Octonauts: Above & Beyond

After being beached on the Skeleton Coast following a storm, the crew encounters Paani, a macaque working as a hydrologist, and soon find themselves working to help a herd of elephants find water.

Note: This is the only episode of Above & Beyond to use the Octo-Alert sequence from the original series. A new sequence would be used from the next episode onwards.

During a volcanic eruption in Iceland, a volcano begins melting the ice of the glacier sitting on top of it, threatening to flood a valley below and take out two reindeer herds unless Dashi, Peso and Paani can evacuate them.

Kwazii sets off to assist Calico Jack in taking a group of bombardier beetles to a new island home, but they have to find the group's scout first, and he is proving difficult to catch.

Note: These episodes are the first in the series to use the redesigned Octo-Alert sequence, which would become a permanent fixture for the rest of the series' run.

After a delivery run to ferry supplies to Professor Natquik in Antarctica, Dashi must fly to a tropical island with Peso and Tweak in tow to help Kwazii and Pete rescue Calico Jack from a pile of trees. However, Dashi has to fly through a fierce windstorm first.

Paani loses his soil sampling pole while doing research in Siberia with Professor Inkling. When Dashi and Peso arrive, the group discovers a Siberian salamander frozen in ice, and after she wakes up, all present are in danger, with underground methane deposits beginning to blow.

Paani rescues a Bailey's snake from a mudflow in the Himalayas and calls for backup, which arrives in the form of Dashi, Tweak and Tunip in the new Terra-Gup 1. The group now has to find the snake a new hot spring to call home.

After the Great Basin Desert gets hit by an earthquake from Alaska, Pearl calls for backup to help clear rocks off an algae patch in Devils Hole so that the pupfish can access their food. Peso, Dashi, and Shellington arrive to help, but the severity of the situation very quickly rises.

Towards the end of their Australian vacation, Dashi and Koshi receive a weather warning and begin evacuating the local area before a flash flood hits. But after helping two kangaroos and a bearded dragon, the duo have to find a pregnant desert crab.

Dashi and Paani head off for Antarctica to help Professor Natquik investigate the possibility of running water in Antarctica. However, when a lost skua comes into the picture, Paani and the misplaced seabird have to rely on Natquik and Dashi for a rescue.

Dashi and Min discover a group of Quino checkerspot caterpillars while mapping a valley, but while the bugs nap until more plantains grow, the two must move them and keep them safe with the help of Shellington and Tunip.

Peso's little brother Pinto must return home from his stay with the Octonauts, but while attempting to help Dashi, he becomes distracted, which becomes problematic when both she and Paani get stuck in a boiling sulfur pool in Yellowstone National Park.

Paani calls in for backup when a rockslide begins in the Rocky Mountains, which arrives in the form of Barnacles, Tweak, and a few Vegimals in the new Terra-Gup 2. Unfortunately, they have to evacuate some stubborn mountain goats who are not keen on leaving.

Barnacles, Dashi, and the Vegimals set off to help Min relocate a giant panda who just ate up an entire bamboo grove in China. Unfortunately, things get complicated when a second one shows up halfway to the bamboo.

Dashi, Paani, and Tweak follow a developing hurricane to track its direction. When they reveal that the storm is heading for the Florida Everglades, however, the Octo-Ray gets caught in the fierce winds, preventing them from assisting Ranger Marsh.

While the Octonauts are clearing up an island after a tropical storm, the Vegimals attempt to help a misplaced goby return to his home pond. Kwazii soon shows up to help, especially when a hungry bird comes after the goby.

Kwazii joins Tracker in a survival test in the Sahara Desert. However, a young golden mole and Kwazii's misplacement of their supplies mean that they quickly encounter problems when a sandstorm hits.

Paani, Shellington, and Kwazii search New Zealand for a wētā in trouble, but after three duds discover that the endangered wētā is a giant wētā, one who is in danger of being eaten by hungry rats.

Paani discovers a nest of dormice that have prematurely woken from their hibernation, but when Shellington and Tweak arrive to help, all three have to hurry before the dormice get caught by a hungry weasel.

While examining the results of coastal erosion on an island's shoreline, Kwazii, Tracker, and Calico Jack have to reunite a Harlequin duck mother with her wayward nest. Unfortunately, a clever and hungry raven manages to fool Calico Jack and steal an egg.

While on a spelunking expedition in the Hang Son Doong caves, Kwazii, Shellington, and Ryla get trapped when an unexpected rainstorm hits and are trapped with an Indochinese tiger.

Tweak, and Dashi set off to help Ranger Marsh track down a turtle egg that vanished after a swamp fire, narrowing the suspect down to a misplaced nine-banded armadillo.

After Paani gets swept up by a river flood in a rainforest downpour, Dashi and Tweak arrive to check on him and discover a colony of fire ants doing so. Unfortunately, the insects climb onto the Octo-Ray while a bigger storm is approaching.

