7.5/10170 votes#1 - Beast Wars (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/1996
A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.6/10140 votes#2 - Beast Wars (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/1996
Dinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.0/10125 votes#3 - The Web
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1996
Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.2/10118 votes#4 - Equal Measures
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Greg Johnson
7.9/10112 votes#5 - Chain of Command
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10112 votes#6 - Power Surge
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.8/10112 votes#7 - Fallen Comrades
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1996
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.7/10103 votes#8 - Double Jeopardy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/7/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10106 votes#9 - A Better Mousetrap
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/8/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10102 votes#10 - Gorilla Warfare
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/1996
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: N/A
Writer: Greg Johnson
7.7/10106 votes#11 - The Probe
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/15/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10102 votes#12 - Victory
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1097 votes#13 - Dark Designs
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/4/1996
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: N/A
7.2/10101 votes#14 - Double Dinobot
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/5/1996
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
7.9/1098 votes#15 - The Spark
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/11/1996
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
7.8/10101 votes#16 - The Trigger (1)
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/18/1996
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.8/10103 votes#17 - The Trigger (2)
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/19/1996
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
8.0/10102 votes#18 - Spider's Game
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/6/1997
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: N/A
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.4/10100 votes#19 - Call of the Wild
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/7/1997
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.4/1097 votes#20 - Dark Voyage
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1997
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: N/A
Writer: Samuel Warren Joseph
8.0/1099 votes#21 - Possession
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1997
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: N/A
7.1/1099 votes#22 - The Low Road
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1997
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.7/1093 votes#23 - Law of the Jungle
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1997
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: N/A
7.8/1093 votes#24 - Before the Storm
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/21/1997
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: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
8.0/1092 votes#25 - Other Voices (1)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/31/1997
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
Writer: 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 7.5/10 based on 170 votes. Directed by N/A 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)".