Beast Wars: Transformers backdrop
Animation•Action & Adventure•Kids

The Worst Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers

Every episode of Beast Wars: Transformers ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers!

Binge this in 1d 2h•Peaking at 9.5/10

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

Airs on
YTVSyndication
BestEpisodes
WorstEpisodes
BestSeasons
AllEpisodes

Seasons3

All123

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Worst Episode
    Click to reveal
    Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 3 - The Web
    7.0/10(152 votes)

    #1 - The Web

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Larry DiTillio

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  2. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 4 - Equal Measures
    7.3/10(141 votes)

    #2 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  3. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 6 - Power Surge
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    #3 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  4. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 22 - The Low Road
    7.4/10(119 votes)

    #4 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  5. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 2 Episode 4 - Tangled Web
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    #5 - Tangled Web

    S2:E4

    Megatron sends out Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to build an energon refueling station, though the spiders' scheming complicates even the simplest task.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Len Wein

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  6. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 11 - The Probe
    7.5/10(127 votes)

    #6 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

    7. Trending NowTRENDING NOW

    The 20 BEST Episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers

    READ
  7. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 14 - Double Dinobot
    7.5/10(121 votes)

    #7 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  8. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3 Episode 8 - Go with the Flow
    7.5/10(99 votes)

    #8 - Go with the Flow

    S3:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Forward

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  9. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 1 - Beast Wars (1)
    7.6/10(201 votes)

    #9 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  10. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 2 - Beast Wars (2)
    7.6/10(168 votes)

    #10 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  11. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 10 - Gorilla Warfare
    7.6/10(124 votes)

    #11 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  12. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 19 - Call of the Wild
    7.6/10(119 votes)

    #12 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  13. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3 Episode 7 - Proving Grounds
    7.6/10(103 votes)

    #13 - Proving Grounds

    S3:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Arthur Sellers

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  14. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 5 - Chain of Command
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #14 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  15. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 7 - Fallen Comrades
    7.7/10(136 votes)

    #15 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  16. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 8 - Double Jeopardy
    7.7/10(127 votes)

    #16 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  17. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 13 - Dark Designs
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #17 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  18. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 20 - Dark Voyage
    7.7/10(116 votes)

    #18 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  19. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 9 - A Better Mousetrap
    7.8/10(130 votes)

    #19 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  20. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3 Episode 4 - Cutting Edge
    7.8/10(100 votes)

    #20 - Cutting Edge

    S3:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ian Weir

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  21. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 23 - Law of the Jungle
    7.9/10(111 votes)

    #21 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  22. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 2 Episode 1 - Aftermath
    7.9/10(117 votes)

    #22 - Aftermath

    S2:E1

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  23. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3 Episode 3 - Changing of the Guard
    7.9/10(103 votes)

    #23 - Changing of the Guard

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Evan Somers

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  24. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 16 - The Trigger (1)
    8.0/10(119 votes)

    #24 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  25. Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 Episode 17 - The Trigger (2)
    8.0/10(121 votes)

    #25 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Web" is the worst rated episode of "Beast Wars: Transformers". It scored 7/10 based on 152 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Larry DiTillio, it aired on 9/18/1996. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Equal Measures".