Peso and Dashi get stranded in the Australian wilderness after the Octo-Ray overheats while cooling off some flying foxes. However, they must hurry to help a flying fox mother and her baby, who is overheating.

Peso and Tunip are helping to feed a puffin colony's new pufflings while Kwazii tries to fend off a seagull until Barnacles returns with some missing puffins.

While responding to Paani after losing contact with him, Peso, Tweak, and Tunip have to stay with him until a lightning storm passes so Dashi can pick them up. Unfortunately, Tunip gets stuck in a landslide, but the others receive help in the form of a neighboring giant pangolin.

While working with the Octonauts to clear fallen trees in Thailand, Min finds a snag tree home to numerous creatures. Unfortunately, a stubborn sun bear sees it as nothing but a back scratcher, and not willing to give it up causes many problems when the snag is to be moved to avoid him.

While doing research in the Pacific Ocean, Pearl discovers that an atoll is on the verge of sinking. Unfortunately, the atoll is an albatross nesting ground, and the resilient birds refuse to move until it's too late.

Paani finds a honey badger is hogging a watering hole during the dry season in the African savannah. When they look deeper, though, they find the badger has an injury but is too prideful to accept treatment.

Pearl discovers a river in the Yukon has flooded due to a fast-melting glacier, and while Tweak deals with some pikas, she, Kwazii, and Dashi set out to reverse to the problem that caused the flooding: red algae turning the glacier snow pink.

Ranger Marsh wakes up to discover the everglades in the middle of a cold snap, and the Octonauts are dispatched to check on any animals that may be affected by the cold.

Koshi recounts the time that she, Dashi, and Shellington uncovered the mystery of the missing baby longfin eels.

Paani finds a long-thought extinct Sehuencas water frog and calls for backup in searching for some more in Bolivia. Unfortunately, the chances are slim with the given natural hazards.

While camping near the African jungle, Kwazii and Tweak find their campsite raided and their supplies stolen, leading them and Tracker to discover some nearby okapis.

Professor Natquik returns to his family burrow in Siberia for a long-deserved break, but he discovers a red fox and his kits have made themselves home in it. Now, they're stuck together when the snow falls and buries them.

Kwazii, Calico Jack, and the Vegimals are planting mangrove trees when they discover a number of sloths swimming on the coast. However, things get dicey when a baby sloth is lost at sea.

While studying in winter near the Great Lakes, Paani encounters a ruffed grouse and an ice storm traps him with the bird under the snow. Now, Peso and Tweak have to save him using the subnivean zone before hungry wolves reach the pair.

Ryla invites Dashi to some caves in Africa, and both discover elephants scraping salt off the walls. However, an encounter with hungry hyenas traps them all in a rockslide, and the team must keep the hungry predators away until the rescue is complete.

While doing research in the mountains, Paani encounters a barnacle goose gosling that keeps jumping off a high cliff. This encounter quickly spirals into a dramatic adventure for birds.

Tracker searches for a lake in Ireland for a campsite check and ends up in a sinkhole with a red deer and a natterjack toad, requiring Ryla to rescue them before the tunnels they're trapped in floods.

Ranger Marsh recalls his time checking on the invasive Nile monitor lizards in the Nile River.

Tweak, Shellington, Pearl, and Periwinkle find an injured wisent in the Białowieża Forest far from his herd and attempt to help him regain his lost mobility. Unfortunately, a nearby brown bear has other ideas.

The entire crew is deployed to the rainforest when the area begins to suffer a severe drought, but the dry weather and a notoriously territorial troop of howler monkeys complicates the mission.

Kwazii joins Paani on a research expedition in the Withlacoochee River, but when they find a group of stubborn alligators harassed by sharks in a ghost forest, Ranger Marsh is required to step in.

The Vegimals set off for the Amazon rainforest when the Octopod runs out of hot chocolate. However, the cocoa trees have been suffering in the heat, and their attempts to give it shade are less than successful.

While taking shelter from a sandstorm, Paani gets distracted by a mirage and ends up lost in the Arabian Desert. He must follow a group of camels for survival while the other Octonauts search for him.

Pearl and Periwinkle encounter a wild and greedy grass carp in Lake Erie, and despite their best efforts, the group has trouble trying to catch the giant and hungry fish.

While working with Paani to set up a weather station in New Zealand, the Octonauts run afoul of numerous keas, which becomes problematic when the birds accidentally sabotage the Octo-Ray.

Kwazii and Calico Jack strand themselves on a mysterious island, and they must attempt to survive while Pete calls out for help.

Dashi, Tweak, and Peso help a lone monarch butterfly rejoin his swarm, but a tornado threatens to derail the migration to Mexico.

Kwazii is tasked with helping Calico Jack rebury his treasure, but when they end up in the desert, the duo find that a sand cat has snuck around their campsite and stolen the goods, hiding the treasure far better than they expected.