The Ewoks

Television series
German title	The Ewoks
Original title	Ewoks (Season 1) The All New Ewoks (Season 2) Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks (DVD re-release of Seasons 1 and 2)
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	1985-1986
length	13 or 25 minutes
Episodes	35 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre	Science fiction
idea	George Lucas
First broadcast	September 7, 1985-13. December 1986 on ABC
German-language first broadcast	April 6, 1988 on ZDF
synchronization

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Star Wars: Die Ewoks ( English original title Star Wars: Ewoks (Season 1), The All New Ewoks (Season 2), on November 23, 2004 partially re-released on DVD under the new original title Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks ) is a Canadian -US-American animated series from 1985, which in Star Wars - the universe of George Lucas plays. The series is part of the uncanonical Legends timeline.

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Chronologically, the series is set a year before the events of Return of the Jedi , about a year before the new Death Star is built. The plot tells of various events between witches , wizards , goblins and the natives of the forest moon, which circles around the gas giant Endor, the Ewoks. The Ewok Wicket W. Warrick goes on numerous adventures with his friends.

Production and publication

The series was produced for Lucasfilm by Nelvana and directed by Ken Stephenson and Raymond Jafelice . In the second season, Jafelice was replaced as director by Dale Schott . The first broadcast of the first season was from September 7th to November 30th 1985 by ABC . The second season also premiered on ABC from September 13 to December 13, 1986. At the end of 2004, large parts of the series were also released on DVD in the USA .

The series has been translated into Swedish, among other things. In Germany, the series was shown as Die Ewoks for the first time from April 6, 1988 on ZDF , with the 18 thirteen-minute episodes of the second season being broadcast as nine double episodes. In the same year, the Ewoks VHS cassettes were released, but only as a rental video.

In addition, the television films Ewoks - The Caravan of the Brave (1984) and Ewoks - Battle for Endor (1985) were produced. Previously, the Ewoks first appeared in Return of the Jedi from 1983.

Episode list

First season

Episode (total)	Episode (season)	German title	Original title	First broadcast (USA)	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1	1	How the Ewoks outsmart the Thula Witch	The Cries of the Trees	Sep 7 1985	Apr 13, 1988	Ken Stephenson & Raymond Jafelice	Paul Dini
2	2	How the Ewoks save their forest	The Haunted Village	Sep 14 1985	Apr 6, 1988
3	3	How the Ewoks make peace with the giant	Rampage of the Phlogs	21 Sep 1985	Apr 20, 1988
4th	4th	How the Ewoks save their elder's life	To Save Deej	28 Sep 1985	May 4, 1988		Bob Carrau
5	5	How the Ewoks go looking for Latara	The Traveling Jindas	Oct 5, 1985	May 25, 1988
6th	6th	How the Ewoks keep the tree of light	The Tree of Light	Oct 12, 1985	Aug 31, 1988
7th	7th	How the Ewoks help the Jindas	The Curse of the Jindas	Oct 19, 1985	Jun 1, 1988
8th	8th	How the Ewoks save the Gupin Empire	The Land of the Gupins	Oct 26, 1985	May 18, 1988
9	9	How the Ewoks defeat evil	Sunstar vs. Shadowstone	Nov 2, 1985	Apr. 27, 1988		Paul Dini
10	10	How the Ewoks sacrifice their chariots	Wicket's Wagon	Nov 9, 1985	May 11, 1988
11	11	How the Ewoks fight the strangling plants	The Three Lessons	Nov 16, 1985	Sep 14 1988		Bob Carrau
12	12	How the Ewoks secure their crops from the Thuloks	Blue Harvest	Nov 23, 1985	21 Sep 1988		Paul Dini & Sam Wilson
13	13	How the Ewoks get a second princess	Asha	Nov 30, 1985	Sep 7 1988		Paul Dini

