Star Wars: Droids (Season 1)

Star Wars: Droids (1985) is an animated series set in the Star Wars galaxy that you can watch online on iFILM. It follows two droids — fussy C-3PO and stubborn R2-D2 — wandering the galaxy years before they ever meet the Rebellion.

The story slots into the gap between the saga's third and fourth episodes. The mechanical duo passes from one owner to the next — speeder racers, smugglers, treasure hunters — and keeps stumbling into other people's trouble: Imperial patrols, pirates, bounty hunters. R2 fixes things by doing; 3PO mostly panics and narrates.

The show came from the Canadian studio Nelvana, with Anthony Daniels back to voice C-3PO — the only original-trilogy actor in the cast. It's eighties family fare for younger Star Wars fans and anyone curious about the blank spaces between the movies. Stream every episode of Star Wars: Droids online on iFILM.