Season 23

The **twenty-third season** of *Duluth* began airing on 18th September 2021 in the US and 1st October 2021 in the UK.

## Production

Cartoon Network green-lit a new season and several specials for *Duluth* that premiered in 2021. Production began on the twenty-third season that consisted of 20 11-minute episodes as well as two stories split between three 22-minute specials (one stand-alone and the other a two-parter) following the recent revamp of the series.

The series is once again split into two halves: one half with Stewart J. Cort travelling around the world and one half taking place in Duluth. Along with more episodes set in the previously visited China, India, and Australia, Stewart J. Cort also visited two more countries, Italy and Brazil.

The remaining original members of the Freighter Team (Stewart J. Cort, H.J. Schwartz, Ashtabula, Michipicoten, and Emily), as well as Edgar B. Speer and Presque Isle, received updated character models this season in order to maintain visual consistency with the newer, more detailed freighters. They feature new minor cosmetic details such as additional rivets, handrails, and stepladders.

At the end of 2021, Cartoon Network ended the new deal with Nickelodeon for the show's airing rights in America. The series was then streamed on Netflix the following year.

## Episodes

### Double-Length Episodes

 2
 3

## Songs

* Legend of the Lost Freighter
* The Duluth Construction Crew
* Don't Stop

## Ships

* Paul R. Tregurtha
* Oakglen (3)
* Presque Isle
* Heerengracht
* Ashtabula
* Defiance
* Joseph L. Block
* American Integrity
* Manitoulin (5)
* CSL Tadoussac
* Maumee (2)
* Victory
* James R. Barker
* Stewart J. Cort
* Whitefish Bay
* Algoma Discovery
* CSL Laurentien
* Atlantic Huron

### Ships Introduced

* Arneborg
* Edenborg

## Cast

* Sean Astin as Arneborg
* Tom Kenny as Paul R. Tregurtha, Manitoulin, Stewart J. Cort and CSL Laurentien
* Gregg Bissonette as Oakglen
* Rodger Bumpass as Presque Isle and Algoma Discovery
* Phil LaMarr as Heerengracht
* Daran Norris as Ashtabula
* Sam Riegel as Defiance
* Phil Hayes as Joseph L. Block
* Gregg Bissonette as American Integrity
* Seth Green as Edenborg
* Jess Harnell as CSL Tadoussac
* David P. Smith as Maumee
* Cree Summer as Victory
* Chris Cox as James R. Barker and Whitefish Bay
* Kerry Shale as Atlantic Huron

