Octonauts

*Octonauts*
Octonauts
Genre	Children; Action; Adventure;
Based on	Octonauts series; by Meomi: Vicki Wong; & Michael C. Murphy
Written by	Gabe Pulliam; Carin Greenberg; Allan C Neuwirth;
Directed by	Darragh O'Connell; Henry Lenardin-Madden (uncredited);
Creative director	Stephen Robinson
Voices of	Simon Greenall; Rob Rackstraw; Paul Panting; Keith Wickham; Jo Wyatt; Teresa Gallagher; Michael C. Murphy;
Theme music composer	Darren Hendley
Composer	Darren Hendley
Country of origin	United Kingdom; Ireland (series 1–4); Canada (series 5–present);
Original language	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	121 + 12 specials (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Kurt Mueller; Stephanie Simpson; Cathal Gaffney; Darragh O'Connell (series 1–4); Jackie Edwards (CBeebies);
Producers	Adam Idelson; Karen Ialacci; Gillian Higgins; Theresa Mayer; Julie Abecassis; Andrew Peters; Brian Gilmore;
Running time	11 minutes; 23–72 minutes (specials);
Production companies	Brown Bag Films (series 1–4); Mainframe Studios (series 5–present); Chorion (series 1); Sony Pictures Television Kids (series 2–present);
Original release
Network	CBeebies
Release	4 October 2010 –; present
Related
	Octonauts: Above & Beyond
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Octonauts is an animated children's television series produced by Sony Pictures Television Kids for the BBC's CBeebies network. It is based on the children's books written by Meomi, the design team of Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy.

The show follows an underwater exploring crew made up of stylised anthropomorphic animals, a team of eight adventurers who live in an undersea base, the Octopod, from which they go on undersea adventures with the help of a fleet of aquatic vehicles. Although its technology is fictional, the exotic creatures and locations that the crew encounter are based on real marine animals in their natural habitats. The show's subject matter has been compared to that of Star Trek and Thunderbirds blended with Jacques Cousteau.

The show was animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films for its first four series. The show was renewed for a fifth series in 2018, with Canada's Mainframe Studios taking over animation work. A Netflix-original spinoff, subtitled Above & Beyond, was released in September 2021, and features the Octonauts venturing onto more land-based habitats of the natural world.

In March 2023, five new episodes under the original Octonauts branding and format were released via the BBC iPlayer.