Odd Squad (TV series)
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| Odd Squad | |
|---|---|
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The Official Shield of the Odd Squad | |
| Also known as | ODD SQUAD |
| Genre | Educational, comedy, police procedural |
| Created by |
Tim McKeon Adam Peltzman |
| Written by | Tim McKeon |
| Directed by | Various |
| Starring |
Dalila Bela Filip Geljo Millie Davis Sean Michael Kyer |
| Opening theme | Odd Squad theme |
| Ending theme | Odd Squad theme |
| Composer(s) | Paul Buckley |
| Country of origin |
Canada United States South Korea Australia |
| Original language(s) |
English Korean |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
J.J. Johnson Tim McKeon Blair Powers Paul Siefken |
| Producer(s) |
Matthew J.R. Bishop Georgina Lopez |
| Editor(s) |
Jennifer Essex-Chew Courtney Goldman Christopher Minns |
| Location(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Running time | Approx. 15 mins |
| Production company(s) |
The Fred Rogers Company Sinking Ship Entertainment |
| Distributor | PBS |
| Release | |
| Original network |
 TVOKidsIci Radio-Canada Télé PBS Kids |
| Picture format | HD |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| First shown in | November 26, 2014 (USA) (Canada) |
| Original release | November 26, 2014 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | None |
| Followed by | None |
| Related shows |
Peg + Cat Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood |
| External links | |
| Odd Squad website | |
Odd Squad (Stylized as ODD SQUAD) is a Canadian/American children’s 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. The series is created by Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman and is co-produced by The Fred Rogers Company and Sinking Ship Entertainment in association with TVOKids and Ici Radio-Canada Télé. The series features young agents who use indirect reasoning and math to solve and investigate strange happenings in their town. This is commonly in the form of satire—or other comedic archetypes—and is used to teach the audience math and math-related topics. In the UK it airs on CBBC. [1] In Latin America it airs on Discovery Kids.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | Year filmed | Season DVD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 4 | October 11, 2012 | November 1, 2012 | 2011 | ||
| 1 | 40 | November 26, 2014 | May 30, 2016 | 2013-2014 | ||
| 2 | 25[2] | June 20, 2016 | N/A | 2015 | ||
Characters
Main characters
- Ms. O / Agent Oprah (Millie Davis) - Head of Odd Squad, the stern Ms. O leads the organization with an iron fist. Whenever something goes wrong, she has the tendency to yell and is frequently seen sipping a juice box. Despite appearing younger than most of the agents, Ms. O has worked for Odd Squad since the 1870s, and her actual age remains a mystery (which she usually tells the agents to not question about it). Before she was Ms. O, she worked as an Odd Squad field agent, and became Ms. O by passing a test set up by the previous Ms. O in 1983. Her first name is Oprah.
- Agent Olive (Dalila Bela) - A veteran agent of Odd Squad, Olive is adapting to working with and training her new partner, rookie agent Otto. Olive is usually calm, brisk, and serious, unless the subject turns to her favorite basketball team, the Bears. She has a morbid fear of pies, which she acquired after saving Odd Squad HQ from a pie-related disaster.
- Agent Otto (Filip Geljo) - Olive's partner, the newest Odd Squad agent. He turned ten in the first episode. The fun-loving Otto acts as a comic foil to Olive's straight-man demeanor, frequently annoying her. Although a rookie, Otto frequently uncovers the facts needed to solve the case at hand, even doing so in Olive's absence, proving his worth as an agent.
- Agent Oscar (Sean Michael Kyer) - Odd Squad's resident scientist and gadgeteer, Oscar is a quirky genius who spends most of his time at Odd Squad Headquarters tinkering with gadgets in his lab. Incredibly knowledgeable, Olive and Otto go to him for technical solutions to their problems. Oscar has a goofy side, delivering his zany scientific rants with a generous dose of hand gestures and vocal sound effects.
- Math Room / Carol (voiced by T.J. McGibbon) - The virtual-space construct which Odd Squad agents can retreat to the room by twisting their badges when they need to visualize mathematical problems. When transport is initiated, they start to spin and sometimes get to the Math Room dizzy. The Math Room is inhabited by sentient origami papers with a unified personality and hive mind. The origami can unfold to visualize numbers, charts, and instant replays as instructed by agents. The Math Room also goes by Carol, and is addressed as such by Ms. O. The Math was originally invented by Ms. O before she joined Odd Squad in the 1800s.
