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Season 1

Season 2

  • SPECIAL 0x2 The Great Christmas Rescue

    • December 24, 2011
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts travel to Professor Inkling's childhood home for Christmas, an undersea mountain. But they discover that a rockslide has endangered the local creatures - including a rare species of golden coral, and Inkling's little octopus nephew, Squirt! With the help of Tweak's latest invention, the Gup X, the Octonauts must rescue the creatures and save Christmas.

  • S02E01 The Colossal Squid

    • November 19, 2012
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    The Octopod is attacked by a colossal squid, who drags the ship down an abyssal trench, forcing Barnacles and Kwazii to make a perilous swim outside to confront the gigantic beast.

  • SPECIAL 0x201 Creature Reports: The Colossal Squid

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  • S02E02 The Adelie Penguins

    • November 20, 2012
    • CBeebies

    While Kwazii and Peso have their hands full babysitting a bunch of Adelie penguin chicks, Captain Barnacles must rescue the chicks' parents from a perilous sea storm!

  • SPECIAL 0x202 Creature Reports: The Adelie Penguins

    • CBeebies

  • S02E03 The Coconut Crabs

    • November 21, 2012
    • CBeebies

    Kwazii finds a mysterious, unbreakable coconut, so the Octonauts seek out the help of some large, island-dwelling coconut crabs to open it.

  • SPECIAL 0x203 Creature Reports: The Coconut Crabs

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  • S02E04 The Great White Shark

    • November 22, 2012
    • CBeebies

    Peso must perform an emergency fin bandage on a hungry great white shark, but first they need to subdue the giant predator using a trick called 'tonic immobility'.

  • SPECIAL 0x204 Creature Reports: The Great White Shark

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  • S02E05 The Sea Snakes

    • November 23, 2012
    • CBeebies

    It's Sea Snakes on an Octopod when a poisonous sea krait lays her eggs in the garden pod, just as Captain Barnacles has to navigate the ship past a treacherous whirlpool.

  • SPECIAL 0x205 Creature Reports: The Sea Snakes

    • CBeebies

  • S02E06 The Bowhead Whales

    • November 26, 2012
    • CBeebies

    When the Octonauts are unable to rescue a group of Narwhals trapped behind arctic ice, they recruit a Bowhead Whale to help them break through!

  • SPECIAL 0x206 Creature Reports: The Bowhead Whale

    • CBeebies

  • S02E07 The Jawfish

    • November 27, 2012
    • CBeebies

    Animated deep sea adventure series. Captain Barnacles and his intrepid band of explorers roam the oceans in search of adventure and fun. A mouthbrooding jawfish father has lost his eggs, and the Octonauts must brave strong currents and other obstacles to help get them back to him!

  • SPECIAL 0x207 Creature Reports: The Jawfish

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  • S02E08 The Porcupine Puffer

    • November 28, 2012
    • CBeebies

    Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso venture back inside a whale shark to retrieve a Porcupine Puffer Fish that was accidentally swallowed.

  • SPECIAL 0x208 Creature Reports: The Porcupine Puffer

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  • S02E09 The Damselfish

    • November 29, 2012
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts help a group of algae-eating fish stand up to some aggressive damselfish, who are harming their own reef by over-farming it with algae.

  • SPECIAL 0x209 Creature Reports: The Damselfish

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  • S02E10 The Scared Sperm Whale

    • November 30, 2012
    • CBeebies

    A timid sperm whale must help the Octonauts release Peso from a giant clam.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 The Amazon Adventure

    • January 1, 2013
    • CBeebies

    In this special episode, the Octonauts travel deep down the Amazon river in search of a lost city - and Kwazii's long lost grandfather, Calico Jack!

  • SPECIAL 0x210 Creature Reports: The Sperm Whale

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  • S02E11 The Long Armed Squid

    • March 11, 2013
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    Peso and Kwazii venture down to the midnight zone to help a hurt creature, but what they find is a shipwreck 'haunted' by a spooky-looking long-armed squid.

  • SPECIAL 0x211 Creature Reports: The Long Armed Squid

    • CBeebies

  • S02E12 The Fiddler Crabs

    • March 12, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts help clean up a beach after a storm, but things get complicated when the resident fiddler crabs hijack the Gup-D!

  • SPECIAL 0x212 Creature Reports: The Fiddler Crabs

    • CBeebies

  • S02E13 The Manta Rays

    • March 13, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts help a young manta ray find the secret manta ray feeding grounds, but when they finally locate it, the Octonauts become caught in the middle of a dangerous feeding frenzy!

