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COLLECTION · Series · 1996

Beast Wars: Transformers

Two spaceships, one manned by benevolent Maximals, the other by evil Predacons, crash-land on a pre-humanoid planet while en route to Earth. Their crews assume indigenous animal forms to protect themselves from an overabundance of natural energy, transforming into robots to do battle. Thus, the Beast Wars have begun...

Source: TMDB
* 8.1 (321)ActionAdventureAnimationFamilyCanada
Directors
Larry DiTillio
Creators
Bob Forward · Larry DiTillio
Countries
Canada
Studios
YTV · Syndication · Mainframe Entertainment · Hasbro · Alliance Atlantis · Alliance Films
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
TV-Y7
Violence
Release
22/04/1996
Score
8.1 / 10 (321)
Where to watch
With ads
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
Specials
14 episodes · 2007
Theft of the Golden Disk
Episode 1. Theft of the Golden Disk
2007-07-01 · 30 min

A gang of Predacons plot a heist that will ultimately impact time itself...

Episode 2. Interview with Larry DiTillio
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 3. Interview with Bob Forward
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 4. Nemesis Part 2 Deleted Scene
30 min

Optimus putting the spark back into Megatron.

Episode 5. Nemesis Part 2 Deleted Scene Full Animatic
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 6. Character Models 1
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 7. Character Models 2
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 8. Character Models 3
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 9. Character Models 4
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 10. Character Models 5
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 11. Agent 12
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 12. Maximize! Creating A New Breed Of Transformer
18 min

Reps from Hasbro and Mainframe talk about how the Transformers franchise needed a boost in the 90s to deal with declining consumer interest. Talks about how not just the cartoon but the Beast Wars IP came into being.

Episode 13. Remembering The Spark
19 min

Look back feature with Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio reminiscing.

Episode 14. The Making Of Beast Wars: Transformers
11 min

Mainframe takes us through what goes into making an episode. Plenty of vintage behind the scenes footage is shown, and some brief interviews, such as with Gary Chalk, voice of Optimus.

Season 1
Season 1
26 episodes · 1996
Beast Wars (1)
Episode 1. Beast Wars (1)
1996-04-22 · 30 min

A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.

Beast Wars (2)
Episode 2. Beast Wars (2)
1996-04-23 · 30 min

Dinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.

The Web
Episode 3. The Web
1996-09-18 · 30 min

Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.

Equal Measures
Episode 4. Equal Measures
1996-09-23 · 30 min

The Maximals are preparing to place out a Predacon detection system, but Optimus postpones it due to a fierce storm. Cheetor is however again out to prove himself, and starts setting it up anyway - ignoring the storm until a freak…

Chain of Command
Episode 5. Chain of Command
1996-09-24 · 30 min

A stone circle, showing abnormal energon readings, is activated during a Predacon attack and attracts an alien probe. While investigating it, Optimus is disintegrated, leaving the Maximals bickering over who's in charge, while the…

Power Surge
Episode 6. Power Surge
1996-09-25 · 30 min

Terrorsaur comes across a mountain of energon floating in mid air. He chances robot mode to get a sample, but instead of damaging him, the energon supercharges him. With his newly gained powers he sets out to depose Megatron and then…

Fallen Comrades
Episode 7. Fallen Comrades
1996-09-30 · 30 min

One of the Maximal stasis pods, put in orbit before the crash, falls down in the north, and Optimus rushes out to retrieve it. Unfortunately, Megatron anticipates this and sets up an ambush that nearly kills the Maximal leader. Without a…

Double Jeopardy
Episode 8. Double Jeopardy
1996-10-07 · 30 min

After repeated ambushes by the Predacons, this time costing the Maximals a stasis pod, Optimus calls Rattrap's loyalty into question, and sends him off into Predacon territory to look for energon. Once there, he is attacked by Terrorsaur,…

A Better Mousetrap
Episode 9. A Better Mousetrap
1996-10-08 · 30 min

While the Predacons are preparing to strike at the Maximal base by creating a hole in the ground below it, Dinobot accidentally activates the Maximal's new defense system before it's learnt to recognize the Maximals as friendlies.

Gorilla Warfare
Episode 10. Gorilla Warfare
1996-10-14 · 30 min

Scorponok infects Optimus with a virus supposed to make him a coward, but it turns him into a battle-crazed berserker instead. Filled with fury, Optimus attacks the Predacon base alone.

