5.3/10 141 votes#1 - Carnage in C-Minor
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 10/13/1986
The Autobots and Decepticons find that the voices of three aliens (Allegra, Zebop Scandana and Basso Profundo) can make a powerful weapon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Buzz Dixon
5.8/10 144 votes#2 - B.O.T.
Season 2 Episode 49 - Aired 1/8/1986
During a battle, the Protectobots finish off the Combaticons, with the exception of Swindle. Megatron orders Swindle to reconstruct his destroyed comrades or else a bomb in his head will go off, destroying him. As Swindle works to complete this task in time, three students get a hold of Brawl's personality component and use it for their science project, B.O.T., with disastrous results.
Director: N/A
Writer: Earl Kress
5.9/10 118 votes#3 - Nightmare Planet
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/1986
Daniel's nightmare troubles get a lot worse when the Quintessons make them real. Autobots and Predacons are forced to join forces in order to fight these nightmares.
Director: N/A
Writer: Beth Bornstein
6.1/10 119 votes#4 - Surprise Party
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 10/8/1986
Wheelie and Daniel want to have a party for Ultra Magnus after a recent good deed of his. However, Ultra Magnus' birthday is unknown, even to him. Wheelie and Daniel try to find out the answer from Autobot records. Unfortunately for them, Cyclonus decides to intervene.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Mitchell, Barbara Petty
6.1/10 108 votes#5 - The Face of Nijika
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 11/19/1986
A group of Autobots, Cyclonus and Quintessons become trapped within a Quadrant Lock Disc that has also kept the planet Zimojin and it's inhabitants trapped for thousands of years. To get out the Quintessons need a component belonging to Perceptor, but he has several parts taken out which are used by Katsudan to make repairs on a robot. Now in the small form, Perceptor learns the Zimojins were trapped there by the Quintessons out of fear.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mary Skrenes, Steve Skeates
6.2/10 118 votes#6 - Thief in the Night
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/5/1986
Octane locates the defeated Trypticon and brings him to Carbombya. There, they follow orders from Fakhaddi in order to get energon. They begin stealing landmarks around the world for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Davids
6.3/10 142 votes#7 - Child's Play
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 11/6/1985
The space bridge accidentally sends several Autobots and Decepticons to a strange world in which they are no bigger than toys.
Director: N/A
Writer: Beth Bornstein
6.3/10 133 votes#8 - Kremzeek!
Season 2 Episode 46 - Aired 12/26/1985
A creature made out of energy, Kremzeek, gets made and causes trouble for the Autobots, Decepticons and Japan.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.4/10 107 votes#9 - Money Is Everything
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 11/16/1986
Marissa Fairborne and the Technobots encounter Dirk Mannis, who possesses the dangerous Recreator. Turns out the Quintessons want the Recreator for themselves and Dirk is happy to give it to them so long as he gets paid. Marissa and the Technobots get tangled into the resulting betrayals and scheming.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gerry Conway, Carla Conway
6.5/10 143 votes#10 - The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 11/17/1985
The Decepticons are trying to learn the secret surrounding a man's invention and go after his teenage daughter. Powerglide intervenes to rescue her, but this causes her to fall in love with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.6/10 176 votes#11 - Autobot Spike
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1985
Spike is severely hurt during a battle. His mind is placed into Sparkplug's recent creation, Autobot X, until his body can be saved by an operation. But the Autobot X body was unstable to begin with and Spike soon ends up betraying his friends.
Director: N/A
Writer: Donald F. Glut
6.6/10 131 votes#12 - Auto-Bop
Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 11/12/1985
Innocent people fall under Megatron's control through music being played at a club.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.6/10 123 votes#13 - Sea Change
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 11/19/1985
Seaspray falls in love, but the object of his affection is part of a rebel movement on another world.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.6/10 119 votes#14 - Hoist Goes Hollywood
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 11/20/1985
Hoist gets a big break into show business after rescuing stuntmen. Sunstreaker, Powerglide, Warpath and Tracks are along for the ride as well. On the road to a movie career, however, they learn Dirge has stolen a device from Wheeljack's lab.
Director: N/A
Writer: Earl Kress
6.6/10 121 votes#15 - Aerial Assault
Season 2 Episode 41 - Aired 12/9/1985
The Decepticons work with a smuggler to take over a Mideast palace and begin acquiring plane parts for the construction of a air fortress. The Aerialbots head to the scene, but Slingshot and Sky Dive get into trouble. But a young man known as Hassan comes to their aid to help save the day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.6/10 121 votes#16 - Forever Is a Long Time Coming
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 10/7/1986
The Quintessons plan to use a portal through time to prevent the Transformers' revolt against them. Several Autobots wind up getting sent back to the fight and a robot with an important future arrives in the present. And the Quintesson time portal begins to have disastrous effects on the universe.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gerry Conway, Carla Conway
6.6/10 107 votes#17 - The Quintesson Journal
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 11/10/1986
Two planets are locked in a destructive war and the Autobots attempt to bring about peace. Things do not go so well, however, until a Quintesson Journal is found and provides evidence of Quintesson involvement in the war.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Merwin
6.7/10 144 votes#18 - A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 10/23/1985
Spike, Hoist and Warpath find their battle with a group of Decepticons interrupted when they all get sent back in time to the middle ages.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.7/10 130 votes#19 - Prime Target
Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 11/13/1985
A hunter sets his sights on Optimus Prime and uses several captured Autobots to force him into a confrontation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Flint Dille, Buzz Dixon
6.7/10 127 votes#20 - Triple TakeOver
Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 11/18/1985
Astrotrain and Blitzwing leave The Decepticons to do things their way, which includes capturing Megatron and Starscream and seizing control of a stadium.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Strauss
6.7/10 119 votes#21 - Madman's Paradise
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 10/12/1986
Daniel leaves a banquet being hosted by his parents. He and Grimlock end up discovering a Quintesson chamber and get stuck in a magical world.
Director: N/A
Writer: Craig Rand
6.7/10 108 votes#22 - The Big Broadcast of 2006
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 11/11/1986
The Junkions fall victim to subliminal messages from the Quintessons, who are trying to get a journal off the Planet of Junk. This also causes the Junkions to attack Sky Lynx and Astrotrain, which brings the Autobots and Decepticons into the situation. Unfortunately, a screw up makes the Junkions send out the subliminal messages on their own, bringing about mass confusion and destruction.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
6.8/10 135 votes#23 - The God Gambit
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 10/27/1985
Astrotrain tricks a race living on one of Saturn's moons, Titan, into thinking he is a god and gets them to do his bidding, which includes getting a hold of a newly discovered power.
Director: N/A
Writer: Buzz Dixon
6.8/10 139 votes#24 - The Autobot Run
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 10/30/1985
Most of the Autobots lose their ability transform to robot mode after the Decepticons use a device on them. A handful of Autobots still capable of transforming are their only hope.
Director: N/A
Writer: Donald F. Glut
6.8/10 128 votes#25 - The Gambler
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 11/10/1985
With the others rendered powerless, Smokescreen has to enter the gambling world to get the Energon needed to revive them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Charles Hill
The Worst Episodes of The Transformers
Every episode of The Transformers ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Transformers!
The Transformers is the first animated television series in the Transformers franchise. The series depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects.
Genres:AnimationKidsAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Syndication
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Transformers" is "Carnage in C-Minor", rated 5.3/10 from 141 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Buzz Dixon. "Carnage in C-Minor" aired on 10/13/1986 and is rated 0.5 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "B.O.T.".