The White Witch

The White Witch
Production information
Series	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
Season	One
Episode	1
Production No.	D1
Air date	September 7, 1985
Director(s)	Ken Stephenson
Writer(s)	Peter Sauder
Episode chronology
Next episode	"Escape Into Terror"

Warning: This infobox has missing parameters: runtime and unrecognized parameters: era "The White Witch" is the first episode of Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Written by Peter Sauder and directed by Ken Stephenson, the episode originally aired on ABC on September 7, 1985. It served as the pilot episode to the series.

Plot summary

After being jettisoned over the deserts of Ingo by an unscrupulous former master, C-3PO and R2-D2 are taken in by landspeeder 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.

Behind the scenes

"The White Witch" was released on VHS twice; in the US, it was released in 1990 by J2 Communications as part of their "The Star Wars Trilogy Animated Collection", where it was featured on the Volume 1 "Special Double-Length Edition" cassette along with "Escape Into Terror". The second VHS release was in the UK. However, it has yet to receive an official DVD release anywhere.

This episode was adapted into the children's storybook entitled The White Witch: A Droid Adventure. The title of the episode may be a reference to Jadis the White Witch, who is the chief villain of C.S. Lewis' novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Credits

By type

Cast

Uncredited cast

Crew

Uncredited crew

Special thanks

Cast

Anthony Daniels as C-3PO Rob Cowan as Thall Joben Peter MacNeill as Jord Dusat Winston Rekert as Sise Fromm John Stocker as Vlix Oncard Lesleh Donaldson as Kea Moll

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Arnat (First mentioned) C-3PO Jord Dusat (First appearance) Sise Fromm (First mentioned) Tig Fromm (First appearance) Zevel Hortine (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) Thall Joben (First appearance) Kea Moll (First appearance) Vlix Oncard (First appearance) R2-D2 Jabba Desilijic Tiure (Mentioned only)

Organisms

Wampa (Mentioned only)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Droid cruiser (First appearance) Fiddler 10 (First appearance) Fromm Tower Droid (First appearance) Labor droid Snic 2-4-2 (First appearance) Muscle droid (First appearance) Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid Seeker

Events

Mission to Ingo (First appearance)

Locations

Annoo (First mentioned) Borga (First mentioned) Ingo (First appearance) Speeder shop (First appearance) Vaj Desert (First appearance) Tig Fromm's base (First appearance) Subsection Six (First appearance)

Organizations and titles

Annoo resistance (First appearance) Fromm Gang (First appearance)

Sentient species

Annoo-dat Blue (First appearance) Human Ingoian (First appearance)

Vehicles and vessels

C/L-82 landspeeder (First appearance) White Witch (First appearance) R-22 Spearhead (First appearance) Starrunner-class starship (First appearance) Sand Sloth (First appearance) Trigon One (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

Blaster Electrobinoculars Lightsaber

Miscellanea

Gambling (Mentioned only) Suit Seat

Bibliography

• "A Star Wars CELibration" — Star Wars Insider 27
• "The White Witch" Script on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
• CV Collecting Panels: Animation Art on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)

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