| Season 5 | |
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| Episodes: | 27 |
| Premiere: | December 28th, 2020 (China) March 27th, 2023 (UK) TBA (US) |
| Finale: | January 16th, 2021 (China) |
| Previous: | Season 4 |
| Next: | Above & Beyond Season 1 |
The fifth season of Octonauts debuted on March 27th, 2023 in the UK on CBeebies. The season contains 26 11-minute episodes, as well as one 22-minute special.
The season is notorious for being delayed as far back as autumn 2018, with its first premieres in China around late December 2020 and throughout January 2021. Despite multiple seasons of Octonauts: Above & Beyond, debuted prior to the full future release of Season 5, this season predates the spinoff series in both its production and its contributions to the timeline of events in the franchise as a whole.
This season debuts the Gup-R (The Bluefin Tuna, which otherwise had its English debut in Above & Beyond Season 1). Otherwise, this season also brings back the Gups that were introduced in the Netflix movies, such as the Gup-G (The Octonauts and The Caves of Sac Actun), the Gup-W, and the Gup-P (The Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef).
New Gups[]
- Gup-W (Debuts in Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef)
- Gup-P (Debuts in Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef)
- Gup-R (Debuts in Season 5 and Octonauts: Above & Beyond)
- Gup-Q (Debuts in The Octonauts and The Caves of Sac Actun)
- Gup-G (Debuts in "The Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun")
- Gup-M (Debuts in "The Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun")
Episodes[]
| # | Episodes | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Bluefin Tuna" | March 27, 2023 |
| After an encounter with a school of migrating tuna, the Octonauts discover that one of the speedy fish, Tina, has been left behind. And she's injured! Poor Tina has a hook stuck in her mouth and is too weak to swim. After Peso tends to her wound, the Octonauts agree to help get her to the tuna spawning grounds. But they'll have to be quick: egg-laying season doesn't last long. Luckily, Tweak's latest gup, the Gup-R, is the fastest she's ever built! The Octonauts use it to tow Tina, but when the Gup-R's battery dies, how will they catch up to the rest of her school? | ||
| 2 | "The Blue Whale Rescue" | March 28, 2023 |
| When Kwazii discovers a blue whale with an injured tail, the Octonauts attempt to use a giant net and Octofloats to keep it from sinking. Meanwhile, Peso and Tweak collaborate on a special brace for its tail, and Kwazii, Dashi and Shellington try to find it enough food. But when the supporting net breaks, the Octonauts have to launch an emergency free-fall rescue! | ||
| 3 | ”Whales of Mystery” | March 29, 2023 |
| Shellington is excited to find the distinctive tooth of a very rare creature, the spade-toothed beaked whale. Now, the Octonauts must find the tooth's owner, so Shellington can study it, and so that Peso can help replace its tooth. But it won't be easy: spade-toothed beaked whales like to be left alone and can dive very deep. | ||
| 4 | "The Ghost Ship" | March 30, 2023 |
| The Octonauts follow a trail of deep-sea debris to its source: a derelict ship floating unmanned on the surface. But the ship seems to be haunted by ghostly voices, which a quick dip below the water line reveals to be hundreds of barnacles stuck to the ship. As the ship drifts into waters too cold for the barnacles, the Octonauts must find a way to tow it to warmer waters before it sinks or falls apart. | ||
| 5 | "The Feeding Frenzy" | March 31, 2023 |
| While exploring a reef, Shellington and Dashi accidentally trigger a feeding frenzy with multiple sharks biting at anything that moves. As Barnacles and Tweak work frantically to plan a rescue, Shellington and Dashi try not to become shark food! | ||
| 6 | "The Sawfish" | 2025? |
| When Kwazii gets a case of pirate hiccups, he and Peso go up the river in search of a pirate doctor's treasure that can cure him. | ||
| 7 | "The Nautilus" | 2025? |
| Kwazii sets off on a monster hunt, and soon encounters a shelled creature called a Nautilus. | ||
| 8 | "The Grey Whales" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts must help reunite a grey whale calf with his mother, keeping him well fed in the meantime. | ||
| 9 | "The Flying Squid" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts meet a flying squid who can help Kwazii's grandfather, Calico Jack, retrieve his treasure. | ||
| 10 | "The Sea Lions" | 2025? |
| When a wave traps Dashi in a cave with an injured sea lion, the Octonauts and sea lion pack must work together to save them. Using just some rope and a life buoy the pack fights against the waves to save them. Can they save them before it is too late? | ||
| 11 | "The Hawksbill Sea Turtle" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts must guide an ill-stricken hawksbill sea turtle into cooler waters, in order for her to lay healthy eggs. | ||
| 12 | "The Wood Eating Catfish" | 2025? |
| When Kwazii is found with an injury, he tells the tale of how he and Calico Jack encountered a fish that ate his peg leg. | ||
| 13 | "The Seven Sea Squirts" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts help a band of algae-shooting sea squirts reunite in order to stop an outbreak in the reef. | ||
| 14 | "The Bullfrogs" | 2025? |
| When the Vegimals accidentally bring bullfrogs into the Octopod, they must rally them up and bring them back home before the Octonauts find out. | ||
