Shadow Raiders - S01E01 - Behold the Beast 

It hurts to see a very underrated series incomplete, this needed a conclusion.

The animation sure is dated compared to today, but this, Beast Wars and Reboot were a wild ride. The good old days, never to be seen again.

When 1 pilot episode from the 90s has more substance and creativity than the entire modern Disney network combined.

I remember watching this, Beast Wars, Spiderman etc every saturday morning when I was a kid. Like 2 hours worth of awesome cartoons. Beast Wars was my favorite though, those writers knew how to make interesting characters.

This is basically Mass Effect before Mass Effect.

A time when heroes become legends.

Reboot and Shadow Raiders were my childhood addiction. Thanks for posting this.

Putting aside your differences to fight a common enemy. A lesson for all.

The voice acting and dialogue in this show was amazing. Almost theatrical and epic in it's presentation. But then the story itself is a very grandiose narrative, makes sense the voice acting would follow that

They don't make shows like the used too. An amazingly crafted story made with heart.

It's surprising how well the CGI in this series has held up.

Graveheart's ETERNAL Epic Line: "I'm just a Miner" (Since 1998)

Been looking for this show for nearly 20 years. I remember watching it as a kid, but I couldn't remember the name of it. I searched and searched on Google to look at old kids shows on Fox Kids and UPN. But turned out I was looking in the wrong places as this was aired on the WB. Didn't remember that. All I could remember was some planet getting destroyed and this girl getting launched into space to spread the word that some evil thing was coming. Now that I've finally found the show I know I wasn't crazy and didn't just invent these memories in my mind. It's like scratching an itch you've had for 20 years. Geezus this looks worse than I remember!

At last i found you ...my childhood

The series begins and ends with the doomsdays of other worlds. This is, by far, Mainframe's darkest show. It's a shame that they couldn't continue with a third season. I certainly won't forget this gem.

One of the best of all time...

omfg, im 29 and i almost forgot about this show i was so hyped as a kid when the intro played.

I started watching this series a month ago and it's really good. I never saw this show when it originally aired (I only watched ReBoot and Transformers (Beast Wars in particular)). After I started watching this, it quickly became one of my favorite CGI animated shows. I noticed some voice actors from Exosquad, Street Sharks, Skysurfer Strike Force and G.I. Joe Extreme were in this show. Overall, this is such a great series.

I've been looking for this show for YEARS

Underappreciated series that far outshone the toyline it was based on. Mainframe made great shows in the 90s. Focusing on story and character Reboot, Beast Wars and Shadow Raiders stood above episodic shows of the time.

You can't deny the charm of 90's CGI shows. Now they look too much otherworldly... and so back then they looked out of this world. Graphics, design, animation, it looks very alien-like and i love it. Modern CGI shows all look much softer, cleaner and just like Pixar Cartoons. It's sad that modern CGI movies and cartoons don't try to do something gritty and alien-like. Modern kids don't like computer graphics that just scream "Yep, this is CGI", as it ruins their "immersion", but in 90's it was the whole point, it should look very different from normal 2D Animation.

I've never watched Shadow Raiders. This is the first time I have watched it. The first episode is good. It reminds me of Beast Wars and Battlestar Galactica.

I'm a diehard Transformers and Beast Wars fan. That said, War Planets was the best show Mainframe ever produced. I'm so glad I bought the DVD volumes back in 2001.

The story is still so convincing that it stacks up(IMO) to even the best current shows. I loved this show when I was a kid! I'd forgotten that it gotten cancelled prematurely. Thank you for posting this!

Loved this show. Spent far too much money to buy it on DVD from ADVision back in the day, but it was worth it. A few thoughts: 1) Still love the opening theme after all these years. 2) Graveheart is one BAMF. Love when he shows up with the massive sonic cannon. 3) She's not in this episode, but I absolutely love Jade. She's voiced by Enuka Okuma, who you can see on Rookie Blue as Tracy Nash.

I'm impressed with how well the animation, and some of the themes have help up.

I wish I could meet the creators and tell them what an amazing job they did. I hope they truly are proud of their work.

