Odd Squad
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Genre | Educational,[1] Comedy[2] |
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Created by | Tim McKeon Adam Peltzman |
Written by | Tim McKeon |
Directed by | Various |
Creative director(s) | Jim Foundic |
Starring |
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Composer(s) | Paul Buckley |
Country of origin | Canada United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 108 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | J.J. Johnson Scott Dyer Tim McKeon Blair Powers Paul Siefken |
Producer(s) | Matthew J.R. Bishop Georgina Lopez |
Production location(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
Editor(s) | Jennifer Essex-Chew Courtney Goldman Christopher Minns Laura Bower |
Running time | 22 minutes; two episodes paired for a half-hour program |
Distributor | PBS (United States) Nelvana International (International) |
Release | |
Picture format | 720p (HDTV) |
Audio format | 5.1 Surround |
Original release | November 26, 2014 present | –
Other websites | |
Odd Squad on PBS Kids site |
Odd Squad is a Canadian and American educational TV series that started on TVOKids, Sprout and PBS Kids in November 2014. The series involves child characters using mathematics to go through each episode's plot. The series was made by Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman and is co-produced by Nelvana Fred Rogers Productions and Sinking Ship Entertainment in association with TVOKids. The series features child actors (whose characters are the employees of the "Odd Squad") who use indirect reasoning and basic math to solve and look into strange happenings in their town.
Seasons
Seasons 1-2
Two agents, Olive and Otto, are members of the Odd Squad Precinct 13579. The episode begins with the agents helping somebody with an odd problem. The agents then go back to headquarters by traveling through tubes. After being in headquarters the agents are called up to Oprah (Miss O)'s office. Olive and Otto are then told to fix an odd problem. Usually, the problem is caused by a villain. Another Odd Squad agent or a citizen may also be the cause of a problem. Olive and Otto may get help from the Mathroom when they cannot solve a problem by themselves.
Agents Olympia and Otis were the new protagonists of season 2. The Mathroom was no longer used. Instead, the agents used watch tablets to solve math problems. The episode style mostly stayed the same. Many Odd Squad hour-long episodes and a movie were made during this season.
Season 3: Mobile Unit
Season 3 of Odd Squad was the first season not set in Precinct 13579. Instead, it focused on a Mobile Unit who flew around the world in a flying van to solve oddness. The season also taught more STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and geography, mostly simple science and "math in the science."[3] Millie Davis (Oprah) was thirteen years old when this season started. 33 total episodes in this season are split into two parts.
Season 3A
This season premiered with the hour-long special, "Odd Beginnings."
In the first 20 episodes, four agents, Opal, Orla, Omar, and Oswald, are called by the Big O and are told about an odd case and are sent to solve it. In most episodes, the agents split up into two groups of two to solve a case. Watch tablets were still used. Villains weren't usually the cause of the problems, however an evil child character named "The Shadow" planned to team up a group of villains to take over the Odd Squad Mobile Unit.
Season 3B
There are 13 episodes in Season 3B. In the twentieth episode of Season 3, Opal left the Mobile Unit to join her sister because she was no longer evil. In the next episode, "Odd Off the Press," the Big O went to space to help the Odd Squad Space Unit and left the show after seven years. She sent the Little O to help the Mobile Unit. Opal was replaced by Agent Osmerelda, who was in many episodes as a normal child character. She did not join Odd Squad before this episode because she had too many other activities to do.
Season 4: UK
On October 4, 2023, Fred Rogers Productions said a fourth season of Odd Squad would come in 2024.[4] It will be named "Odd Squad UK." It was only filmed in the United Kingdom. CBBC is also making Season 4 along with PBS Kids, TVOkids, and SRC. it will future British characters and will consist of 12 episodes.
Movies, Special Episodes, and Podcasts
OddTube
OddTube is a series of short videos on PBS Kids. One agent talks about the setting of Odd Squad by interviewing agents and answering questions. There would be a sponsor which taught basic math, such as skip counting and geometry. There were two seasons. Season 1 premiered in 2016 during Season 2 of Odd Squad with Agent Olympia as the presenter. In 2020, during Season 3A of Odd Squad, Agent Orla was the presenter.