  • SPECIAL 0x213 Creature Reports: The Manta Ray

    • CBeebies

  • S02E14 The Swashbuckling Swordfish

    • March 14, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The octonauts discover a rare showing of a full moon as Kwazii discovers that its known as the Pirate Moon as Kwazii and The Octonauts search for a ship that belonged to the pirate king as Kwazii searches for the sword of the Pirate King until a trio of swordfish prevent Kwazii from getting closer to the wrecked ship. (Episode also known as "The Flying Swords" for USA screenings.)

  • SPECIAL 0x214 Creature Reports: The Swordfish

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  • S02E15 The Triggerfish

    • March 15, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts' floating temperature sensors alert them to a risk of waterspouts due to a rise in sea surface temperature so they decide to retrieve the devices for safe-keeping. But Kwazii gets into an argument with a possessive triggerfish which has adopted one of the devices as its home, and they both get carried away by a waterspout. Kwazii ends up having to defend the fish from a seabird and a swordfish that want to eat it. Luckily the characteristic grunting sounds that triggerfish make when distressed enables the other Octonauts to locate them.

  • SPECIAL 0x215 Creature Reports: The Triggerfish

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  • S02E16 The Mimic Octopus

    • May 13, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts recruit a shape-shifting mimic octopus to help them recover an important vial of medicinal algae from a moray eel's lair.

  • SPECIAL 0x216 Creature Reports: The Mimic Octopus

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  • S02E17 The Lionfish

    • May 14, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts get more than they bargained for when they use the Octopod to transport a pair of invasive lionfish back to their native habitat.

  • SPECIAL 0x217 Creature Reports: The Lionfish

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  • S02E18 The Leafy Sea Dragons

    • May 15, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When two young leafy sea dragons are accidentally separated from their father and brought onboard the Octopod, the Octonauts must find them before they end up in Kwazii's stew!

  • SPECIAL 0x218 Creature Reports: The Leafy Sea Dragon

    • CBeebies

  • S02E19 The Manatees

    • May 16, 2013
    • CBeebies

    Running out of air, Barnacles struggles to free his paw from the mouth of a giant clam, while simultaneously directing his crew in a delicate manatee rescue operation.

  • SPECIAL 0x219 Creature Reports: The Manatees

    • CBeebies

  • S02E20 The Saltwater Crocodile

    • May 17, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When a gigantic saltwater crocodile wanders into freezing waters, the Octonauts must figure out how to get the predator back to his warm water home - without anyone getting hurt.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 The Mariana Trench Adventure

    • May 27, 2013
    • CBeebies

    Tweak has designed a brand-new Deep Sea Station to study the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean, but the Octonauts face multiple challenges: from getting it down there, to the extreme environment and strange, prehistoric creatures that greet them once they arrive.

  • SPECIAL 0x220 Creature Reports: The Saltwater Crocodile

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  • S02E21 The Humphead Parrotfish

    • September 2, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts use magnets to try to stop a meteor that's heading toward the Octopod and get an assist from a rock-chomping humphead parrotfish and her friends.

  • SPECIAL 0x221 Creature Reports: The Humphead Parrotfish

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  • S02E22 The Gulper Eels

    • September 3, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When hungry gulper eels as well as undersea tremors threaten Inkling and Kwazii, Dashi uses the new, multi-purpose Octo Max Suit to rescue them.

  • SPECIAL 0x222 Creature Reports: The Gulper Eels

Season 3

  • S03E01 The Siphonophore

    • September 4, 2013
    • CBeebies

    Kwazii and Dashi become entangled in a strange deep-sea creature - a siphonophore.

  • SPECIAL 0x301 Creature Reports: The Siphonophore

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  • S03E02 The Waterbears

    • September 5, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The gang ventures into a red-hot lava tube to rescue a tiny water bear that does not seem to mind the heat at all.

  • SPECIAL 0x302 Creature Reports: The Waterbears

    • CBeebies

  • S03E03 The Cone Snail

    • September 6, 2013
    • CBeebies

    Peso sets out to save the day when a cone snail invades the octopod and picks off the crew one by one with its dangerous harpoons.

  • SPECIAL 0x303 Creature Reports: The Cone Snail

    • CBeebies

  • S03E04 The Artificial Reef

    • September 9, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When an underwater storm destroys a small reef, Tweak and her crew try to convert the Gup-F into an artificial equivalent.

  • S03E05 The Humpback Whales

    • September 10, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When a sardine swallows the key to a treasure chest, a humpback whale helps Kwazii track it down.