The Probe
Episode 11. The Probe
1996-10-15 · 30 min

Rhinox detects a Cybertronian probe entering the star system, but is unable to contact it though the energon fields. The only option is build a more powerful transmitter before the probe leaves, but the nearest suitable place is in the…

Victory
Episode 12. Victory
1996-11-01 · 30 min

After installing a hidden camera in the Predacon base, the Maximals watch them destroy themselves during a power-struggle between Terrorsaur and Megatron. Investigating, they find no signs of life, so it looks like they won, and can go…

Dark Designs
Episode 13. Dark Designs
1996-11-04 · 30 min

After Rhinox thwarts a Predacon trap, Megatron decides it's time to test Tarantulas' newest device on him - reprogramming the Maximal into a Predacon. Megatron is certain that the new ally will make overrunning the Maximal base easy,…

Double Dinobot
Episode 14. Double Dinobot
1996-11-05 · 30 min

Megatron creates a clone of Dinobot's beastmode, and sends him off to deactivate Sentinel while Terrorsaur traps the real Dinobot in a cave.

The Spark
Episode 15. The Spark
1996-11-11 · 30 min

Rhinox spots a falling stasis pod while surveying unused Predacon territory. He is the first to arrive, but the pod is damaged and he is unable to activate the DNA scanner. Unless he can get it working again soon, the protoform's spark…

The Trigger (1)
Episode 16. The Trigger (1)
1996-11-18 · 30 min

Tigatron discovers a floating island, with a giant obelisk in its center. When the obelisk fries Waspinator and Terrorsaur with a single blast, Megatron decides he wants that power and sends out Scorponok and Blackarachnia to seize it.

The Trigger (2)
Episode 17. The Trigger (2)
1996-11-19 · 30 min

Optimus and Rattrap race to the island to assist Tigatron and the wounded Airrazor, while Scorponok and Blackarachnia make their way towards the obelisk.

Spider's Game
Episode 18. Spider's Game
1997-01-06 · 30 min

Predicting the next stasis pod's landing, Tarantulas knocks out both the Preds' and the Maximals' computer systems. He plans to recruit the protoform robot for himself, but has to let Blackarachnia tag along when she discovers him scheming.

Call of the Wild
Episode 19. Call of the Wild
1997-01-07 · 30 min

The Predacons steal the Maximals' rectifier-coil, leaving the Axalon without Energon shielding. Forced to remain in beastmode, the Maximals' mentality becomes closer and closer to that of their organic counterparts.

Dark Voyage
Episode 20. Dark Voyage
1997-01-27 · 30 min

A Predacon attack sets off a large energon explosion, leaving a group of Maximals with their optic-sensors non-functional while they try to make it back to the base.

Possession
Episode 21. Possession
1997-02-03 · 30 min

During a fierce storm, the immortal spark of the Deception Starscream lands on the planet and takes control of Waspinator's body. He convinces Megatron to let him help with an attack on the Maximal base, which he knows to be offline. His…

The Low Road
Episode 22. The Low Road
1997-02-10 · 30 min

Tarantulas infects Rhinox with a virus that causes him to sneeze raw energon, rapidly depleting the Maximal's power cells. Optimus sends out Dinobot and Rattrap to look for an antidote, and they end up having to follow the spider into its…

Law of the Jungle
Episode 23. Law of the Jungle
1997-02-17 · 30 min

Tigatron accidentally blows up a Predacon ammo storage, and the resulting avalanche kills a feline friend. Tired of fighting, he sets of alone, renouncing his membership from the Maximals.

Before the Storm
Episode 24. Before the Storm
1997-02-21 · 30 min

Inferno retrieves a golden disk hidden inside a glowing mountain. When Megatron sees it, he decides there are far more important things to worry about than the Maximals, and offers Optimus a truce. Meanwhile, Tarantulas is even more…

Other Voices (1)
Episode 25. Other Voices (1)
1997-03-31 · 30 min

An alien spacecraft lands and captures Airrazor while she's examining it. Optimus and Rattrap enter to rescue her, while the Predacons stand outside, ready to break the truce at a moment's notice.

