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The Best Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1

Every episode of Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1

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...
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 1 - Beast Wars (1)
    7.6/10(183 votes)

    #1 - Beast Wars (1)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  2. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 2 - Beast Wars (2)
    7.7/10(152 votes)

    #2 - Beast Wars (2)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  3. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 3 - The Web
    7.0/10(137 votes)

    #3 - The Web

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Larry DiTillio

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  4. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 4 - Equal Measures
    7.3/10(126 votes)

    #4 - Equal Measures

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Johnson

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  5. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 5 - Chain of Command
    8.0/10(120 votes)

    #5 - Chain of Command

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jess Winfield

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  6. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 6 - Power Surge
    7.5/10(119 votes)

    #6 - Power Surge

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Larry DiTillio

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  7. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 7 - Fallen Comrades
    8.0/10(119 votes)

    #7 - Fallen Comrades

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  8. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 8 - Double Jeopardy
    7.9/10(111 votes)

    #8 - Double Jeopardy

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jess Winfield

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  9. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 9 - A Better Mousetrap
    8.1/10(114 votes)

    #9 - A Better Mousetrap

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Chris Weber, Karen Willson

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  10. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 10 - Gorilla Warfare
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    #10 - Gorilla Warfare

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Johnson

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  11. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 11 - The Probe
    7.8/10(111 votes)

    #11 - The Probe

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Craig Miller, Marv Wolfman

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  12. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 12 - Victory
    8.1/10(107 votes)

    #12 - Victory

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Wendy Reardon

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  13. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 13 - Dark Designs
    7.7/10(103 votes)

    #13 - Dark Designs

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Owen Hurley
    Writer:Ian Weir

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  14. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 14 - Double Dinobot
    7.4/10(107 votes)

    #14 - Double Dinobot

    S1:E14

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

    Director:John Pozer
    Writer:Rowby Goren

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  15. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 15 - The Spark
    8.1/10(104 votes)

    #15 - The Spark

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Colin Davies
    Writer:Larry DiTillio

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  16. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 16 - The Trigger (1)
    7.9/10(106 votes)

    #16 - The Trigger (1)

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  17. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 17 - The Trigger (2)
    8.0/10(108 votes)

    #17 - The Trigger (2)

    S1:E17

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  18. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 18 - Spider's Game
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    #18 - Spider's Game

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Larry DiTillio

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  19. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 19 - Call of the Wild
    7.5/10(104 votes)

    #19 - Call of the Wild

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  20. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 20 - Dark Voyage
    7.6/10(101 votes)

    #20 - Dark Voyage

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Samuel Warren Joseph

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  21. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 21 - Possession
    8.2/10(104 votes)

    #21 - Possession

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Owen Hurley
    Writer:Ian Weir

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  22. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 22 - The Low Road
    7.3/10(105 votes)

    #22 - The Low Road

    S1:E22

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  23. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 23 - Law of the Jungle
    7.9/10(97 votes)

    #23 - Law of the Jungle

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:John Pozer
    Writer:Mark Leiren-Young

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  24. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 24 - Before the Storm
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #24 - Before the Storm

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Larry DiTillio, Bob Forward

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  25. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 25 - Other Voices (1)
    8.3/10(96 votes)

    #25 - Other Voices (1)

    S1:E25

    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.

    Director:Colin Davies
    Writers:Larry DiTillio, Bob Forward

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Beast Wars (1)" is the best rated episode of "Beast Wars: Transformers" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 183 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Bob Forward, it aired on 4/22/1996. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Beast Wars (2)".