History Trivia / StarWarsRadioDramas

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles in the first two plays. Due to the thirteen-year gap between ''TESB'' and ''ROTJ'', both roles ended up recast for the ''ROTJ'' play. Creator/AnthonyDaniels does reprise the role of C-3PO, as he does in just about every other canon ''Star Wars'' adaptation, and likewise R2-D2 and Chewbacca still sound the same.

** '''Boba Fett:''' In ''The Empire Strikes Back'' he was played by Alan Rosenburg, but Ed Begley, Jr. assumed the part in ''Return of the Jedi''.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: With ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Luke Skywalker (in Hope and Empire) is the Joker, Darth Vader is Lucius Fox, Jabba the Hutt is Roland Daggett, and Boba Fett (in Jedi) is Germs and Charlie Collins.

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** MoralEventHorizon

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles in the first two plays. Due to the thirteen-year gap between ''TESB'' and ''ROTJ'', both roles ended up recast for the ''ROTJ'' play. Creator/AnthonyDaniels does reprise the role of C-3PO, as he does in just about every other canon ''StarWars'' adaptation, and likewise R2-D2 and Chewbacca still sound the same.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Perry King, who voices Han Solo in all three radio series, previously auditioned to play the role in ''Film/ANewHope'' before Harrison Ford was cast.
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Return of the Jedi'' play was shelved for over a decade, no thanks to [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan-era]] cuts to Creator/{{NPR}}'s federal funding.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: All three radio series were available together, in a CD boxed set, with special artwork on the discs not available on other editions, as well as exclusive bonus tracks. The bonus tracks were excerpts of conversations with cast members, select scenes played without music or sound effects, and an audio get well card recoded by the cast for Brian Daley, the writer who adapted all three series for radio and who at the time ''Jedi'' was recorded, was sick with pancreatic cancer. (Unfortunately, Daley didn't last long enough to be able to hear it. He died the morning after the wrap party.)

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly avoided. Writer Creator/BrianDaley died of pancreatic cancer the day after the ''Return of the Jedi'' wrap party. However, this trope likely applies anyway, given that Daley never lived to see the Prequel trilogy and other related works, and thus was unable to adapt them to radio.
** Considering that Jedi's length is a mere 6 episodes vs. Star Wars' 13 episodes and Empire's 10 episodes, it's possible that Daley knew exactly how ill he was, and sacrificed any depth that he might have given to Jedi's adaption for the sake of getting it done.
* DevelopmentHell[=/=]ScrewedByTheNetwork: The ''Return of the Jedi'' play was shelved for over a decade, no thanks to [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan-era]] cuts to Creator/{{NPR}}'s federal funding.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly avoided. Writer Creator/BrianDaley died of pancreatic cancer the day after the ''Return of the Jedi'' wrap party. However, this trope likely applies anyway, given that Daley never lived to see the Prequel trilogy and thus was unable to adapt them to radio.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly avoided. Writer Creator/BrianDaley died of pancreatic cancer the day after the ''Return of the Jedi'' wrap party. However, this trope likely applies to the fact the Prequel trilogy never received any radio adaptations.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly avoided. Writer Creator/BrianDaley died of pancreatic cancer the day after the ''Return of the Jedi'' wrap party.

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles in the first two plays. Due to the thirteen-year gap between ''TESB'' and ''ROTJ'', both roles ended up recast for the ''ROTJ'' play. Creator/AnthonyDaniels does reprise the role of C-3PO, as he does in just about every other canon ''StarWars'' adaptation, and likewise R2-D2 still sounds the same.

** '''The Emperor:''' Unlike in the films, however (at least, before the Special Editions) the Emperor was played by the same performer (Paul Hecht) in both ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles in the first two plays. Due to the thirteen-year gap between ''TESB'' and ''ROTJ'', both roles ended up recast for the ''ROTJ'' play. Anthony Daniels does reprise the role of C-3PO, as he does in just about every other canon ''StarWars'' adaptation, and likewise R2-D2 still sounds the same.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Grand Moff Tarkin was also the owner of [[{{Series/Cheers}} Melville's Restaurant]]. Amusingly, he also played a character named [[{{Creator/PeterCushing}} Mr. Cushing]] in a short lived 1980 TV series called ''One in a Million''.
** Yoda might sound a bit like [[{{Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension}} Lord John Whorfin]] or [[{{Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun}} Dick Solomon]].
** One of the droids at Jabba's palace (Ninedenine) is [[{{WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons}} Lisa Simpson]].
** Jabba himself is [[{{Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow}} Lou Grant]] or [[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} Hudson]].
** In ''Return of the Jedi'', Boba Fett is [[{{Series/StElsewhere}} Dr. Victor Ehrlich]] or the Viper pilot, [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Greenbean]].
** Darth Vader might be recognized as [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Joseph Sisko]], [[Film/SoylentGreen Hatcher]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Lucius Fox]], or [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats Dark Kat]].

* DevelopmentHell[=/=]ScrewedByTheNetwork: The ''Return of the Jedi'' play was shelved for over a decade, no thanks to [[RonaldReagan Reagan-era]] cuts to Creator/{{NPR}}'s federal funding.

** In ''Return of the Jedi'', Boba Fett is [[{{Series/StElsewhere}} Dr. Victor Ehrlich]] or the Viper pilot, [[{{Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic}} Greenbean]].

** First when it was broadcast by TheBBC shortly after its original run (they didn't carry the other two series), and edited by them for timing. Most of the cuts are just nips and tucks to long bits of dialogue, but there's a particularly egregious one in Episode 13, not only losing the scene where Motti conspires with Tarkin to [[spoiler:overthrow the Emperor]], but violating the show's format whereby major scene transitions are always accompanied by music.

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles in the first two plays. Due to the thirteen-year gap between ''TESB'' and ''ROTJ'', both roles ended up recast for the ''ROTJ'' play.

** Second when NPR decided to lengthen the closing credits. The cut material includes a rather touching scene in Episode 2, where which Leia tells her father about a pleasant stroll she took on Alderaan. Unfortunately most of the home audio releases use the cut version.

* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie cast was unavailable, though they did get Creator/MarkHamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their respective roles.