  • S03E06 The Pelicans

    • September 11, 2013
    • CBeebies

    When a floating garbage patch endangers a flock of pelicans and other sea creatures, the Octonauts and the birds work together to clean it up.

  • S03E07 The Sea Pigs

    • September 12, 2013
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts must stop a huge herd of sea pigs before they march blindly into the Mariana Trench - the deepest point on earth!

  • S03E08 The Yeti Crab

    • September 13, 2013
    • CBeebies

    As Tweak tests the Gup-X deep down in the Midnight Zone, a yeti crab damages the ship, endangering itself and the Octonauts.

  • S03E09 The Barracudas

    • March 10, 2014
    • CBeebies

    Shellington and the Vegimals' mission to replant a mangrove forest is put in peril by a school of toothy barracudas.

  • S03E10 The Duck-Billed Platypus

    • March 11, 2014
    • CBeebies

    While rescuing river creatures after a storm, the Octonauts find a strange egg and come under attack by stinging platypuses.

  • S03E11 The Sea Skaters

    • March 12, 2014
    • CBeebies

    When Kwazii gets lost at sea aboard the tiny octo-ski, he meets a flotilla of even tinier sea skaters - the only insects who live on the ocean.

  • S03E12 The Mudskippers

    • March 13, 2014
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts attempt to keep the peace amongst a trio of mudskippers whose home has been flooded.

  • S03E13 The Harbor Seal

    • March 14, 2014
    • CBeebies

    When Peso's patient, a remora fish, mysteriously disappears, the Octonauts enlist a unique undersea detective - a harbour seal.

  • S03E14 The Lion's Mane Jellyfish

    • March 17, 2014
    • CBeebies

    A lion's mane jellyfish gets its long and stingy tentacles tangled in the bubble engine, unintentionally flooding the Octopod and causing havoc.

  • S03E15 The Red Rock Crabs

    • March 18, 2014
    • CBeebies

    When Shellington and the crew try to gather some skittish crabs who have drifted away from home, they get help from some old friends.

  • S03E16 The Sea Sponge

    • March 19, 2014
    • CBeebies

    A sea sponge that houses other sea creatures in its pores suffers from a mysterious illness and Peso must figure out the cause.

  • S03E17 The Immortal Jellyfish

    • March 20, 2014
    • CBeebies

    Shellington and the Octonauts try to track an unusual creature: a jellyfish that can transform from old to young repeatedly - and live forever!

  • S03E18 The Urchin Invasion

    • March 21, 2014
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts head to the kelp forest to visit Shellington's sister, Pearl, and her newborn son Periwinkle - only to find the forest endangered by an infestation of kelp-eating urchins!

  • S03E19 Hammerhead Sharks

    • September 21, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts study a group of baby hammerhead sharks as they hunt.

  • SPECIAL 0x319 Creature Reports: The Hammerhead Sharks

    • CBeebies

  • S03E20 Loggerhead Sea Turtle

    • September 22, 2015
    • CBeebies

    Barnacles seeks guidance from a mysterious sea turtle.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 The Very Vegimal Christmas

    • December 10, 2013

    Christmas special of the animated deep sea adventure series. The Vegimals' plans for a Christmas feast aboard the Octopod are interrupted when the Octonauts are all entangled in a gigantic blob of sea snot!

  • SPECIAL 0x6 The Over Under Adventure

    • March 14, 2014

    The Octonauts' mission to explore Antarctica becomes a desperate rescue as a group of sea stars and urchins are threatened by a brinicle - a rare underwater icicle that can freeze creatures on the sea bed.

  • SPECIAL 0x7 The Great Arctic Adventure

    • December 17, 2014

    Peso goes with Barnacles to help his sister and her new polar cubs learn to navigate the harsh conditions of the frozen arctic.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Poison Dart Frogs

    • September 23, 2015
    • CBeebies

    When a giant wave hurls Amazon River creatures up into the trees, the Octonauts must get them down safely, without disturbing poison dart frogs who live there.

  • S04E02 The Hidden Lake

    • September 24, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts are exploring Antarctica, when Shellington discovers strange microscopic creatures living under the ice.

  • S04E03 The Octopod Mystery

    • September 25, 2015
    • CBeebies

    When the Octopod breaks down, Tweak and the crew search for a missing part aboard an abandoned prototype of the ship, not realising something lives there.

  • S04E04 The Baby Sea Turtles

    • September 28, 2015
    • CBeebies

    As newborn baby sea turtles make their way to the ocean, the Octonauts must steer them clear a giant wave and hungry predators.

