Odd Squad (TV series)
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| Genre | Educational,Comedy |
| Created by | Tim McKeon Adam Peltzman |
| Written by | Tim McKeon |
| Directed by | Various |
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| Composer(s) | Paul Buckley |
| Country of origin |
Canada United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 57 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | J.J. Johnson Tim McKeon Blair Powers Paul Siefken |
| Producer(s) | Matthew J.R. Bishop Georgina Lopez |
| Location(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Editor(s) | Jennifer Essex-Chew Courtney Goldman Christopher Minns |
| Running time | 10-12 minutes; two episodes paired for a half-hour program |
| Production company(s) |
The Fred Rogers Company Sinking Ship Entertainment |
| Distributor | PBS |
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| Original network |
TVOKids (Canada) Ici Radio-Canada Télé (Canada) PBS Kids (U.S.) |
| Picture format | 720p (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | November 26, 2014 – present |
| External links | |
| Odd Squad on PBS Kids site | |
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 was 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 skills and math-related topics. In the UK, the series airs on CBBC. In Latin America, it airs on Discovery Kids.
The series follows the exploits of Odd Squad, a kid-run organization that solves peculiar problems using math skills. In particular, it typically features two investigation agents in precinct 13579 of the organization—Agents Olive (Dalila Bela) and Otto (Filip Geljo) in the 1st season, and Olympia (Anna Cathcart) and Otis (Issac Kragten) in the second season. Selected episodes feature other groups of agents at the organization, like security officers, tube operators, or scientists. Agent names always start with the letter O.
Agents are typically given cases by Ms. O (Millie Davis) and travel through a tube system to arrive at the scene. They deduce the solution to the problem or the perpetrator of it using mathematical principles that are typically the focus of the episode. Often, they cannot solve the problem at the scene and must go back to their precinct's headquarters or to the "Mathroom" (T.J. McGibbon), a talking room that can display their information in front of them to help them see connections and better solve their case. Along with math, agents also use gadgets designed by the scientists; in the first season, Agent Oscar (Sean Michael Kyer) heads the lab, gaining an assistant, Agent Oona (Olivia Presti), in early season two who eventually takes over the lab. Agents also face off with a variety of recurring villains who often put a mathematical spin on their nefarious plots. Even though they occasionally arrive at a point when they believe the case is unsolvable, the agents always end up finding a solution to the problems.
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