I wish there was season 3. I want to know the ending of this series. Two great shows: Beast Wars and Shadow Raiders!

This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I had all of the toys. So nostalgic! Thank you for putting this up!

Loved this show, recorded almost every episode on VHS but missed 2 or 3 and I was absolutely gutted, thanks a lot for these. One of the best animated series I've ever watched, shame they didn't continue on with the series.

absolute gold...woke up without alarms to watch this

one of the best tv series i ever seen as a kid because at the time it was killing people and so the stakes were high per episode. And with a bad guy planet that ate other planets and had ate plenty of planets before the final episode the idea at the time amongst kids was that this would lead into some epic final battles. But they just never materialized. Which is such a shame. Everyone i knew watched this on friday morning before school. 7am was worth getting up for with this and Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles before school.

90's CGI shows look so amazing! What do we have nowadays, though... PJ Masks?

Considering this was probably the pilot for the show, wow, what a first episode, it packed a whallop when I first watched it way back. Some of it seems a little cliche or farfetched but not for a children's show. For a Childrens show, it tackled a lot of adult themes, at least, it felt mature and cool for me as a young boy growing up in the 90s. I loved this show and the toys so goddamn much.

In the first episode we have a planet that eats other planets, and a BFG equivalent used to save the day. No wonder I loved this show as a kid.

This animation holds up better than Beast Wars and Reboot.

I’ve been trying to remember the name of the this show for years! All I could remember was the character with the fire hair, now at the ripe old age of 28 I can watch this again!

Never seen this before. looks ...interesting. Kinda has a Beast Wars feel to it.

Ah yes shadow raiders love this show back then..

Wish we could've seen what Planet Tek was like before it was consumed by the Beast Planet, looked like it could've been cyber-punk like

I think I’ve been looking this for ages... BeastWar is my favorite, but this is also memorable

King Cryos... is Rau le Creuset from Gundam seed! I love the VA work and music in this show

The animation definitely shows it's age, but the story is still good enough to make up for it animation...

Rock Soldier: Warriors! lock and load! if it's a fight they want... King Cryos: Then you would already be dead HAIL CRYOS!! o7

I miss this movie (show) it’s been long time for back to watch 😆(sorry i don’t good in english)

When I saw this on TV it was named WAR PLANETS

This is what waking up at 6 am on a Saturday morning was all about… shows like this.

Been looking for this forever!!!!

I remember never watching this, but wanting to every time I saw the commercials. I was obsessed with Reboot, BW, TFArmada, Zixx-Level 1, Zoids, etc.... Man, too much goodness back in old YTV.

"i'm just a miner."

Thank you Mister Daniel Gomez !!🤩

I watched this cartoon when i was too young to understand shit. But it's still the most bad ass and memorable cartoon in my childhood. God, it really needs a reboot !

These guys had worse aim than storm troopers.

Never heard of this show before. Looks like it was also made by Mainframe, cool! I loved their work on Reboot and Beast Wars.

Grate show good massage about together we can beat are enemy..I remember many years ago.

Great show! Best watched in 2024 at 1.25 playback speed when things move a bit faster nowadays

Yes ,bring back my childhood please , one the best

I searched ‘Aliens with Crystal Hair Cartoon’, ‘Past Cartoons Lists’ and finally ‘Planet Engine Cartoon’ and I got it. The theme was an awesome tune when I was younger.

Just imagine how terrifying it must be to see the Beast's Claw wrapping around your world!

This show just demands to be referred to as a true mother-fucking bad ass 90 action cartoon! THIS is why I like cartoons. THIS era is why I got into anime. THIS is what a cartoon should be, could be even... not some candy colored garbage like SpongeBob, Fairly odd parents or whatever... well I admit comedy has its place (especially in cartoons. Be them adult or children based) THIS too NEEDS its place nowadays. I would actually pay for cable connection if I could watch bas ass 90's style action shows like this! I miss the shows with giant mechs beating on each other like zoids, medabots and transformers with real human emotions and conflicts like skyland and cyber six fantasies like THIS, Knights of Camelot, Reboot, Monster Ranchers, Star ship troopers... actions like TMNT, Heman. Power Rangers, Batman, Batman Beyond... GOD can someone gimme a list to watch?? I could really use some REAL cartoons!

