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TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED SERIES / CARTOONS

Episode GuideProduction Bible Sounds Other Resources

The main focus of our cartoons section is the original 1980s Transformers series, though if you check out 'Other Resources' on the navigation bar above you'll find some resources and links for other series.

Season One, 16 episodes [1984-1985]

[Transformers 'Generation One' DVD boxset]

A guide to the original 'G1' Transformers series by DrSpengler, including synopses, short reviews, character appearances, production errors and notes where versions collected on DVD in recent years differ from those broadcast.

Episode order is story chronology,
as per the popular Prime Targets guide.

Season One

► More than Meets the Eye, Part 1
► More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
► More than Meets the Eye, Part 3
► Transport to Oblivion
► Roll for it
► Divide and Conquer
► Fire in the Sky
► S.O.S. Dinobots
► Fire on the Mountain
► War of the Dinobots
► The Ultimate Doom, Part 1
► The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
► The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
► Countdown to Extinction
► A Plague of Insecticons
► The Heavy Metal War


Season Two, 49 episodes [1984-1985]

Season Two, Part 1

► Autobot Spike
► The Immobilizer
► Dinobot Island, Part 1
► Dinobot Island, Part 2
► Traitor
► Enter the Nightbird
► Changing Gears
► A Prime Problem
► Atlantis, Arise!
► Attack of the Autobots
► Microbots
► The Master Builders
► The Insecticon Syndrome
► Day of the Machines
► Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1
► Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
► Auto Berserk
► City of Steel
► Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1
► Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2
► Blaster Blues
► A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur’s Court
► The God Gambit*
► The Core
► Make Tracks*
► The Autobot Run

Season Two, Part 2

► The Golden Lagoon
► Quest for Survival
► The Secret of Omega Supreme
► Child's Play
► The Gambler
► The Search for Alpha Trion
► Auto-Bop
► Prime Target
► The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
► Triple Takeover
► Sea Change
► Hoist Goes Hollywood
► The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1
► The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
► Masquerade
► Trans-Europe Express
► War Dawn
► Cosmic Rust
► Kremzeek!
► Starscream's Brigade
► Revenge of Bruticus
► Aerial Assault
► B.O.T.

*These two episodes are on the part two set from Rhino, but fit earlier in story chronology.

Transformers the Movie [1986]

Often split into three episodes when broadcast on TV. Unlike many other series, for which an animated movie was the end, Transformers soldiered on in the US for a further two seasons. Watching the movie before them is strongly recommended, as there are many cast changes.

► Scramble City

► Transformers the Movie
In Japan an original animation titled Scramble City was initally released in place of the movie, the movie itself being delayed until 1989.

Season Three, 30 episodes [1986-1987]

Season Three, Part 1

► Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1
► Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2
► Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3
► Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4
► Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5
► The Killing Jar
► Chaos
► Dark Awakening
► Starscream's Ghost
► Thief in the Night
► Forever is a Long Time Coming
► Surprise Party
► Madman's Paradise
► Carnage in C-Minor
► Fight or Flee
► Webworld

Season Three, Part 2

► Ghost in the Machine
► The Dweller in the Depths
► Nightmare Planet
► The Ultimate Weapon
► The Quintesson Journal
► The Big Broadcast of 2006
► Only Human
► Grimlock's New Brain
► Money is Everything
► Call of the Primitives
► The Burden Hardest to Bear
► The Face of Nijika
► The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1
► The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2

Season Four, 3 episodes [1988]

Season Four

► The Rebirth, Part 1
► The Rebirth, Part 2
► The Rebirth, Part 3

A fifth season was broadcast, but consisted of existing episodes introduced by a stop-animation Powermaster Optimus Prime and a kid referred to as Tommy Kennedy.

Season four was replaced in Japan with several extra original series. More on that to come!