A number of older made-for-TV Star Wars live-action movies and animated series are now on Disney+ as part of the streamer’s Star Wars Vintage Collection.
Per the announcement on the official Star Wars website, Disney+’s Star Wars Vintage Collection features “several long-out-of-print and previously unavailable movies and series.” Their ranks include the live-action, made-for-TV Ewok films Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, along with both volumes of the Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series, the animated Ewoks series and the animated segment of the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, The Story of the Faithful Wookiee. Disney+ will also add the Star Wars: Droids animated TV show to the collection later this year.
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Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor premiered as TV specials on ABC in 1984 and 1985, respectively, before opening in select theaters at the international box office. The movies follow the Ewoks from 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, including Wicket W. Warrick, as they help the members of the human Towani family battle various monsters and marauders on the forest moon of Endor. In 1985, ABC also released an Ewoks animated series that picks up prior to Return of the Jedi and Caravan of Courage. Created by Bob Carrau and Paul Dini, Ewoks revolved around the adventures of Wicket and his friends on Endor, running for two seasons.
The Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series was developed by Genndy Tartakovsky and premiered on Cartoon Network in 2003. Set between the events of 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, the show chronicle the events of the eponymous conflict, focusing on characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu. Although the Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series was later replaced by Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the official Star Wars canon, it marked the first appearance of Count Dooku’s Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress, who would go on to become a major character in the canonical Clone Wars series.
The Story of the Faithful Wookiee similarly introduced viewers to Boba Fett when it aired as part of the Star Wars Holiday Special on CBS in 1978, two years before the bounty hunter made his live-action debut in The Empire Strikes Back. In the decades since then, Boba Fett has gone on to become one of the more popular supporting characters in the franchise, with Attack of the Clones revealing his father, Jango Fett, was the basis for the Clone Army. Jango actor Temuera Morrison played an older Boba in The Mandalorian Season 2, setting the stage for the character’s upcoming spinoff series, The Book of Boba Fett, on Disney+.
Source: Star Wars.com
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