MP 700 The Transformers, Part 1 1984 - 1985 (Sunbow Productions/Marvel Productions)


All full episode videos from the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel


Marvel Comics treatment
Modern reproduction 

MP#1059 Spot 177
Marvel Comics' The Transformers issue 1 commercial 
Full storyboard (first draft) (George Goode)
Full storyboard (final revision)

Hasbro Briefing Binders
1984 product - Autobots
1984 product - Decepticons
Marketing fact sheets

Hasbro 1984 Toyfair catalogue


Season 1

Full episodes (from Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel)

Full playlist link: The Transformers Season 1 (production order) - YouTube



MP 4023, 4024, 4025
The Transformers (More Than Meets The Eye) - George Arthur Bloom

Intro sequence (Unproduced)
Full storyboard - Wendell Washer (contributor credit: Ryan King)

Commercial bumpers
Full storyboards - George Goode (Optimus Prime, Jazz, Starscream, Laserbeak)

Part 1

Part 2
Model sheets - Spike, early Trailbreaker, early Rumble, Reflector, Wheeljack, Ravage
Backgrounds - Autobot HQ and repair bay, Oil Rig (intact), Nelson Shin revision notes, Decepticon spaceship, Autobot volcano

Part 3

Background keys - Cybertron, Iacon, Autobot and Decepticon ship interiors, Autobot HQ, Oil Rig, Sherman Dam, Burma Crystal Mines, Rocket Base


Hasbro briefing binder
1985 product (Shockwave, Jetfire, early Dinobot reference)
1984-1985 product (Dinobots, Jetfire, Insecticons, Constructicons)

Brian Ray storyboard test
Full storyboard - 7 pages, uses The Transformers, Day 1 for story


MP 700

Recurring Character Models
Backgrounds and Equipment Models

Date: 30/04/1984
From: Bryce Malek and Dick Robbins
To: Margaret Loesch and Lee Gunther
Internal correspondence (Transcript)

Writer's Bible - Season 1 cast only 
Show bible

01 Transport To Oblivion - Bryce Malek and Dick Robbins
Dialogue script
Full script (Revised 08/06/1984)
Full script (Final 22/06/1984)

02 Roll For It - Douglas Booth
Dialogue script
Full script (First draft reconstructed)
Full script (Final)

03 Divide And Conquer - Donald F. Glut
Dialogue script
Full script
Character models and backgrounds

04 Fire In The Sky - Bryce Malek, Dick Robbins, Alfred A. Pegal
Dialogue script
Full script (first draft) 
Full script (final)
Character models and backgrounds

05 S.O.S Dinobots - Donald F. Glut
Full script

06 Fire On The Mountain - Douglas Booth
Full script (revised draft) 
Full script (final)

07 War Of The Dinobots - Donald F. Glut
Dialogue script
Full script (First draft) 
Full script (Final)

08 The Ultimate Doom, part 1: Brainwash - Story: Bryce Malek, Dick Robbins, Douglas Booth, Larry Strauss.  Teleplay: Larry Strauss
Dialogue script
Full script
Character models and backgrounds

09 The Ultimate Doom, part 2: Search - Story: Bryce Malek, Dick Robbins, Douglas Booth, Earl Kress.  Teleplay: Earl Kress
Dialogue script
Full script
Character models and backgrounds

10 The Ultimate Doom, part 3: Revival - Story: Bryce Malek, Dick Robbins, Douglas Booth, Leo D. Paur.  Teleplay: Leo D. Paur
Dialogue script
Full script
Act III storyboard - Peter Chung

11 Countdown To Extinction - Reed Robbins and Peter Salas
Dialogue script
Full script
Act III storyboard - Peter Chung

12 A Plague Of Insecticons - Douglas Booth
Dialogue script
Full script


Season 2

Full episodes


Hasbro 1985 Toyfair catalogue

Character Models
Main cast (1984 and 1985 product)
700-16-25 - Autobot Spike to Enter The Nightbird
700-27-34 - A Prime Problem to Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1
700-35-39 - Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 to A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
700-43-50 - Child's Play to Prime Target
700-51-64 - Auto-Bop to B.O.T

