Season Guide
Transformers: Generation 1 Season 1
Season 1 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 1 of Transformers: Generation 1 premiered 1984-09-17 and ran 16 episodes through 1984-12-29.
Episodes
1
Our Take The 1984 pilot still holds up as a fun, kinetic introduction, with the Autobot-Decepticon war established fast and the animation doing decent work for a toy commercial. Some…
2
Our TakeA classic for the ages. If you sample one episode of Transformers: Generation 1, make it this one.
3
Our TakeThis one earns its reputation: tight writing, real stakes, and a payoff that lands. Peak Transformers: Generation 1.
4
Our Take A fun, fast-moving half hour that leans hard into the sci-fi side of the show, with Megatron's space bridge giving the Autobots a real problem to solve instead…
5
Our TakeA top shelf classic. If you sample one episode of Transformers: Generation 1, make it this one.
6
Our Take A rare early episode that actually feels like a war story, with Optimus down and the Autobots scrambling to save him before time runs out. The Cybertron flashback…
7
Our Take The Dinobots make their first appearance, and honestly it's a fun one. The idea of Wheeljack building dinosaur robots that immediately go haywire is silly in the best…
8
Our Take This is where the show stops messing around. Megatron's plan actually feels dangerous, with Cybertron being dragged into Earth's orbit and Sparkplug turned against the Autobots, which gives…
9
Our Take Part two of the trilogy keeps the momentum going with some of the show's best action, as the Autobots scramble to counter Cybertron's arrival and Megatron's power play.…
10
Our Take The three-parter ends on a genuinely high note, with the chaos of a planet in the sky finally paying off in big robot brawls and real stakes. The…
11
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
12
Our Take A messy follow-up to the pilot's big finale, with Megatron's space bridge scheme resolved so quickly it feels like the writers lost interest halfway through. The Dinobots get…
13
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
14
Our Take The season finale goes big with the Constructicons merging into Devastator, and honestly it's still one of the coolest ideas the show ever had. The Optimus/Megatron duel is…
15
Our Take A middling road trip episode where the Autobots head to Peru to stop the Decepticons from weaponizing a crystal inside an ancient pyramid. Brawn's bad attitude is fun…
16
Our Take A fairly disposable monster-of-the-week outing that mostly exists to sell the new Insecticon toys. The rural farm setting and the swarm imagery give it a slightly different flavor…