Beast Wars: Transformers: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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. Beast Wars was a spin-off from the 80s Transformers cartoon. It was later followed by Beast Machines, which continues this show. Another interesting series to note that Beast Wars may have started as Beast Wars Neo, completely done in Japanese and yet to be dubbed; it is vaguely reminiscent of Gundam Wing, and many other popular mobile suit animes.

Series details

• Title: Beast Wars: Transformers
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 1996-09-16
• Final broadcast date listed: 1999-05-07
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Syndication
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.4/10
• TVMaze ID: 4228

Cast and credited roles

• Garry Chalk — Optimus Primal
• David Kaye — Megatron
• Scott McNeil — Dinobot
• Richard Newman — Rhinox
• Ian James Corlett — Cheetor
• Don Brown — Scorponok
• Jim Byrnes — Inferno
• Venus Terzo — Blackarachnia
• Blu Mankuma — Tigatron
• Alec Willows — Tarantulas
• Colin Murdock — Quickstrike
• David Sobolov — Depthcharge

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1996-09-16; final listed air date 1997-04-01; episode order: 26.
• Season 2: premiered 1997-10-26; final listed air date 1998-03-13; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 1998-10-25; final listed air date 1999-05-07; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Beast Wars: Transformers on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.