Beast Wars: Transformers

Seasons

1996

Canada

8.1

TV-Y7

The Transformers' war continues in an older time, through a new generation. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil Predacons battle for survival against each other and against a violent planet.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Beast Wars: Part 1

A band of benevolent Maximals track a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a mysterious planet. When they both crash-land, they establish themselves upon the planet and clash, commencing the Beast Wars.

S1 • E2

Beast Wars: Part 2

A large mountain containing the precious mineral Energon is discovered. This leads to a race between the Maximals and Predacons that culminates in a brawl between beasts.

S1 • E3

The Web

When Cheetor messes up an important mission, he decides to fix it on his own. But when he is lured into Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture, Rattrap is the only one who can save him.

S1 • E4

Equal Measures

Cheetor disobeys a direct order from Optimus by leaving the Maximals base to place survey posts on the planet. A lightning bolt strikes one of the posts, creating a direct teleportation route between the Predicons' and Maximals' bases.

S1 • E5

Chain of Command

Optimus Primal is abducted by an otherwordly probe, leaving the Maximals leaderless. Amidst their bickering and squabbling, the Predacons prepare to launch an attack.

S1 • E6

Power Surge

Terrorsaur discovers a floating mountain, rich with the mineral Energon. With a surge in his power, he scraps Megatron and takes control over the Predacons. Now the Maximals must destroy the mountain to stop his power-mad reign.

S1 • E7

Fallen Comrades

A stasis pod, containing the spark-soul of a robot, lands on Earth. Both Maximals and Predacons race against time to claim the spark as one of their own.

S1 • E8

Double Jeopardy

After being led into a trap and losing a stasis pod to the Predacons, Dinobot accuses Rattrap of working with the Predacons as the Maximal that led them there. To everyone's shock, Optimus agrees with this suspicion and sends Rattrap on a mission near Predacon base to test his loyalty. When Rattrap is beaten by Terrorsaur in battle, he surprises all by not only begging for mercy but swearing allegiance to the Predacons. Is Rattrap really a traitor?

S1 • E9

The Probe

The Maximals are elated to find that a Cybertron probe looking for their stranded ship has arrived. However, the Predacons don't wish for them to be found. Tarantulas introduces a locking lens, which can trap the Maximals in beast mode. This makes the Maximals unable to finish their beacon to contact the probe. Are the Maximals stranded for good?

S1 • E10

Gorilla Warfare

Scorponok plants a personality-modifying virus on Optimus Primal which will render him a cowardly, submissive weakling. But the virus malfunctions, and Primal gets very, very angry.

S1 • E11

A Better Mousetrap

A prank from Rattrap causes the Maximal ship to turn on its residents with its new defenses. Determined to fix his fault, Rattrap journeys into the malfunctioning ship to reboot the system.

S1 • E12

Victory

An explosion at the Predacon base leaves no survivors, and the Maximals assume they have scored a final victory in the Beast Wars. However, Dinobot makes an investigation that changes everything.

S1 • E13

Dark Designs

Megatron becomes impressed with the Maximal Rhinox, capturing and reprogramming him into a Predacon. Unfortunately, an evil Rhinox ends up doing more harm than good within the Predacon ranks.

S1 • E14

Double Dinobot

Megatron introduces an evil clone of Dinobot, different than the original in that it can only stay in beast mode. With the real Dinobot incapacitated, the clone begins to run amok among the Maximals. When it comes down to Dinobot against Dinobot, which one will win?

S1 • E15

The Spark

When a stasis pod falls to Earth, a race ensues between Maximals and Predacons to collect it. But when it is discovered to be damaged, the Maximals attempt to protect and defend it from a Predacon attack.

S1 • E16

The Trigger: Part 1

In the aftermath of a Predacon attack, Tigatron comes upon a strange floating island, and settles down on it to lead a peaceful, content life. However, Blackarachnia and Scorponok are not far away.

S1 • E17

The Trigger: Part 2

A skirmish occurs between Maximals and Predacons for control of a floating island: the Maximals for its use as a base, the Predacons for its destructive capabilities.

S1 • E18

Spider's Game

Tarantulas and Blackarachnia team up to obtain the newest stasis pod. The pod births Inferno, a deranged Predacon who believes himself to be an ant rather than a robot. While Blackarachnia works with Inferno, Tarantulas takes the true prize he wanted: the stasis pod. Maximal Tigatron manages to destroy the pod Tarantulas has taken, but finds himself trapped in Predacon grounds against the spiders and Inferno.

S1 • E19

Call of the Wild

A Predacon attack on the Maximal base leaves it malfunctioning, necessitating the Maximals to remain in beast mode until it is repaired. However, the longer they stay in beast mode, the more their animal sides start to take control.

S1 • E20

Dark Voyage

A Predacon attack blinds a Maximal squad and now Rhinox, Rattrap, Cheetor and Dinobot must embark on a voyage through darkness, relying on each other, to make it back to home base.

S1 • E21

Possession

Waspinator is taken over by the spark of Starscream. The Predacons use his new power and tactical knowledge to take over the Maximal base.

S1 • E22

The Low Road

Rhinox is contaminated with an energon depleting virus. Dinobot and Rattrap are forced to put aside their differences to find the counter-virus.

S1 • E23

Law of the Jungle

When a battle takes the life of a close friend, Tigatron considers abandoning the Beast Wars.

S1 • E24

Before the Storm

The discovery of a new golden disc causes Megatron to declare a truce. The Maximals set out to peacefully discover just what their enemy has found.

S1 • E25

Other Voices: Part 1

The mysterious aliens whose artifacts the Maximals and Predacons have been stumbling across arrive. Disappointed by the harm done to their experiments, they set out to destroy the planet.

S1 • E26

Other Voices: Part 2

The aliens transform the second moon into a massively powerful weapon. To save the planet, Optimus uses the stasis pod that Tarantulas planned to escape in to fly to the weapon and generate a transwarp portal to destroy it.