Larry DiTillio
Director
Beast Wars: Transformers (1996)
Season 2
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...
Released April 22, 1996
Episode 30 min
7+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation
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Production Companies: Mainframe Entertainment, Hasbro, Alliance Films, Alliance Atlantis Communications
Network: YTV
Country: Canada
Languages:
English,
Italian,
Spanish,
Mandarin
6.0
S2E1 - Aftermath
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.
Oct. 26, 1997, midnight
6.0
S2E2 - Coming of the Fuzors (1)
A new breed of transformer, robots with two animals mixed together when in beast form.
Nov. 2, 1997, midnight
6.0
S2E3 - Coming of the Fuzors (2)
Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, Rattrap, Cheetor and Dinobot try to keep the Predacons away from the Axalon where Rhinox lies delving deep into the Matrix, pursuing a faint hope...
Nov. 9, 1997, midnight
6.0
S2E4 - Tangled Web
Megatron sends out Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to build an energon refueling station, though the spiders' scheming complicates even the simplest task.
Nov. 16, 1997, midnight
6.0
S2E5 - Maximal, No More
Dinobot is captured while on a recognizance mission, and surprisingly asks Megatron for permission to rejoin the Predacons, offering the golden disk as proof of his sincerity.
Nov. 23, 1997, midnight
6.0
S2E6 - Other Visits (1)
While out surveying the planet, Airrazor and Tigatron trigger a remaining alien site. While the Maximals scramble to their rescue, Tarantulas is already on his way, determined to thwart the aliens' plans.
Feb. 8, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E7 - Other Visits (2)
Surviving the energon surge thanks to their new transmetal bodies, Tarantulas sets up a shield around the alien construct and heads inside along with Megatron and Quckstrike. Outside, Optimus and Rattrap try to figure a way in, while the two other transmetalized Maximals return the wounded Rhinox and Dinobot the CR chambers.
Feb. 15, 1998, midnight
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S2E8 - Bad Spark
Cheetor discovers a huge stasis pod, containing Protoform X - a failed Maximal experiment that created an indestructible spark but drove it insane in the process. When Predacons arrive, a fight breaks out over it, setting off an energon storm that leaves Blackarachnia and Silverbolt together damaged, having to fend for themselves - While Protoform X awakens, looking for a victim...
Feb. 22, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E9 - Code of Hero
Dinobot sees a chance to regain his lost honor when he spots Megatron attempting to alter history using the knowledge on the remaining golden disk.
March 9, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E10 - Transmutate
A series of earthquakes uncovers a heavily damaged stasispod. Out of it comes a freakish robot - barely sentient, but with extremely powerful weapons. Scoffed at by the others, both Silverbolt and Rampage sense a kindred spirit, each in their own way.
March 10, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E11 - The Agenda (1)
As the transwarp wave generated by the explosion in "Other Voices (2)" nears Cybertron, the Maximals rejoice, thinking the rescue is on its way. But unbeknownst to them, it is intercepted and diverted by the leaders of the Cybertronian Predacon alliance, who view Megatron as a loose cannon and wants to deal with him quietly, by sending one of their covert operatives.
March 11, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E12 - The Agenda (2)
Megatron is captured, but the battle used up too much of the cruiser's energon supply for there to be enough for the travel back to Cybertron. While Ravage interrogates Megatron about where they might find more, Primal confronts Silverbolt about his relationship Blackarachnia, leading the Fuzor to go off on his own to find her.
March 12, 1998, midnight
6.0
S2E13 - The Agenda (3)
The Maximals manage to take out the transwarp cruiser and fend of the Predacon attack. But the battle is far from over, as Megatron heads for the now uncovered Autobot Ark - containing the heroes and villains who'll shape the Cybertron where the Predacons and Maximals come from.
March 13, 1998, midnight
Network: YTV
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 1560 min.
Released: April 22, 1996
Last Air Date: May 7, 1999, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-Y7
Common sense age: 7+
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