  • S04E05 The Walrus Pups

    • September 29, 2015
    • CBeebies

    Captain Barnacles and his niece and nephew, Ursa and Orson, must rescue walrus pups who are stranded on a runaway ice floe, before it collides with a huge iceberg!

  • S04E06 The Mantis Shrimp

    • September 30, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts must get 2 mantis shrimp to stop fighting before their powerful claw strikes destroy the Octopod.

  • S04E07 The Loneliest Whale

    • October 1, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts follow a strange song to a lonely humpback whale.

  • S04E08 The Tree Lobsters

    • October 2, 2015
    • CBeebies

    When a storm washes Peso onto a mysterious, rocky island, he meets a band of lobster-like insects thought to be extinct.

  • S04E09 The Convict Fish

    • December 14, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts evacuate the creatures living around a reef before a large archway collapses, but one stubborn convict fish refuses to move from her burrow.

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Operation Deep Freeze

    • December 15, 2015
    • CBeebies

    Captain Barnacles runs into an old friend - an arctic fox named Professor Natquik - in Antarctica. They must work together with the other Octonauts to prevent a group of penguins from falling into an ice chasm.

  • S04E10 The Emperor Penguins

    • December 16, 2015
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts journey across a dangerous expanse of ice to help a penguin mother get back to her family.

  • S04E11 The Baby Gator

    • March 14, 2016
    • CBeebies

    Kwazii adopts a baby alligator, but when it escapes the Octopod, he must rescue the tiny creature from ocean currents and hungry predators.

  • S04E12 The Bomber Worms

    • March 14, 2016
    • CBeebies

    While diving down to the Midnight Zone, the Octonauts are attacked by bomber worms, and are enlisted to rescue an injured member of their troop.

  • S04E13 The Crawfish

    • March 22, 2016
    • CBeebies

    When a population of crawfish is stricken by illness, the Octonauts race to find a cure.

  • S04E14 The Surfing Snails

    • March 22, 2016
    • CBeebies

    When surfing snails are swept out to sea by a huge wave, it's up to Dashi and the Octonauts to save them before their bubble rafts pop!

  • S04E15 The Flamingos

    • April 4, 2016
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts wade through a swamp to find a lost flamingo chick before hungry predators do!

  • S04E16 Operation Cooperation

    • April 4, 2016
    • CBeebies

    After Shellington crashes the Gup-D, he and Kwazii team up with a moray eel and grouper fish to pick up the pieces.

  • S04E17 The Kelp Monster Mystery

    • June 4, 2016
    • CBeebies

    Dashi teams up with her little sister, Koshi, to solve a mysterious disappearance in a kelp forest.

  • S04E18 The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snakes

    • June 5, 2016
    • CBeebies

    When a mass of poisonous sea snakes get stranded on a beach, Peso and the Octonauts must somehow get them all back into the ocean.

  • S04E19 The Coconut Crisis

    • June 6, 2016
    • CBeebies

    Kwazii and the Octonauts help their friends the coconut crabs discover who is stealing their coconuts.

  • S04E20 The Coelacanth

    • June 7, 2016
    • CBeebies

    While exploring a dark and spooky cave, the Octonauts discover the fossil of a powerful, prehistoric fish... but it may be more than just a fossil.

  • S04E21 The Tiger Shark

    • June 8, 2016
    • CBeebies

    The young Tiger Star is hungry and willing to eat anything or anyone.

  • S04E22 The Hippos

    • June 9, 2016
    • CBeebies

    Returning home from Africa, the Octonauts encounter a gang of large, territorial hippos.

  • S04E23 The Spinner Dolphins

    • June 13, 2016
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts struggle to save a pod of spinner dolphins who seem to be swimming in their sleep.

  • S04E24 The Sunfish

    • June 14, 2016
    • CBeebies

    The Octonauts must help a giant sunfish who can't swim straight, before it hurts other sea creatures and itself.

  • SPECIAL 0x10 The Great Swamp Search

    • December 3, 2016

    Tweak and the Octonauts go to The Everglades to visit her dad, Ranger Marsh and help him rescue some non-native creatures before a storm hits. The team's recently built GUP-K is also there to save the day.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Blue Fin Tuna

    • March 27, 2023
    • CBeebies

    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?

  • S05E02 Blue Whale Rescue

    • March 28, 2023
    • CBeebies

    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!

  • S05E03 Whales of Mystery

    • March 29, 2023
    • CBeebies

    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.

  • S05E04 Ghost Ship

    • March 30, 2023
    • CBeebies

    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.

  • S05E05 Feeding Frenzy

    • March 31, 2023
    • CBeebies

    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!

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