Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1

(1996) April - April | # of Episodes : 26

Ratings

8.1

Series Details

Seasons: 3

Total Episodes: 52

Creators: Bob Forward , Larry DiTillio

Networks: YTV , Syndication

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Apr 22, 1996

Recent Air Date: May 7, 1999

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-Y7

Website: Link

Production Companies: Mainframe Entertainment , Hasbro , Alliance Atlantis , Alliance Films

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Main Cast

Garry Chalk

Optimus Primal (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 94%

David Kaye

Megatron (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 22%

Scott McNeil

Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)

Age : 62 | Popularity : 67%

Ian James Corlett

Cheetor (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 27%

Richard Newman

Rhinox (voice)

Age : 78 | Popularity : 28%

Venus Terzo

Blackarachnia (voice)

Age : 57 | Popularity : 54%

Alec Willows

Tarantulas (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 27%

Don Brown

Scorponok (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Episodes

Episode 1

22 April 1996 - Beast Wars (1)

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

Episode 2

23 April 1996 - Beast Wars (2)

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

Episode 3

18 September 1996 - The Web

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

Episode 4

23 September 1996 - Equal Measures

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.

Episode 5

24 September 1996 - Chain of Command

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.

Episode 6

25 September 1996 - Power Surge

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.

Episode 7

30 September 1996 - Fallen Comrades

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.

Episode 8

07 October 1996 - Double Jeopardy

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.

Episode 9

08 October 1996 - A Better Mousetrap

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.

Episode 10

14 October 1996 - Gorilla Warfare

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.

Episode 11

15 October 1996 - The Probe

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.

Episode 12

01 November 1996 - Victory

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.

Episode 13

04 November 1996 - Dark Designs

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.

Episode 14

05 November 1996 - Double Dinobot

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

Episode 15

11 November 1996 - The Spark

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.

Episode 16

18 November 1996 - The Trigger (1)

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.

Episode 17

19 November 1996 - The Trigger (2)

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

Episode 18

06 January 1997 - Spider's Game

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.

Episode 19

07 January 1997 - Call of the Wild

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.

Episode 20

27 January 1997 - Dark Voyage

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.

Episode 21

03 February 1997 - Possession

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.

Episode 22

10 February 1997 - The Low Road

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...

Episode 23

17 February 1997 - Law of the Jungle

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.

Episode 24

21 February 1997 - Before the Storm

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.

Episode 25

31 March 1997 - Other Voices (1)

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.

Episode 26

01 April 1997 - Other Voices (2)

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.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Stéphane Reichel
Directing	Director	Larry DiTillio
Department	Role	Name

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