Supporting characters
Agents and citizens
- Baby Genius - A mysterious infant whom the Odd Squad agents bargain with for solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems. Baby Genius is never shown onscreen, only his black leather pram pushed by his inconsistently-accented Russian nanny. Baby Genius cannot speak, so his nanny, Rivka (Meghan Allen), interprets for him. The agents are terrified of him for an unspecified reason.
- The Baker (Aisha Alfa) - A recurring character in many Odd Squad episodes, the Baker runs a bakery in town and frequently requests the help of Odd Squad in solving problems around her shop.
- Delivery Debbie (Ashley Botting) - A local caterer who delivers pizza. After Debbie contracts a case of "the Doubles," three duplicates of herself appear. She turns to Odd Squad for help, but later decides to keep her doubles around to help her with her pizza business.
- Delivery Doug (Ali Hassan) - Debbie's chief business competition who runs a take-out egg sandwich business. Eventually, he merges his business with Delivery Debbie's.
- Mayor Macklemore (Seán Cullen) - Mayor of the city. It is mentioned he used to be in a high-school singing group called The Thirties. He once told Ms. O to do the New Year's Countdown.
- Dr. O (Peyton Kennedy) The head doctor of Odd Squad. She's known for her eccentric behavior and frequently says things that make no sense, whilst frequently reminding the agents "I'm a doctor!" in a manner reminiscent of Star Trek's Dr. McCoy.
- O'Brian (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) - A tube operator (engineer who runs the tube system Odd Squad agents use for transportation). Can be frequently heard calling out his catch phrase "Squishinating!" as he preps the agents for tube transport. In another reference to Star Trek (this time to Transporter Chief O'Brien), all the tube system agents have Irish surnames. O'Brian has a tendency to hold petty grudges, and has been know to deny tube access to agents who offend him.
- O'Callaghan (David Webster) - A tube system operator with bright red hair which looks like a wig.
- O'Connor - Helps Oscar on interstitial odd reports and instructional videos. He says everything excitedly. Most of his dialogue is "Yeah!" or "Comin' at'cha!"
- Agent O'Donahue - Ms. O's old partner. He retired after he and Oprah failed to solve an ongoing case. After leaving Odd Squad, he worked as a fisherman, until Ms. O required his help in catching the perpetrating villain, Equal Evan.
- O'Donnell (Amariah Faulkner) - A particularly bright and cheerful tube system engineer who wears her red hair in pigtails.
- O'Duffey - A tube operator responsible for the Headquarters security code.
- O'Malley (Jack Fulton) - Another agent who works running the tube system.
- Agent Obfusco (Jaeden J. Noel) - An Odd Squad agent and cross-cultural expert who speaks in obscure riddles. He's difficult for the other agents to understand, and extremely peculiar, even for an organization named Odd Squad, so the other agents try to avoid working with him. He has a sister named Obfuscolina who is even odder and is hard for even him to understand.
- Agent Octavia (Julia Lalonde) - Agent Oz's partner. It was noted in an episode that she is one of Ms. O's best agents. She is usually looking for her partner, the invisible Agent Oz.
- Oksana (Madeleine Barbeau) - Odd Squad's resident cook, who prepares all the meals by herself. She has a deadpan manner.
- Agent Olaf (Eshaan Buadwal) - Agent Oren's partner. Olaf is happy-go-lucky and jovial in nature, but tends to be very simple-minded. Despite this, he has shown to have moments of intelligence, often to the shock and amazement of his fellow agents. He shares Oren's penchant for laziness. He dreams of becoming a dentist and fears not becoming one. He loves potatoes.
- Agent Orchid (Michela Luci) - One of the younger agents. She tends to be extremely stubborn.
- Agent Oren (Brendan Heard) - Agent Olaf's partner. Snarky and arrogant, Oren and his partner have an ongoing rivalry with Olive and Otto. Unlike their industrious rivals, Oren likes to weasel his way out of work whenever possible. Oren likes to brag and considers himself Odd Squad's best agent. Oren has a fear of pancakes and dreams of becoming director of Odd Squad. He didn't appear with Olaf in either "Reindeer Games" or "Rise of the Hydraclops".
