This is a list containing the episodes of ''

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'', an

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depicting a war among the

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s and

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s who could transform into vehicles, other objects and animals. Written and recorded in America, the series was animated in

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and later

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. The entire series was based upon the line of transforming toys originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer

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, which were developed into the ''Transformers'' line by American company

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. In the United States, the show aired a total of 98 episodes between September 17, 1984 and November 11, 1987. The episodes are ordered chronologically by broadcast date. Order # is the correct chronological story order for the episodes, which aired out of order.

Series overview

Generation 1

Season 1 (1984)

Season 2 (1985–86)

''The Transformers: The Movie'' (1986)

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's typical animated feature film styling. The film features several grand battles in which a handful of major characters die.

Season 3 (1986–87)

Season 4 (1987)

Season 4's title sequence was made of parts from the others and TV commercials with Season 3 music.

Epilogue

Season 4 is the end of the American series. ''The Transformers'' continued in Japan as '' Transformers: The Headmasters'' with 35 new episodes, however, it ignores the events of "The Rebirth" and is set in a different continuity. A fifth season was aired in the United States, but consisted entirely of re-runs of previous episodes being told as stories by Powermaster

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Japanese seasons

In Japan, the first two seasons of the show were collectively released as a single season entitled , then rebranded as for season 3 (season 2 there), with all seasons aired on

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. Following the conclusion of the third season, Japan opted not to import the fourth season, but instead created a series of new animated shows to continue the story, beginning with '' Transformers: The Headmasters'' in 1987, and continuing into '' Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' in 1988, '' Transformers: Victory'' in 1989, and the single-episode

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'' Transformers: Zone'' in 1990.

''Scramble City''

'' Scramble City'' was a special

episode produced for the

ese market, released in April 1986. It served to further promote the new "combiner" figures who had been introduced at the end of season 2, and a few other figures from the 1986 product line (like

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, Metroplex and Trypticon) who had not yet appeared in the American cartoon, which were all being released in Japan with the sub-branding of "Scramble City." Set soon after the end of the second season, the episode focuses on the Autobots' efforts to construct a new mobile fortress, the titular "Scramble City." When the Decepticons learn of this, their combiner robots are deployed to attack, and a battle between them and their Autobot counterparts ensues, focusing on their "Scramble Power" – the interchangeability of the individual limbs – to the extent that at one point, Breakdown of the Stunticons connects to Superion to damage him. At the episode's conclusion, Scramble City is activated and assumes its robot mode of Metroplex to rout the Decepticons. However, from the ocean depths, the Decepticons' own city, Trypticon, rises.

Generation 2

Generation 2 episodes were all taken from the Generation 1 television series which had been previously produced, but with added effects and editing. These episodes aired between 1993 and 1995.

References

External links

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