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Beast Wars: Transformers

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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

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Seasons

4 available

Season 1

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Episode 1

★ 6.0

Beast Wars (1)

1996-04-22 · 30m

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

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Episode 2

★ 6.0

Beast Wars (2)

1996-04-23 · 30m

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

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Episode 3

★ 6.0

The Web

1996-09-18 · 30m

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

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Episode 4

★ 6.0

Equal Measures

1996-09-23 · 30m

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.

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Episode 5

★ 6.5

Chain of Command

1996-09-24 · 30m

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.

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Episode 6

★ 6.0

Power Surge

1996-09-25 · 30m

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.

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Episode 7

★ 6.0

Fallen Comrades

1996-09-30 · 30m

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.

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Episode 8

★ 6.5

Double Jeopardy

1996-10-07 · 30m

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.

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Episode 9

★ 6.0

A Better Mousetrap

1996-10-08 · 30m

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.

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Episode 10

★ 6.5

Gorilla Warfare

1996-10-14 · 30m

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.

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Episode 11

★ 6.5

The Probe

1996-10-15 · 30m

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.

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Episode 12

★ 6.0

Victory

1996-11-01 · 30m

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.

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Episode 13

★ 6.5

Dark Designs

1996-11-04 · 30m

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.

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Episode 14

★ 6.5

Double Dinobot

1996-11-05 · 30m

Megatron 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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Episode 15

★ 6.5

The Spark

1996-11-11 · 30m

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.

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Episode 16

★ 6.5

The Trigger (1)

1996-11-18 · 30m

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.

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Episode 17

★ 6.5

The Trigger (2)

1996-11-19 · 30m

Optimus 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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Episode 18

★ 6.5

Spider's Game

1997-01-06 · 30m

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.

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Episode 19

★ 6.0

Call of the Wild

1997-01-07 · 30m

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.

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Episode 20

★ 6.0

Dark Voyage

1997-01-27 · 30m

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.

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Episode 21

★ 5.5

Possession

1997-02-03 · 30m

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.

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Episode 22

★ 6.0

The Low Road

1997-02-10 · 30m

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...

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Episode 23

★ 6.0

Law of the Jungle

1997-02-17 · 30m

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.

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Episode 24

★ 6.0

Before the Storm

1997-02-21 · 30m

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.

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Episode 25

★ 6.0

Other Voices (1)

1997-03-31 · 30m

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.

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Episode 26

★ 6.0

Other Voices (2)

1997-04-01 · 30m

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.

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Cast

Garry Chalk

Garry Chalk

Optimus Primal (voice)

David Kaye

David Kaye

Megatron (voice)

Colin Murdock

Colin Murdock

Quickstrike (voice)

Scott McNeil

Scott McNeil

Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)

Ian James Corlett

Ian James Corlett

Cheetor (voice)

Richard Newman

Richard Newman

Rhinox (voice)

Venus Terzo

Venus Terzo

Blackarachnia (voice)

Jim Byrnes

Jim Byrnes

Inferno (voice)

David Sobolov

David Sobolov

Depth Charge (voice)

Campbell Lane

Campbell Lane

Rampage (voice)

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