Beast Wars: Transformers

Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada) is a computer-animated television series that debuted on September 16, 1996 and ended on May 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. It was one of the earliest fully CGI television shows. The series is set in the future of the "original" Transformers franchise, 300 years after the events of The Transformers, and features the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons respectively. While engaged in battle, small teams from each faction crash land on an unknown planet, and must find a way to return home while continuing their war.

Beast Wars: Transformers
Genre
Based onTransformers
by Hasbro
Developed by
Voices of
Opening theme"Beast Wars Theme Song"
ComposerRobert Buckley
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Christopher Brough
  • Ian Pearson
  • Stephane Reichel
  • Steven DeNure
  • For Alliance/Alliance Atlantis
  • Beth Stevenson
  • Peter Sander
  • Suzanne French
  • For YTV
  • Laurinda Shaver
  • Alan Gregg
Producers
  • Jonathan Goodwill
  • Kim Dent Wilder
  • Mark Ralston
Running time22–23 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 16, 1996 (1996-09-16) 
May 7, 1999 (1999-05-07)
Related

The Beast Wars TV series was the first Transformers series to feature computer-animated characters, and was produced by Mainframe Entertainment of Vancouver, British Columbia; its story editors were Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio. The production designer for the show, Clyde Klotz, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 1997 for his work on Beast Wars.

A sequel television series, Beast Machines: Transformers, aired from 1999 to 2000. Additional Beast Wars limited comic book series have been released by Dreamwave Productions and IDW Publishing.

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