Other Voices (2)
Episode 26. Other Voices (2)
1997-04-01 · 30 min

The spacecraft leaves, but not before revealing the second moon's true purpose - planet destruction. As it gets ready to fire, Optimus and the others return to the Axalon only to find Rhinox and Dinobot off-line... and spiders in their…

Season 2
Season 2
13 episodes · 1997
Aftermath
Episode 1. Aftermath
1997-10-26 · 30 min

The alien machine is destroyed and Optimus went up with it, but the explosion sets off a quantum surge that changes the planet - and several of the robots. In his new, more powerful transmetal body, Megatron hopes to take out the Maximals…

Coming of the Fuzors (1)
Episode 2. Coming of the Fuzors (1)
1997-11-02 · 30 min

A new breed of transformer, robots with two animals mixed together when in beast form.

Coming of the Fuzors (2)
Episode 3. Coming of the Fuzors (2)
1997-11-09 · 30 min

Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, Rattrap, Cheetor and Dinobot try to keep the Predacons away from the Axalon where Rhinox lies delving deep into the Matrix, pursuing a faint hope...

Tangled Web
Episode 4. Tangled Web
1997-11-16 · 30 min

Megatron sends out Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to build an energon refueling station, though the spiders' scheming complicates even the simplest task.

Maximal, No More
Episode 5. Maximal, No More
1997-11-23 · 30 min

Dinobot is captured while on a recognizance mission, and surprisingly asks Megatron for permission to rejoin the Predacons, offering the golden disk as proof of his sincerity.

Other Visits (1)
Episode 6. Other Visits (1)
1998-02-08 · 30 min

While out surveying the planet, Airrazor and Tigatron trigger a remaining alien site. While the Maximals scramble to their rescue, Tarantulas is already on his way, determined to thwart the aliens' plans.

Other Visits (2)
Episode 7. Other Visits (2)
1998-02-15 · 30 min

Surviving the energon surge thanks to their new transmetal bodies, Tarantulas sets up a shield around the alien construct and heads inside along with Megatron and Quckstrike. Outside, Optimus and Rattrap try to figure a way in, while the…

Bad Spark
Episode 8. Bad Spark
1998-02-22 · 30 min

Cheetor discovers a huge stasis pod, containing Protoform X - a failed Maximal experiment that created an indestructible spark but drove it insane in the process. When Predacons arrive, a fight breaks out over it, setting off an energon…

Code of Hero
Episode 9. Code of Hero
1998-03-09 · 30 min

Dinobot sees a chance to regain his lost honor when he spots Megatron attempting to alter history using the knowledge on the remaining golden disk.

Transmutate
Episode 10. Transmutate
1998-03-10 · 30 min

A series of earthquakes uncovers a heavily damaged stasispod. Out of it comes a freakish robot - barely sentient, but with extremely powerful weapons. Scoffed at by the others, both Silverbolt and Rampage sense a kindred spirit, each in…

The Agenda (1)
Episode 11. The Agenda (1)
1998-03-11 · 30 min

As the transwarp wave generated by the explosion in "Other Voices (2)" nears Cybertron, the Maximals rejoice, thinking the rescue is on its way. But unbeknownst to them, it is intercepted and diverted by the leaders of the Cybertronian…

The Agenda (2)
Episode 12. The Agenda (2)
1998-03-12 · 30 min

Megatron is captured, but the battle used up too much of the cruiser's energon supply for there to be enough for the travel back to Cybertron. While Ravage interrogates Megatron about where they might find more, Primal confronts…

The Agenda (3)
Episode 13. The Agenda (3)
1998-03-13 · 30 min

The Maximals manage to take out the transwarp cruiser and fend of the Predacon attack. But the battle is far from over, as Megatron heads for the now uncovered Autobot Ark - containing the heroes and villains who'll shape the Cybertron…

Season 3
Season 3
13 episodes · 1998
Optimal Situation
Episode 1. Optimal Situation
1998-10-25 · 30 min

Realizing that without the Maximals she would never have existed, Blackarachnia actives the Ark's defenses and forces Megatron out of the ship. The Maximals start initial repairs and the time storm subsides a bit, but Optimus Prime's life…

Deep Metal
Episode 2. Deep Metal
1998-11-01 · 30 min

The Maximal Depthcharge flies into a temporal disruption while out searching for Protoform X, and is sent back in time to the Beast Wars. He and Rampage has some unfinished business, and neither cares if anything gets in their way.

Changing of the Guard
Episode 3. Changing of the Guard
1998-11-08 · 30 min

Unable to jury-rig defenses using parts from the Ark, the Maximals send Rattrap down under water in a small capsule to retrieve Sentinel from wreckage of the Axalon. But Megatron wants to lay his hands on it too, and Rampage and…

Cutting Edge
Episode 4. Cutting Edge
1998-11-15 · 30 min

Two young cave-humans are separated from their parents by an attack from Megatron's new transmetal enhanced raptor clones. Optimus chases off the raptors and charges Blackarachnia and Cheetor with escorting the kids back to their homes.