Odd Squad: Book of Games and Gadget Testers
Odd Squad: Book of Games and Gadget Testers are two series of short videos on PBS Kids with the Odd Squad Mobile Unit as main characters during season 3B of the show. Both series started and ended in 2022. The presenters of Book of Games were Agents Oswald and Osmerelda. The presenters of Gadget Testers were Agents Omar and Orla.
Odd Squad: The Movie
Odd Squad: The Movie is a 2016 Odd Squad television movie. The movie has agents from both seasons 1 and 2 and aired during Season 2. The movie is about Odd Squad getting shut down because of a team of adults called the Weird Team. The Weird Team is a group of adults who hide odd problems instead of fixing them.
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd is a 2018 Odd Squad television movie that aired during Odd Squad Season 2. The movie is about Agents Olympia, Otis, and Oona. They go back in time to 1983 to visit Agent Oprah becoming Miss O but undo every Odd Squad case ever fixed.
Odds and Ends
Odds and Ends is the Season 2 finale of Odd Squad. The final two episodes, "Who is Agent Otis?" and "Odds and Ends," can be put together to become one movie. It aired in 2019.
Odd Squad: Odd Beginnings
Odd Squad: Odd Beginnings the the newest Odd Squad television movie. It aired in 2020. The movie is about how the Odd Squad Mobile Unit started but it is not the season 3 premiere.
The Odd Squadcast
The Odd Squadcast is a seven-episode podcast series that released episodes during late 2020. The Big O (Millie Davis) was the main presenter.
Cast
Main
- Dalila Bela as Agent Olive (season 1)
- Filip Geljo as Agent Otto (season 1)
- Millie Davis as Oprah/Big O (Ms. O in the first two seasons) (season 1–3)
- Sean Michael Kyer as Agent Oscar (season 1–2)
- Anna Cathcart as Agent Olympia (season 2)
- Isaac Kragten as Agent Otis (season 2)
- Valentina Herrera as Agent Opal (season 3A)
- Jayce Alexander as Agent Omar (season 3)
- Gavin Maclver-Wright as Agent Oswald (season 3)
- Alyssa Hidalgo as Agent Orla (season 3)
- Glee Dango as Agent Osmerelda (season 3)
- Shazdeh Kapadia as Orpita/Little O (season 3B)
Recurring
Odd Squad Employees
- Peyton Kennedy as Dr. O (season 1–2)
- Jaeden J. Noel as Agent Obfusco (season 1)
- Elijah Sandiford as Agent Ocean (season 2)
- Julia Lalonde as Agent Octavia (season 1)
- Madeleine Barbeau as Oksana (season 1–2)
- Eshaan Buadwal as Agent Olaf (season 1–2)
- Michela Luci as Agent Orchid (season 1–3A)
- Brendan Heard as Agent Oren (season 1–2)
- Christian Distefano as Agent Owen (season 1–2)
- Nashton Avila and Nathan Avila as Agent Orson (season 1–3A)
- Arista Arhin as Agent Ozlyn (season 2)
- Sasha Steiner as Agent Olly (season 2)
- Leonidas Castrounis as Agent Xavier (season 2)
- Sheena Darnley as Agent Xena (season 2)
Villains
- Jaiden Cannatelli as Agent Ohlm (season 1–2)
- Martin Roach as Fladam (season 1–2)
- David Tompa as Noisemaker (season 1–2)
- Joshua Kilimnik as Odd Todd (season 1–2)
- Stacey McGunnigle as the Puppetmaster (season 1)
- Lauren Landauer as the Shapeshifter (season 1–2)
- Danielle Benton as Tiny Dancer (season 1–2)
- Farid Yazdani as Freeze Ray Ray (season 2)
Others
- Ashley Botting as Delivery Debbie (season 1–2)
- Ava Preston as Polly Graph (season 1)
References
- ↑ Hinckley, David (2014-11-23). "PBS unveils 'Odd Squad,' its latest educational kids' show". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ "Odd Squad TV Review". Common Sense Media. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
Genre: Comedy
- ↑ Productions, Fred Rogers (2019-03-26). "Odd Squad is Back and On the Move on PBS Kids". Fred Rogers Productions. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ↑ "All-New: ODD SQUAD UK - Fred Rogers Productions". www.fredrogers.org. 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
Other websites
- Odd Squad on IMDb
- PBS Kids Home Page
- Odd Squad on TVO Kids
- Organisation Super Insolite on Ici Radio-Canada Télé
- Critique de la série ODD SQUAD on TJ Kingdom