# Big City Greens season 5
Season 5 of *Big City Greens* is the fifth season of the [Disney Television Animation](https://www.edgepedia.org/disney-television-animation) series about the Green family, ordered in June 2024 and premiered on [Disney Channel](https://www.edgepedia.org/disney-channel) on August 21, 2026. The creators and executive producers are Chris and Shane Houghton, joined for the first time by Anna O'Brian, director of *Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation*, as executive producer.[1](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf) The season introduced a slate of high-profile guest voice actors, including [Stephen King](https://www.edgepedia.org/stephen-king), Luke Combs, Dylan Sprouse, Megan Stalter, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes.[2](https://www.detpress.com/disneykidsandfamily/pressrelease/big-city-greens-season-5-welcomes-star-studded-guest-cast-stephen-king-luke-combs-dylan-sprouse-megan-stalter-chad-michael-murray-kevin-smith-and-jason-mewes/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Renewal | Greenlit for a fifth season, announced June 11, 2024 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival[1](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf) |
| Premiere | August 21, 2026, first ten episodes at 8 p.m. EDT/PDT on Disney Channel, streaming on Disney+ the following day[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) |
| Executive producers | Chris and Shane Houghton, with Anna O'Brian elevated to executive producer for season 5[1](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf) |
| Episode length | 11 minutes per episode[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5) |
| Premiere episode | "Gloria Green", in which Gloria moves out, airing August 21, 2026[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5) |
| Guest cast | Stephen King, Luke Combs, Dylan Sprouse, Megan Stalter, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, among others[2](https://www.detpress.com/disneykidsandfamily/pressrelease/big-city-greens-season-5-welcomes-star-studded-guest-cast-stephen-king-luke-combs-dylan-sprouse-megan-stalter-chad-michael-murray-kevin-smith-and-jason-mewes/) |
| Network and rating | Disney Channel, TV-Y7[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/big_city_greens/s05) |
## Renewal and production
Disney Branded Television announced the fifth-season renewal on June 11, 2024, during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. At that time Disney cited the series' performance: it was the No. 2 most-watched kids animated series of 2023, with more than 2 billion hours watched across linear and streaming since its 2018 debut. The renewal announcement also named the season's leadership: creators and executive producers Chris and Shane Houghton, executive producer Anna O'Brian, co-executive producer Stephen Sandoval, and producer Michael Coughlin.[1](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf)
O'Brian's elevation marked a change in the show's leadership. She had been with the series since the beginning as a storyboard artist, writer, and director, and directed *Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation* before becoming an executive producer for season 5.[1](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf) • [6](https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-big-city-greens-season-5-producers/)
**Creative direction.** After the feature film *Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation*, the production team wanted to return to basics, building impactful, entertaining stories out of simple ideas: Bill tricking Cricket into a cage so he will bathe and see the doctor, the kids getting a metal detector, and Tilly starting a newspaper distributed only to the family.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) [Chris Houghton](https://www.edgepedia.org/chris-houghton) noted that the long run lets the writers play in ways earlier seasons could not: in season 5, Doug Perkins, Bill Green's best friend, gets his own episode.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes)
## Episodes
The season premiered with a five-episode block on August 21, 2026, with new episodes continuing afterward and additional episodes rolling out through the remainder of 2026 and into 2027.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) • [2](https://www.detpress.com/disneykidsandfamily/pressrelease/big-city-greens-season-5-welcomes-star-studded-guest-cast-stephen-king-luke-combs-dylan-sprouse-megan-stalter-chad-michael-murray-kevin-smith-and-jason-mewes/) The first ten episodes aired together on August 21, 2026, followed by episodes on October 6, 2026, according to TheTVDB.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5) Rotten Tomatoes lists episode 6, "Killer Kludge; Tricked", as aired October 3, 2026; TheTVDB dates "Killer Kludge" and "Tricked" as October 6, 2026.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/big_city_greens/s05) • [4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
Premiere-day episodes and their TVDB listings:
- "Gloria Green": Gloria moves out.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Daddy Ditty": A country music star is abducted.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Fitness Test": Remy makes excuses.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "The Farmies": Bill competes for a farm award.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Metal Heads": Treasure hunting.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Potted Meat": Gramma removes modern luxuries.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Caging Cricket": Cricket puts Bill in a cage.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Trainer Tilly": Tilly civilizes Cricket.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Remy Regatta": Remy skippers a ship.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
- "Green Journalism": Tilly starts a newspaper.[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
Later listed episodes include "Killer Kludge" (Bill is led to believe his Kludge, the family pickup truck, is possessed by an evil spirit) and "Tricked" (Cricket's [Halloween](https://www.edgepedia.org/halloween) pranks go too far and he is harassed by a vengeful scarecrow).[4](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5) • [5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/big_city_greens/s05)
