About this season
A team of specialized Autobots not quite ready for prime-time battles against the Decepticons is given a vital mission by Optimus Prime. The goal for the Bots is to learn about mankind and how to help others to find out what it really means to be a hero.
Episodes (26)
1. Family of Heroes
Aired 18 February 2012 • 20 min
The four members of Rescue Force Sigma-17 emerge and are greeted by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime, who assigns them to work with the Burns family on an island. While the four are supposed to respond to every command the humans give them, they get fed up with it and are tempted to leave Earth. Until, an animatronic dinosaur attacks the island.
2. Under Pressure
Aired 18 February 2012 • 20 min
While Chase and Chief Burns pursue an out-of-control robo-landscaper through Griffin Rock, Cody Burns reports that the rest of the team might be delayed, as his siblings are having trouble coming to terms with the fact that their rescue vehicles are alien robots. A volcano suddenly threatens the island of Griffin Rock, sending the Rescue Bots and Burns family into action. The group has to put aside their differences and work together in order to save the island.
3. Hotshots
Aired 25 February 2012 • 20 min
4. Flobsters on Parade
Aired 3 March 2012 • 20 min
Flying lobsters invade a summer festival, and an angry Heatwave refuses to help fight them.
5. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
Aired 10 March 2012 • 20 min
The Rescue Bots are put in danger when a resident of Griffin Rock threatens to expose the secret of an "alien invasion.
6. Walk on the Wild Side
Aired 21 April 2012 • 20 min
Boulder decides that the team needs an animal mascot but maybe a zoo isn't the best place to find one.
7. Cody on Patrol
Aired 17 March 2012 • 20 min
Cody accidentally unleashes a swarm of futuristic nanites while he's trying to super-charge his go-kart to help in the team's rescue missions.
8. Four Bots and a Baby
Aired 14 April 2012 • 20 min
The Bots are enlisted to watch after Doc Greene's Robo-Baby.
9. Christmas in July
Aired 28 April 2012 • 20 min
Cody, his family and the Rescue Bots have to stop a snow storm in July when a weather machine goes haywire.
10. Deep Trouble
Aired 5 May 2012 • 20 min
A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.
11. Return of the Dinobot
Aired 12 May 2012 • 20 min
12. The Other Doctor
Aired 19 May 2012 • 20 min
A scientist tries to replace the team with a new invention, leaving everyone out of the action.
13. The Reign of Morocco
Aired 19 May 2012 • 20 min
Cody looks for proof that the new scientist's invention is really a villainous plan.
14. Small Blessings
Aired 9 June 2012 • 20 min
The Rescue Bots are accidentally shrunk and the Burns family must work without their partners.
15. The Griffin Rock Triangle
Aired 16 June 2012 • 20 min
Cody finds a clue to an old mystery and makes a startling underwater discovery.
16. Rules and Regulations
Aired 23 June 2012 • 20 min
The Rescue Bots disobey the Chief's orders and find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
17. The Lost Bell
Aired 30 June 2012 • 20 min
A storm strands Cody on a deserted island where they find a pirate ship that holds the key to a mystery.
18. Bumblebee to the Rescue
Aired 7 July 2012 • 20 min
Bumblebee pays the Rescue Bots a visit just in time to help investigate a mysterious meteor.
19. You've Been Squished
Aired 14 July 2012 • 20 min
The Bots and Burns must stop a giant glob of space slime before it consumes the town.
20. Countdown
Aired 21 July 2012 • 20 min
Cody and the Rescue Bots try to solve the vanishing mystery when the residents of Griffin Rock start disappearing.
21. The Haunting of Griffin Rock
Aired 28 July 2012 • 20 min
Ghosts haunt and terrorize the residents of Griffin Rock.
22. Little White Lies
Aired 4 August 2012 • 20 min
The kids are covertly planning a surprise birthday party for their father. Chief Burns tells them he is heading to the docks, but actually takes a trip to the bakery for a cake, as a present for his family, thinking that they forgot his birthday. Chase discovers this to be a lie and is confounded by this. While setting up the party back home, the kids and the other Rescue Bots realize that Chase and Chief Burns are missing, and search the entire town. Eventually they discover the two trapped inside an underground mine, and save them from the flooding water and falling rocks.
23. Shake Up
Aired 11 August 2012 • 20 min
The Rescue Bots lead the rescue efforts when a series of earthquakes strike the island.
24. Rescue Boy
Aired 11 August 2012 • 20 min
Doc Greene invents a repulsor badge that allows the wearer to be occluded from projectiles. Cody uses it to participate more on the front lines, in missions with the rest of his family, against Chief Burns concern of his safety. His superhero status, however, is halted when his repulsor badge is overloaded and projects a nonstop field, enclosing him inside. Boulder uses neutralizing gloves, also invented by Doc Greene, to bypass the repulsive field and successfully remove the badge from Cody, shortly before it detonates.
25. It's a Bot Time
Aired 18 August 2012 • 20 min
When Doc Greene's experiment with a time machine goes awry, the Bots end up being captured by an old nemesis.
26. Bot to the Future
Aired 18 August 2012 • 20 min
When the Bots return home, they find that Doctor Morocco is in command of Griffin Rock.