I remember watching this as a kid such a great show 😎

Cool cartoon ever made I love shadow raiders

This is Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar and Starship Troopers combined.

have the full series on dvd...still think this was one of the best shows ever aired... yes, it might look a bit dated by todays cgi standards but the story was awesome... pity that the third season was never produced,

Thanks for uploading these! I watched a few episodes when I was little. It was dubbed and I don't remember the show's name nor the characters, only some plot points. Glad to be able to finally find them and revisit my childhood.

this gets awesome after the first few minutes

my childhood :D THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!

This was always such a strange series... But it had it's charm..

My God! I remember but forgot about it until seeing a post on Facebook. So this show got canceled after one season? Which sucks because I loved what I got to see of it. It was so good.

How did this not catch on!?!?

I finally found the name of this show on WatchMojo's recent top 10 list. I can finally get some closure on a part of my childhood!

The intro theme is beyond dope!

So much of this reminds me of Babylon 5: The font used in the credits, the mood and sense of the soundtrack, and overarching theme.

Pretty cool awesome sci-fy show! I didn't knew it! ;) It reminds me Mass Effect games whereas the mystic music reminds me from Black and White video game.

Bro i was searching for this for so long I even forgot its name and now a finnaly found it yeaaaaaaa this was my childhood so much nostalgia I am going to cry man 😁😁😃😄😭😭

thank you for these memories....... i used to love this

Someone has a series I use to live watching finally

It's my childhood

i can bet this series inspired MASS EFFECT.

Been looking for this for years! =,') Love it just as much as I did then, maybe more now that I really appreciate it.

I first saw this on an awesome cartoon compilation DVD from a local library, and really got into it. Other classics to check out include Inhumanoids and Bucky 'O' Hare and the Toad Wars.

I want a videogame with such graphics. With this style, designs. It just looks so fresh compared to today's Ultra Realistic 3D graphics or Pixar/Dreamworks Cartoony 3D Graphics. Modern CGI looks so... bland compared to this beauty,

Crazy how I forgot about this show I use to watch as a kid. Wow

i never got how they got water, food, and fire before they even got to space to raid them

For the majority of ALL human generations... We are the lucky few to have grown up as children in the electrical age of television. Primate to sapiens and from tribes to egypt and rome, no human born back then grew up with television. games, and those powerful media's... supermarket foods and drinks. school and jobs for parents. no one ever had to go hunting, fishing, cars everywhere. cellphones. I saw shadow raiders some good 20 years ago... and now that i think of it. for the past 20 years science fiction played a pretty cool role in my life!. Playing games like mass effect, alien isolation, dead space, space marine, dawn of war 1-2, It's like i've been watching and playing shadow raiders for a long time xD. Starship troopers, godzilla, alien abduction/ invasion movies, documentaries, games xD. the whole works.

Awesome voicing!

Now I see where Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, got their inspiration on their Phantoms. @13:28.

what a cool series i used to watch it as a child oh nostalga

I think the first part to this episode pays homage to the scene in Transformers The Movie. Both monster planets travel between two gigantic stars before consuming their victims and their homeworlds.

A Awesome days and times watching Reboot-Shadow Raiders and Beast Wars all on YTV Back then as a sidenote the one that Voiced Adult Enzo Matrix also did a voice in this Short Lived Series as well.

Thank you for bringing this to us. 😎

I remember watching this with my father and brother in ~2003. Compared to the garbage children watch nowadays, this is a masterpiece. Also, the animation reminds me of Ratchet and Clank.

Poor planet Tek :'(

The design is all over the place but it got a bunch of good lines and the voice acting is pretty darn good.

This looks like StarCraft meets Battlefield earth.

I've been trying to find this for 4 years, holy shit, It's just as bad as I remember and I love it.

2018 here. How I remember how this show blew me away as a kid

THIS IS MASS EFFECT.

ive been looking for this for so long and now ive found it uploader your a god

love this show.