Feral Scream (1)
Episode 5. Feral Scream (1)
1999-01-31 · 30 min

Using a newly discovered blank protoform, and his part of Rampage's spark, Megatron creates a clone of Dinobot incorporating his enhanced transmetal 2 technology. Discovering the experiment, Cheetor and Depthcharge try to destroy the…

Feral Scream (2)
Episode 6. Feral Scream (2)
1999-02-07 · 30 min

Afraid of what he's becoming and unable to control it, Cheetor tries to hide his temporary transmetal 2 transformation, leading the others to believe a mutant beast has destroyed him.

Proving Grounds
Episode 7. Proving Grounds
1999-02-14 · 30 min

Blackarachnia is getting tired of the distrust, and when she overhears Optimus and Rhinox discussing removing her Predacon programming, and the fact that it might leave her mindless, she rushes out on her own... straight into the claws of…

Go with the Flow
Episode 8. Go with the Flow
1999-02-18 · 30 min

Megatron is building a disruptor ray to scramble the Maximals' circuits, but needs an organic lifeform who won't be affected by it to finish putting the shielding into place. He has one of the cave-human children kidnapped, and it's up to…

Crossing the Rubicon
Episode 9. Crossing the Rubicon
1999-02-22 · 30 min

Blackarachnia attempts to use the transmetal driver on herself, but all it accomplishes is to disrupt her Predacon programming, making it deteriorate quickly to the point that it will make her mindless unless it is removed.

Master Blaster
Episode 10. Master Blaster
1999-03-15 · 30 min

Optimus is implanted with one of Tarantulas' bugs, this one letting Quickstrike remote control him. After securing the Maximal base, Megatron goes after the original Megatron's spark, hoping it will give him equal power to Optimal Optimus.

Other Victories
Episode 11. Other Victories
1999-05-05 · 30 min

The aliens, the Vok, send Tigerhawk to Earth to stop Megatron's meddling with time. He crashes into the Predacon base, but the Predacons have no intention of takeing this lying down... especially Tarantulas.

Nemesis (1)
Episode 12. Nemesis (1)
1999-05-06 · 30 min

While Inferno, Quickstrike and Waspinator go looking for a new ""colony"", Megatron discovers one of Tarantulas' secret projects - the reactivation of the gigantic Decepticon warship that shot down the Ark before it crashed into the sea.

Nemesis (2)
Episode 13. Nemesis (2)
1999-05-07 · 30 min

Destruction rains down on the Maximals as Megatron unleashes the weapons of the Nemesis. Optimus orders a desperate attempt at getting the Ark airborne.

Cast by season
Garry Chalk
Garry Chalk
Optimus Primal (voice)
David Kaye
David Kaye
Megatron (voice)
Scott McNeil
Scott McNeil
Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)
Ian James Corlett
Ian James Corlett
Cheetor (voice)
?
Richard Newman
Rhinox (voice)
Venus Terzo
Venus Terzo
Blackarachnia (voice)
Alec Willows
Alec Willows
Tarantulas (voice)
Don Brown
Don Brown
Scorponok (voice)
?
Doug Parker
Terrorsaur (voice)
?
Pauline Newstone
Airazor (voice)
Blu Mankuma
Blu Mankuma
Tigertron (voice)
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Sejian
★ 10.0 / 10
I love Transformers because of Beast Wars and Beast Machines. I practically grew up with this. Part of what makes this series great is the voice cast. They are amazing in their roles. Dinobot's arc from villain to antihero to self-sacrificing hero is one of the best in media. This could all be nostalgia talking, but Beast Wars is one of a handful of childhood cartoons I can still enjoy as an adult. Tekkaman Blade comes to mind when I talk about childhood cartoons because it's another one I loved as a kid, but unlike Beast Wars I could not make it through the first episode as an adult. It was such contrived !@#$ as to make my eyes bleed from the sheer torture of being subjec- I've made my point. I have tried watching other Transformers cartoons including the original animated movie and they all pale in comparison to Beast Wars and Beast Machines. They're all !@#$. Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom (2021) was an insult to this series. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) was an insult to this series. I will fight whoever gave this ONE star.
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