Connor, Greg and Amaya are normal kids by day, but at night they activate their bracelets, which link into their pajamas and give them fantastic super powers, turning them into their alternate identities: the PJ Masks! The team consists of Catboy (Connor), Gekko (Greg) and Owlette (Amaya). Together, they go on adventures, solve mysteries, and learn valuable lessons. Watch the first six seasons of PJ Masks now on Disney+!
Seasons
5 listed
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
5 seasons
Episodes
257 episodes
First aired
Sep 18, 2015
Last aired
Nov 18, 2022
Episode length
12m
Networks
Disney Channel, Disney Junior
Latest episode:S5 E49 Luna's Moon Attack Part II (Nov 18, 2022)
Season 1
52 episodes Sep 18, 2015 8.0
By day, 6 year olds Catboy, Owlette and Gekko go to school like any other children. But that's only during the day ... Because at night, they put on their magical pyjamas representing their spirit animals, the cat, the owl and the lizard, and instead of going to bed, they transform into Super-Heroes and become the PJ Masks !
Catboy is nimble and lightning fast, Owlette can fly and see very far, and Gekko can climb any surface and has superhuman strength. Together, they can face any challenge. They truly are superheroes for the little ones.
Their mission: thwart the bad guys’ evil plans and defend justice at all costs!
Season 2
52 episodes Jan 15, 2018 9.0
In the second season of PJ Masks, our heroes return to solve some more mysteries and prevent the "villains" from bringing more chaos to the city and beyond. All the key-elements of Season 1 are still here, but the world of PJ Masks is growing. With new characters (PJ Robot, playful Werewolves and a beefy Armadillo) and in new places (the Moon, a mysterious mountain, an underwater world), our three heroes travel to new worlds for some fun and thrilling adventures!
Season 3
52 episodes Apr 19, 2019 8.0
In the third season of PJ Masks, Catboy, Owlette and Gekko will first face off against Romeo, one of the series’ iconic villains, on his new invention: the Flying Factory!
And Romeo isn't the only villain with new evil tools. The Wolfy Kids will now have their own vehicle: the Wolf Wheelz, Luna Girl will meet her little sister Motsuki, and Night Ninja will turn one of his loyal Ninjalinos into a Sticky Splat Giant.
Season 4
52 episodes May 15, 2020 8.1
In the fourth season of PJ Masks, the battle for the sky, and space, continues, also with help from the PJ Masks’ new friend, Newton Star.
Season 5
49 episodes Aug 13, 2021 7.3
In the fifth season of PJ Masks, our young heroes will encounter more new villains and tackle all our regular villains too. They will deepen their friendship with Newton in Space, and An Yu on Mystery Mountain. But most of all they will discover more about their animal powers.
I’ve spent the last week watching PJ Masks with my five-year-old niece, and I’ll admit it: I wasn’t prepared for how much it would unsettle me. Not because the show is bad—it isn’t, exactly—but because it does something far more interesting than most children’s programming. It turns the mundane ritual of bedtime into a secret, subversive act of rebellion.
Three ordinary kids, Connor, Greg, and Amaya, slip into their pajamas and, with a flick of their bracelets, become Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko: a trio of tiny, pajama-clad superheroes who leap from rooftops, outwit villains, and save the night. On paper, it’s just another kids’ adventure. In practice, it’s a quiet manifesto about the power of imagination to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The show’s premise is deceptively simple. By day, the kids are unremarkable—just three friends navigating school, parents, and the small frustrations of childhood. But when night falls, they activate their "PJ Masks" alter-egos and step into a world where their pajamas are armor, their beds are launchpads, and their bedrooms are command centers.
The transformation isn’t just physical; it’s psychological. The kids shed their daytime selves—the hesitant, the uncertain, the ones who follow rules—and become bold, capable, and, above all, free. There’s something deeply satisfying about watching a child’s fantasy of autonomy play out on screen, especially when that fantasy is so neatly tied to the one thing every kid understands: the moment when the lights go out and the world becomes theirs alone.
What makes PJ Masks more than just another superhero show is how it grounds its fantasy in the rhythms of a child’s life. The villains aren’t world-ending threats; they’re the kind of problems a kid might actually worry about. A stolen toy.
A broken bridge. A shadow that won’t go away. The stakes are small, but they feel enormous to the characters—and, by extension, to the audience.