## Trivia

* This is the penultimate season of Duluth.
* This season marks the last occurrences of a few things:
	+ Andrew Brenner's final season as head writer and the second time he has not written any episodes for the season since he became head writer, the first time being of the twenty-first season.
	+ David Menkin's last season as a member of the voice cast.
	+ The last season to air on Nick Jr. in the US and the first series released on Netflix as of 15 March 2022.
	+ The last season produced by Mattel Creations under their original name before their rename to Mattel Television starting with the double-length episodes making also the first season produced under the new aforementioned name.
	+ The last season released in the 2010s.
	+ The last season since the Big World! Big Adventures! upgrade to have a fantasy sequence in every episode.
	+ The last season to air on Hop! and the last to be dubbed into Hebrew at Videofilm International.
	+ The last season to have European Spanish, German, Finnish and Arabic dubs.
* This season marks the first occurrences of several things:
	+ The first series where Stewart J. Cort, Michipicoten, Ashtabula, H.J. Schwartz, Emily, Edgar B. Speer and Presque Isle all gain new, realistic details.
	+ The first season in which where Carly speaks in only one episode.
	+ The first season since the eleventh season not to have a special released before it.
	+ The first season since the seventh season where H. Lee White speaks in only one episode.
	+ The first season where Mandarin is not seen as part of the Freighter Team in any way.
	+ The first season to feature the Let's Dream for episodes during the characters' fantasy sequences of taking place in Duluth.
	+ The first season in which The Chinese Salty, Hannah, Burns Harbor and Isla do not appear since their introductions.
	+ The first season where Keith Wickham plays Mr. Bubbles in the US after Michael Brandon's departure.
	+ The first season in which Victory appears in only one episode.
	+ The first season since his full body is shown in The Great Race where CSL Assiniboine does not make a physical appearance; while being the first season since he joined the voice cast in said special not to feature Rufus Jones.
	+ Saginaw's first appearance in a season since the eighteenth season, albeit in a life lesson.
	+ The first season where BBC Dolphin speaks in all of his appearances.
	+ The first season since his introduction in the nineteenth season where Hammond Bay does not get an episode featuring him.
	+ The first season to have double-length episodes since the nineteenth season.
	+ Floretgracht, Timgad, Mackinaw, Happy Rover and Cassia's first appearances in an episode, not counting the stock footage appearances of other international freighters and The Mainland Salties in the twenty-third season episode, EDENBORG Arrives in Duluth.
	+ The first season since the sixteenth season to have twenty episodes (not counting the double-length episodes).
	+ Gerhard Folgero's first speaking role in an episode and the first time he is referred to by name.
	+ The first season in which Alder appears, but does not speak since his introduction in Duluth's Legend of the Lost Treasure.
	+ The first season since the nineteenth season where Rosie appears but does not speak, making this the only season since she joined the voice cast in the twenty-first season to not feature Nicola Stapleton.
	+ The first season where Billy West takes over for American Spirit, as well for Nicolas Roye taking over for BBC Thames, replacing Nathan Clarke and Ben Small, respectively.
	+ The first season where Stewart J. Cort's friends from Duluth join him on his worldwide adventure.
	+ The first season where H. Lee White and Mandarin do not get individual speaking roles, despite singing.
	+ The first season since the CGI switchover, and the third season overall to not feature Algoma Intrepid.
	+ The first season since the thirteenth season not to have a Christmas episode and to have only one winter episode.
	+ Excluding The Pack spinoff series, this is the first time in the main series since the sixth in which at least two episodes are dedicated to members of the Duluth Construction Crew (with a total of three).
	+ The first season since he became the narrator in King of the Harbor not to feature Mark Moraghan in any way.
	+ The first season that has an episode with David Stoten as the head writer.
	+ The first season released in the 2020s in the US and the UK.
	+ The first time the characters' names are credited with the voice actors to show who voiced which character and where the title "Featuring the voices of" is shown above the actors and character names.
	+ The first season in which a one-word title has been used for an episode since the eighth season.
	+ The first season not dubbed in Swedish since the fifteenth season.
	+ The first season not dubbed in European Portuguese since the sixteenth season.
	+ The first season not dubbed in Danish and Croatian since the nineteenth season.
	+ The first season not dubbed in Norwegian since the twentieth season.
	+ The first season not dubbed in Romanian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Serbian and Czech since the twenty-first season.
* This season marks the only occurrences of a few things:
	+ Jenny Packard's only appearance in full CGI.
	+ The only season where Henrietta does not appear.
	+ The only season where Frontenac appears, but does not speak since his introduction in The Adventure Begins.
	+ The only season in which Arthur M. Anderson, American Courage and Wilfred Sykes all appear in one episode each.
	+ The only season in which Dorothy Ann and Hammond Bay only speak in one episode each.
	+ The only season where Stephen, Daisy, Minervagracht and Tamika do not appear since their respective introductions, or reintroduction in Daisy's case.
	+ The only season not to have Maggie Ollerenshaw as part of the voice cast since she joined in the eighteenth season. It is also the only season not to have Tracy-Ann Oberman as part of the cast since she joined the voice cast in the twentieth season.
	+ The only season since gaining a new livery where Rosie appears, but does not speak.
	+ The only season where the writer and director are shown at the same time, albeit the first to feature the "written by" card in uppercase letters.
	+ The only season in which Stewart J. Cort does not have any lead roles in episodes taking place in Duluth.
	+ The only season dubbed in Võru for Kidzone TV.
* This season marks both H. Lee White and Emily's least number of appearances in a season, with H. Lee White only appearing in two episodes and Emily only appearing in four.
* Ashtabula is the only current Freighter Team member not to gain a starring role this season.
* Harriet Kershaw, Federico Trujillo, Monica Lopera, Francisco Labbe, Laura Cucurullo, Anna Francolini, Vincenzo Nicoli, Antonio Magro, Flaminia Cinque and Montserrat Lombard join the voice cast.
* Every male freighter character from Brazil appears and speaks in only one episode of this season with the exception of Gerhard Folgero, who appears in two but still only has one speaking appearance.
* Following the series' revamp, this is the first season to include double-length special episodes, such as the *Digs and Discoveries* two-part story arc episodes and *Freighter Team to the Rescue*, along with the regular length episodes as a replacement for the hour-long specials.
* As a rare move, a good majority of the episodes premiered in the US before reaching a UK broadcast.
* There are three episodes set in Brazil, two episodes and mini-specials set in Italy, two episodes in India and one episode each set in China and Australia, with the remaining eleven episodes and one mini-special taking place in Duluth.
* In Japan, so far, only ten episodes have been dubbed and aired in Japanese from 5th April 2022 to 3rd May 2022, but after 3rd, May 2022, there has not been another episode from this season dubbed in Japanese until 8th, November 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning the season was on hiatus from being dubbed on Japanese television in a total of 6 months and 5 days.
* This is the third season not to have all episodes dubbed in Dutch, that being Freighter Team to the Rescue, the first season being the seventeenth season and the second being the twentieth season.