Ravens.
  • The Beaver family from the Season 5 episode The Beavers don’t all return this season. However, their youngest son Bud reappears, now older and an Octo-Agent.
    • This would be his English debut in the series, due to Season 5 being currently incomplete in its English airings.
  • Alongside them, a brand new character made exclusively for this series (similar to Paani) joins the main cast of Octo-Agents. Debuting in The Twelve-Year Bloom, Selva is an iguana living in the Amazon, assisting the team with her botanist occupation.
  • The end of the intro has been updated to include Bud and Selva lined up with the rest of the Octo-Agents.
  • Many episodes in this season only feature members of the main Octonauts team.
  • Many characters get noticeably more appearances this season compared to the previous one, including Captain Barnacles, Kwazii, and Peso. This mainly applies to the Octonauts, and less so the Octo-Agents, as some get slightly less screen time than usual, such as Min and Tracker. Some even had a complete lack of major screen-time this season, such as Professor Natquik (who shows up for a brief moment in 1 episode) and Ryla, who makes no new appearances this season and would return in Above & Beyond Season 3.
  • Orson and Ursa appear for the first time since Season 4 of the original Octonauts series, but with no new appearance from Bianca.

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