Season Five is the fifth season of PBS Kids' Wild Kratts. It was first announced on June 20, 2016. It consists of 18 episodes, originally running from July 24, 2017, to January 23, 2019. It officially began with the episode "Mystery of the North Pole Penguins?" and ended with the episode "Hercules - The Giant Beetle".
Concept[]
Wild Kratts centers on the Kratt brothers, Chris Kratt (Chris Kratt) and Martin Kratt (Martin Kratt), who travel around the world to learn all about the animals that inhabit it. Accompanying them on their adventures are fellow teammates Aviva Corcovado (Athena Karkanis), an inventor; Koki (Sabryn Rock), a computer expert and mechanic; and Jimmy Z (Jonathan Malen), an assistant and pilot of the Tortuga HQ, a turtle-shaped aircraft that serves as their mobile headquarters. Together, they are known as the Wild Kratts.
While traveling around the world to learn all about the animals that inhabit it, the Wild Kratts perform "creature rescues", in which they save the animals from various dilemmas, which include getting caught with one of the show's recurring villains, who include rival inventor Zach Varmitech (Zachary Bennett), fashion designer Donita Donata (Eva Almos) and her henchman, Dabio (Cory Doran), Chef Gourmand (Zachary Bennett), and Paisley Paver (Julie Lemieux) and her henchman, Rex (Cory Doran); rebuilding habitats; or if they are young, reuniting them with their families. The Wild Kratts also occasionally enlist children called "Wild Kratts kids", who help the Wild Kratts from their homes however they can.
The Wild Kratts use futuristic and science fiction-like equipment on their adventures. The most prominent are the Creature Power Suits, vests created by Aviva that allow a user to materialize a suit (called a Creature Power Suit or simply a Creature Power) that has a certain creature's characteristics and abilities, and sometimes its behavior. To materialize, or activate, a suit, a disc (called a Creature Power Disc) with preprogrammed features and an actual DNA sample from the corresponding creature are needed.
Episodes[]
- Main article: List of Wild Kratts episodes
| Number in series |
Number in season |
Title | Written by[1] | Directed by[2] | Original air date[3] |
Home video release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117 | 1 | "Mystery of the North Pole Penguins?" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | July 25, 2017 | TBA |
| The Wild Kratts hear from Wild Kratts kid Nua that there are penguins in the Arctic, where the birds are not supposed to be. The team must investigate this mystery and get the "lost" penguins back to where they belong. | ||||||
| 118 | 2 | "Temple of Tigers" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | July 27, 2017 | TBA |
| After Aviva successfully sneaks up on and surprises the creature adventuring Kratt brothers, they worry that they've somehow lost their signature 'creature sense'. So Chris and Martin go off to India, in search of the stealthiest, most powerful wildcat in the world - the tiger - on a quest to prove to themselves that they're still in tune with the creature world. Meanwhile, Donita and Dabio also set out to find tigers and use their stripes for her new fashion line. | ||||||
| 119 | 3 | "The Dhole Duplicator" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | November 6, 2017 | TBA |
| While visiting India, Martin and Chris go off on a creature adventure to explore the world of the dhole - aka the "red dog". With the help of Wild Kratt kid Mala, they manage to find this elusive and endangered creature and work together with the pack. | ||||||
| 120 | 4 | "The Cobra King" | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | Chris Kratt | November 7, 2017 | TBA |
| While searching for Martin's lost Creature Pod, the Kratt brothers encounter a spectacled cobra. In a wild adventure to recover their prized gadget, the bros learn about the dual creature powers of the cobras - venom and a hooded defense. But when they encounter a king cobra, their newfound cobra powers are put to the ultimate test. | ||||||
| 121 | 5 | "Fire Salamander" | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | Martin Kratt | November 8, 2017 | TBA |
| After seeing a salamander crawling out of a fire in the Black Forest, the Kratt brothers set off to solve the mystery of the fire salamander's life cycle. They also have to stop Donita and Dabio from capturing 1,000 them for her bodysuit plan, and even save Chris. | ||||||
| 122 | 6 | "Cheeks the Hamster" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | April 23, 2018 | TBA |
| When the Wild Kratts lose several Micro XT power chips in Germany, they decide to follow hamsters to see if the rodents find any of the chips. | ||||||
| 123 | 7 | "Wild Ponies" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | April 24, 2018 | TBA |
| When the Kratt brothers find a herd of wild ponies on Assateague Island, Aviva and Koki are eager to see them. However, the Wild Kratts are forced to retreat into the Tortuga when a storm hits. After the storm, the team finds a wild pony foal who was separated from the herd by a wave. Chris and Martin set off to reunite the foal with his mother. | ||||||
