Beast Wars: Transformers

1996 - 1999

Beast Wars (1)

22nd April 1996

Episode 1

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

Beast Wars (2)

23rd April 1996

Episode 2

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

The Web

18th September 1996

Episode 3

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

Equal Measures

23rd September 1996

Episode 4

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 lighting somehow transports him into the Predacon base.

Chain of Command

24th September 1996

Episode 5

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 Predacons prepare to attack.

Power Surge

25th September 1996

Episode 6

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 destroy the Maximals.

Fallen Comrades

30th September 1996

Episode 7

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 flyer, the Maximals race to the pod in hope of getting it before the Predacons reprogram the dormant robot inside.

Double Jeopardy

7th October 1996

Episode 8

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, and offers to surrender... and become a Predacon.

A Better Mousetrap

8th October 1996

Episode 9

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

14th October 1996

Episode 10

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

15th October 1996

Episode 11

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 middle of Predacon territory.

Victory

1st November 1996

Episode 12

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 back to Cybertron with salvaged parts from the remains of the Predacon ship.

Dark Designs

4th November 1996

Episode 13

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, though it seems like the new Rhinox has other ideas.

Double Dinobot

5th November 1996

Episode 14

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

11th November 1996

Episode 15

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 will be extinguished.

The Trigger (1)

18th November 1996

Episode 16

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)

19th November 1996

Episode 17

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

6th January 1997

Episode 18

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

7th January 1997

Episode 19

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

27th January 1997

Episode 20

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

3rd February 1997

Episode 21

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 skills are after all considerable... but then again - so is his treachery.

The Low Road

10th February 1997

Episode 22

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 underground lair...

Law of the Jungle

17th February 1997

Episode 23

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

21st February 1997

Episode 24

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 determined to leave the planet than ever.

Other Voices (1)

31st March 1997

Episode 25

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

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 basement.

Top Cast

Garry Chalk•David Kaye•Colin Murdock

Director

Larry DiTillio

Animation Action & Adventure

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...

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Full Cast

Garry Chalk Image

Garry Chalk

Optimus Primal (voice)

David Kaye Image

David Kaye

Megatron (voice)

Colin Murdock Image

Colin Murdock

Quickstrike (voice)

Scott McNeil Image

Scott McNeil

Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)

Ian James Corlett

Cheetor (voice)

Richard Newman Image

Richard Newman

Rhinox (voice)

Venus Terzo Image

Venus Terzo

Blackarachnia (voice)

Jim Byrnes Image

Jim Byrnes

Inferno (voice)

David Sobolov Image

David Sobolov

Depth Charge (voice)

Campbell Lane Image

Campbell Lane

Rampage (voice)

Full Crew

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Producer

Larry DiTillio

Director

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