Odd Squad

Odd Squad is an Canadian and American educational TV series that premiered on TVOKids, Sprout and PBS Kids in November 2014. The series involves child characters using mathematical concepts to advance each episode's plot. The series was created 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 investigate strange happenings in their town.
Seasons
Season 1 (2014-16)
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, which, usually after being solved gets replaced by a new one. The agents then go back to headquarters, traveling through tubes. Soon 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 certain person, such as an Odd Squad agent or citizen that doesn't know what they are doing, but usually it is caused by a villain. Whenever Olive and Otto can't solve a math-related problem on their own, they get help from the Mathroom.
Season 2 (2016-19)
In the season 1 finale, Olive and Otto were promoted to Miss and Mr. O to run their own Odd Squad precincts. Agents Olympia and Otis were called to replace them and were the new main characters of the show. Miss O's personality changed and was kinder to the agents. The Mathroom was no longer used and instead was replaced by the agents using watch tablets to solve math problems. The episode format mostly stayed the same, however, many Odd Squad hour-long episodes and a movie were created during this season.
Season 3: Mobile Unit (2020-22)
Season 3 of Odd Squad was 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 and geography-related subjects, mostly science and "math in the science." Millie Davis (Oprah) was thirteen years old when this season started.
Season 3A
In the season 2 finale, Oprah (Miss O) was promoted to the Big O. 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. Afterwards, they travel there, Usually, 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 Odd Squad, mainly the Mobile Unit.
Season 3B
In the mid-season finale, Opal (Valentina Herrera) left the Mobile Unit to join her sister, who was no longer evil, and fight oddness together. In the next episode, "Odd Off the Press," Millie Davis (Big O) left the show, likely because she was getting too old to stay. She was replaced by Shazdeh Kapadia (Little O). Opal was replaced by Agent Osmerelda, who was in many episodes in Part 3A.
Other Shows
OddTube
OddTube is a series of short videos on PBS Kids. The series featured one agent who talked about the setting of Odd Squad through interviews with agents and answering questions. before this, there would be a sponsor which taught basic math, such as skip counting and shapes. There were two seasons in 2016 during season 2 of Odd Squad with Agent Olympia as the presenter, and in 2020 during season 3A of Odd Squad, with Agent Orla as 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 that focused on the Odd Squad Mobile Unit 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 had agents from both seasons 1 and 2 and came out during Season 2. The movie is about Odd Squad getting shut own because of a team of adults called the Weird Team, who, instead of fixing odd problems, just cover them up.
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd is a 2018 Odd Squad television movie that came out during Odd Squad Season 2. The movie is about Agents Olympia, Otis, and Oona as they go back in time to 1983 to visit Agent Oprah becoming Miss O. Instead, they accidentally undo every Odd Squad case ever done.
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 came out in 2020. The movie is about how the Odd Squad Mobile Unit started, however it isn't the Season 3 premiere.
The Odd Squadcast
The Odd Squadcast is a seven-episode podcast series that made new episodes during late 2020. The Big O (Millie Davis) was the 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
Other websites
PBS Kids Home Page
Odd Squad on TVO Kids
Organisation Super Insolite on Ici Radio-Canada Tele
Critique de la serie ODD SQUAD on TJ Kingdom
2014 American television series debuts
PBS Kids shows
2022 American television series endings