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This popular series, created to market the toys of the same name, features robots that can transform into various forms, such as vehicles, weapons, animals and more. The transformers were broken into two factions: Autobots (good) and Decepticons (evil). The two warring factions left their home planet of Cybertron in search of energy. Various events bring them to the planet Earth. The Decepticons, led by Megatron, want to strip the planet of its energy resources. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, work to keep Earth safe from the Decepticons.

Between the second and third seasons, a feature film was released, which was part of the continuity. The third season picks up where the film left off. The third season was animated by a different production company and the animation quality suffered. A brief fourth season was released in 1987, which set the stage for later incarnations of the series.

 Ninety-eight 23-minute episodes. Syndicated: September 17, 1984 to November 11, 1987.

The distributors have announced that they will be re-releasing the first season on DVD in early 2007. All seasons were previously released on DVD, then discontinued, though they are not impossible to find.

The series was released simultaneously in Japan as Fight! super Robot Life Form Transformers and, for season three, as Transformers 2010

There are unconfirmed reports that Casey Kasem, who is of Lebanese descent, objected to the obvious parody of the situation between the US and Libya in the episode "Five Faces of Darkness." When it was not changed, he quit the show.

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