Backgrounds and Equipment Models
Master file - 700-16 to 38

Unproduced intro sequence
Full storyboard - Peter Chung

Unproduced commercial bumper
Full storyboard - Peter Chung

16 Autobot Spike - Donald F. Glut
Act II storyboard - Peter Chung

17 Changing Gears - Larry Parr

18 City of Steel - Douglas Booth

19 Attack of the Autobots - David Wise

20 Traitor - George Hampton and Mike Moore

21 The Immobilizer - Earl Kress

22 The Autobot Run - Donald F. Glut

23 Atlantis, Arise! - Douglas Booth

24 Day of the Machines - David Wise 

25 Enter the Nightbird - Sylvia Wilson and Richard Milton

Transformers New Product Addendum (Season 2 cast)
Full briefing document - 10th December 1984 version. 
Full briefing document - 5th February 1985 version.  

Unused story premises - Wendell Washer
Submitted premises - Welcome, Fortress Maximus. The Might Of Fortress Maximus, Fortress and Devastator, Tidal Wave Terror

26 A Prime Problem - Bryce Malek and Dick Robbins 

27 The Core - Dennis Marks 

28 The Insecticon Syndrome - Douglas Booth 

29 Dinobot Island, part 1 - Donald F. Glut 

30 Dinobot Island, part 2 - Donald F. Glut 
31 The Master Builders - David N. Gottlieb and Herb Engelhardt 

32 Auto Berserk - Antoni Zalewski 
 models and Character models and backgrounds

33 Microbots - David Wise 

34 Megatron's Master Plan, part 1 - Donald F. Glut 

35 Megatron's Master Plan, part 2 - Donald F. Glut 

36 Desertion of the Dinobots, part 1 - Earl Kress 

37 Desertion of the Dinobots, part 2 - Earl Kress 

38 Blaster Blues - Larry Strauss 

Elaine Hultgren storyboard test
Four-page storyboard - Uses Blaster Blues for story 

39 A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court - Douglas Booth 

40 The Golden Lagoon - Dennis Marks 

41 The God Gambit - Buzz Dixon 

42 Make Tracks - David Wise 

43 Child's Play - Beth Bornstein 

44 Quest for Survival - Reed Robbins and Peter Salas 

45 The Secret of Omega Supreme - David Wise 

46 The Gambler - Michael Charles Hill

47 Kremzeek! - David Wise 

48 Sea Change - Douglas Booth 

49 Triple Takeover - Larry Strauss 

50 Prime Target - Flint Dille and Buzz Dixon 

51 Auto-Bop - David Wise

52 The Search for Alpha Trion - Beth Bornstein

53 The Girl Who Loved Powerglide - David Wise 

54 Hoist Goes Hollywood - Earl Kress
Call sheet and dialogue script (contributor credit: allew)
55 The Key to Vector Sigma, part 1 - David Wise 

56 The Key to Vector Sigma, part 2 - David Wise 

57 Aerial Assault - Douglas Booth 

58 War Dawn - David Wise 

59 Trans-Europe Express - David Wise 

60 Cosmic Rust - Paul Davids 
Page 1 of outline (contributor credit: allew)
Dialogue script
Full script (contributor credit: we_are_forest)

61 Starscream's Brigade (30 Seconds over Megatron) - Michael Charles Hill

62 The Revenge of Bruticus - Larry Strauss 
Dialogue script
Full Script (reconstruction of first draft)
Full Script (final)

63 Masquerade - Donald F. Glut 
Dialogue script
Page 23 of full script (mistakenly included in dialogue script scan

64 B.O.T. - Earl Kress 

Contributor credits:
Steve Chu: 35 storyboard
Jim Shooter treatment - The Roboplastic Apocalypse
Rich Helscher: 05, 23, 45, 48 storyboard, episode model sheet books, 06 revised script
Ryan King: Season 1 intro, 4023, 05, 38, 48, 57 storyboard, 1984 model sheets, New Product Addendum (1st version)
Marco van Leeuwen: 18 storyboard, 36-54 scripts
Nathan Stacy: 60 storyboard