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 natural energy, transforming into robots to do battle. Thus, the Beast Wars have begun...
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- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes aired
- 52
- Latest aired
- S03E13
- Total runtime
- 1d 2h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 April 1996 – April 1997 26 episodes
- Season 2 October 1997 – March 1998 13 episodes
- Season 3 October 1998 – May 1999 13 episodes
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S01E01 Beast Wars (1)
April 22 · 30min find the promo
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A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.
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S01E02 Beast Wars (2)
April 23 · 30min find the promo
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Dinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.
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S01E03 The Web
September 18 · 30min find the promo
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Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture.
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S01E04 Equal Measures
September 23 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E05 Chain of Command
September 24 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E06 Power Surge
September 25 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E07 Fallen Comrades
September 30 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E08 Double Jeopardy
October 7 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E09 A Better Mousetrap
October 8 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E10 Gorilla Warfare
October 14 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E11 The Probe
October 15 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E12 Victory
November 1 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E13 Dark Designs
November 4 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E14 Double Dinobot
November 5 · 30min find the promo
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Megatron creates a clone of Dinobot's beastmode, and sends him off to deactivate Sentinel while Terrorsaur traps the real Dinobot in a cave.
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S01E15 The Spark
November 11 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E16 The Trigger (1)
November 18 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E17 The Trigger (2)
November 19 · 30min find the promo
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Optimus and Rattrap race to the island to assist Tigatron and the wounded Airrazor, while Scorponok and Blackarachnia make their way towards the obelisk.
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S01E18 Spider's Game
January 6 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E19 Call of the Wild
January 7 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E20 Dark Voyage
January 27 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E21 Possession
February 3 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E22 The Low Road
February 10 · 30min find the promo
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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...
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S01E23 Law of the Jungle
February 17 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E24 Before the Storm
February 21 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E25 Other Voices (1)
March 31 · 30min find the promo
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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.
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S01E26 Other Voices (2)
April 1 · 30min find the promo
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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.