List of The Transformers episodes

This is a list containing the episodes of The Transformers, an animated television series depicting a war among giant robots who could transform into vehicles, other objects and animals. Written and recorded in America, the series was animated in Japan. The entire series was based upon the line of transforming toys originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara, which were developed into the Transformers line by American company Hasbro.

In the USA, the show aired a total of 98 episodes between 1984 and 1987. The episodes are ordered chronologically.

Generation 1
Transformers "More than meets the eye" was a starter to the story but is not part of Season 1

Miniseries (1984)
season 1 started with a follow on to "More than meets the eye" with the same title sequence

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986.

The story takes place in 2005, 20 years after the events of the TV series' second season and serves to bridge into the third season. Set to an upbeat rock music soundtrack, the movie has a decidedly darker tone than the television series, with detailed visuals in Toei Animation's typical animated feature film styling, and Decepticon villains that are more menacing, killing, Ironhide, Ratchet, Huffer, Prowl, Brawn, Windcharger and Wheeljack without hesitation. The film features several grand battles in which a handful of major characters meet their end partley for Megatron who is reformed into Galvatrion along with Skywarp, Thundercracker, Shrapnel, Kickback and Bombshell get reformed in Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps by Unicron. Starscream is then destroyed by Galvatrion. Blaster gets four cassetes of his own like Soundwave known as Ramhorn, Steeljaw, Eject and Rewind. But Soundwave got a new cassete called Ratbat. The film's tagline was: "Beyond Good. Beyond Evil. Beyond Your Wildest Imagination".

Season 3 (1986–1987)
Season 4's title sequence was made of parts from the others and tv commercals with Season 3 music

Season 4 (1987)
This is the end of the American series. The Transformers continued in Japan as Transformers: Headmasters with 35 new episodes, however it ignores the events of "The Rebirth". A fifth season was aired but consisted entirely of re-runs of previous episodes being told as stories by Powermaster Optimus Prime.

Season 1 (1993)
Generation 2 episodes were all taken from Generation 1, which were previously produced but with added EFX and editing.