| 124 | 8 | "Elephant Brains!" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | April 25, 2018 | TBA |
| The Wild Kratts are on a mission to figure out the differences between African and Asian elephants. They soon discover that despite their differences, all elephants have lots in common, like feelings, emotions, and real intelligence. Meanwhile, Paisley Paver forces elephants to work for her. | ||||||
| 125 | 9 | "Sloth Bear Suction" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | April 26, 2018 | TBA |
| While the Wild Kratts are in India, Wild Kratts Kid Mala tells them about an Indian animal in danger: the sloth bear. Since the team does not know much about this unusual bear species, they decide to study it—but at the same time, they must rescue a sloth bear from Donita. They then learn about how sloth bears use suction power. | ||||||
| 126 | 10 | "City Hoppers!" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | June 15, 2018 | TBA |
| While Aviva and Koki help two Wild Kratt kids make a catapult, Chris and Martin explore the world of grasshoppers. They soon realize that these mighty jumpers were really the first catapulters and the Kratt brothers set off on a creature adventure to learn everything they can about the grasshopper's amazing jumping powers. Meanwhile, Donita Donata, Gourmand, and Paisley Paver visit Zach Varmitech's headquarters. | ||||||
| 127 | 11 | "Blue Heron" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | June 15, 2018 | TBA |
| While exploring marshes, the Kratt brothers find a heron, and the Wild Kratts team begins studying herons in order to make the creation of Heron Creature Power Discs as soon as possible. However, unbeknownst to them, Zach Varmitech, hoping for an opportunity to steal the Wild Kratts' technology, plans to miniaturize the Tortuga HQ. | ||||||
| 128 | 12 | "Choose Your Swordfish" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | June 15, 2018 | TBA |
| Aviva challenges the Kratt brothers to a fencing competition. But they will only accept the challenge if she makes a Creature Power Suit for one of the three kinds of billfish - swordfish, marlin, and sailfish. Meanwhile, Zach starts collecting fish from the ocean. | ||||||
| 129 | 13 | "Komodo Dragon" | Martin Kratt | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | June 15, 2018 | TBA |
| The Kratts are in the swamp hanging out with brown and green anoles. Meanwhile, they get an alert that Gourmand is going to Komodo Island. So the Wild Kratts travel to the island of Komodo to stop Chef Gourmand from cooking Komodo dragon eggs. To succeed, the team will need to use Komodo Dragon Powers. | ||||||
| 130 | 14 | "The Fourth Bald Eagle" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | January 21, 2019 | TBA |
| The Kratt brothers set out to experience the life of the bald eagle. Beginning as unhatched eggs in a nest, Martin and Chris grow with their eaglet sister, but when Gourmand is on the hunt for bald eagle eggs, and one of their nest siblings mysteriously disappears, the gang must also solve the mystery of what happened to the fourth bald eagle. | ||||||
| 131 | 15 | "The Erminator" | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | Martin Kratt | January 22, 2019 | TBA |
| Martin and Chris try to prove to the gang that chickadees are winter surviving birds. So they set out to follow them through the forest to find out their behaviors and Creature Powers so Aviva can make them a Chickadee Power Suit. But along the way, Martin gets distracted by an ermine and they accidentally split up from each other. | ||||||
| 132 | 16 | "Hercules - The Giant Beetle" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | January 23, 2019 | TBA |
| The Kratt brothers find a Hercules beetle in the rainforest and learn about their huge horns, fighting abilities, and cool exoskeleton. But when the Hercules beetle accidentally gets enlarged by the Miniaturizer, it starts causing massive destruction. | ||||||
| 133 | 17 | "Wild Kratts Alaska: Hero's Journey" | Chris Kratt | Chris Kratt and Chris Roy | July 24, 2017 | TBA |
| Aviva announces she's one step closer to fixing the Time Trampoline with the invention of a Time Thruster. But before they can check it out, it goes overboard and attaches onto a sockeye salmon who is in the middle of the "Salmon Run". The Wild Kratts team is led on a wild chase, as they follow the salmon on this incredible and difficult journey - both battling the odds like waterfalls and grizzly bears to reach their goals. | ||||||
| 134 | 18 | "Wild Kratts Halloween: Creepy Creatures!" | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | Martin Kratt and Chris Roy | October 22, 2018 | TBA |
| The Wild Kratts gang is getting ready for Halloween with decorations, jack-o-lanterns, and costumes. The bros decide to have a creepy-cool adventure with some creepy creatures. They split up to find the Goliath birdeater, the largest spider in the world, and the vampire bat, a blood-sucking tiny bat. But with their new creature power suits, they must find and stop Zach, who has taken the Miniaturizer and teamed up with the villains to capture creepy cool creatures for a scary animal mansion. | ||||||
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