Star Wars: Ewoks

Star Wars: Ewoks
Format	animation
Created by	George Lucas Raymond Jafelice Dale Schott Bob Carrau (writer) Paul Dini (writer).
Starring	Denny Delk Jim Henshaw James Cranna Alyson Court George Busa Rick Cimino Don Francks Esther Scott Cree Summer
Country of origin	United States  Canada
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer(s)	George Lucas
Running time	approx. 30 min (per episode)
Production company(s)	Nelvana Lucasfilm Ltd.
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 7, 1985 – December 13, 1986

Star Wars: Ewoks (September 7, 1985 - December 13, 1986) is an American/Canadian animated television series featuring the Ewok characters introduced in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

The series was produced by Nelvana on behalf of Lucasfilm and broadcast on ABC, both by itself and later, as part of The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour. The first season was advertised as simply Ewoks, but the second season was advertised as The All New Ewoks. The series lasted 26 episodes, divided into two seasons of 13 episodes.

Plot

The series focuses on the adventures of Wicket W. Warrick and his friends on the forest moon of Endor during the years before the events in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.^[1] The primary recurring villains are Morag the Tulgah Witch, who had a personal grudge against the tribe's shaman, Master Logray, and the Duloks, a rival species that is related to the Ewoks.^[2]

Characters

Wicket W. Warrick

Wicket is a silly, little furball.

Princess Kneesaa

Kneesaa is daughter of Great Chief Chirpa, her mother was kill by a Hanadak and her sister Asha is still alive, Kneesaa is best friends with Latara and Wicket. She has a romantic relationship with Wicket.

Teebo

Teebo is Wicket's best friend, he is student of Master Logray. Latara has a big crush on him.

Latara

Latara is Kneesaa's best friend, she likes to play her flute and she has a crush on Teebo.

Paploo

Paploo is Kneesaa's cousin and he is Great Chief Chirpa's nephew, he is close friends with Wicket and Teebo. He sometimes joins Wicket, Kneesaa, Teebo and Latara.

Malani

Malani is Teebo's little sister, she is a close friends with Latara's brother and sister Wiley and Nippet and Wicket's little sister Winda. She has a developed crush on Wicket and she desperately tries to impress him. Malani doesn't realize that Kneesaa and Wicket are a couple.

Weechee

Weechee is Wicket's eldest brother and also the bravest of the Warrick Family.

Willy

Willy is Wicket's older brother and little brother to Weechee. He is clumsy, but nice.

Nippet and Wiley

Nippet and Wiley is little sister and brother to Latara. At times, Latara has to stay home with her brother and sister.

Chief Chirpa

Chief Chirpa is father to Kneesaa and Asha, He gives order to the warriors, when they are fighting against the Duloks.

Master Logray

Master Logray is the ewoks' wizard.

Asha

Asha is Kneesaa's big sister, when Kneesaa was wokling and Hanadak kill her mother and Asha was missing, and now she is return to village, her father Cheif Chirpa is glad to see his daughter again.

Locations

• The forest moon of Endor
• Outer space
• Aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer

Notable series details

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• For viewer ease, the dialogue is in Basic (English), rather than Ewokese, which was the native language of the Ewoks.
• The first season of the show aimed for a more sophisticated style, but in the second, the writing style was geared toward a much younger audience, with less sophisticated characters.
• The title of the series' twelfth episode (Blue Harvest) is a reference to the famous ruse used by Lucasfilm to maintain secrecy when shooting location scenes for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
• In the series' final episode, the Galactic Empire had discovered Endor, and several of the Ewoks stowed away on a Star Destroyer, but were returned to Endor safely after an evil Imperial named Dr. Raegar attempted to steal the magical Ewok Sunstar stone, and even dared to attack the Emperor with it. This event suggests that this led to the Empire choosing Endor to build the second Death Star around.
• The series is a follow up to the two Ewok films: Caravan of Courage (1984) and The Battle for Endor (1985), which were themselves spin-offs of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
• Unlike the rest of the series, the last two episodes were originally aired out of story order. The correct order was Party Ewok/Malani the Warrior and Battle for the Sunstar, respectively. However, the episodes were originally aired in the order of Battle for the Sunstar and Party Ewok/Malani the Warrior. Storywise, the series ends with Battle for the Sunstar, which depicts the Empire discovering the Endor moon, where it would later construct the second Death Star.
• The episode Battle for the Sunstar re-aired separately on January 10, 1987, and that marked the official end of the series.

Comic book series

In 1986, Star Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics published a bi-monthly Ewoks comic, based on the animated series, which ran for two years, ending with issue #14. Like the TV series, this was aimed towards a younger audience. It was produced along with Droids, which was based on the Droids animated series. Issue #10 of Marvel Ewoks was a cross-over with Star Wars: Droids issue #4 story "Lost in Time". For more on this series, see this link.

Toy line

In 1985, a toy line was produced that was based on the series. This line included action figures, ship models, etc.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

DVD release

The cover of the 2004 DVD release of Ewoks.

• An edited compilation DVD with the title Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks was released on November 23, 2004. The DVD contained eight episodes of the series, edited together as two full length movies.

• Episodes 2, 1, 3 and 9 were edited together to make The Haunted Village (which was previously released on VHS in 1996),^[4] and Episodes 10, 5, 4 and 13 were edited together to make Tales from the Endor Woods.

• The entire original series has yet to be released on any home video format. Some of the original episodes were released in the 1980s and '90s on VHS. Star Wars prequel trilogy and DVD producer Rick McCallum, along with Lucasfilm head of fan relations, Steve Sansweet, have reportedly stated that a future release of the series in its entirety on DVD is possible.^{[citation needed]}

References/Notes

• Star Wars: Ewoks 1985, George Lucas
• Star Wars Insider #27
• A Guide to the Star Wars Universe,
• The Star Wars Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Sansweet, ISBN 0-345-40227-8 Del Rey; first edition (June 30, 1998)

External links

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• Star Wars: Ewoks at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Wars: Ewoks at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Star Wars: Ewoks at TV.com
• An informative fan site
• An article from the Star Wars Insider on the series
• A history of home video releases of Star Wars: Ewoks