- Agent Ori (Samuel Faraci) - New agent. He tends to run off into dangerous places and is always up to trouble. Not to be confused with Agent Oren.
- Agent Orson (Landon and Logan Rowan) - The youngest Odd Squad agent, Orson is a baby, whose primary job is handling paperwork and answering the phone.
- Agent Owen (Christian Distefano) - The head of Odd Squad security.
- Agent Oz (Carson Reaume) - Agent Octavia's partner. On one mission, he accidentally turned himself irreversibly invisible by misfiring a gadget (while looking down its barrel). He still works at Odd Squad, and is among the top agents, although it's hard for his partner to keep tabs on him.
- Polly Graph (Ava Preston) - A girl who runs a stand selling hot chocolate or lemonade, depending on the season, outside her house. Odd Squad agents frequently patronize her stand. She's very fond of graphs and always has just the right visual representation to deal with the situation at hand.
Villains
- Odd Todd (Joshua Kilimnik) - Arch-villain of the series, Odd Todd is an Agent-turned-odd, Olive's ex-partner, he was the most brilliant agent the Squad had ever seen, until he was fired, unleashed a Pienado and became the villain Odd Todd.
- Tommy Two-sie (Sharjil Rasool) - A local character who likes to have two of everything. He frequently gets blamed for crimes he didn't commit and runs away from Odd Squad when confronted, even when he's innocent. He wears two hats, two shirts, two watches, and two pairs of pants held up by two belts.
- Fladam (Martin Roach) - Turns objects and people into two dimensional things.
Episode list
Season 1 (2014–16)
| Episode # | Title | American Premiere (PBS Kids) | Canadian Premiere (TVO Kids) | French Canadian Premiere (Radio-Canada) | United Kingdom Premiere (CBBC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zero Effect/Bad Luck Bears | November 26, 2014 | January 3, 2015 | June 22, 2015/June 23, 2015 | |
| 2 | Soundcheck/Double Trouble | November 26, 2014 | January 10, 2015 | June 24, 2015/June 25, 2015 | |
| 3 | My Better Half/The Confalones | November 27, 2014 | January 24, 2015 | July 2, 2015/June 26, 2015 | |
| 4 | Blob on the Job/Party of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 | November 28, 2014 | January 31, 2015 | June 29, 2015/July 3, 2015 | |
| 5 | Reindeer Games | December 1, 2014 | |||
| 6 | Oscar and the Oscarbots/Picture Day | December 2, 2014 | February 7, 2015 | July 6, 2015/July 7, 2015[3] | |
| 7 | A Case of the Sing Alongs/Ms. O Uh Oh | December 3, 2014 | February 14, 2015 | July 8, 2015[4]/July 9, 2015[5] | |
| 8 | Crime at Shapely Manor | December 4, 2014 | January 17, 2015 | June 30, 2015/July 1, 2015 | |
| 9 | Skip Day/The Great Grinaldi | December 5, 2014 | February 21, 2015 | July 10, 2015[6]/July 13, 2015[7] | |
| 10 | The Trouble with Centigurps/Totally Odd Squad | December 8, 2014 | February 28, 2015 | July 14, 2015[8]/July 15, 2015[9] | |
| 11 | How to Interrogate a Unicorn/The Briefcase | December 9, 2014 | March 7, 2015 | July 16, 2015[10]/July 17, 2015[11] | |
| 12 | Best Seats in the House/Agent Obfusco | December 10, 2014 | March 14, 2015 | July 20, 2015[12]/July 21, 2015[13] | |
| 13 | Life of O'Brian/Whatever Happened to Agent Oz? | December 19, 2014 | March 22, 2015 | July 22, 2015[14]/July 23, 2015[15] | |
| 14 | The Jackies/Invasion of the Body Switchers | December 26, 2014 | March 29, 2015 | September 18, 2015[16]/September 21, 2015[17] | |
| 15 | The Odd Antidote/The One That Got Away | January 5, 2015 | April 5, 2015 | September 22, 2015[18]/September 23, 2015[19] | |
| 16 | Odd Outbreak/The Perfect Lunch | January 12, 2015 | April 12, 2015 | September 24, 2015[20]/September 25, 2015[21] | |
| 17 | Rise of the Hydraclops/O is Not for Old | January 19, 2015 | April 19, 2015 | ||
