
Beast Wars (1)
Episode 1 • Apr 22, 1996
A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.
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...
52 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1996
Rating
8.1/10
307 votes • HD
People
Optimus Primal (voice)
Megatron (voice)
Quickstrike (voice)
Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)
Cheetor (voice)
Rhinox (voice)
Blackarachnia (voice)
Inferno (voice)
Depth Charge (voice)
Rampage (voice)
Episodes
Episode 1 • Apr 22, 1996
A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.
Episode 2 • Apr 23, 1996
Dinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.
Episode 3 • Sep 18, 1996
Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.
Episode 4 • Sep 23, 1996
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 • Sep 24, 1996
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 • Sep 25, 1996
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 1 • Oct 26, 1997
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 before they have a chance to regroup and recover.
Episode 2 • Nov 02, 1997
A new breed of transformer, robots with two animals mixed together when in beast form.
Episode 3 • Nov 09, 1997
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...
Episode 4 • Nov 16, 1997
Megatron sends out Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to build an energon refueling station, though the spiders' scheming complicates even the simplest task.
Episode 5 • Nov 23, 1997
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.
Episode 6 • Feb 08, 1998
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.
Episode 1 • Oct 25, 1998
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 still hangs in the balance - it could swing either way. Megatron rallies his troops to make sure it swings in his favor.
Episode 2 • Nov 01, 1998
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.
Episode 3 • Nov 08, 1998
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 Depthcharge fighting it out in the area, nobody's safe.
Episode 4 • Nov 15, 1998
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.
Episode 5 • Jan 31, 1999
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 equipment, but it is activated during the fight and blows up - the cat getting caught in the blast.
Episode 6 • Feb 07, 1999
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.
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