List of Star Wars: Droids episodes
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This is an episode guide for the animated television series Star Wars: Droids, also known as Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, which aired between 1985 and 1986 on ABC. The series followed the exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the droids who have appeared in all six Star Wars films. The series takes place between the events depicted in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope.
[edit] Season 1 (1985)
| Episode | Title | Original airdate | Production number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The White Witch" | September 7, 1985 | 1 |
| After being jettisoned over the deserts of Ingo by an unscrupulous former master, C-3PO and R2-D2 are taken in by speeder bike racers Jord Dusat and Thall Joben. When they accidentally discover the location of the Trigon One, a secret weapon created by the criminal Fromm gang, Jord is kidnapped by Tig Fromm in order to silence him. Joined by Rebel spy Kea Moll, the droids assist Thall in rescuing Jord from Fromm's secret base, destroying much of Fromm's droid army in the process. | |||
| 2 | "Escape Into Terror" | September 14, 1985 | 2 |
| C-3PO, R2-D2, Thall and Kea sneak into the Fromm gang's secret base and steal the Trigon One weapon. | |||
| 3 | "The Trigon Unleashed" | September 21, 1985 | 3 |
| Tig Fromm kidnaps Jord and Kea's mother and refuses to release them unless Thall reveals the location of the Trigon One. Thall does so and the prisoners are released. However, when Tig pilots the space weapon back to his father Sise Fromm's base he discovers Thall has sabotaged the controls and programmed the Trigon One to collide with the Fromms' base. | |||
| 4 | "A Race to the Finish" | September 28, 1985 | 4 |
| The team travel to the planet Boonta to take part in a speeder racing event, but are followed by the Fromms who enlist Boba Fett to exact their revenge on the speeder racers. After failing to stop Thall winning the race, losing his droid, speeder and almost his life in the process, Fett turns on the Fromms and decides to claim a bounty placed on them by Jabba the Hutt. Thal, Jord and Kea are offered jobs by Zebulon Dak to work at his speeder corporation, but they refuse when they realise the droids would have to be re-programmed. R2-D2 and C-3PO choose to leave their masters so they can take the job. | |||
| 5 | "The Lost Prince" | October 5, 1985 | 5 |
| C-3PO, R2-D2 and their new master, Jan Tosh, befriend a mysterious alien disguised as a droid. Captured by crimelord Kleb Zellock, they are forced to mine Nergon-14, a valuable unstable mineral used in proton torpedoes, which Zellock plans to sell to the Empire. In the mines they meet Sollag, who identifies their friend as Mon Julpa, Prince of the Tammuz-an. Together they defeat the crimelord and escape the mines before they are destroyed in a Nergon-14 explosion. | |||
| 6 | "The New King" | October 12, 1985 | 6 |
| The Droids, Jan, Mon Julpa and Sollag, along with freighter pilot Jessica Meade, travel to Tammuz-an to thwart Zatec-Cha, an evil vizier with ambitions to seize the throne of Tammuz-an. Special Guest Star: IG-88. | |||
| 7 | "The Pirates of Tarnoonga" | October 19, 1985 | 7 |
| While delivering much needed fuel to Tammuz-an, the ship is hijacked by the notorious (yet diminutive) pirate, Kybo Ren-Cha. Jan, Jessica and the Droids are captured and taken to the water planet Tarnoonga. C-3P0, R2-D2 and Jan must re-capture the fuel shipment and rescue Jessica from the lascivious advances of Capt. Kybo Ren - but first they have to survive the Miridon! | |||
| 8 | "The Revenge of Kybo Ren" | October 26, 1985 | 8 |
| Kybo Ren escapes and kidnaps Gerin, the daughter of Lord Toda, Mon Julpa's political rival. The Droids, Jan and Jessica follow Kybo Ren to the planet Bogden to rescue her before Mon Julpa is handed over in exchange. However the tables are turned when Mon Julpa reveals Lord Toda and a squad of Tammuz-an soldiers smuggled aboard the pirate's own ship. Kybo Ren is sent back to prison and an alliance is forged between Mon Julpa and Lord Toda. Jessica, however, decides its time to return to her freighter business on Tyne's Horkny, saying a sad good-bye to her friends. | |||
| 9 | "Coby and the Starhunters" | November 2, 1985 | 13 |
| C-3P0 and R2-D2 are assigned to chapperone Lord Toda's young son, Coby, only to be captured by smugglers. They are eventually rescued by Jan only for the Droids to learn that he has been accepted into the Imperial Space Academy, leaving them once again masterless and on their own. | |||
| 10 | "Tail of the Roon Comets" | November 9, 1985 | 9 |
| 11 | "The Roon Games" | November 16, 1985 | 10 |
| 12 | "Across the Roon Sea" | November 23, 1985 | 11 |
| 13 | "The Frozen Citadel" | November 30, 1985 | 12 |