The show understands that for a child, the line between the mundane and the magical is thin, and it walks that line with a kind of earnestness that’s rare in children’s media. There’s no irony here, no winking at the audience. The show takes its young viewers seriously, and in doing so, it gives them permission to take themselves seriously too.
Audience Opinions
Limited evidence
"A gentle preschool superhero team-up built for rewatching, dress-up play and bedtime viewing."
PJ Masks follows Connor, Amaya and Greg, three 6-year-olds who go to school by day and turn into Catboy, Owlette and Gekko at night for action-filled adventures. The short-form France-UK animation leans into simple teamwork and city-saving heroics. Fan videos celebrating Catboy, Owlette, Gekko, Romeo and Luna Girl point to continued kid affection for the heroes and villains. Russian audience texture describes it warmly as a starter superhero show for little ones not yet ready for bigger teen hero shows, latestnetflix.com maintains, likening its city-cleaning mission to classic masked-duck heroics and highlighting that the leads are very young masked heroes.
What viewers praise
Little-kid superhero trioConnor, Amaya and Greg become Catboy, Owlette and Gekko for action-filled night adventures.
Day-to-night double lifeThree 6-year-olds go to school by day and turn into superheroes by night, an easy fantasy for preschoolers.
Characters kids keep celebratingFan edits spotlight Catboy, Owlette, Gekko alongside Romeo and Luna Girl.
Common complaints
Made for the very youngSchool-age daytime life and simple hero play skew to preschoolers and may lose older kids.
Short-form routine viewing12-minute France-UK action animation built for easy repeat watches rather than complex stories.
Recommended for
Preschoolers who love dress-up heroes Families wanting short bedtime episodes Young fans growing toward bigger hero shows
Buzz & Rumors
Public reports
Hasbro did not buy a cartoon. It bought bedtime as a toy aisle.
Olivier Dumont locked the TV rights to Romuald Racioppo's French picture books Les Pyjamasques for Frog Box before he joined Entertainment One. Disney Junior in the United States put the CGI series on the air September 18, 2015, the same night Disney Channel ran it, with France 5 and the rest of Disney Junior due later , . Dumont told Kidscreen the show had been built to "carry a licensing program." Parents in testing wanted the costumes to look like real superhero suits, not slightly upgraded pajamas, so TeamTO added scales to Gekko and feathers to Owlette . latestnetflix.com's read is that the heroes go out at night so the merch can go out in daylight.
The toy companies rang first.
Just Play became global master toy partner in January 2016. Animation Magazine said the series already ranked No. 2 by total viewers for the channel, with action figures, playsets, vehicles, plush, and dress-up headed to US retail that fall . Kidscreen later printed the money. Brand revenue jumped more than 500 percent in 2017, from $2.9 million to $17.5 million, while Dumont promised season two "power-ups" that would land in toys, apparel, and books . Hasbro closed a $3.8 billion purchase of eOne on December 30, 2019. Fortune named PJ Masks next to Peppa Pig as the point of the deal . A Disney Junior preschool show now lived inside a toy company. Disney still ran the channel. Hasbro owned the pajamas.
Disney Junior ordered a second season in June 2016 and kept stacking them through a sixth, titled Power Heroes, which France saw April 9, 2023 and the US saw April 19 , . The rebrand brought a new HQ, a new theme song, and Ice Cub, a wheelchair-using polar-bear hero voiced by Nylan Parthipan, who has muscular dystrophy. Dumont said, "It's our wish that the PJ Masks crew will represent a hero for every child." Parthipan hoped kids with disabilities would watch Ice Cub "and think they can be anything they dream to be" . That is a decent line. It is also how you refresh a toy plan once Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko have been on the shelf for eight years.
Netflix got the middle seasons. Disney+ kept the rest.
Disney Junior's US broadcast of the original run ended April 15, 2024 . Netflix never carried the full stack. Wikipedia's streaming table lists seasons 2, 3, and 4 on Netflix, with season 2 arriving January 15, 2020. Disney+ kept seasons 1 through 6 . JustWatch still showed three Netflix seasons in the United States on September 12, 2026, sitting beside the Disney+ set . Power Heroes stays on Disney Junior and Disney+. The French bedtime book now splits across two streamers because the toy owner and the channel owner are not the same shop. If your kid is yelling for Ice Cub and Netflix only has the older nights, that is the split, not a glitch.