| 15 | "The Giant Sea Spiders" | 2025? |
| Kwazii and Shellington get lost in the Antarctic's deep seas, before meeting a family of giant sea spiders who may know a way out. | ||
| 16 | "The Great Octo-Bot Rescue" | 2025? |
| When the Octo-Bots sink into a lake of boiling hot sulfur, Kwazii has to rescue them before the surface hardens. | ||
| 17 | "The Axolotl" | 2025? |
| Captain Barnacles and Kwazii help a pair of singing female axolotls named George's mom (yellow) and George (pink) find a new watering hole, while protecting them from a hungry flock of herons. | ||
| 18 | "The Beavers" | 2025? |
| In order for a school of salmon to reach their nesting area, the Octonauts must enlist help from a family of beavers. | ||
| 19 | "The Zombie Worms" | 2025? |
| The Octolab is being eaten away by a group of zombie worms, tasking the crew with finding a new home for them. | ||
| 20 | "The Mud Volcanoes" | 2025? |
| While exploring the Mariana Trench, Shellington and Dashi come across a path full of mud volcanoes and a creature in need. | ||
| 21 | "The Tiger Fish and Blind Shrimp" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts encounter a tiger fish and blind shrimp who become separated. | ||
| 22 | "The Fish Mouth Louse" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts help a creature find his louse friend who got lost and could be in trouble. | ||
| 23 | "The Deep Ocean Discovery" | 2025? |
| Shellington's sister and nephew, Pearl and Periwinkle, join him on a mission. | ||
| 24 | "The Silver Sea" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts encounter a blob of glowing liquid drifting on the ocean's surface. | ||
| 25 | "The Bicolour Fangblenny" | 2025? |
| The crew must catch a mysterious fish that's out to bite every creature in the reef. | ||
| 26 | "The Scaly-Foot Snail" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts meet strong scaly foot snails and enlist them in trying to help save the Octo-Lab from falling into a crevice. | ||
| 27 | "The Chinese Giant Salamander" | 2025? |
| The Octonauts head to the Yangtze River to help Min the Mapmaker, an old friend of Inkling's, who's been trapped by a mysterious creature. Turns out, it was just a Chinese giant salamander protecting her precious eggs, which have fallen ill due to rising water temperatures. | ||
Trivia[]
- Darragh O' Connell, a director on the show from Season 2-4, confirmed that he's had no part in Season 5's production, as stated in this tweet.
- The seasons delay in other countries after its China premiere in 2021 may be due to behind-the-scenes production issues. This includes adjustments to the switch in production companies and animation studios (from Brown Bag Films to Mainframe Studios), contracting/licensing issues (CCTV's co-production, the Netflix deal), the production of the movies and Above & Beyond, working under pandemic conditions, and much more. It can be speculated that all these factors contributed to the long-term delay, despite the project supposedly wrapping up at some point in 2018 or 2019, including more animation errors in the chinese version of season 5 because of CCTV or known as CCTV Animation, we got now another example of the finished and upgraded animation.
- Due to the delay, and despite its events occurring before those in the spinoff series, Above & Beyond's first season has debuted on Netflix worldwide first. This may leave room for confusion when Season 5 finally releases with Min's original introduction, Periwinkle still being a baby, the Gup-R's first appearance, and plenty more.
- Though Season 5 is now debuting after Above & Beyond, it technically hosts Calico Jack, Pearl, Periwinkle, and Professor Natquik's first time appearing again since their debut episodes.
- In February 2017, an Octonauts Scaly-Foot Snail toy was released, which was the first Season 5 creature and episode hinted. In September 2017, a printing file was released featuring Season 5 and a Yangtze River special information, and a new special character (Mapmaker Min) was revealed. News on the Coconut Crisis and Sunfish episodes' broadcast delivery to all channels featuring the Octonauts show was released because of it.
- During February 2023, an extract from "The Blue Whale Rescue" episode was found in English via a Season 5 airing in Korea, before the full episode released officially in late March 2023.
- Kidzuko, an official Sony Pictures Television channel, began to upload Season 5 episodes each Monday, starting late November 2024
- They label them as “brand new” & “Kidzuko Exclusive” episodes, and use a slightly different numbering order than that of BBC.
- The “Blue Whale Rescue” episode on their channel includes a line from Kwazii that was not included in the BBC version, this was: “Don’t want to wake the others, but it’s the early pirate that catches the sea monster.”
Season 5 episodes (Chinese)[]
- Scaly Foot Snail / Mud Volcanoes 12/28/2020
- Silver Sea / Octo Bot Rescue 12/29/2020
- Bluefin Tuna / Flying Squid 12/30/2020
- Blue Whale Rescue / Nautilus 1/4/2021
- Sea Lions / Mysterious Whale 1/5/2021
- Wood Eating Catfish / Ghost Ship 1/6/2021
- Sea Spiders / Zombie Worms 1/7/2021
- Deep Ocean Discovery / Seven Sea Squirts 1/8/2021
- Beavers / Axolotls 1/11/2021
- Bullfrogs / Feeding Frenzy 1/12/2021
- Fish and Louse / Hawksbill Turtle 1/13/2021
- Grey Whales / Sawfish 1/14/2021
- False Cleaner Fish / Watchman Goby and Blind Shrimp 1/15/2021
- Chinese Giant Salamander 1/16/2021