7.0/10125 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.1/1099 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.2/10118 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.2/10101 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.2/1084 votesLoading...#5 - Go with the Flow
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/1999
Megatron is building a disruptor ray to scramble the Maximals' circuits, but needs an organic lifeform who won't be affected by it to finish putting the shielding into place. He has one of the cave-human children kidnapped, and it's up to Rattrap and Depthcharge to save her.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Forward
7.4/10112 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.4/10100 votesLoading...#8 - 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 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.4/1084 votesLoading...#10 - Cutting Edge
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/1998
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1087 votesLoading...#11 - Proving Grounds
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1999
Blackarachnia is getting tired of the distrust, and when she overhears Optimus and Rhinox discussing removing her Predacon programming, and the fact that it might leave her mindless, she rushes out on her own... straight into the claws of the waiting Dinobot.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10169 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.5/1097 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10140 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.6/10101 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.6/1086 votesLoading...#16 - Changing of the Guard
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1998
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1085 votesLoading...#17 - Feral Scream (2)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jules Dennis
7.6/1083 votesLoading...#18 - Master Blaster
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/1999
Optimus is implanted with one of Tarantulas' bugs, this one letting Quickstrike remote control him. After securing the Maximal base, Megatron goes after the original Megatron's spark, hoping it will give him equal power to Optimal Optimus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10103 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.7/10105 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.7/1093 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.7/10102 votesLoading...#22 - Aftermath
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1997
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.
Director: Colin Davies
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.8/10101 votesLoading...#24 - 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 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of 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...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Web" is the worst rated episode of "Beast Wars: Transformers". It scored 7/10 based on 125 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Larry DiTillio, it aired on 9/18/1996. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Low Road".