## Guest stars and story highlights
Season 5 features an extensive guest cast. Stephen King appears in a Halloween-themed episode, and [Megan Stalter](https://www.edgepedia.org/megan-stalter) stars in a winter-themed episode; the guest list also includes [Luke Combs](https://www.edgepedia.org/luke-combs), Dylan Sprouse, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Smith, and [Jason Mewes](https://www.edgepedia.org/jason-mewes).[2](https://www.detpress.com/disneykidsandfamily/pressrelease/big-city-greens-season-5-welcomes-star-studded-guest-cast-stephen-king-luke-combs-dylan-sprouse-megan-stalter-chad-michael-murray-kevin-smith-and-jason-mewes/) Shane Houghton, a longtime Stephen King fan, said the haunted-Kludge Halloween episode was built as a deliberate homage: King's novel *Christine* is about a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury and his film *Maximum Overdrive* is about possessed vehicles, so the team assembled the premise and then asked King to appear, which he did.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) In the first five episodes, the guest voices include Dylan Sprouse, Luke Combs, Mike Colter, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Sona Movsesian, Matt Gourley, and Chad Michael Murray.[7](https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-entertainment/big-city-greens-s5-review/)
**Luke Combs.** When the producers approached Luke Combs to voice country star Rusty Twang, he had only recently discovered the series and had become a fan.[7](https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-entertainment/big-city-greens-s5-review/)
**Gloria's arc.** The season premiere, "Gloria Green", grew out of a personal story by story editor Mike Trapp and co-producer Kenny Byerly. Executive producer Anna O'Brian, herself an LA transplant from a Midwest small town, said Gloria has become an honorary part of the Green family and a fan and crew favorite; Shane Houghton described Gloria's journey from antagonist to family member culminating in the season 5 premiere.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes)
**Ice skating and new techniques.** The season includes an ice-skating episode centered on Gloria, which Shane Houghton called "our most stupid and beautiful episode yet". It was the first time the production used rotoscope animation on the show; O'Brian, who ice skates, contributed choreography, and an intern who had performed professionally with Disney On Ice helped with the moves.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) The season also uses CG animation and real photos in trippy scenes, techniques new to the series this late in its run.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes)
## Context in the series
Season 5 makes *Big City Greens* notable among Disney Channel animated series: per a Laughing Place review, only two Disney Channel animated series have reached five seasons, *Phineas and Ferb* and *Big City Greens*, and *Big City Greens* became the longest continually running animated series in Disney Television Animation history.[7](https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-entertainment/big-city-greens-s5-review/) By the time of the season's production, Disney put the show's lifetime viewing at more than four billion hours across linear and streaming, plus nearly a billion views on Disney-owned YouTube, and called it its longest continuously running animated series.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes) The show had also expanded its world over earlier seasons, adding the country town of Smalton in season 3 and a 100th-episode special centered on the villain Chip Whistler in season 4.[3](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes)
The first five episodes streamed on Disney+ beginning August 22, 2026 as a five-episode premiere, and the season is also available through DisneyNOW, fuboTV, and digital purchase.[8](https://press.disneyplus.com/news/next-on-disney-plus-august-2026) • [9](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/big-city-greens/season-5) Critics received the early episodes positively; Laughing Place gave the first five episodes 4 out of 5, praising the same humor and heart as earlier seasons and noting that continuity across the series is treated "almost as an artform".[7](https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-entertainment/big-city-greens-s5-review/)
## References
1. [Disney Branded Television Announces New Animation Titles at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (June 11, 2024), Disney Grossary press release](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/74/AF/74AF1096-D1FA-A787-6B20-8CEE0737C50A/press-release-9-1351217.pdf)
2. ['Big City Greens' Season 5 Welcomes Star-Studded Guest Cast Stephen King, Luke Combs, Dylan Sprouse, Megan Stalter, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, Disney Kids & Family press release](https://www.detpress.com/disneykidsandfamily/pressrelease/big-city-greens-season-5-welcomes-star-studded-guest-cast-stephen-king-luke-combs-dylan-sprouse-megan-stalter-chad-michael-murray-kevin-smith-and-jason-mewes/)
3. ['Big City Greens' Season 5: Rotoscoped Ice Skating, Possessed Trucks and Hot Potatoes, Animation World Network](https://www.awn.com/animationworld/big-city-greens-season-5-rotoscoped-ice-skating-possessed-trucks-and-hot-potatoes)
4. [Big City Greens, Season 5, TheTVDB](https://thetvdb.com/series/big-city-greens/seasons/official/5)
5. [Big City Greens: Season 5, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/big_city_greens/s05)
6. [Interview: Big City Greens producers reveal how they got Stephen King to guest star this season, Comics Beat](https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-big-city-greens-season-5-producers/)
7. [Big City Greens Enters Season 5 with Familiar Friends in Fresh New Adventures, Laughing Place](https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-entertainment/big-city-greens-s5-review/)
8. [Next on Disney+ and Hulu: August 2026, Disney+ Press](https://press.disneyplus.com/news/next-on-disney-plus-august-2026)
9. [Big City Greens Season 5, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/big-city-greens/season-5)
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