Scripted series · Syndication
Beast Wars: Transformers
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Garry Chalk
Optimus Primal (voice)
52 eps
David Kaye
Megatron (voice)
52 eps
Colin Murdock
Quickstrike (voice)
26 eps
Scott McNeil
Dinobot / Rattrap / Waspinator (voice)
52 eps
Ian James Corlett
Cheetor (voice)
52 eps
Richard Newman
Rhinox (voice)
52 eps
Venus Terzo
Blackarachnia (voice)
52 eps
Alec Willows
Tarantulas (voice)
44 eps
Jim Byrnes
Inferno (voice)
32 eps
Don Brown
Scorponok (voice)
26 eps
Doug Parker
Terrorsaur (voice)
26 eps
Pauline Newstone
Airazor (voice)
28 eps
David Sobolov
Depth Charge (voice)
13 eps
Campbell Lane
Rampage (voice)
18 eps
Blu Mankuma
Tigertron (voice)
31 eps
Susan Blu
Una (voice)
3 eps
Lee Tockar
Ravage (voice)
3 eps
Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff
Predacon Computer (voice)
17 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Beast Wars: Transformers actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Beast Wars: Transformers reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and Character Depth.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
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...
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Larry DiTillio
Creator
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Bob Forward
Showrunner
Len Wein
Writer
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Rowby Goren
Writer
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Evan Somers
Writer
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Wendy Reardon
Writer
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Ian Weir
Writer
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Samuel Warren Joseph
Writer
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Arthur Sellers
Writer
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Patrick Barry
Writer
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Jules Dennis
Writer
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Craig Miller
Writer
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Eric Torin
Writer
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Karen Willson
Writer
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Mark Leiren-Young
Writer
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Chris Weber
Writer
Christy Marx
Writer
Jess Winfield
Writer
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Greg Johnson
Writer
Marv Wolfman
Writer
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D.C. Fontana
Writer
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Simon Furman
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Stéphane ReichelProducer
Writing
- Larry DiTillioWriter
- Bob ForwardWriter
- Len WeinWriter
- Rowby GorenWriter
- Evan SomersWriter
- Wendy ReardonWriter
Direction
- Larry DiTillioDirector
- John PozerDirector
- Colin DaviesDirector
- Owen HurleyDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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