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Dec 21, 2021 · Star Wars: Droids (1985. - 1986) Blast From Your Past. 14 videos 20,464 views Last updated on Dec 21, 2021. Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO is a 1985 animated...
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"[George Lucas] thought that the best characters to use would be the ones who weren't so heavily tied into the movies' plots, such as R2-D2 and C-3PO. They're the running characters in the Star Wars universe. The droids would be a natural for animation because they could go all over the universe and get involved with all sorts of creatures and worlds that didn't necessarily have Luke Skywalker, the Empire or any of those elements. The only constants would be Artoo and Threepio."
―Droids associate producer and story editor Paul Dini in 1988
"I've always been interested in animation. And, again, it's a chance to experiment with ideas and new people and Star Wars characters. The Star Wars world is much easier to deal with in animation. You can be much more flexible in development of ideas. I've put off doing it for years because I didn't have the time."
―George Lucas, in Starlog 100
creator George Lucas had long been interested in animation, and had wanted to tell Star Wars stories in an animated form. During production of The Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978, director David Acomba showed Lucas a recent film made by Clive A. Smith's animation company Nelvana. This convinced Lucas to hire the company to produce the animated segment for that film. Lucas was pleased with their work, and in 1984, he again hired them to work on the two animated series he was developing, Droids and Ewoks. These two subjects were chosen because they would appeal to young audiences and because, as the future of the film franchise was uncertain, they would be the least likely characters to conflict with the stories of the feature films. With these two shows, Lucas (who served as executive producer) hoped to raise the standards for Saturday morning animation; he wanted the animation and voice acting to be better than the average shows of the time. Anthony Daniels felt the same: "I didn't want to do it. I had to be convinced that it was going to be better. I'm no mug—I wouldn't support something just because Lucasfilm was doing it."
"The challenge on Droids was that you essentially had the Star Wars story to bring forward without Luke, Leia, Darth Vader and Han Solo."
―Michael Hirsh
Pre-production began in May of 1984. During this time Lucas met with the series' producers, directors and writers, who collaborated on story ideas. The stories were inspired by the science-fiction stories of Jean Giraud—specifically The Airtight Garage. The production team tried to convince Lucas to bring in other main characters from the original trilogy, but he insisted it be focused on the droids. Lucas laid out his basic ideas for the series, but wasn't involved with day-to-day matters. As the episodes were being worked on, rough cuts were screened for him. After reading the scripts, Daniels would sometimes rewrite lines of dialogue if he felt they didn't fit his character. The series was under strict broadcast standards, and there were limitations—set by ABC's Standards and Practices Board—as to what could be shown or dealt with in the episodes. Writer Paul Dini commented on this in a 2004 interview: "...we were dealing with a regime at the network that just wanted safe children's programming. Every time we wanted to stretch it a little bit, they would kick up a fuss over it."
debuted on September 7, 1985 as part of the Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour. ABC aired a preview special a few days prior entitled The ABC Saturday Sneak Peek and Fun Fit Test w/ Tony Danza, C-3PO and R2-D2. (In the special, Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton teaches gymnastics to Danza and the droids.) After airing a full season of 13 episodes, Droids was cancelled, due in part to to its high production costs (which were a result the high level of design required relative to other Saturday morning animation of the time). However, a new one-hour special later aired in 1986, and the first season was rebroadcast alongside the second season of Ewoks.
In the mid 1990s, beginning in 1994, the US Sci-Fi Channel ran episodes of the series, along with those of its counterpart, Star Wars: Ewoks, on its "Cartoon Quest" and "Animation Station" blocks of programming.
is set in the nineteen-year period between the rise of the Galactic Empire in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, and the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. However, Revenge of the Sith introduced a seeming continuity error; at the end of that film, the droids are entrusted to Raymus Antilles, whom C-3PO refers to in A New Hope as "our last master." However, in the Droids series, the droids have numerous masters before Captain Antilles. Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide explains this continuity issue, mentioning that the droids were "accidentally separated" from Antilles "before returning to Captain Antilles' ship, the Tantive IV." This explanation was further detailed when Corla Metonae's backstory was developed by Billy Buehler (AKA The2ndQuest) for Hyperspace's What's The Story? feature, according to which, she was the person responsible for this separation. The circumstances behind the separation were further elaborated on in the StarWars.com blog series The Droids Re-Animated, which specifically cited an unexpected raid on the Tantive IV by the pirate group Lok Revenants that forced them to abandon the escape pods they had jettisoned during a routine test, which R2-D2 and C-3PO had been inside at the time.
The Star Wars prequel trilogy contains many elements which appear to reference and/or resemble elements from Droids. Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace shows a Toong and mentions Tund—the species' second homeworld, both of which first appeared in the novel series The Lando Calrissian Adventures. In "A Race to the Finish," the droids end up at a race known as the Boonta Race. A similar name was used for the podrace in The Phantom Menace, known as the Boonta Eve Classic. The swamp planet of Bogden is a planet visited by the droids in the series. In Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Jango Fett says that he was "recruited by a man called Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden." Jann Tosh's wheel bike was retconned as a predecessor to General Grievous's vehicle in Revenge of the Sith.
The Expanded Universe also incorporated various elements from the series. The Shadows of the Empire soundtrack contains liner notes with the lyrics of "Dha Werda Verda," written by Ben Burtt. The lyrics contain references to the planet Roon from the series. Admiral Screed appears in HoloNet News and Star Wars: Rebellion.
In 2021, Holocron continuity database keeper Leland Chee clarified that the events in The Great Heep take place between episodes nine and ten.
•Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO at the Internet Movie Database
•Classic Television Archive on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
•Fox Home Entertainment's Star Wars: Droids site - at the Internet Archive
•Droids Layouts and Posing - Original artwork by Brian Lemay, a crewmember of the show
•Droids and Ewoks: A Home Video History (backup link)
•Star Wars Saturday mornings: Droids and Ewoks 30 years later (backup link)
Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO is a 1985 animated television series spin off from the original Star Wars trilogy. It focuses on the exploits of droids R2-D2 and C-3PO between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
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