Second season

Episode (total)	Episode (season)	German title	Original title	First broadcast (USA)	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
14th	1	How Latara became almost a stone	The Crystal Cloak	13 Sep 1986	28 Sep 1988	Ken Stephenson & Dale Schott	Paul Dini
15th	2	Why the Queen of Leaves got angry	The Wish Plant		Nov 2, 1988		Bob Carrau
16	3	How Wicket disappeared	Home Is Where the Shrieks Are	Sep 20 1986	-
17th	4th	How Latara almost became queen	Princess Latara		Nov 9, 1988		Paul Dini
18th	5	The thing with the magic cap	The Raich	27 Sep 1986	Oct 12, 1988		Michael Reaves
19th	6th	-	The Totem Master	Oct. 4, 1986	-		Bob Carrau
20th	7th	How wicket needed a present	A Gift for Shodu		-		Paul Dini
21st	8th	The creepy stranger	Night of the Stranger	Oct 11, 1986	Oct 5, 1988
22nd	9	How the dwarves caught wicket	Gone With The Mimphs	Oct 18, 1986	Apr 11, 1990		Linda Woolverton
23	10	How a swindler betrayed the Ewoks	The First Apprentice				Paul Dini
24	11	The sick businessman	Hard sell	Oct 25, 1986	Apr 25, 1990		Michael Reaves
25th	12	Tibur, the warrior	A Warrior and a Lurdo		-		Michael Dubil
26th	13	Two dissimilar brothers	The Season Scepter	Nov 1, 1986	Oct 19, 1988		Bob Carrau
27	14th	The naval battle	Prow Beaten	Nov 8, 1986	Apr 25, 1990
28	15th	The wrong baga	Baga's rival		Jun 13, 1990		Linda Woolverton
29	16	-	Horville's Hut of Horrors	Nov 15, 1986	-		Paul Dini
30th	17th	On a treasure hunt with the magic flute	The tragic flute		May 16, 1990		Bob Carrau
31	18th	From evil wizards and lucky goblins	Just my luck	Nov 22, 1986	Apr 18, 1990		Michael Dubil
32	19th	-	Bringing Up Norky		-		Bob Carrau & Earl Kress
33	20th	The fight for the sun star	Battle for the Sunstar	Dec 6, 1986	Oct 26, 1988		Paul Dini
34	21st	Kneesaas festival	Party Ewok	Dec 13, 1986	Jun 6, 1990		Bob Carrau
35	22nd	Malani's victory	Malani The Warrior				Stephen Langford

synchronization

role	English speaker	German speaker
Wicket W. Warrick	Jim Henshaw	Philipp Brammer
Malani	Alyson Court	Marina Koehler
Princess Kneesaa	Cree Summer	Katharina Lopinski
King Gorneesh	Dan Hennessey	Horst Sommer
Nahkee	George Buza	Michael Habeck
Latara	Taborah Johnson (Season 1), Sue Murphy (Season 2)	Alexandra Ludwig
Dobah	Diane Polley	Hans Zander
Allotment	Joe Matheson	Gernot Duda
Hoom	John Stocker	Werner Abrolat
Morag	Jackie Burroughs	Maria Landrock
Teebo	John Stocker	Inez Günther
Chirpa	George Buza	Walter Reichelt
Deej Warrick	Richard Donat	Alexander Allerson
Logray	Doug Chamberlain	Manfred Lichtenfeld

Comic

In 1986 Star Comics published four editions of a bi- monthly Ewoks comic book.

Home video publishing

On November 23, 2004, some episodes of the series were re-released on DVD . For this, the original title has now been changed to Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks . This makes the connection to Star Wars clearer, even for those who do not recognize the Ewoks as part of the Star Wars universe without knowledge of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi . For this purpose, 4 episodes were cut into a film: Episodes 1–3 & 9 as The Haunted Village and Episodes 4–5, 10 & 13 as Tales from the Endor Woods . The remaining episodes were not released on DVD. At the same time, the other animated series from the Star Wars universe, Friends in Space (original title originally Droids ) was re-released on DVD under the same title scheme as Star Wars Animated Adventures: Droids .

Web links

• The Ewoks in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• The Ewoks in the online film database
• Episode guide on fernsehserien.de
• Star Wars: Ewoks in the Wookieepedia (English)
• The Ewoks in Jedipedia.de
• The Ewoks in Jedipedia.net
• The Ewoks in the German dubbing index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bringing Star Wars to the Small Screen - The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour (1985-86) . Gary Collinson. flickeringmyth.com. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
2. ↑ Ewoks - Episode Guide . tv.com. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
3. ↑ The Ewoks - broadcast dates . fernsehserien.de. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2014.