| 18 | Dance Like Nobody's Watching/Recipe for Disaster | January 19, 2015 | April 26, 2015 | ||
| 19 | Hold the Door/Flatastrophe | January 20, 2015 | May 3, 2015 | ||
| 20 | Puppet Show/Mystic Egg Pizza | January 21, 2015 | May 10, 2015 | ||
| 21 | 6:00 to 6:05 | January 22, 2015 | May 17, 2015 | ||
| 22 | The Potato Ultimato/A Fistful of Fruit Juice | March 31, 2015 | May 24, 2015 | ||
| 23 | Soundcheck Part Deux/Jinx | April 1, 2015 | May 31, 2015 | ||
| 24 | Training Day | May 25, 2015 | June 28, 2015 | ||
| 25 | Trading Places/Bad Lemonade | May 26, 2015 | July 5, 2015 | ||
| 26 | Robert Plant/Game Time | May 27, 2015 | June 7, 2015 | ||
| 27 | The O Games | May 28, 2015 | July 12, 2015 | ||
| 28 | Captain Fun/Switch Your Partner Round and Round | May 29, 2015 | July 19, 2015 | ||
| 29 | Trials and Tubulations | September 1, 2015 | June 21, 2015 | ||
| 30 | No Ifs, Ands, or Robots/Worst First Day Ever | September 2, 2015 | July 26, 2015 | ||
| 31 | Undercover Olive | October 12, 2015 | August 2, 2015 | ||
| 32 | Not So Splash/By The Book | October 13, 2015 | August 9, 2015 | ||
| 33 | O vs. The Ballcano/Assistant's Creed | November 26, 2015 | August 16, 2015 | ||
| 34 | Now You Don't See Me/Moustache Confidential | November 26, 2015 | August 23, 2015 | ||
| 35 | The Curious Case of Pirate-Itis/Oscar The Couch | January 4, 2016 | June 14, 2015 | ||
| 36 | There Might Be Dragons/Dawn of the Read | January 19, 2016 | September 20, 2015 | ||
| 37 | Oscar of All Trades/Swamps 'N' Gators | January 20, 2016 | September 13, 2015 | ||
| 38 | Olive and Otto in Schmumberland | February 16, 2016 | September 27, 2015 | ||
| 39 | Disorder in the Court | February 17, 2016 | September 29, 2015 | August 30, 2015 | |
| 40 | O is Not For Over | May 30, 2016[22] | December 8, 2015 | October 4, 2015 |
Season 2 (2016)
Odd Squad has been renewed for a second season, scheduled to begin airing episode 1 with O is Not For Over.[23]
Guests
- Bruce Salomon as Mr. O
- Kevin McDonald as Lord Rectangle
- Ava Preston as Polly Graph
- Joshua Kilimnik as Odd Todd/Agent Todd
- Kaitlyn Yu as 1980s Ms. O
- Annie Chen as Clock Head Lady
- Aisha Alfa as Town Baker
- Tate Yap as O' Donahue
- T.J. Gibbon as Math Room (Voice)
References
- ↑ "Odd Squad - CBBC". BBC. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ Jeremy Dickson (2015-07-07). "PBS KIDS re-ups two series". Kidscreen.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Tuesday 7 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Wednesday 8 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Thursday 9 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Friday 10 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Monday 13 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Tuesday 14 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Wednesday 15 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Thursday 16 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer - Channel Schedule - CBBC - Friday 17 July 2015". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "Odd Squad - CBBC". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "Odd Squad - CBBC". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "Odd Squad - CBBC". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "Odd Squad - CBBC". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "TV Guide | What's on TV". ITV. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ "O Is Not For Over - Odd Squad". Kentucky Educational Television. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
First Airs: May 30, 2016
- ↑ Brian Steinberg (2015-07-07). "PBS Renews ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,’ ‘Odd Squad,’ From Fred Rogers". Variety. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
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