Ewoks (TV series)

Star Wars: Ewoks is an animated television series set in the Star Wars galaxy. It features the Ewok characters introduced in the sixth Star Wars film, 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 35 episodes, divided into two seasons.

Setting
The series is set, beginning in the year 1.5 BBY, on the forest moon of Endor, mainly in an Ewok village. On the final episode, however, some scenes were set briefly in a Star Destroyer in space.

Plot
The series focuses on the adventures of Wicket W. Warrick and his friends on the forest moon of Endor five and a half years (1.5 BBY or 1.5 BSW4) before the Battle of Endor, and thus, before Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. 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.

Characters

 * Albo
 * Asha
 * Baga
 * Bilbob
 * Bobog
 * Bondo
 * Bothal and Trud
 * Bozzie
 * Chirita
 * Chief Chirpa
 * Chituhr
 * Chukha-Trok
 * Darling
 * Prince Delby
 * Dobah
 * Flower Queen
 * Giant insect friend of the Gupins
 * Gonster
 * King Gorneesh
 * Gorphs
 * Gracca
 * Hoona
 * Horville
 * Imperial droid
 * Queen Izrina
 * Jadru
 * Jinda (tribe)
 * Admiral Kazz
 * Princess Kneesaa
 * Larry
 * Latara
 * Leaf Queen
 * Leeni
 * Life of the Party
 * Logray
 * Malani
 * Mookiee
 * Moot
 * Morag
 * Murgoob, Dulok oracle
 * Nahkee
 * Night Spirit
 * Nippet
 * Norky
 * Norky's mother
 * Oobel
 * Oodra (Odra?), Duchess of Sleet
 * Emperor Palpatine
 * Paploo
 * PD-28
 * Punt
 * Dr. Raegar
 * Raich
 * Ra-Lee
 * Rin-Rin
 * Rock Wizard
 * Silky
 * Queen Slugga
 * Snow King
 * Stormtroopers
 * Sun King
 * Teebo
 * Teebo's fish friend
 * The Totem Master
 * Totem Slaves
 * Tumblebunny trainer
 * Umwak, the Dulok shaman
 * Umwak's nephew
 * Queen Urgah
 * Prince Vork (Bork?)
 * Vorshak
 * Deej Warrick
 * Erpham Warrick
 * Shodu Warrick
 * Weechee Warrick
 * Wicket W. Warrick
 * Willy Warrick
 * Winda Warrick
 * Wiley
 * Yuzzum Warriors
 * Zarrak
 * Zut

Species

 * Bordoks
 * Corrinas
 * Dandelion Warriors
 * Dark fly
 * Dragon-like creature
 * Duloks
 * Eodons
 * Ewoks
 * Firefolk
 * Flying flowers
 * Froschs
 * Gorphs
 * Grass Trekkers
 * Gubas
 * Gupins
 * Hanadaks
 * Hippopatamus-like creatures
 * Humans
 * Insect creatures
 * Jinda beasts of burden
 * Jinda menagerie creatures
 * Kagles
 * Lantern birds
 * Luck Sprite
 * Mantigrue
 * Mimphs
 * Mole
 * Moosha
 * Morag's spider
 * Mountain-goat-like creature
 * Phlogs
 * Pugs
 * Rakazzaks
 * Shrieks
 * Six-limbed creature
 * Skandits
 * Tromes
 * Tulgah
 * Tumblebunnies
 * Woodpecker-like creature
 * Yuzzum

Locations

 * Bright Tree Village
 * Coral Castle
 * Dulok village
 * Floating mountain
 * Forest Moon of Endor
 * Grass Trekkers' shrine
 * Gupin lands
 * Horville's Hut of Horrors
 * Imperial Star Destroyer
 * Lost temple
 * Morag's cave
 * Mountain of Light
 * Outer Space
 * Palace of the insect creatures
 * Sun Palace
 * Vacant Valley

Ships/vehicles

 * Bordok wagon
 * Canoes
 * Dulok battleship
 * Ewok battle wagon
 * Ewok catapult
 * Ewok hang gliders
 * Kazz's Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
 * Palpatine's Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
 * Raegar's ship and associated craft
 * Raft

Other items

 * Belt of Honor
 * Crystal Cloak
 * Dangleberries
 * Dangleberry juice
 * Ewok Games
 * Feather of Duty
 * Feather of Light
 * Gin-jang berries
 * Guniepal Chest
 * Kneesaa's magic potion
 * Latara's flute
 * Light Dust
 * Light Festival
 * Logray's crystal ball
 * Logray's invisibility soap
 * Logray's magic potion
 * Magic lantern
 * Poisonous mushroom-like plant
 * Renewal Ceremony
 * Season Scepter
 * Shadow Night Festival
 * Shadowstone
 * Soul Trees
 * Star urchin
 * Stranglethorn
 * Sunberries
 * Sunberry trees
 * Sunstar
 * Tree of Light
 * Vonvon stones
 * Wish plant

Notable series details

 * For viewer ease, the dialogue is in Basic, 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.
 * In the series' final episode, the Imperials had discovered Endor, and several of the Ewoks stowed away on a Star Destroyer, but were returned to Endor safely after an evil Imperial 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 Return of the Jedi.
 * Unlike the rest of the series, the last three episodes were originally aired out of story order. The correct order was Party Ewok, Melani the Warrior, and Battle for the Sunstar, respectively. However, the episodes were originally aired in the order of Battle for the Sunstar, Party Ewok, and Melani the Warrior. Storywise, the series ends with Battle for the Sunstar, because it 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, which was based on the animated series. The comic ran for two years, ending with issue #14. Like the TV series, this was aimed towards a younger audience. It was produced along with the Droids comic, which was based on the Droids animated series. Issue #10 of Marvel Ewoks was a cross-over with Star Wars Droids 4: Lost in Time.

DVD release

 * Ewoks was released on November 23, 2004 as an edited compilation DVD with the title Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks. The DVD contained eight episodes in total of the series, edited together as two full length movies.
 * Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
 * Language: English
 * Release Date: November 23, 2004
 * The entire original series has yet to be released, either on DVD or VHS. Some of the original episodes were released in the eighties and nineties, however, 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.