The BEST episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers season 1
Every episode of Beast Wars: Transformers season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers season 1!
Trapped on a primitive planet, two opposing factions, the Maximals and the Predacons, of Transformers, a race of sentient robots, fight over its precious Energon. Soon they discover that there are other forces at work on the planet - a powerful alien race that does not approve of their presence. And as they delve deeper into the planet's history, they uncover a terrible secret, one that must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands, or their entire race's very existence could be threatened.
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Other Voices (2)
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1997
The spacecraft leaves, but not before revealing the second moon's true purpose - planet destruction. As it gets ready to fire, Optimus and the others return to the Axalon only to find Rhinox and Dinobot off-line... and spiders in their basement.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Web
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1996
Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.