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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...
- Created by:
- Bob Forward, Larry DiTillio
- Cast:
- Garry Chalk, David Kaye, Colin Murdock, Scott McNeil
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- Canada
- Network:
- YTV, Syndication
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 1
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 6.0Beast Wars (1)
1996-04-22 · 30mA band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 6.0Beast Wars (2)
1996-04-23 · 30mDinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 6.0The Web
1996-09-18 · 30mCheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 6.0Equal Measures
1996-09-23 · 30mThe 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.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 6.5Chain of Command
1996-09-24 · 30mA 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.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 6.0Power Surge
1996-09-25 · 30mTerrorsaur 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.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 6.0Fallen Comrades
1996-09-30 · 30mOne 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.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 6.5Double Jeopardy
1996-10-07 · 30mAfter 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.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 6.0A Better Mousetrap
1996-10-08 · 30mWhile 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.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 6.5Gorilla Warfare
1996-10-14 · 30mScorponok 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.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 6.5The Probe
1996-10-15 · 30mRhinox 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.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 6.0Victory
1996-11-01 · 30mAfter 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.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 6.5Dark Designs
1996-11-04 · 30mAfter 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.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 6.5Double Dinobot
1996-11-05 · 30mMegatron creates a clone of Dinobot's beastmode, and sends him off to deactivate Sentinel while Terrorsaur traps the real Dinobot in a cave.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 6.5The Spark
1996-11-11 · 30mRhinox 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.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 6.5The Trigger (1)
1996-11-18 · 30mTigatron 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.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 6.5The Trigger (2)
1996-11-19 · 30mOptimus and Rattrap race to the island to assist Tigatron and the wounded Airrazor, while Scorponok and Blackarachnia make their way towards the obelisk.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 6.5Spider's Game
1997-01-06 · 30mPredicting 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.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 6.0Call of the Wild
1997-01-07 · 30mThe 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.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 6.0Dark Voyage
1997-01-27 · 30mA 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.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 5.5Possession
1997-02-03 · 30mDuring 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.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 6.0The Low Road
1997-02-10 · 30mTarantulas 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...
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E23
Episode 23
★ 6.0Law of the Jungle
1997-02-17 · 30mTigatron 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.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 6.0Before the Storm
1997-02-21 · 30mInferno 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.
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E25
Episode 25
★ 6.0Other Voices (1)
1997-03-31 · 30mAn 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.
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E26
Episode 26
★ 6.0Other Voices (2)
1997-04-01 · 30mThe 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.
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Garry Chalk
Optimus Primal (voice)
David Kaye
Megatron (voice)
Colin Murdock
Quickstrike (voice)
Scott McNeil
Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)
Ian James Corlett
Cheetor (voice)
Richard Newman
Rhinox (voice)
Venus Terzo
Blackarachnia (voice)
Jim Byrnes
Inferno (voice)
David Sobolov
Depth Charge (voice)
Campbell Lane
Rampage (voice)