Nicole Dubuc
Director
Transformers: Rescue Bots (2012)
Season 1
A team of specialized Autobots not quite ready for prime-time battles against the Decepticons is given a vital mission by Optimus Prime. The goal for the Bots is to learn about mankind and how to help others to find out what it really means to be a hero.
Released Feb. 18, 2012
Episode 20 min
7+
Genres: Action, Animation, Kids, Science Fiction, Short
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Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Plex, Toon Goggles + 3 more, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Philo
Production Companies: Hasbro Studios
Network: Hub Network
S1E1 - Family of Heroes
The four members of Rescue Force Sigma-17 emerge and are greeted by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime, who assigns them to work with the Burns family on an island. While the four are supposed to respond to every command the humans give them, they get fed up with it and are tempted to leave Earth. Until, an animatronic dinosaur attacks the island.
Feb. 18, 2012, midnight
S1E2 - Under Pressure
While Chase and Chief Burns pursue an out-of-control robo-landscaper through Griffin Rock, Cody Burns reports that the rest of the team might be delayed, as his siblings are having trouble coming to terms with the fact that their rescue vehicles are alien robots. A volcano suddenly threatens the island of Griffin Rock, sending the Rescue Bots and Burns family into action. The group has to put aside their differences and work together in order to save the island.
Feb. 18, 2012, midnight
S1E3 - Hotshots
None
Feb. 25, 2012, midnight
S1E4 - Flobsters on Parade
Flying lobsters invade a summer festival, and an angry Heatwave refuses to help fight them.
March 3, 2012, midnight
S1E5 - The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
The Rescue Bots are put in danger when a resident of Griffin Rock threatens to expose the secret of an "alien invasion.
March 10, 2012, midnight
S1E6 - Walk on the Wild Side
Boulder decides that the team needs an animal mascot but maybe a zoo isn't the best place to find one.
April 21, 2012, midnight
S1E7 - Cody on Patrol
Cody accidentally unleashes a swarm of futuristic nanites while he's trying to super-charge his go-kart to help in the team's rescue missions.
March 17, 2012, midnight
S1E8 - Four Bots and a Baby
The Bots are enlisted to watch after Doc Greene's Robo-Baby.
April 14, 2012, midnight
S1E9 - Christmas in July
Cody, his family and the Rescue Bots have to stop a snow storm in July when a weather machine goes haywire.
April 28, 2012, midnight
S1E10 - Deep Trouble
A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.
May 5, 2012, midnight
S1E11 - Return of the Dinobot
None
May 12, 2012, midnight
S1E12 - The Other Doctor
A scientist tries to replace the team with a new invention, leaving everyone out of the action.
May 19, 2012, midnight
S1E13 - The Reign of Morocco
Cody looks for proof that the new scientist's invention is really a villainous plan.
May 19, 2012, midnight
S1E14 - Small Blessings
The Rescue Bots are accidentally shrunk and the Burns family must work without their partners.
June 9, 2012, midnight
S1E15 - The Griffin Rock Triangle
Cody finds a clue to an old mystery and makes a startling underwater discovery.
June 16, 2012, midnight
S1E16 - Rules and Regulations
The Rescue Bots disobey the Chief's orders and find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
June 23, 2012, midnight
S1E17 - The Lost Bell
A storm strands Cody on a deserted island where they find a pirate ship that holds the key to a mystery.
June 30, 2012, midnight
S1E18 - Bumblebee to the Rescue
Bumblebee pays the Rescue Bots a visit just in time to help investigate a mysterious meteor.
July 7, 2012, midnight
S1E19 - You've Been Squished
The Bots and Burns must stop a giant glob of space slime before it consumes the town.
July 14, 2012, midnight
S1E20 - Countdown
Cody and the Rescue Bots try to solve the vanishing mystery when the residents of Griffin Rock start disappearing.
July 21, 2012, midnight
S1E21 - The Haunting of Griffin Rock
Ghosts haunt and terrorize the residents of Griffin Rock.
July 28, 2012, midnight
S1E22 - Little White Lies
The kids are covertly planning a surprise birthday party for their father. Chief Burns tells them he is heading to the docks, but actually takes a trip to the bakery for a cake, as a present for his family, thinking that they forgot his birthday. Chase discovers this to be a lie and is confounded by this. While setting up the party back home, the kids and the other Rescue Bots realize that Chase and Chief Burns are missing, and search the entire town. Eventually they discover the two trapped inside an underground mine, and save them from the flooding water and falling rocks.
Aug. 4, 2012, midnight
S1E23 - Shake Up
The Rescue Bots lead the rescue efforts when a series of earthquakes strike the island.
Aug. 11, 2012, midnight
S1E24 - Rescue Boy
Doc Greene invents a repulsor badge that allows the wearer to be occluded from projectiles. Cody uses it to participate more on the front lines, in missions with the rest of his family, against Chief Burns concern of his safety. His superhero status, however, is halted when his repulsor badge is overloaded and projects a nonstop field, enclosing him inside. Boulder uses neutralizing gloves, also invented by Doc Greene, to bypass the repulsive field and successfully remove the badge from Cody, shortly before it detonates.
Aug. 11, 2012, midnight
S1E25 - It's a Bot Time
When Doc Greene's experiment with a time machine goes awry, the Bots end up being captured by an old nemesis.
Aug. 18, 2012, midnight
S1E26 - Bot to the Future
When the Bots return home, they find that Doctor Morocco is in command of Griffin Rock.
Aug. 18, 2012, midnight
Network: Hub Network
Episode Runtime: 20 min.
Season Runtime: 2080 min.
Released: Feb. 18, 2012
Last Air Date: Oct. 22, 2016, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-Y7
Common sense age: 7+
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